Once through a letter to Charlotte, sent to the school, which the school opened and handed straight to the county.

The letter is four paragraphs and it is not angry.

It tells her that he is not upset with her, that he knows she was confused, that he understands, and that he cannot wait to explain everything to her when he sees her.

Priya Raghavan, who had done the interview, described that letter in a hearing as “an attempt to reinstall himself as the interpreter of her own memory,” and I have never forgotten that phrase either.

I want to write about the nine days, because it is the part I found hardest and because nobody who has not worked a case like this understands it.

For nine days, we did not know.