My husband pushed me down the stairs, and as I lay shattered at the bottom, my mother-in-law called my father and said, “Come get your worthless daughter and take her back.” Dad gave her only one warning: “If she has so much as a scratch, your family will answer for it.” They laughed at him because they had absolutely no idea who my father truly was.
What came next was an argument over preservation.
The company had received a request to delete all recordings from the previous month.
The request had been submitted after my hospitalization, using credentials associated with the Callahan household.
That fact frightened me almost as much as the fall.
Someone had been willing to erase whatever the system held before anyone outside the house could inspect it.
But the request had not immediately destroyed everything.
A retention hold was placed after the company received notice of the investigation.