Posted October 07, 2018 12:00:10In what has become one of the most shocking news stories of the year, a nursing home in Madison County, Wisconsin, has been found with a staggering number of bodies inside.
A spokeswoman for the Wisconsin Department of Health says the body count at the facility is at least 100.
“There’s no telling how many people are missing.
I mean, it’s unbelievable,” said Linda Siegel, who works in the Madison nursing homes.
Siegel says that the bodies have been taken to the morgue in Milwaukee.
She says that at least 20 bodies were found at the nursing home on Saturday night.
“We have about 100 people that were found,” she said.
“The bodies were all in very small, single-family homes,” she added.
“One of the homes has a three-story walk-in closet and the other has a four-story closet.
They were all lined up in the hallway and in the living room.”
A neighbor says he was awoken Saturday morning by a man yelling that he was at a nursing homes in Madisons County.
He says he’s been there for a couple of years and he was told by staff to stay away.
He says he watched as ambulances and police cars rushed to the nursing homes and that the police chief called the emergency department.
Sieg says that’s when she first learned about the deaths.
“I’m still waiting for the coroner to arrive, but I’m waiting for that ambulance to arrive,” she told ABC News.
“It’s just sad.
It’s just horrible.”
Siegel and her husband, Bob, are hoping for answers.
They say they’re waiting for an autopsy to be done to find out exactly what happened.
“It’s very frustrating.
We’re trying to figure out how we got to this point,” said Bob Siegel.”
A lot of people were here, but a lot of them just left,” Linda Singe said.
She says her husband was one of only a handful of people working there.
“He had been working at the building for about a year.
And he had to leave because of some kind of accident or something,” she explained.
Sieglings husband says the state was not able to help the families that were still at the homes and says that even though the bodies were not recovered, the community felt helpless.
“So it’s just a really sad situation, I think, and it’s really sad that this has happened.
And it’s going to keep us from being able to continue to provide the services we need to help these people,” she says.
