She took a breath, then added, “I never even knew it had been closed.”
Santos asked whether Rebecca still had any records from the original complaint.
Rebecca nodded.
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She had kept text messages, photographs of her injuries, and a copy of an email she’d sent to the sheriff’s office asking for an update. The email had received no meaningful response.
She had preserved everything because she’d never understood why no one had followed up.
Those records gave investigators another path to examine Timmons’s handling of the case.
As the investigation widened, more questions emerged. Santos began reviewing how other complaints involving Trent had been processed, whether evidence had been omitted, and whether anyone else had interfered with the reports.
Timmons was removed from any involvement in Cassidy’s case while the state examined his conduct.
Trent, meanwhile, began telling people that Cassidy had exaggerated what happened and that I was trying to destroy his life.
