She said that she took the bracelet.

She said she had sold it eleven days earlier — before it was even missed, which is a detail that mattered enormously later — to a place on Lake Street for eight hundred and forty dollars, and that it was worth about four thousand.

She said she had debts.

Twenty-nine thousand dollars on four cards and a personal loan she had defaulted on in Chicago.

She said that when her mother started looking, she panicked.

And then she said the thing that is quoted in the sentencing memorandum, and which I think is the single most revealing sentence anybody in that family ever produced: