Every Friday at 6 p.m. my daughter called me without fail, and the one week my phone stayed silent I drove to her house and heard a sound from upstairs that turned our quiet Tennessee life into something I still can’t fully talk about

I can’t live with what she did. A woman is gone. A little girl almost died. I can’t just pretend that’s okay.”

Chelsea had called Megan from a prepaid phone the night before. She’d been crying, panicking, saying things that made Megan realize how deep the trouble went.

“She told me she was scared,” Megan said during her interview with Carter. “She said continue reading …