Chapter 5 - MARLENE PIERCE
A pharmacy receipt inside Sophie’s suitcase gave investigators an Idaho address.
Marlene Pierce.
No relation to me.
Seventy-three.
Former elementary-school aide.
She lived outside Coeur d’Alene in a small yellow house.
When detectives arrived, neighbors said an ambulance had taken her away five days earlier.
Stroke.
Marlene was alive.
Unable to speak initially.
Inside her home was a child’s bedroom.
Sophie.
Photographs.
School drawings.
Clothes.
Birthday cards.
A height chart marked through age five.
That was where Sophie had actually lived.
Not with Dennis.
Not with Trisha.
For almost four years.
Marlene’s hospital records later showed Dennis had been her emergency contact.
Why?
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She had once worked for Michael Bennett.
Kara’s biological father.
