The social worker told the police she’d been working with adult protection services in two Minnesota counties “trying to get emergency guardianship” but had been unable to get court orders to do so.Īn Olmsted County Adult Protective Services official told police that “Mayo was requesting in gaining guardianship of Alyssa because they were concerned for the mother’s mental health and the medical decisions that were being made for Alyssa.”īut something didn’t quite make sense to John Sherwin, captain of investigations for the Rochester Police Department. The social worker also told police she “understood there was no formal diagnosis” for Amber.Īmber told CNN she has no history of mental illness and took offense to the social worker making such an unqualified pronouncement.Īlyssa Gilderhus as a child with her grandmother Betty Stalheim, mother, Amber Engebretson, and younger siblings. “We have a patient abduction,” the caller said.Īn officer arrived on the scene 20 minutes later.Ī Mayo social worker told him that Alyssa “cannot make decisions for herself” and that her mother couldn’t care for her “because Amber has mental health issues.” “It was like the biggest weight off my shoulders,” she said.Īt 4:28 p.m., a Rochester Police dispatcher received a call from Mayo Clinic security. Recalling her escape some months later, Alyssa says it felt “phenomenal.”
“Get out of here, Amber,” he tells his wife. “Get your hands off my daughter,” Duane yells at the aide.ĭuane closes the car door and gets in the back seat. A nursing aide would later tell police she had tried to grab her. The video shows a hand grabbing Alyssa’s arm as Duane helps her into the car. “Yes, she is! Yes, she is!” Duane and Amber yell back. Come on,” Amber says to her daughter.Īs Duane helps his stepdaughter out of the wheelchair and into the passenger seat, the two women in scrubs run toward her, and someone yells, “No!” Instead, Alyssa’s mother is in the driver’s seat. When the group arrives in the lobby, there is no Grandma Betty.ĭuane says he sees Grandma Betty’s car at the entrance and walks out the hospital doors with the two staff members trailing behind him.Īs he approaches the car, the front passenger door opens. She has a bandage on her neck where her breathing tube had been removed a few days before. The video shows Duane pushing Alyssa in her wheelchair down the hospital hallway. He told CNN he wanted the videotape to show that Alyssa had left the hospital willingly and that he hadn’t been violent with staff, and to record actions taken by Mayo employees.ĭuane told the nurses he wanted to take Alyssa downstairs to say hello to Grandma Betty in the lobby. He put his plan into action about 4 p.m., with his 9-year-old daughter, Allie, secretly videotaping with a small GoPro camera hidden in her hand. If he told the nurses that Grandma Betty wanted to visit but couldn’t make it all the way upstairs to Alyssa’s room, it might just sound believable, he figured.
She had been with them a few weeks before, when Alyssa’s great-grandmother had come for a visit.īetty Stalheim was 80. Two nurses had been assigned to watch over her at all times.īut on February 28, 2017, an idea struck Duane as he sat in Alyssa’s hospital room.
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Courtesy Amber Engebretsonĭuane and his wife, Amber Engebretson, weren’t sure how to get their daughter out of Mayo. Alyssa Gilderhus with her siblings at the Mayo Clinic.
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