At 2:19 a.m., a 7-Year-Old Girl Called 911 Because Her Parents Wouldn’t Wake Up and the House Smelled Strange — What Officers Later Uncovered Revealed a Hidden Truth That Quietly Shook a Town That Never Expected Something Like This

The town of Willow Creek was the kind of place where midnight meant stillness, not danger.   Porch lights glowed more out of habit than fear, and the streets carried the hush of nothing happening at all. Inside a modest one-story house on the edge of town, seven-year-old Lily stood barefoot on the cold kitchen…