It cost, at that time, a little under fourteen hundred dollars.

The reopened case ordered it in July.

It took nine weeks.

The remains in that car belonged to a twenty-three-year-old woman named Danae Whitlock, who had gone missing from a rest stop on the interstate two days before the crash, and whose mother had filed a report in a different county and had been calling that county’s non-emergency line every three weeks for two years.

Maya was in the room when Desmond said the name out loud, and she remembered the exact sound the refrigerator made in the silence afterward.