Nathan Brooks was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole.

Part Fifteen: Custody

Getting Sophie took longer than convicting the man who killed her mother, which is a sentence Margaret has said out loud in front of a legislative committee.

The emergency order came in eleven days.

Guardianship followed within the first three months, and that part was straightforward, because there was no other parent available and no relative contesting it.

What took four years was everything else.