I wanted him to have done that, because a man who does that is a monster and I could have hated him cleanly.

He glanced at a leg for under a minute, got it wrong, and then spent seven hours being a man who does not get things wrong.

Part Eleven: What Her Mother Did

I have Simone’s seven hours almost minute by minute, because her phone was imaged under a warrant in the January and because she gave a full statement in the March against the advice of her attorney, which is the one thing she did in this entire story that I will not take away from her.

Here is what she did.