On the fourth call he said: “Javier, Patricia told me you were on board.”

And I said, “And you never thought to call me?”

And my brother-in-law, who has eaten at my table for twenty years and who I have lent money to three times, said:

“You were in Albuquerque.”

Part Twenty-One: Detective Shanahan

Cleo Shanahan has been in the family investigations unit at Phoenix for fourteen years and she came out to the house on the first of October 2024 and sat at our kitchen island for two hours and ten minutes.

She did not take the clips on a thumb drive, which I had ready.