Loretta Saunders goes to collect rent. Days later, her car and possessions turn up in Ontario without her. Mara and Julian follow the route back toward the Maritimes, the guilty pleas, and thirty-five pages found during a jail-cell search. They remember the Inuk student close to graduation, explore the questions she cared about, and explain what later temporary prison passes actually meant.

Content note: Homicide, pregnancy, missing and murdered Indigenous women, grief and incarceration; non-graphic.

Chapters
00:00 Her car kept moving
01:23 A life approaching graduation
03:44 The reason to enter
06:48 A car is not its owner
09:35 What an admission settles
12:24 Thirty-five pages behind bars
14:27 The guilty plea is challenged
16:47 What the national figures can tell us
18:40 A life sentence and a temporary absence
20:48 Bring the story back to Loretta

Sources
https://decisions.courts.ns.ca/nsc/nssc/en/item/109437/index.do
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