He was led to a small interrogation room, where he sat across from a police officer. The officer listened intently as Jason recounted the suspicions he and Thomas had nurtured over the summer, the story Thomas had told him about Susan, and the unease that had grown in him ever since.
Then came the hardest part, the confession that Jason had kept secret, even from his closest family. With a deep breath, he revealed what he and Thomas had sworn to never tell anyone: they had broken into Susan’s home that summer to find clues that might validate their suspicions. “We were hoping to find, you know, anything that’d show she wasn’t who she looked like,” Jason explained, his voice tinged with regret. “I mean, we didn’t dig up some huge secret or whatever… but, like, just being there, sorting through her stuff, it was like peeling back this layer she wanted to keep hidden.”