Chapter 6 - Daniel Discovers Secret Security Footage From That Night
Determined to find the missing puzzle pieces, Daniel spent the entire night in his basement home office tearing apart old servers.
Rachel had installed an independent, encrypted security system that backed up to an off-site cloud storage vault in Oregon.
It was a system Vanessa didn’t even know existed because Rachel was a software engineer who loved digital redundancy.
Daniel typed in Rachel’s master decryption passphrase, holding his breath as a long list of archived video files loaded.
He clicked on the folder dated precisely two years ago—the exact date Rachel died from her alleged accidental fall.
The video feed opened, showing the front hallway bathed in the pale, quiet moonlight of a rainy Tuesday midnight.
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For three hours, the screen showed nothing except shadows shifting across the hardwood floor near the bottom of the stairs.
Then, at precisely 2:14 AM, the side garage door clicked open and a figure in a red silk coat stepped inside.
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