ROCHESTER, N.Y. – On Oct. 30, 1981, Charlotte Heimann left the Rochester Psychiatric Center on Elmwood Avenue. That was the last time anyone saw her. Forty years later, her granddaughter, Shyla Jump, traveled to Rochester from Cincinnati, searching for clues and answers.
“A week before she went missing, she had an alleged drug overdose and was admitted to this hospital on the general hospital floor,” Jump said, referring to the Rochester Psychiatric Center. “After she was released, she told the staff that she feared a man. And if she went home, that she feared the man was going to be at her home.”
Heimann was given a four hour pass from the psychiatric center to pay her rent at her apartment at 325 Alexander St., but she never made it home…