She remembered the confrontation and fragments of leaving the house, but not every minute between the estate and the bus stop.

“I should remember,” she said.

“You can tell us what you remember,” he answered.

“You don’t need to fill in what you don’t.”

Later, independent evidence helped establish that she had been left at the shelter after the attack.

At first, however, the investigators treated the gap as a gap.

They did not ask her to turn a frightened guess into a memory.

There was also a problem with the emergency records.