The monitor’s prior recordings became relevant.

Not thousands of hours.

Only motion- and sound-triggered clips stored locally over approximately two weeks before the card overwrote old data.

Police recovered several.

Nothing as severe as the attack.

But disturbing.

Valerie standing over Leo while he cried:

“Stop it.”

Another:

“You don’t need Evan every time.”

Another clip showed me entering.

Leo quieted almost immediately when he heard my voice.

Valerie said:

“Of course.”

Tone matters.

Then one clip captured Valerie speaking on her phone.

“I’m documenting everything.”

Pause.

“If something happens, Daniel needs to understand Evan can’t be alone with him.”

The other caller could not be heard.

Then:

“No, I’m not saying he’s violent. I’m saying he’s reckless.”

That was the architecture.

If Leo had experienced a medical crisis while I was nearby, Valerie had already created a record suggesting I was unsafe.

Did prosecutors prove she planned to blame me for Leo’s death?

No.

We never claimed that.

That would have required evidence we did not have.

What we could say:

She was building a misleading professional narrative about me.

At the same time, recordings showed her own hostility toward Leo.

That contradiction mattered.