Nobody reads the witness box.

That is what a witness is for.

Part Forty-One: Corinne

One of the twenty was a woman called Corinne Obodo, married in the June of 2004, and she telephoned me rather than writing, on a Tuesday evening, and we talked for fifty minutes.

She was twenty-six in 2004.

She and her husband had driven down from Duluth because her mother-in-law was ill and they had moved the date forward by five months and told almost nobody.

They arrived with no witnesses.