The Girl Who Hid It in Her Shoe

Part Ten: What the Warrants Found

I was not part of the investigation after the ninth of April.

Front desk officers are not.

What I know, I know because I testified twice and because Laura Montgomery walked me through the exhibits before I did, and because Detective Harrison Hayes told me some of it in a hallway afterward on the understanding that I would not repeat it, which I did not until it was all public.

The lab took nine days.

The residue in the syringe from Charlotte’s shoe, and the residue in the syringe from the backpack, and Delilah’s blood at the hospital all came back consistent with the same adult sedative that was named on the torn label.