There was no dramatic discovery of a second secret file and no stranger arriving with a perfect answer.
The evidence survived because I had hidden the phone, pressed record, sent the broken message, and told the officer where to find it before the battery died.
Marcus’s defense tried to turn those same actions against me.
They suggested that anyone organized enough to make recordings could not have been as helpless as I claimed.
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When I later testified, I answered with the truth.
Recording him did not open the cage.
It did not feed me, stop the contractions, or place the key in my hand.
It only gave me one place where Marcus could not rewrite what had happened after the fact.
His mother’s attorney focused on the key.
He asked whether she had ever opened the cage during those three weeks.
I said yes.
