woman appears to be on a cocktail of antidepressants mood stabilizers and the like i also find an insulin kit leading me to believe that if she's a diabetic her life could be in danger without medication i asked the husband about these and he mentions that his wife has had some quote unquote emotional problems i proceeded to sit him down remarking that there is a lot of medication here then asking him if his wife has more than one insulin kit he goes pale at this point she left all her medication at home i asked him where she keeps her handbag and we end up checking her bedside cabinet the handbag is missing but i managed to take a look at a framed picture for future reference i have absolutely no idea what this woman looks like and ask her husband if i can search the room he's beginning to completely break down at this point and tells me i can do whatever it takes at this point to find his missing wife feeling distinctly uneasy at this point with a banging headache from sleep deprivation i don't find any sign of missing clothes in the wardrobe or any secret stashes of cash or drugs i don't know what led me to do it but i decided to search the bed i turned his pillow and there's a note under it it's a note explaining in no uncertain terms that the man's missing wife has the intention to end her life the note goes on to say that she cannot go on that she's sorry for being a burden i radio back to the police station and update them on the situation i'm then forced to return to the living room and tell this woman's husband that he had failed to notice that he had been sleeping on her note overnight that was probably one of the hardest things i've ever had to do we found her eventually though it took another eight hours or so to pin her down we pinged her mobile phone to a nearby cell tower but that just gave us a general locality i tried to press the husband for information on where she may have gone but he said that she didn't have any friends or family in the area later on the husband telephones the police station explains that they spent a weekend in a nearby seaside town shortly after they got married i called the hotel they stayed in on that occasion but they'd had no one by that name i went down in person and showed them the picture the lady at the desk told me that a guest answering that description had just left for a walk on the pier when i went out to the pier in question there she was she actually seemed quite calm there was nothing overly dramatic about her appearance or demeanor she actually had the cheek to tell me that i looked awful to which i explained jokingly that was partially her fault i asked her to give life a chance for a few more days that her husband loved her and that she wasn't a burden she agreed and we brought her home a couple of days later she came to the station with a box of chocolates and a thank you card one of those generic kinds that in no way revealed just what she was thinking before it was deeply surreal to receive a card like that for preventing the ending of someone's life the family sends a similar card every year around the anniversary of the events a stark reminder of just how effective good police
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