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

swallowed hard. “He said, ‘She’s probably at a sleepover. Even if she’s here, by the time anyone finds anything, we’ll be gone.’”

Several jurors gasped.

“What did you do to cover up what happened?” Carol asked.

“Kevin used Allison’s phone to send messages,” Chelsea said. “He made it look like she left voluntarily. He told me the authorities would never continue reading …