India, Oct. 13 -- An 83-year-old Navy veteran with dementia was found dead inside a walk-in freezer at a Florida assisted living home after his daughter noticed he was missing from his room.

William Eugene Ray, a father of two, had been living at the Waverly Assisted Living and Memory Care in Trinity since May. His daughter, Kristen Spencer, installed a Ring camera in his room to monitor him as his dementia worsened.

Ray, known as Gene to family and friends, joined the Navy at 17 and served 36 years before retiring. After his military service, he worked in land surveying and later for the Florida Department of Transportation.

"You put your loved one in there with trust," she told Fox 13.

On Sept. 26, Spencer checked the camera and saw...