A local woman missing- Mary Kubica

LEO
NOW
The cops brought you back to our place just long enough to pack up
your stuff. The rest of us wait downstairs while you go up alone.
We’re all guilty of assuming you’re pretty much helpless. We’ve
forgotten you’re the same girl who survived eleven years in some
hellhole, who crafted your own shank to stab a man with and set
yourself free. Not many people could do that. You’re stronger than
we think. You’re stronger than you think.
This is what the cops came up with at the police station: there’s
something called false memories. They feel real like real memories,
but they’re not. People’s minds can deceive them, or they can be
tricked into remembering things that never happened in the first
place. Memory can be manipulated. Ideas can be implanted inside a
person’s head. That’s what they think happened to you.
As the cops continued to pry, you remembered being read to from
a newspaper, seeing Dad’s and Mom’s pictures in that paper before
your world went dark. The cops dug up an old article from the paper
online and Dad’s picture was exactly as you described it: Dad
standing in front of our blue house. There was another picture inset
into the text. This was one of Mom. The caption: Suburban mom
found dead of apparent suicide. The article had been added to the
AP newswire, which meant it ran in papers almost everywhere.
For whatever reason, Eddie and Martha found the article. They
made you believe you were Delilah, and that the people in the
pictures were your dad and mom. There’s no saying why, not unless
the cops find them. But the man cop guesses that Eddie and Martha
were obsessed with Delilah’s high profile case, or they were copycat
criminals. They got off on taking you. They either pretended or
believed that you were that elusive missing girl who captured the
attention of the world and quickly earned celebrity status: my sister.