Crisis interventionist Vicki Lucas, left, is accompanied by Emily Spencer, center, who works for Lucas on a freelance basis-part of a larger network of assistants that Lucas maintains for intervention work throughout the state and the country, as they provide Sherry Hill’s daughter, right, with a chance to speak on a phone with Hill outside of a 7-Eleven convenience store in Pasadena on May 11.(Christina House / Los Angeles Times)
By Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, August 3, 2023
Sherry Hill had lost track of her daughter, which wasn’t a surprise. She lived on the street and was so caught up in cycles of mental illness and addiction that she didn’t care that she could have a better life.
The younger woman’s father had died two years ago and left her with more than enough money for housing and support.
Hill and her second husband, Mel, were now administrators of the trust, and they needed to contact her. But the couple were in their 70s, living near Fresno, and in no position to start searching.
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