I gave him the service name and told him I hadn’t logged in since moving out.

Bell closed his notebook.

“Your former mother-in-law has given an explanation,” he said.

“She claims Piper crawled into the freezer while she was distracted and she didn’t know it happened.”

“There’s a chain on the other freezer.”

“Yes,” he said.

“And we found something that makes her account difficult to accept.”

He did not tell me what.