Investigators say Bessie Durham, who worked for an outside contractor, died days before her body was found in the restroom. WIS’ Ashley Jones reports.
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How could this happen, four days?!!! RIP dear lady!
There is something off here. This doesn’t make any sense. If I had to guess, she was killed somewhere in the store and hidden. When decaying moved to where she would be found.
She went into the bathroom at 7O’CLOCK in the morning but wasn’t found until 8PM!!?? How TF did no one see her dead in the bathroom!??? 🤷
No one used the bathroom for 4 days
Don’t they check for customers still in the store after closing? For gosh sakes they should even notice an employee missing.
So y’all don’t clean your bathrooms!!??
Either no one loves that woman or no one shops at Belk in that town.
Poor woman died at work and nobody cared to check on her. Goes to show you how companies REALLY feel about you.
Is that Columbia Mall?
? No one used the restroom the entire time she was in there? I hope she is in peace now. Please keep an eye on your older/elderly neighbors.
So, no customers used the bathroom in 4 days, and the cleaning crew never came either? No one made sure that everyone was out of the building at close for 4 days? Something’s not adding up or this is the worst department store ever.🫤
So you’re telling me no one cleaned the bathrooms for four days and there was a dead body in there the entire time.
Sharks machines Utah machines
someone should be accountable.they had to have another employee on scheduled to clean that bathroom.no reason for her to be in that bathroom for 4 days
That’s sad!!! I’ll pray for her and her family, it’s safe that none went in to clean the bathroom for that long…….she would be alive today if someone would of been on top of things in that store!!! Just sad
Thats unacceptable. So she never clocked out, and no one cleaned the bathroom for 4 days? Who’s the manager of this place? When she doesn’t show up for work the next day, and her family is saying she’s missing, you should remember she never clocked out and look at the cameras.
4days? Do they not have employees
Wtf going on in Columbia ???
My Humble Condolences To Family And Friends ~°~
Let Us Stay On This Social Media.
If She Had Been White; This Would Be BREAKING NEWS.
She Was At Work; This Location Is Responsible On So Many Levels.
Interesting!!
Drug use? And these were Black reporters
THANK YOU!!! I was just saying the same thing. Just ALWAYS have to throw that in there!!!!
@Dee C This broke my heart.
Very sad indeed. May she Rest In Peace. Condolences to her family.
This is so sad
So no one cleans the bathroom daily? No one knew what type of vehicle she drove? How did no one notice that their co-worker is missing and never clocked out?
Don’t they clean the bathroom?
Poor lady. Didn’t someone clean the bathroom?
💔💔💔
I wonder if they even bothered to clean the bathroom after she was removed 😕
Sounds very sus to me
Who ever it was that didn’t clean the bathroom for four days is in some big trouble-was it the same one person for the four days or diff employees is my question
Terrible store employee’s
Horrible story. I hope her loved ones insist on accountability!
How.is this even possible? Where in the store was her body?
the stories don’t reflect what’s going on in black america
So nobody cleans the bathrooms 🙄how infuriating 😢
Her fellow employees didn’t give a darn about her. They didn’t even bother to acknowledge a no call no show
What’s going on now?
I’m sorry, but that’s a horrible way to go. Found in a Belk, it’s not even a TJMaxx.
Why wasn’t anyone doing a customer check. I used to work in retail and at closing time we always checked the whole store including bathrooms to see if anyone is in there. Then again when we opened up. Belks should be accountable
They don’t check a bathroom for 4 days in that store? Disgusting. Red flag!!! And they didn’t wonder why she didn’t clock out?? Never came back?
Wow that is so sad. Condolences to this woman’s loved ones.
🙏🏾
Apparently they don’t clean the bathroom often…
I think she was a independent contractor to clean the bathrooms, she must of been at a back room /employee only Restroom, Belk doesn’t keep a load of employees, so most were probably on the floor out where the customers are, and they use the customer bathrooms, because it is quicker and easier than going clear to the back of the store. But a very strange story….
Nobody I know ever shops at Belk ‘s it is a high priced junk store, and how they r still in business is hard to comprehend……
Elvis would be proud of her commitment
No one cleaned the restroom at that Belk’s for 4 days.
I am confused did she work there or was she shopping there. Often when we bear down we cause a drop or change in blood pressure that is why many people die on the toilet. If your heart is out of rhythm you put finger in mouth and blow or bear down.
How could you not smell a decomposing body? How can you not be clean a restroom every day in a retail store. Typical excuses we can’t get enough people to work, but work for how much slave wages? My brother worked in a similar situation and was responsible for cleaning the restrooms every day he worked.
No one has bathroom cleaning schedule?
Rip
Condolences to the family, neighbors, and coworkers. No judgment is needed… only condolences and comfort.
Prayers
Restroom ate to be checked daily if not a few times a day!!! Prayers for her Family and Friends.
😩
God bless 🙏🏽🥺
All the good are dying now. Sad. RIP
I use to work at Belk in VA. It is a slack company. They make an announcement for clock out and that’s all. We have locked customers in the store. I was almost locked in one night. It’s scary knowing no one cared to even do a final sweep. Their isn’t really security, the managers and loss p go around quickly, look for a money drop with your initials and lock the doors and turn off the major lights.
i’m sure belk is surveilling their merchandise more than the well-being of their employees
And they get paid for this. So sad. Condolences to family and friends.
No one cleaned that bathroom in four days?
5 days!!!???
This is tragic. The store needs to go back to basics. How could a body lay in a bathroom, whether it’s staff or customers and not be found for DAYS. That tells me the people working there are not clean and could pass along really serious bacteria. Most people’s immune system may handle it but they could take same bacteria home to immuno compromised family member or young infant. Another person maybe died for no reason but someone’s not doing their job. Most places have a check sheet and have to initial the time they checked it.
don’t they clean their bathrooms?
How can a body be in a retail store’s bathroom for 4 days and no staff noticed?
Sadd praying for her family and her..
Wow, this is so sad! Condolences to this lady’s family. Belk needs to provide some answers! How could this store be open and nobody checked inside the bathrooms every day? They should be checked many times a day. They failed on a lot of levels especially their security.
Were these bathrooms never cleaned or what? Someone cleaning the bathroom would have noticed a problem.
very sad.
God Bless🙏her SWEET heart..RIP💜
Incompetent store management one should do a store check each night before closing that include storerooms, office, store floor and bathrooms
This story was sad and tragic, and it was very poorly reported. Not even a picture of the deceased woman? How about hearing from a member of the family? Why even mention that the coroner checked for drug use as if her death wasn’t degrading enough. They should be reporting why she was left undetected in a bathroom stall for 4 days in a public department store. In the name of her grandchildren and everyone that loved her, I pray they get the answers they deserve.
Many deaths THOUSANDS occur while using the bathroom.
I hate these reports! They leave out most of the pertinent information. Start in the middle of the story and leave you hanging. If you’re going to give a report, report the WHOLE THING! 😡
Sad…4 days!!!
That bathroom should have been cleaned at least once a day. She should have been found the day she passed. This is disgusting and disturbing on the company’s part. My heart felt condolences to her family and loved ones
So no other employees needed to pee for 4 days???
Maybe the store employees tried to cover up what they did
Still don’t know what happened… I can’t understand these people…
Strange that NO EMPLOYEES had to use the restroom during their shift 😮.
So Belk didn’t know she was there for 4 days?!!
So they must not clean the restrooms
😮😮😮
Unbelievable!
Shows how infrequently they Clean Bathrooms
No one went in to clean the restroom for 4 days?
No one wondered about the smell?
No one wondered where the lady was?
Belk hasn’t got a leg to stand on.
Why didn’t people clean the bathrooms? They would have found her sooner
Who checks the bathrooms and doesn’t notice that some one has been in there for hours, let alone days???
Supposedly she was the cleaning lady and she had parked the cleaning cart outside of the bathroom to clean it.
I do think that someone in those 4 days would have noticed that as being odd. However, a lot of businesses have only part-time employees and they probably used an employee bathroom. Maybe they thought they she had accidentally left her cart there?
Customers may have seen the cart and thought that the bathroom was being cleaned.
Employees forget to clock out all of the time, and fail to show up all of the time.
I mean, we have no idea what the history is for all of that.
Mainly I feel sorry for her that she passed away all alone and I feel sorry for her loved ones for their tremendous loss.
Praying for their peace and comfort.
😢 🙏
Crappy reporting! No interview of her employer(janitorial company) or Belk. No pic of the woman. How does no one use a bathroom for 4 days over the weekend?
Rest in Eternal Peace 😇 🙏 ❤️ 🦋 and my deepest condolences to the family, friends and neighbors 🙏 ❤️🦋
So nobody cleans their bathrooms. Nice
so your telling me for 4 days no one did their job of cleaning the bathrooms cause if they did she would have been found 1st day. wow disgusting
It was that one last massive dump. I feel you lady.
Tha tells you that they don’t clean the bathrooms everyday🤢 rip🥀
This means that they didn’t clean those restrooms in 4 days!!! How??!!
Something is terribly wrong for I did janitorial work.I have to clock in and sign in.I would have been missed
Was she the one cleaning the bathrooms? I only ask because they said her cart was outside the bathroom for days and that would slightly make sense on why the cleaning crew didn’t find her. Why the others that worked in the store didn’t find her is beyond me. My condolences to her family and loved ones
*🤷🏾♂️ That’s the type of world we live in. Nobody cares 🥺*