A local woman missing- Mary Kubica

But the longer he stares at those pictures, he sees.
“The DNA test, Leo,” he says, “was conclusive. The DNA test
confirmed that she’s Delilah. DNA tests don’t lie.”
That is a major question mark. Because DNA tests almost always
get it right. There are rare errors that can be chalked up to the quality
of the sample or the way the sample was handled, or the results
interpreted.
We go to the police station. With you in another room, Dad corners
the lady cop and one of her henchmen. He shows her the pictures.
She’s dismissive at first. “You can’t just think she’d look the exact
same as she did when she was six. People change, Josh. They grow
up. That baby fat disappears and features become more defined.
That’s all that’s happening here.”
She ascribes Dad’s fears to some form of PTSD, thinking that after
all these years of missing Delilah, he has anxiety over losing her
again.
It’s not that simple. I printed out the articles online that say cleft
chins don’t just vanish; they’re here for life. She reads the article and
her face goes white.
“What if the DNA test got it wrong?” Dad asks.
“DNA tests are lauded as extremely reliable, almost one hundred
percent.”
“I’d like to see those results,” Dad says, thinking the lab fucked up.
There are things called a false positive and a coincidental match.
The lady cop doesn’t move. She holds stock-still.
“Carmen?” he asks. “I’d like to see the results, please.” Though
why, I don’t know, because it’s not like Dad, an investment banker,
can make heads or tails of a DNA report.
“I can get it,” the henchman says.
“No,” the lady cop says quickly. “Let me.” She walks away. Dad’s
eyes follow her. She’s not that bad-looking, for an older lady. Like
Dad, she’s got to be pushing fifty, though she takes better care of
herself than Dad does. She looks like she works out, eats healthy
and all that. Under her clothes, she’s probably ripped.
When she comes back, she’s shaking her head. Her hands are
empty. She says decisively, “It wasn’t there.”
“Ma’am?” the henchman asks.