Mother, son IDd as grisly skeletal remains discovered in Connecticut house bought at foreclosure auction

A mother and son have been identified as two of the three skeletal remains shockingly found inside a foreclosed Connecticut home that was auctioned off earlier this month.The remains of two people in the Burlington home belonged to Brian Cash, 22, and his mother, Sally Ann Cash, 54, according to the Connecticut State Police.

The remains of a third person in the residence have not yet been identified, and a cause of death has still not been determined.However, there is no indication “of anything suspicious” at the home, police said.The horrified homeowner called 911 on June 14 after they discovered the bodies in the home, which they purchased “as is” on June 6, according to authorities.Paul and Sally Ann Cash purchased the house in 2019 and secured a $385,000 loan.

But they stopped paying the mortgage in December 2024 — and the utilities had been shut off for months, CT Insider reported.Connecticut Marshal Grant Carragher had attempted to serve the Cashes with a foreclosure complaint in August 2025, but was unable to reach them, he previously told the outlet.Carragher said he struggled to find the house since it was largely concealed by overgrown vegetation — and no one answered when he knocked on the front door.“I had to climb over the balcony to get to the door because the trees were overgrown and I couldn’t get into the pathway,” the marshal said, according to CT Insider.The property seemed to have been abandoned for at least a year, and neighbors attested that they hadn’t seen the residents “in years,” according to Carragher.A letter confirming the beginning of the foreclosure process was eventually mailed to a post office box at a UPS store in Avon, Connecticut, roughly 10 miles from Burlington.The Cashes never responded to the repeated notices or showed up in court.The property went up for auction and was bought for $525,000 on June 6 — roughly $300,000 below its bank appraisal, attorney Christopher H.

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