Jessie Marie Peterson, 31, an attorney with Type One Diabetes is admitted to the hospital for a diabetes related illness. Two days later she calls her mother around 2:30pm and asks her to come pick her up and take her home. When her mother shows up two-hours later, she is told that Jessie Marie Peterson checked herself out of the hospital, Against Medical Advice (AMA). Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack take a close look at what really happened to Jessie Marie Peterson and why was her mother told she had checked out, when according to their own records, she was pronounced dead at 4:27pm at the medical center. While the family spent over a year looking for Jessie, her body had been sitting in a storage facility.

Transcript Highlights

00:05.18 Introduction

01:59.25 Hospital tells family patient left AMA

06:53.65 Family is looking for Jessie Peterson, attorney

11:48.34 Jessie is ready to leave hospital, accomplished woman

16:11.54 Lawsuit filed

21:10.19 She calls her mother at 2:30, two hours later she is gone

25:20.07 Hospital claims she left AMA

30:22.43 Mother begins looking for Jessie

35:15.51 Jessie Marie Peterson was dead and for a year the family is looking for Jessie

40:06.21 Body is placed into cold storage

45:08.31 Her body is found after a year, remains are not viewable

49:01.24 Conclusion

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