Traumatized children remember specific elements: colors, smells, sounds. If the girl drew a blue shirt, it’s because the actual abuser wore a blue shirt. That’s a sensory memory, not a fabrication.
Dolores showed the photographs of Gonzalo that Carlos had collected.
In every single one, without exception, she wore shades of blue. Ramiro Fuentes always wore dark colors, Dolores said. Black, gray, brown, never blue. Patricia nodded.
If you can prove that the girl drew this days after the event, you have psychological evidence that she saw someone other than her father commit the crime.
It’s not legal evidence on its own, but combined with other elements it could reopen the case. Exactly. Dolores carefully kept the drawing.
I had one piece of the puzzle, but I needed more. I needed to find Martin.
Carlos arrived that night with more information. He had investigated Sara Fuentes’ past and found something crucial. Sara had a close friend, Beatriz Sánchez.
