I didn't answer.
—I know who you were.
I watched her closely.
It didn't look bought.
She looked tired.
—What did you find?
Susan opened the folder.
—All three students stated exactly the same thing.
—What did they say?
—That they never saw their daughter.
I raised an eyebrow.
—The three of them used the same forty-two words.
She slid three sheets of paper onto the table.
The statements were identical.
Even the punctuation errors matched.
—They wrote them for them.
Susan nodded.
—That's what I think.
Then he placed another photograph in front of me.
It was the parking lot of the science building.
Empty.
—The cameras stopped recording at exactly 10:48.
—And did they return?
At eleven fifty-three.
I checked the time.
Lily had been found at eleven forty-seven.
Five minutes before the system came back online.
