The original lab tech raised serious red flags, but his official report mysteriously vanished from the county records.”

Martha placed her hand over her mouth as horror washed over her.

Thomas had spent months in a public county hospital classified as an unidentified person before being moved into the state long-term care system.

By the time small fragments of his memory slowly returned, the missing persons case was long closed, and his legal identity had been declared dead by the courts.

He had adopted the name Thomas Walker simply because ‘Walker’ was printed on a donated jacket given to him.