And she has a hidden camera card that was taken from the crime scene five years ago and never recovered.”

The room went dead silent.

The two guards, who a moment before had been treating this as a scene to be managed and ended, went very still, and exchanged a glance that had changed entirely in its character.

Because every person in that room who knew the Vance case knew what those words meant.

The victim’s personal cell phone had been one of the largest missing pieces of the entire original investigation, a phone rumored to contain encrypted business records and private dealings, a phone the prosecution had explained away by claiming that Elena had thrown it into a river to destroy the trail.

It had never been found.