The cloud recordings were unedited and time-stamped; Amanda testified about the months of sounds through the wall; the forensic evidence from the kitchen was exactly what it was.

Faced with all of it, the defense had almost nowhere to stand.

Garrett was convicted and sentenced to six years.

Celina received four.

Barron, who agreed to testify against his son and had been the one voice in that house that hesitated, was placed on probation.

My divorce was finalized not long after, and the court awarded me full restitution, the liquidation of what we had jointly owned, and a permanent protective order — a piece of paper that said, with the whole weight of the law behind it, that those people were never permitted to come near me again.

I framed a copy of it.