On May 21, 1982, 23-year-old Diana Avera was arrested for disorderly conduct and sent to Searcy Hospital in Mount Vernon, Alabama
On May 21, 1982, 23-year-old Diana Avera was arrested for disorderly conduct and sent to Searcy Hospital in Mount Vernon, Alabama — a psychiatric facility known for housing some of the state’s most fragile patients.
Diana suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and underwent multiple electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) sessions along with other treatments. When her family came to visit, they barely recognized her. The once lively young woman they knew now moved slowly, spoke in fragments, and seemed lost in a daze. “She was like a zombie,” her loved ones recalled — hollow-eyed and broken.
Then, one day in August 1982, Diana vanished. She escaped from the hospital grounds and disappeared without a trace.
More than four decades later, her fate remains unknown. No one knows where she went, or what became of her after that summer day. All that’s left are unanswered questions — and a family still waiting for the truth about what really happened to Diana Avera.

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