All the Lies They Did Not Tell

by Pablo Trincia

I never understood the mental mechanisms that led so many experts on this case to see what was invisible or unimaginable and completely miss everything that was right in front of their faces. Maybe I never will. They never questioned their assumptions. They carried on believing that this story went in only one direction despite the mountain of clues and warnings that pointed the opposite way. They focused on the words coming out of the mouths of babes. But after having run the gamut of the same experts, these children all gave similar versions of a story, and they all developed strong paranoia and anxiety even though they’d been promised that talking would free them of the weight they were carrying. How did this happen? I’ll probably never find out. But after years of research, Alessia and I came to the conclusion that once the assumption of guilt had been established, it would have been very difficult to backtrack and admit even the smallest error.