“It all started about four months ago.”

He explained that he had received an unexpected call from a dedicated social worker named Nora Ellis who worked at a non-profit care facility in a neighboring state.

One of her elderly residents, who had been registered for years under the name Thomas Walker, had suffered a minor stroke and begun repeating three specific words: Martha, Christopher, Waco.

Among his few personal belongings was a silver medal engraved with the initials T.M.H.

Nora searched old newspaper archives and uncovered an article about the mysterious disappearance of Thomas Higgins, a road engineer presumed dead after his vehicle plunged into a ravine decades ago.