Intercepted Plans: A Baby Monitor's Secret

"Recovered Audio From My Baby Monitor the Night Police Knocked I woke at 2:14 a.m.

because the baby monitor app vibrated, not because my son cried. The waveform was

flat, then a man whispered, “Light on. He’s awake.” In the room there was

only the dishwasher’s low hum and the blue LED on the router blinking like always.

I replayed it three times. The voice sounded close, compressed,

like cheap radio. Ten minutes later another clip saved itself: footsteps, a zipper,

then someone breathing hard. The app tagged it as “movement detected,” even though the

crib camera showed nothing but rain sliding down the window. I unplugged the