Posted on 01/18/2012 7:56:03 AM PST by beaversmom
A 66-year-old retired art teacher was found dead in a Colorado movie theatre on Saturday, five days after he was reported missing by his family.
George DeGrazio's body went unnoticed until cinema employees noticed a foul stench coming from the family bathroom of the multiplex.
Staff then alerted the duty managers and the grim discovery was made.
Loveland Missing Persons Department published a notice on January 9 and police had searched both the cinema and surrounding area after finding DeGrazio's red Nissan Xterra in the parking lot.
Larimer County Deputy Coroner, James MacNaughton, told 7News on Sunday that he had suffered a heart attack and no foul play was suspected.
However, his son, Dylan DeGraziois is furious that staff at the Cinemark in Fort Collins didn't find his father sooner.
He told Fox News: 'If I had the police department saying somebody disappeared in this area and we're trying to locate him, I would be searching every nook and cranny of my establishment. But that didn't happen.'
Speaking to 7News on the evening of the discovery, he lamented: 'I picture him just sitting there in this, like, slumped over, eyes-open position.
'That's just the sheer reality of it. For somebody who didn't know George, that is just a corpse rotting in a bathroom, and that disgusts me. That disgusts me.'
Cinemark corporate headquarters were slow to respond to the unfortunate circumstances over the weekend, issuing an overdue statement on Monday.
The company reassured the public: 'Cinemark is working closely with the Fort Collins Police and Loveland Missing Persons Department on this case.
'As the case is ongoing, we are not able to discuss the details of the investigation at this time. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the DeGrazio family during this difficult period as they mourn the loss...
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Wow, don’t they ever clean the place?!
So they don’t clean the bathrooms at that theater? And the police don’t search the building very well in a missings persons case?
Fail all around!
The moral is stay home and buy, rent or download your movie.
No wonder I tend to eschew public turlets.
So, why didn’t the fam search the theater for five days?
Lord, please, please... when it’s my time to go please let it happen when my pants are on.
I don’t know what’s worse - lazy teenagers who lie about cleaning the bathrooms, or lazy cops who ‘search’ a building so well.
I can understand why his son is so upset. Very sad.
It was a locked family bathroom. Probably every time they came by to clean it was “locked” so they thought someone else was in there. Since no other customers were going in or complaining about the bathroom’s tidiness, no one thought anything of it.
Probably change their processes, so that those bathrooms are checked every night now.
They didn't find him because someone closed the lid?
Have you seen the price of tickets lately? /s
5 days? Sounds like half of an Eisenstein Film Festival.
“... Lord, when it’s my time to go please let it happen when my pants are on”
I wonder how many male freepers pray the opposite?! (giggle, snort, giggle)
You would think someone would be demanding a courtesy flush
before then. Or did the whole place just stink? ;-)
Don’t they check at the end of the night that everyone was out of the building?
Brings fresh, new meaning to the phrase, “I’m dying to take a dump!”
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