WEBVTT NOTE duration:"00:03:17" NOTE recognizability:0.811 NOTE language:en-us NOTE Confidence: 0.900369631904762 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.890 And switching sides here dozens NOTE Confidence: 0.900369631904762 00:00:01.890 --> 00:00:03.780 of families tonight are learning NOTE Confidence: 0.900369631904762 00:00:03.844 --> 00:00:05.794 their late loved ones may have NOTE Confidence: 0.900369631904762 00:00:05.794 --> 00:00:07.570 been left unattended for months. NOTE Confidence: 0.900369631904762 00:00:07.570 --> 00:00:08.738 It's the disturbing scene NOTE Confidence: 0.900369631904762 00:00:08.738 --> 00:00:09.906 out of southern Indiana. NOTE Confidence: 0.900369631904762 00:00:09.910 --> 00:00:11.720 A southern Indiana Funeral Home, NOTE Confidence: 0.900369631904762 00:00:11.720 --> 00:00:13.132 which we've learned has NOTE Confidence: 0.900369631904762 00:00:13.132 --> 00:00:14.544 dealt with AC outages. NOTE Confidence: 0.900369631904762 00:00:14.550 --> 00:00:16.728 We were made aware of the NOTE Confidence: 0.900369631904762 00:00:16.728 --> 00:00:17.817 investigation into Lankford NOTE Confidence: 0.900369631904762 00:00:17.817 --> 00:00:19.223 Funeral Home in Jeffersonville NOTE Confidence: 0.900369631904762 00:00:19.223 --> 00:00:21.512 IN Friday and tonight we have an NOTE Confidence: 0.900369631904762 00:00:21.577 --> 00:00:23.755 update from police on just how NOTE Confidence: 0.900369631904762 00:00:23.755 --> 00:00:25.207 severe conditions were inside. NOTE Confidence: 0.900369631904762 00:00:25.210 --> 00:00:26.560 Connor Stephen has the latest NOTE Confidence: 0.900369631904762 00:00:26.560 --> 00:00:27.910 details and how families are NOTE Confidence: 0.900369631904762 00:00:27.961 --> 00:00:29.077 coping in the aftermath. NOTE Confidence: 0.852227185555556 00:00:30.060 --> 00:00:33.003 So this is the last Christmas we had flipping NOTE Confidence: 0.90603147 00:00:33.020 --> 00:00:34.928 through an old family photo book. NOTE Confidence: 0.90603147 00:00:34.930 --> 00:00:37.586 Tara Owens looks back on some of her NOTE Confidence: 0.90603147 00:00:37.586 --> 00:00:39.727 favorite memories shared with her brother NOTE Confidence: 0.858850447142857 00:00:40.390 --> 00:00:42.266 25 years apart. So that's my mom. NOTE Confidence: 0.858850447142857 00:00:42.270 --> 00:00:44.321 And then our dad that we shared NOTE Confidence: 0.858850447142857 00:00:44.321 --> 00:00:46.719 together and on a good day he was NOTE Confidence: 0.858850447142857 00:00:46.719 --> 00:00:48.699 hilarious. The best storyteller NOTE Confidence: 0.774394534 00:00:48.750 --> 00:00:50.550 James affectionately known as Mike, NOTE Confidence: 0.774394534 00:00:50.550 --> 00:00:52.674 died three months ago. Owens was NOTE Confidence: 0.774394534 00:00:52.674 --> 00:00:54.959 the only family that he had left. NOTE Confidence: 0.908501238947368 00:00:55.070 --> 00:00:56.771 He was my dad's baby and that's NOTE Confidence: 0.908501238947368 00:00:56.771 --> 00:00:58.429 why it was important for me NOTE Confidence: 0.908501238947368 00:00:58.429 --> 00:01:00.163 to give him a proper burial. NOTE Confidence: 0.807527551428571 00:01:00.320 --> 00:01:02.090 Owens decided to send her NOTE Confidence: 0.807527551428571 00:01:02.090 --> 00:01:03.506 brother's remains to Langford NOTE Confidence: 0.807527551428571 00:01:03.506 --> 00:01:05.040 Funeral Home to be cremated. NOTE Confidence: 0.807527551428571 00:01:05.040 --> 00:01:07.098 That was April 11th of this year. NOTE Confidence: 0.807527551428571 00:01:07.100 --> 00:01:08.916 She was told it would take 7 to NOTE Confidence: 0.807527551428571 00:01:08.916 --> 00:01:10.835 10 days so I thought it was fun. NOTE Confidence: 0.759877925 00:01:10.850 --> 00:01:12.380 I I thought everything was fine. NOTE Confidence: 0.759877925 00:01:12.380 --> 00:01:13.904 There was no indication that this NOTE Confidence: 0.759877925 00:01:13.904 --> 00:01:16.008 was going to go the way that it has, NOTE Confidence: 0.878604218 00:01:16.060 --> 00:01:17.620 but as time went on, NOTE Confidence: 0.878604218 00:01:17.620 --> 00:01:19.594 one week passed and another close NOTE Confidence: 0.878604218 00:01:19.594 --> 00:01:21.560 to three months passed for Owens, NOTE Confidence: 0.878604218 00:01:21.560 --> 00:01:23.807 who was left with no answers and NOTE Confidence: 0.74598299 00:01:23.880 --> 00:01:26.949 no Ashes. And then I saw the news story NOTE Confidence: 0.816710663333333 00:01:27.100 --> 00:01:28.680 and the scene unfolding at NOTE Confidence: 0.816710663333333 00:01:28.680 --> 00:01:29.944 Langford Funeral Home Friday NOTE Confidence: 0.748821816428571 00:01:29.960 --> 00:01:32.319 my mouth. Robbed, I couldn't believe it NOTE Confidence: 0.842841383333333 00:01:32.370 --> 00:01:34.178 investigators and hazmat suits NOTE Confidence: 0.842841383333333 00:01:34.178 --> 00:01:35.986 refrigerated trucks used as NOTE Confidence: 0.842841383333333 00:01:35.986 --> 00:01:38.627 mobile morgues 1 by 1 authorities NOTE Confidence: 0.842841383333333 00:01:38.627 --> 00:01:40.299 recovering countless bodies inside. NOTE Confidence: 0.6350355625 00:01:40.430 --> 00:01:42.838 If you walked inside. NOTE Confidence: 0.6350355625 00:01:42.840 --> 00:01:44.215 The business itself you would NOTE Confidence: 0.6350355625 00:01:44.215 --> 00:01:45.590 understand this is abnormal for NOTE Confidence: 0.6350355625 00:01:45.640 --> 00:01:46.948 any Funeral Home I've been to NOTE Confidence: 0.783948357857143 00:01:47.360 --> 00:01:48.803 in old Jeffersonville, NOTE Confidence: 0.783948357857143 00:01:48.803 --> 00:01:50.246 police working alongside NOTE Confidence: 0.783948357857143 00:01:50.246 --> 00:01:52.170 authorities spanning 8 different NOTE Confidence: 0.783948357857143 00:01:52.235 --> 00:01:54.039 agencies recovering 31 bodies, NOTE Confidence: 0.783948357857143 00:01:54.040 --> 00:01:56.515 some of which were highly NOTE Confidence: 0.783948357857143 00:01:56.515 --> 00:01:58.495 decomposed and the cremated NOTE Confidence: 0.783948357857143 00:01:58.495 --> 00:02:00.733 remains of 16 individuals which NOTE Confidence: 0.783948357857143 00:02:00.733 --> 00:02:03.890 could or could not be Mike. So NOTE Confidence: 0.924692302857143 00:02:03.980 --> 00:02:07.046 I couldn't sleep last night not knowing. NOTE Confidence: 0.924692302857143 00:02:07.050 --> 00:02:09.315 What what happened to his NOTE Confidence: 0.924692302857143 00:02:09.315 --> 00:02:11.580 body is is he's still. NOTE Confidence: 0.924692302857143 00:02:11.580 --> 00:02:13.200 You know, has he been cremated? NOTE Confidence: 0.924692302857143 00:02:13.200 --> 00:02:15.168 Is he not? You know what's going on NOTE Confidence: 0.8064788066 00:02:15.240 --> 00:02:16.980 for Owens? Some of those answers NOTE Confidence: 0.8064788066 00:02:16.980 --> 00:02:18.816 will have to wait, Parker says. NOTE Confidence: 0.8064788066 00:02:18.816 --> 00:02:20.168 The investigation is still NOTE Confidence: 0.8064788066 00:02:20.168 --> 00:02:21.520 in the early stages, NOTE Confidence: 0.8064788066 00:02:21.520 --> 00:02:23.102 but did have the owner of the NOTE Confidence: 0.8064788066 00:02:23.102 --> 00:02:24.548 Funeral Home has been cooperative NOTE Confidence: 0.8064788066 00:02:24.548 --> 00:02:26.338 speaking with police since Friday, NOTE Confidence: 0.8064788066 00:02:26.340 --> 00:02:27.928 though Parker couldn't disclose NOTE Confidence: 0.8064788066 00:02:27.928 --> 00:02:29.516 any of those conversations, NOTE Confidence: 0.8064788066 00:02:29.520 --> 00:02:31.296 no charges have been filed at this time, NOTE Confidence: 0.8064788066 00:02:31.300 --> 00:02:33.160 Parker says for families of NOTE Confidence: 0.8064788066 00:02:33.160 --> 00:02:35.020 those lost loved ones recovered, NOTE Confidence: 0.8064788066 00:02:35.020 --> 00:02:36.370 they're now in the possession NOTE Confidence: 0.8064788066 00:02:36.370 --> 00:02:37.720 of the Clark County coroner, NOTE Confidence: 0.8064788066 00:02:37.720 --> 00:02:39.860 working diligently to ID them, NOTE Confidence: 0.8064788066 00:02:39.860 --> 00:02:41.618 bringing families relief. NOTE Confidence: 0.771525793333333 00:02:41.710 --> 00:02:42.520 And we hate it for them, NOTE Confidence: 0.771525793333333 00:02:42.520 --> 00:02:43.410 they've already suffered a loss, NOTE Confidence: 0.771525793333333 00:02:43.410 --> 00:02:44.268 and now they're dealing with this. NOTE Confidence: 0.771525793333333 00:02:44.270 --> 00:02:45.187 So we do hate that for them. NOTE Confidence: 0.771525793333333 00:02:45.190 --> 00:02:46.018 They're in our thoughts NOTE Confidence: 0.828846096 00:02:46.570 --> 00:02:48.943 letting these bodies stack up and people's NOTE Confidence: 0.828846096 00:02:48.943 --> 00:02:51.430 loved ones just to be treated like this. NOTE Confidence: 0.828846096 00:02:51.430 --> 00:02:53.698 It's not acceptable. It's not acceptable NOTE Confidence: 0.658528676 00:02:53.910 --> 00:02:55.476 in Louisville. Connor, NOTE Confidence: 0.658528676 00:02:55.476 --> 00:02:57.928 Stefan WHS, 11 on your side. NOTE Confidence: 0.635569394 00:02:59.170 --> 00:03:01.344 Truly some gruesome details there. Now major. NOTE Confidence: 0.635569394 00:03:01.344 --> 00:03:02.886 Parker says the body didn't cremated. NOTE Confidence: 0.635569394 00:03:02.890 --> 00:03:04.780 Remains are now in possession of NOTE Confidence: 0.635569394 00:03:04.780 --> 00:03:06.480 the Clark County Coroners Office. NOTE Confidence: 0.635569394 00:03:06.480 --> 00:03:08.358 The coroner and Police Department will NOTE Confidence: 0.635569394 00:03:08.358 --> 00:03:10.350 work together to identify those remains. NOTE Confidence: 0.635569394 00:03:10.350 --> 00:03:12.422 He asks anyone who has worked with the NOTE Confidence: 0.635569394 00:03:12.422 --> 00:03:14.260 Langford Funeral Home to call the coroner at NOTE Confidence: 0.98814493 00:03:17.210 --> 00:03:17.000 812-285-6535.