April 16, 2006
A mother ‘aches’ for her murdered daughter
Angela Dawn Lucas was easygoing and always smiling, an aspiring veterinarian who would bring her mother baby birds that had fallen from their nests.‘Some patients who leave here shouldn’t’
Not just in Virginia, but across the country the mental-health system is in a "shambles" because of doctor and bed shortages.Families blame mental health system
Despite warnings, Augusta Medical Center releases a suicidal teenager from its psychiatric unit. He kills two people and then himself. How could it have happened?Doctor sued in unrelated patient death
The same doctor who evaluated Chadwick Aaron Woodson is embroiled in a 10-year-old legal controversy over a teenager's death at Western State Hospital.Virginia gets serious about human rights with 1983 legislation
Local human rights committees help provide oversight of facilities that treat the mentally ill, mentally retarded and substance abusers.Chad Woodson couldn’t conquer his demons
Chadwick Aaron Woodson never knew his biological parents, and he didn't seem to be interested in learning who they were.A reluctant crusader
Lyn Hall warned officials with Augusta County's psychiatric facility that one day a prematurely released patient would kill someone.An act of friendship led to her murder
Jennifer Marie Bassett was always thinking about other people -- lost souls, animals, the new kid in school -- and often to her detriment, friends and family recall.Page 1 of 1 pages
