Chapter 14 - The therapist Richard wanted
There actually was a psychiatrist.
Dr. Alan Voss.
Richard called him on day six.
Not to treat Claire.
To ask hypothetically:
“What do you do if a family member is paranoid and making destructive accusations?”
Voss told him:
“Encourage voluntary evaluation. If there is imminent danger, emergency services.”
Richard asked:
“Can family arrange private admission?”
“Only with consent unless legal emergency standards are met.”
Richard did not like the answer.
He never told Voss Claire was confined.
Good.
Voss did nothing wrong.
Then Richard contacted a private wellness facility in Arizona.
He asked whether a:
“high-profile family member”
could be admitted discreetly for:
“severe exhaustion and paranoid ideation.”
The facility required patient consent and physician referral.
No admission occurred.
Prosecutors later used these calls not as proof of a psychiatric conspiracy, but to show Richard was searching for a narrative that could explain Claire’s disappearance after the fact.
He had not planned to keep her in the bunker forever.
That was almost worse.
He planned to move her into a story she did not choose.
Sick woman.
Breakdown.
Private treatment.
Family protects privacy.
Then eventually:
Claire recovers.
Matter resolved.
My father spent his whole life believing a well-managed narrative was adjacent to truth.
Claire refused.
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So the bunker remained.
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