FORT COLLINS, Colo. — A Colorado man who was missing for five days was found dead in a locked movie theater restroom after workers noticed an odor and forced their way in, authorities said.
Police had searched the area around the Fort Collins theater after the family of 66-year-old George DeGrazio reported him missing on Jan. 9 and his vehicle was found nearby.
DeGrazio died of a heart attack, Deputy Coroner James MacNaughton told KMGH-TV of Denver.
The man’s son, Dylan DeGrazio, told the station that he was upset that theater employees didn’t find his father’s body earlier.
“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,” he said. “But that didn’t happen.”
A spokesman for Cinemark didn’t immediately return a message left by The Associated Press. In a statement, the company said it was working with authorities and couldn’t comment on an ongoing investigation.
“Our thoughts and prayers go out to the DeGrazio family during this difficult period as they mourn the loss of a loved family member,” the company said in the statement.
Information from: KMGH-TV, http://www.thedenverchannel.com
So….no one attempted to clean that bathroom for 5 days? Nice……
Exactly! They go on the dirty bathroom list! Shouldn’t part of their closing procedure be making sure no one was in the building? Sure if I find a locked door first I’d knock and shout before I got the key to check the room!!
have you been top a movie theatre lately? What’s the average of a kid working there? They don’t care…
HUH !!!
People whine about my grammar ..
Just because you’ve found someone far worse, doesn’t excuse you from class… Now get back to studying!!
what is that a time reaction joke laugh when i got time
Seems like a common sense closing procedure to me…I don’t remember ever locking up department stores with out clearing all of the dressing rooms and bathrooms.
And this is why I never like using public restrooms…they aren’t cleaned the same way you clean yours at home!!! 5 days without cleaning equals gross even if no dead body!
No doubt your feet stick to the floor in this movie theater.
Not that the theater owners could have prevented the heart attack, but, wouldn’t you think that at the end of the day, they would at least check all the restrooms? Especially a stall that might be locked? Makes me wonder what else might go on in a theater and not be discovered for days!
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Usher to manager: “Should I clean the men’s room?”
Manager to Usher: “Nope, only after it starts stinking”
Not one comment about the death of this man—Not surprising, I guess. I can’t imagine how heartbreaking something like this must be for the family—-I’m so sorry that this family , or others, would have to go thru the agony of not being able to find a missing family member.– Some are thinking of your loss.
Several years ago I was talking a walk in a cemetary near Munjoy Hill in Portland looking at the graves of Revolutionary Soldiers. As I came to the front of the cemetary the entrance was looked. This cemetary was surrounded by a high iron fence. I got out with my wife only because a pedestrian was able to tell us to go to a local church and crawl through an open arch onto a porch and then we access the street that way.
So no, people dont check to see if everyone is out or a building before it closes or out of cemetary before the gate gets locked for the nigh . This man died alone in a restroom and that is truly tragic.