Chapter 13 - When Sophie Became a Lawyer, She Took the Same VHS Tape Into Court and Helped Reopen Cases My Family Had Buried for DecadesThe evidence didn't end with our family.
The ledger opened hundreds of cases.
People who had disappeared.
Families whose deaths had been ruled accidental.
Children who had been moved across borders.
Sophie worked on those cases.
She found people.
Returned names.
Reopened investigations.
Every case brought us back to Alessandra.
She became the beginning of justice for people who had never had it.
One night, Sophie came into my office.
“I found someone.”
“Who?”
“A witness from Alessandra's case.”
My heart stopped.
“Who?”
“An old security officer.”
“He's alive?”
“Yes.”
“He says he saw the final minutes.”
“What did he say?”
“He says Alessandra escaped.”
I stood.
“She wasn't killed at the house.”
Sophie nodded.
“She lived another four hours.”
I closed my eyes.
That changed everything.
The person who ultimately killed her wasn't part of the house.
It was someone who followed her.
We found the name.
My uncle.
The final truth.
The final piece.
Alessandra had been alive long enough to know she was going to die.
That's why she recorded the tape.
That's why she trusted Elena.
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She wanted me to know.
And now I did.
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