She was a 33-year-old tech CEO with no mental health history. She called her parents from a California highway speaking in disconnected, paranoid language. Five days later her body was found in the back seat of her rental car half a mile from where she was last seen. The cause of death was officially listed as an acute manic episode. Nobody who knew her believes that is the whole story.

In every news story written about Ingrid Coleen Lane, she is described the same way. Thirty-seven years old. Married. Bipolar. Buddhist. Musician. Struggling with her mental health. A woman who went for a hike in the Jemez Mountains outside Albuquerque on October 15th, 2023, and did not come back. That description is not wrong. But it is so incomplete that it functionally buried who Ingrid Lane really was. And when you learn who she really was, this story changes completel

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