“I want him arrested.”
“You want evidence.”
“Those are not always the same thing on the same night.”
He hated the answer.
She was right.
The forensic review began.
By midnight, they had the first major discovery.
The photographs of Lucía entering an apartment were real.
The interpretation was false.
The man beside her was Dr. Esteban Ruiz.
An obstetric specialist.
His private clinic occupied two floors of a residential-looking medical
building.
Lucía had gone there after experiencing pain early in pregnancy.
Ramón’s investigator photographed only the exterior entrance.
The image had been cropped to remove the clinic plaque.
Alejandro stared at the uncropped photograph.
CENTRO MATERNO RUIZ.
The words had been three feet from Lucía’s shoulder.
Someone had deliberately removed them.
The second discovery came at 2:14 a.m.
The message supposedly sent from Lucía’s phone the night she disappeared
had not originated from her device.
