A convicted child predator, already once released back into the world, takes a little girl on the shortest errand of her life and turns Tucson into a city that waits nearly four decades for justice. Built on paint flecks, a remembered license plate, and a father's own phone call to the FBI, the case becomes a landmark example of conviction without a body recovered in time. A story about vigilance, accountability, and what a community owes the children walking its streets alone.

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