Chapter 4 - Police Find the Hidden Camera
The blue room existed exactly where Lily said it did.
Investigators found the exterior latch.
They found Claire’s boxes.
They found my golf bag.
And they found a small camera mounted above a shelf.
Vanessa claimed the camera had been installed for security.
That explanation collapsed when technicians recovered recordings.
The device had captured Lily inside the room on three occasions.
The longest lasted forty-three minutes.
She cried.
She knocked.
She repeatedly asked Vanessa to let her out.
The recordings did not show Vanessa physically harming her.
They did show something I could no longer explain away as discipline.
Confinement.
Fear.
And Vanessa standing outside the door saying:
“Maybe next time you’ll stop asking questions.”
I watched twelve seconds before my attorney stopped the video.
“That’s enough for today.”
It was not enough.
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Nothing would ever be enough to explain how I had missed what was
happening inside my own house.
