MrBallen

Dorothy was a heavy drinker in her 60s and was on a lot of medication.

So deep down, Patricia knew it was possible Dorothy wasn't answering because she'd had some kind of accident or medical emergency.

So she was at Dorothy's now, not so much to take her on her errands for the day, but just to make sure she was okay.

Patricia got out of her car and hurried up to Dorothy's front door.

But when she knocked, there was no answer.

And after looking in a few windows, she didn't see Dorothy or any kind of movement inside.

It just seemed very quiet and still.

Patricia went back to the front door and tried it, but she found it was locked.

So she just kept on knocking for a while.

And after a few more minutes of Dorothy not answering and not hearing or seeing any sign of life in there, Patricia felt worried enough that she left the front door and went to go call the police.

Not long after that, Patricia was back at Dorothy's house, this time watching anxiously as two police officers forced Dorothy's back door open.

The officers had gotten there just a few minutes ago, and Patricia had explained to them how Dorothy, you know, could be inside and very likely was hurt or something was wrong here.

And so the officers kind of fanned out and began searching around the house looking for a way in, and they found the back door was not locked.

It was just jammed.

So now they were in the process of getting it unjammed.

And so finally, after a few swift kicks to this door, it finally gave way and it swung open and the two officers, along with Patricia, went inside.

Patricia immediately began yelling out Dorothy's name and going room to room looking for her.

And what she quickly realized is she could hear the sound of a television that was on and it was coming from Dorothy's bedroom.

But when she went to the bedroom and looked inside, Dorothy wasn't in there.

in fact after searching the whole house there was no sign of dorothy anywhere and there wasn't any sign of any kind of problem in the house like there was no disturbance anywhere no struggle no like accident where somebody fell over it was just like dorothy was gone and that was it now for the two officers they didn't really know what to make of this because to them you know it didn't appear like anything horrible had happened you know there was no active emergency here but