I thought about the range of things that a person might do to a child in a place a child is not allowed to identify.

I sat in that garage and I went through it, systematically, the way you would go through anything, and I made a decision that I still consider the most important one I made that week: that if any part of what I found looked like that, I would not do anything myself.

I would not follow anybody inside, I would not confront anybody, and I would not touch anybody.

I would call the Norwalk or Greenwich police from wherever I was standing, in that minute, because a father who handles it himself contaminates every piece of evidence in it.