“Don’t question him again about it,” Adams said.

“A trained interviewer will speak to him if necessary.

Let him be a child.” I agreed.

At the end of the call, Adams told me investigators had secured access to Rachel’s workplace records and had begun checking whether her concerns at the clinic involved patients, supplies, or financial matters.

Rachel had worked for Dr.

Leona Park at the valley pediatric clinic for almost seven years.

They were a small operation: two physicians, a rotating physician assistant, four nurses, and a receptionist who knew every school bus route in the county.