Records revealed that Kyle had visited the funeral home twice outside normal business hours.

A security camera captured him entering a side office with a folder, then leaving carrying a cardboard archive box.

The assistant said the box contained medical documents Kyle wanted kept away from public areas.

Investigators would determine whether that was true.

At home, I turned the television off when a local reporter began calling the case “The Woman Who Returned.” Rachel hadn’t returned from anywhere, I thought.

She had been there all along, trapped in circumstances nobody had properly understood.