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BEDFORD, Mass. A 62-year-old patient at the Bedford VA Hospital in Massachusetts has been found dead in one of the facilitys stairwells after having been last seen over a month ago.
According to the Middlesex District Attorneys office, the man, who has not been identified yet, was last seen May 8. He was reported missing shortly after, May 13.
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redwitch
(14,944 posts)How in Gods name could such a thing happen? It sucks getting old in this fucking country!
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Dream Girl
(5,111 posts)global1
(25,253 posts)This isn't the first time a patient was found in a stairwell weeks after they went missing. You would think that the stairwells would be the first place they'd look. Pure negligence on their part.
dalton99a
(81,515 posts)Body found in hospital stairwell is missing patient, examiner says
By Lateef Mungin and Dan Simon, CNN
Updated 1:51 PM ET, Thu October 10, 2013
She checked herself into a hospital weeks ago for a bladder infection. But nobody could have predicted it would end like this.
When Lynne Spalding went missing from San Francisco General Hospital, her friends frantically searched and left messages on a Facebook page to keep each other hopeful.
On Tuesday, the messages on the "Find Lynne" Facebook page turned from hope to anger. A body was found in an exterior stairwell of the hospital, and the San Francisco medical examiner confirmed Thursday that it is Spalding, also known as Lynne Ford.
How could this be? Spalding's friends had searched throughout San Francisco, in alleys and shelters, handing out hundreds of fliers. They wondered whether the woman, dazed by powerful medication, was wandering around somewhere.
bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)CottonBear
(21,596 posts)What an awful way to die.
So sad.
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)Maraya1969
(22,483 posts)Yea, a dead body smells like you wouldn't believe and I don't think a door to a stairwell would stop the smell.
The poor guy might have died from starvation.
Yeehah
(4,588 posts)they have stairwells so infrequently used.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)shockey80
(4,379 posts)WestLosAngelesGal
(268 posts)There should never be a scenario where someone is trapped inside.