The Mother Who Spoke About the Years She Lost

During the proceedings, Shanara Mobley spoke about what it had cost her to lose her daughter — not for a day or a month, but for eighteen years of birthdays, school days, and everything in between that she never got to witness. It was the clearest public account of what the crime had actually taken from her. But it was not, it turned out, the last word on how this story would be understood.