Usually, he mimics a patient who died at the hospital. He’ll refuse to answer to his own name, often taking on an entirely different persona. It requires a bit of mental gymnastics to make this case, but it’s far more comforting to imagine a scenario in which my mom was killed not by my father but by her crazy ex-husband who was in no way related to me.īut Kelsey’s contact also told her that Pfeifer’s more pressing psychological problem is his frequent insistence that he’s not Scott Pfeifer at all. The official diagnosis is schizophrenia, and he’s relatively stable the vast majority of the time, aside from the rare violent outburst.īefore Kelsey chatted with that guy yesterday, I’d continued to hold out a slight hope that Jasper was wrong about Scott Pfeifer being my father. He’s not the actual psychiatrist who works with my dad, but he was able to confirm that Pfeifer is still a patient. Patient confidentiality kept Sam from getting recent information about Scott Pfeifer, but Kelsey tracked down a friend of a friend who is on staff at the hospital. My aunt, although I have a tough time wrapping my head around that concept. He also found death certificates for Thomas and Betty Johnson, who both died in 2012, but he couldn’t find additional information on Leah’s sister, Rowena. Sam managed to locate a marriage license but no birth certificate. There’s no mention of a child in any of the articles.
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