“Mom, if you’re watching this, it means Bradley and Heather went through with what they’d been planning for months,” Katherine said.

The recording cut off as someone tried to force the locked office door behind her.

I couldn’t fathom the darkness that was about to surface.

Part 2

The screen flickered and came back. Katherine was closer to the camera now, her eyes swollen from crying.

“Forgive me for not telling you sooner, Mom,” she said, her voice unsteady. “Bradley checks my phone, my work email, even my travel bags when he thinks I’m asleep.”

She held up a blue folder for the camera.