There are some stories inside a case that do not show up in the official timeline. They are not marked by a date. They are not captured in a police report. They do not fit neatly into a single event, a single search, or a single theory. But they matter. Sometimes they matter more than anything else, because they explain the people at the center of the story. How they survived, how they responded, how they kept going when everything around them was breaking. In Elisa Roberson’s case, there is one part of this story that has always been there, even when it wasn’t being fully told. Ruby’s story...
