Without a Trace
Margaret Schilling
19:18
For more than a century, the Athens Asylum operated as a sprawling institution where many lived and died under harsh, often inhumane conditions. Treatments ranged from electroshock to lobotomies, and overcrowding turned the facility into a place of neglect rather than care. In the winter of 1978, one patient simply stopped appearing in her usual spot. Staff assumed she had wandered off, as…