DREW: GOOD EVENING. I’M DREW GARDNER. LAUREN: AND I’M LAUREN ADAMS. WE’RE LEARNING NEW INFORMATION TONIGHT ON WHAT SPARKED AN INVESTIGATION AT A JEFFERSONVILLE FUNERAL HOME AND WHAT LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUND WHEN THEY GOT THERE. DREW: AUTHORITIES WORKED THROUGHOUT LAST NIGHT INTO THE MORNING AT LANKFORD FUNERAL HOME ON MIDDLE ROAD. OUR GLADYS BAUTISTA WAS THERE LAST NIGHT AND JOINS US LIVE FROM THERE NOW. GLADYS AUTHORITIES , SAY WHAT THEY FOUND WAS DISTURBING. GLADYS: THAT IS RIGHT. AS YOU CAN SEE, THE DOORS TO THIS BUSINESS ARE BOARDED UP AND THERE ARE TWO SIGNS ON THE FRONT. OFFICIALS FROM THE JEFFERSONVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT HAD GOTTEN THIRD PARTY INFORMATION ABOUT AN ODOR COMING FROM THE FUNERAL HOME AND WHEN , OFFICERS GOT HERE THEY SMELLED IT, TOO. POLICE SAY WHEN THEY WENT INSIDE, THEY FOUND 31 DECOMPOSING BODIES AS WELL AS 16 , REMAINS THAT WERE POST CREMATION. THEY SAY SOME OF THOSE BODIES EVEN DATED BACK TO MARCH. AUTHORITIES WRAPPED UP THIS MORNING AFTER WORKING OVER 12 HOURS TO SECURE THE BUILDING. HERE’S VIDEO WE TOOK LAST NIGHT AS LAW ENFORCEMENT WAS DOING THAT. YOU CAN SEE OFFICIALS IN HAZMAT SUITS HEADING IN AND OUT OF THE BUSINESS. WE’VE CONFIRMED BODIES WERE MOVED INTO A REFRIDGERATED TRAILER AFTER THEY FOUND 31 OF THEM IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DECOMPOSITION, AND 16 REMAINS POST CREMATION THROUGHOUT THE BUSINESS. WE’RE ALSO TOLD THAT THE OWNER HAS SPOKEN TO LAW ENFORCEMENT , BUT THEY WOULD NOT SAY WHETHER OR NOT HE IS COOPERATING. JEFFERSONVILLE POLICE OFFICIALS SAY THE CLARK COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT HAS THE REMAINS NOW TO CONFIRM IDENTITIES AND NOTIFY LOVED ONES. POLICE SAY THEY’RE WORKING WITH THE PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE TO FIGURE OUT IF THERE WAS ANY CRIMINAL WRONGDOING, AND IF SO THAT THOSE RESPONSIBLE ARE HELD