“No,” Vale said.

“It means that particular testing cannot answer the whole question.”

She had interviewed clinic staff and was seeking records about possible prescriptions or purchases.

She also told me investigators had recovered a small pharmacy bottle from the household during a consented search.

Its label had been partially peeled away, and testing and pharmacy verification were still pending.

I hung up with a strange mix of relief and dread.

Someone had found a possible lead, but nothing had been established.