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According to an NBC report, the hospital has yet to confirm 100 percent the identity of the body is that of Spalding, however her daughter confirmed to a family friend that the body was her mother's.

David Perry, friend of Spalding's, spoke out about the questions he and Spalding's family and other friends have regarding her disappearance and death. "We were under the assumption that San Francisco General had been searched," he said. 

Spalding was admitted to the hospital on Sept. 19 for a urinary tract infect and was last seen on Sept. 21. She was said to be in fair condition. The body was discovered on the fourth floor of a remote stairwell 17 days after her disapperance. 

"Lynne spading died alone and her body wasn't discovered for 17 days," Perry said. Although those close to Spalding are dissatisfied with the handling of her disappearance, they are not trying to point the finger of blame. "We're here for answers," he said. 

There are many questions that have been left unanswered for the friends and family members of Spalding aside from how it is that this stairwell fell from notice while police scoured the hospital. According to family members who visited her in the hospital, her room was on the fifth floor, steps away from the nurse's station and that stairwell was accessible to hospital grounds. How Spalding slipped into the stairwell unseen by hospital staff and why she only managed to descend one flight of stairs remains a mystery. 

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