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🗓️ 21 August 2023
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In the spring of 1982, 22-year-old Diana Avera was sent to Searcy Hospital, a mental health facility in southern Alabama. Diana was arrested for disorderly conduct in Foley, Alabama, where she lived. The details of her arrest are unknown because we only truly know what happened after her arrest. Diana had several mental health diagnoses, and the decision was made to send her to the mental health facility. Just three months later, around the beginning of August 1982, Diana allegedly escaped from the hospital and was never seen again. But is that really what happened 40 years ago in a case shrouded in secrets, abusive hospital practices, and unanswered questions?
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0:00.0 | Hey, prime members, you can listen to the vanished ad free on Amazon Music. Download the app today. |
0:18.0 | Once you came up missing, we thought they had filed a paste report and they did not. It was actually just one filed in 2020, |
0:26.0 | which is unbelievable sad. When we tried to go get our records years ago, me and my three sisters, |
0:32.0 | we found out that, Cersei, they have their own police department and their own graveyard, which we didn't know that. |
0:38.0 | And the police department will no help at all. |
0:41.0 | I just hope and pray that she is found one day. I always hold on to that hope that she will be. |
0:48.0 | And for God to give us answers, you know, let us know where she is or what happened. |
0:53.0 | And especially for her boys, their mama, they only got to spend a few years with, they've had pretty harsh lives. |
1:04.0 | In the spring of 1982, 22-year-old Diana Keith Avera was sent to Cersei Hospital, a mental health facility in Southern Alabama. |
1:13.0 | She had been arrested for disorderly conduct in fully Alabama where she lived. The details of her arrest are largely unknown. |
1:21.0 | Because we only know what happened after her arrest. Diana had several mental health diagnoses and the decision was made to send her to the mental health facility. |
1:30.0 | Just three months later, around the beginning of August 1982, Diana allegedly escaped from the hospital and was never seen or heard from again. |
1:40.0 | But is this really what happened 40 years ago? In a case shrouded in secrets, abusive hospital practices, and unanswered questions. |
1:48.0 | I'm Marissa and from Wondery, this is episode 407 of The Vanished, Diana Keith Avera's story. |
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