Missing Man Entered Stranger's Home, Wandered Around Neighborhood

The subject of a Monday Mattie's Call was found after he entered the home of a stranger and wondered through a Cartersville neighborhood, prompting two calls to 911.

Edward Thomas Hampstead, 60, went missing Sunday about 6 p.m. at the Cartersville Baseball Complex park on Sugar Valley Road after a verbal argument with his brother about his driving. The brother told police he was exercising and when he returned, Hampstead, who suffers from bi-polar disorder and dementia, had disappeared.

A Beechwood Drive resident told Bartow County authorities shortly before 1 p.m. Monday that a strange, elderly man had came into his home about 9 Sunday night.

"(The witness) said he was sitting on his couch watching television, and all of a sudden he heard a strange male's voice in the dining room," a deputy wrote in the sheriff's office incident report, above. "When he went to see what was going on he found an elderly white male standing in the dining room, and he seemed to be dazed and confused. (The witness) said he couldn't get any answers from the male subject regarding his status, and he just escorted him back out the unlocked garage door where he came from. 

"(The witness) said the male subject then wondered off down Beechwood Drive toward Jones Mill Road." 

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"(Hampstead) was not able to carry on any type of intelligent conversation, and had no idea who he was or where he was," the report says.

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