OLIVER
Four months after Nikolina is stolen, the investigation room has three walls of evidence and one wall we refuse to turn into a memorial.
Confirmed facts are marked in blue. Disproved leads are gray. Nothing goes on the wall because someone dreamed about a baby, recognized Anny from the news, or wants money for a location they cannot prove.
We learned that rule during the first month.
False hope can be another form of cruelty.
Ucker stands beside the route map while the prosecutor reviews the newest financial report. The search remains a police investigation. My analysts trace public corporate records and transactions released by court order, but no one buys confidential information or pays officials to ignore procedure. One illegal shortcut could destroy the evidence that bring
