In the hours before a terrible discovery, Phillip Tallio's last day as a free man

First in a seven-part series
Around 2 a.m. on Saturday, April 23, 1983, Phillip Tallio was sitting in the kitchen at a house party catching up with a relative he hadn’t seen in years.
According to court documents recently made public, he told her how excited he was to learn he was going to have a baby and a family of his own.
About seven hours later, Tallio, then 17, was picked up by police for the murder of his 22-month-old relative Delavina Mack. It was a crime Tallio pleaded guilty