24 Patients Vanished in Their Beds — And Nobody Was Fired: The Overbrook Asylum Cover-Up

In January 1917, 24 men froze to death in their beds at Overbrook Asylum. The boiler failure had been reported months earlier. The funding was never released. The investigation that followed was designed to find nothing — and it succeeded. Nobody was fired. Nobody was charged. The superintendent retired on schedule. This is the story of how an institution documents everything, changes nothing, and buries the rest.