It felt like a home.
But there was still one part of the story that nobody had fully understood.
Catherine, my biological mother, had died after the accident, but the family had never been given a complete account of what had happened to her.
Richard had spent years trying to locate her final medical records.
Now that my identity had been confirmed, he asked his legal team to reopen the search.
They contacted the hospital that had treated the victims of the accident. They examined archived documents and compared them with the police report from October 1981.
Eventually, they found a discrepancy.
Catherine had been transferred to another medical facility under a record containing an incorrect spelling of her surname. Because the information did not match the details Richard and Margaret had provided, the hospital’s notification had never been properly connected to the missing-person investigation.
The mistake did not explain every lost opportunity or every unanswered question.