Eleanor Gordon Smith

He says he wasn't on either side.

Dr Elizabeth Loftus read Corwin's article with one eyebrow firmly raised.

She was a psychology professor at the University of Washington, and a big deal.

It was her experiments that proved memories are malleable.

And she was a star witness in high-profile court cases where she argued that eyewitness recollections aren't reliable.

So when the memory wars began, she knew which side she was on.

She thought repressed memories were almost never real.

She wrote a doorstop of a book called The Myth of Repressed Memory.

And when she read the Jane Doe case, she was alarmed.

Part of her suspicion was the message, and part was the messenger.

She'd seen Corwin testify in court on another case, a patient accused their therapist of abuse.

And she didn't find him persuasive there either.

She wanted to know whether the abuse had really happened.

But to do that, she needed to know the real name of that little girl.

Rather than ask Corwin, which would be normal for a researcher looking into someone else's study, she decided to dig around on her own.

She contacted a private investigator to run down some tips.

She searched death records for Nicole's father.

She found dozens of matches.

And she started narrowing them down, closing in on the real Jane Doe.

Nicole, meanwhile, was thinking very little about her time as Jane Doe.