At 9:47 p.m., just as the last of the dinner dishes were being rinsed and the familiar rhythm of a quiet American neighborhood settled into its predictable calm, a line of headlights appeared at the far end of Cedar Hollow Lane, cutting through the thin mist of a damp Ohio evening in a way that made people pause mid-motion without quite understanding why, as though something in the air had shifted before anyone had the words to explain it.Continue reading…