Think about what Piper will remember when this is over.

I showed it to Bell.

He asked me not to answer.

Ten minutes later another message arrived, this time containing a photograph of the locked freezer and a sentence that made my stomach tighten.

You don’t know whose things those are.

PART 9

The police traced the number to a prepaid phone.

It wasn’t enough on its own to identify who had sent the messages, but Bell preserved the screenshots and asked the carrier for records through the proper process.