The Lazarus Effect: Team Tracks Down Homeless People in Need of Mental Health Medication

It’s just after 8 a.m., and Lazaro Trueba and Ivan Romero are driving around downtown with a pack of Clipper cigars and a stash of psychotropic pills in search of “Bigfoot.”

At around 6-foot-6, he’s hard to miss. But after two decades living on the streets and struggling with mental illness, Jesse, the man they’ve lovingly nicknamed after the mythical Sasquatch, has a penchant for both walking long distances and disappearing. And finding him is important, because like their other clients he needs his medication.