“He wasn’t upset that his mother failed,” she said.

“He was upset that she let you get out of the house.”

Mark Sterling began to cry.

Ruth Ferreira said, “That’s enough,” and the detectives moved in, and Adriana Vance was arrested in a hospital corridor at 10:51 in the morning and did not stop talking for the entire eleven minutes it took to walk her to the elevator.

Part Thirteen: The Corridor