Gone Missing...

Every time I see new information about this story I am amazed that something like this can happen. A woman in California went missing from a hospital 17 days later she was found dead, in the stairwell, in the SAME hospital! There were many searches, none off which were fully complete. The question I have is had the woman been found earlier could she still be alive today?
- Ashley Peitz

http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/07/us/california-body-in-stairwell/index.html?hpt=us_c2