Ocaña, we have a problem and I would rather you heard it from me in this room than from a defence attorney in a hallway in nine months.”

On the left was the transcript of my daughter’s recorded statement.

On the right was her own log of the eleven clips, timestamped to the second.

And she said: “I need you to understand that I believe your daughter completely.

“And two of the four things she told me did not happen.”

Part Twenty-Two: What Daniela Said

My daughter told me four things at twenty past one in the morning on the thirteenth of September, and she repeated all four to a detective on the thirtieth with a recorder running.

One. That her mother pushed her and watched her fall.