A pretty nightie, a new lipstick, a fresh toothbrush:
Doris Racher noticed that small things she had bought for her 96-year-old mother, Eryetha Mayberry, a dementia patient at
a nursing home in Oklahoma City, had been disappearing. Ms. Racher assumed the culprit was another resident who sometimes
wandered into her mother’s room and fell asleep in her bed.
So
in 2012, Ms. Racher placed a motion-activated camera in her mother’s room. It looked like an alarm clock, and Ms. Racher
nearly forgot about it.
About two months later, the family decided to pore through
the recordings.
The camera had not caught the petty
thief. But it captured something else:
