Posted on 02/19/2006 8:05:15 AM PST by Thebaddog
A chance sighting solves the case of a missing New York man found living at a Chicago homeless shelter. Doctors at a west suburban hospital are treating the man.
Raymond Power Junior is suffering from amnesia. The attorney and former police officer disappeared from his home in New Rochelle, New York last summer. Earlier this week he turned up at the Pacific Garden Mission in the South Loop. He told people there his name was Jay Tower.
A homeless man who befriended Power helped the shelter's operator learn his true identity. Power told police he doesn't remember how he got to the shelter.
"In my 18 years, never seen this before," said Phil Kwiatkowski, Pacific Garden Mission Ministries.
"We will bring him back and give him the treatment be part of our family again," said Jane Power, wife.
When Power was reunited with his family, he didn't remember them. He's now staying at Hines VA Hospital.
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Hope they don't tell him he is an attorney, it might push him over the edge.
TT
As any lawyer might suspect,an 'amnesia" defense is a potentially effective one in criminal trials.
Strange!
Glad it has a good ending.
Exactly what I was thinking.
Who woulda thunk it?
Ya, I always told my family I was a piano player in a brothel. I didn't want them to find out I was a lawyer and disappoint them.
Isn't there some guy in Texas who used to be a male prostitute and now running as a Democrat politician? Some people's live are just a downward spiral, I guess. Maybe he could get elected to Congress and start a nice home-based business with Barney Frank.
Wouldn't wish that on anyone, even an attorney. :)
>>>"Isn't there some guy in Texas who used to be a male prostitute and now running as a Democrat politician? Some people's live are just a downward spiral, I guess. Maybe he could get elected to Congress and start a nice home-based business with Barney Frank"<<<
Doesn't everyone have a crazy aunt in the basement?
TT
Probably, but Democrats don't have the sense to KEEP them in the basement.
next mystery is...where did he leave the LEXUS?
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