I read that on a phone in an office at Fort Irwin with a captain sitting across from me, and I put it down, and I said, “Sir, that’s not what happened.”

And Captain Odalys Ferrer, who I had known for six weeks and who I would go anywhere with, said: “Then say that out loud right now, to me, and I’ll write down the time.”

She wrote it on a legal pad.

0619, 14 October.

First Sergeant Alvarado states his daughter reported being struck by a vehicle.

That legal pad page is in a file in Jasper County.

It is the earliest dated document in this entire case that contradicts the story the Gaddis family put out, and it exists because an officer in California thought to look at a clock.