Mr. Ballin

Now, this nurse was starting to panic.

She worried that Carrie might have tried to walk somewhere on her own and gotten completely lost because of her terrible eyesight.

And so, not knowing what else to do, the nurse ran to the front desk and said she needed help right away because Carrie Selvidge had disappeared.

At 6 p.m.

that night, so about eight hours after Carrie had stepped out of her room, her younger brother Joseph walked into the lobby of Union State Hospital.

And it was pure chaos.

Joseph saw doctors, nurses, and administrators walking as quickly as they could down one hall and into another, and everybody looked frantic.

But nobody had contacted Joseph, so he did not know what was going on.

He eventually flagged down a nurse and told her he was there to visit his sister, and that's when the nurse told him.

His sister Carrie was missing.

Joseph felt a pang of fear.

He asked the nurse sharply what she meant.

The nurse was clearly nervous as she explained that Carrie had wandered off.

But she rushed to tell Joseph the entire staff believed that Carrie was probably still on the grounds, so there was no real need to worry.

Joseph stared at the nurse with his mouth open.

He was shocked.

But more than that, he was mad.

He had felt terrible for his big sister that she had ended up in this hospital in the first place.

And he hadn't given up hope that she could maybe recover and return to the life that she had been building.

He knew she was unhappy here and now she was potentially in danger.