At 3:38, the driveway camera had gone offline.
At 3:41, the alarm was disarmed with a valid household code.
At 3:42, the front door opened.
At 3:47, the alarm company’s system recorded an interior sensor event.
At 3:52, the driveway camera came back online.
At 4:03, I arrived.
The seven-minute gap between the first door event and the interior sensor event bothered Ellis.
“What happened during those seven minutes?” she asked.
“I don’t know.”
She looked toward the hallway.
“That’s what we’re going to find out.”
Then the security company called back.
The technician had recovered the user identifier attached to the code.
It wasn’t listed under my name.
It wasn’t listed under Claire’s.
And it wasn’t listed under Daniel’s.
It belonged to a temporary access profile.
I stared at the screen.
“Who created it?”
The technician said the profile had been created six days earlier.
Six days.
