People who overdosed on sleeping pills usually died outright, but he had been in half a hospital at the time, hadn't he?
Arkham Asylum had doctors, and even its Psychologists had graduated from medical school.
After emergency treatment, Christopher Lucas's life was saved, but he fell into an eternal sleep. Medically speaking, he had entered a Vegetative State.
It was a medical accident. Somewhere else, they probably would have sent him straight to the crematorium, but Arkham was a fairly humane place. Its funding mostly came from Wayne Enterprises anyway, so keeping one more person alive was no big deal.
So they found a small room in Arkham Tower, put the sleeping Christopher inside, and did not even need much in the way of complicated medical equipment. They simply let him sleep peacefully on his own.
The main reason was that after he entered a Vegetative State, the police investigated his home and discovered that he was connected to a recent string of serial murders. The deaths of his wife and daughter had undoubtedly driven him mad. Unable to sleep, he killed people to vent his emotions.
That made it even more impossible to dispose of him directly. It was better to leave him in Arkham.
He slept for more than twenty years without ever waking up. Compared to Insomnia, perhaps the name Hypersomnia suited him better.
This was the report Gordon had found. Some of the medical expenses had been covered by social insurance, so there were treatment records. Then he went digging through the police Database, through those dusty cardboard boxes filled with cold cases from years ago.
"If you say the enemy leader was born from this man's Nightmare, then I can understand it. After he fell asleep, the officers found evidence proving that he was connected