"I Watched My Neighbor Lock Her 5-Year-Old on a Frozen Balcony in a Blizzard—But She Didn’t Know I Was Recording, and the Police Were Already at Her Door. Chapter 1 The temperature in Oak Creek had dropped to five below zero. It was the kind of cold that didn’t just bite; it gnawed at your bones. The weatherman had been warning us about this blizzard for days, calling it a ""historic freeze,"" the type of storm where you keep your pets inside and your faucets dripping. I was standing by my front