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Inmate Records Released from Closed Washington Psychiatric Lockup

In July 2023, writer Brad Bigelow learned his great-grandfather’s 1951 obituary was a lie—George Bartles had not died at his Seattle home. Newly released records revealed that the 74-year-old was instead an inmate at the now-shuttered Northern State Hospital, where he had been involuntarily committed with dementia for the last ...

 

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