Chapter 18 - THE FULL TIMELINEDetective Brooks eventually walked me through the timeline.

4:42 p.m. — Serena arrives.
5:03 — Meadow finishes homework upstairs.
5:16 — kitchen motion camera records Meadow entering downstairs corridor.
5:18 — stairwell video captures her running, Dennis following, contact, fall.
5:20 — Serena calls 911.
That mattered in her favor.
5:27 — paramedics arrive.
Dennis tells them Meadow “lost her footing.”
5:31 — Meadow, dazed, reportedly says:
“Dad was mad.”
A paramedic records it.
5:42 — ambulance leaves.
5:49 — Dennis texts Serena:
She can’t tell Victoria this.
5:51 — Serena:
Then tell Victoria she slipped.
6:04 — Dennis accesses stairwell recording.
6:06 — deletes local event.
6:19 — they leave for hospital.
6:47 — Dennis checks Meadow in.
7:08 — Dennis tells hospital staff he needs to retrieve insurance information.
7:17 — Serena leaves hospital.
7:31 — both phones return to our home.
7:39 — Serena texts:
You need to delete the stair video before Victoria checks.
7:42 — Dennis attempts further account deletion.
8:03 — I arrive at hospital.
8:11 — Meadow tells me.
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8:37 — police arrive at my house.
The timeline did not require imagination.
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