Connecticut Valley Hospital

Can you just explain what that was and how that's sort of indicative of the project that you're working on?

Yeah, so my hometown of Middletown, Connecticut, is the home to Connecticut Valley Hospital, which is Connecticut's largest remaining psychiatric hospital.

It's much smaller than it once was, like almost all state psychiatric hospitals are, but it's still quite large.

And it houses a forensic unit, which is just the term for a unit dedicated to people who are in the legal system.

And one of those people is a guy named David Peterson.

When I was, this would have been when I was eight years old, seven or eight years old, my town was having its annual sidewalk sale, which is just like a kind of classic small town community event where people come down and there'd be stalls and shops and vendors and things you can buy and people doing pony rides and stuff like that.

In a very bad piece of timing, Connecticut Valley Hospital allowed this guy, David Peterson, who is a schizophrenic with a long history of violence, particularly of stabbings, going back to the 1970s.

They allowed him to wander off of campus into downtown.