OSSIPEE — A residential care facility in Tamworth is defending itself from a lawsuit filed by the family of an Alzheimer’s and dementia patient who went missing last year.
The suit cites the facility's allowing the man to walk away unattended and a police theory that he hitchhiked to Maine.
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