Ferreira, the physician who had signed it, cooperated fully, was interviewed twice, and testified for the prosecution.

He had never seen Emily as an inpatient.

He had signed on the basis of a chart, by phone, at seven in the morning, which he was entitled to do and which he has said publicly he will think about for the rest of his career.

Nathan Brooks was arrested on a Tuesday morning, seventy-one days after his wife’s funeral, in the parking structure of an office building in Kearny Mesa.

Margaret was not there.

She found out from a phone call while she was making a peanut butter sandwich, and she finished making the sandwich, because a seven-year-old was waiting for it.