Like a Bad Dream
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Gosh, I remember it so vividly. So I had actually the night before I had returned from a trip at the Pentagon where I was working on a large project with the government. I was jet lagged. I was exhausted. I'd gotten in really late. So the next day I remember sleeping in. I remember doing some things around the house. And then I went to fill my prescription. After I did that, I remember making myself a nice dinner.
Lindsay Schweigert lived in a house in St. Louis. After dinner, she says she went to bed early, around 8 p.m. Lindsay's roommate got home a few hours later.
First thing he noticed was that my garage was up and the car was gone. I never left my garage up, ever. You could get right into the house that way. It was late at night. I would never do that. Second thing he noticed, the dog was gone. And then he went into the bathroom and the water in the bathtub was overflowing. I am not a bath person. I cannot tell you the last time I've taken a bath.
He thought something might have happened to Lindsay, like she'd been kidnapped. He called the police.
What happened to Lindsey Schweigert on that fateful day in 2011?
And when he called a second time, they told him Lindsay was in jail. Lindsay says the last thing she remembers is falling asleep in her bed. When she woke up, she didn't know where she was.
I remember being cold and wet. And then I remember being in the back of the police car in handcuffs.
An officer told her she'd been driving and hit another car. Apparently, she'd refused to take a breathalyzer test, and she'd fallen three times when she was instructed to walk in a straight line. It was raining.
I don't remember driving. I don't remember getting in my car. I was like, I just went, I went to bed. I mean, I was so out of it. I mean, if you even look at the mugshot from later, my eyes are just, my sweatshirt was on backwards. I was completely disoriented.
Lindsay's dog was in the backseat of her car. They were less than a mile away from her house, outside of a Steak and Shake she liked to go to.
I remember being frantic with the officer because he said that he's going to send my animal to the dog shelter.
He took Lindsay to jail. Who did you call?
My brother. And what did you say? I told him I have no idea what just happened to me, but I'm in jail and Tyson is at the dog pound and we have to go save my dog.
Lindsay was let out on bail. After her brother picked her up, they found her dog at the pound. They drove back to Lindsay's house, and her roommate told her what he'd seen, the open garage, the bathtub overflowing. Since Lindsay didn't remember what had happened that night, she wondered if at one point she might have had something to drink. She didn't really think so, but she and her roommate checked. They went through the whole house, including the trash, and didn't find any sign that she'd been drinking. But she had taken a sleeping pill. For more than ten years, Lindsay had been having trouble sleeping. Her doctor prescribed her pills to help. And every so often, the medication would stop helping, and her doctor would switch her prescription.
Trazodone, Lunesta, then Ambien, and the generic version of Ambien, Zolpidem.
Its warning label does include a long list of potential side effects, kind of in fine print, as they always are on these medications. Under the extremely rare category, the drug now does warn that it can lead to strange behavior and abnormal thinking.
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