MAN WHO BID $525,000 ON CT HOME FOUND 3 SETS OF REMAINS
A Connecticut man bought a Burlington foreclosure home at auction, then found three sets of remains inside.
Edward A. Marchion, of Newington, won the auction with a $525,000 bid. He first entered the Stanwich Lane house on June 14, 2026, with three other people to assess possible renovations, and that is when the remains were discovered.
Connecticut State Police described them as “skeletal remains,” the Wall Street Journal reported.
A neighbor told the paper, “I don’t know if I’d want the house after that.”
A house nobody got to see
Bidders at the sale inspected the property only from the outside, the New York Post reported.
That is normal in Connecticut. Residents can stay in their homes during foreclosure proceedings and generally do not have to let prospective bidders in before the auction.
The court-appointed attorney overseeing the sale told Cleveland.com the home first appeared abandoned. Signs later indicated it was owner-occupied, and they warned people to keep out.
Paul and Sally Anne Cash had bought the home, town records show. A mortgage company later filed a civil foreclosure complaint against them, and court records show the foreclosure proceedings were finalized before the public auction was scheduled.
Police said the deaths were isolated, that no crime was committed and that there was no threat to the public.
What happened next
On June 22, 2026, the medical examiner identified two of the three sets of remains as Sally Anne Cash and her son Brian, CT Insider reported. Testing on the third was still pending.
On July 8, 2026, Judge Joseph M. Shortall paused the sale and the transfer of the deed. His order said the pause was “pending further developments regarding the remains found,” according to the Hartford Courant.
Marchion’s lawyer had asked the court to reopen the foreclosure judgment. The delay was needed “so that it may be determined whether the foreclosure action is valid or defective,” attorney John C. Lewis III wrote in the filing.
The filing argued the process might be defective depending on when the Cashes died. If they died before the foreclosure proceedings, it said, their heirs could potentially have rights to the home.
The title insurance company also raised doubts about whether the foreclosure was legally defective, CT Insider reported.
What the warrant says
A search warrant described the home as cluttered with garbage and other items, the Courant reported on August 25, 2026. It said the remains were in sleeping bags.
Two sets of remains were in an upstairs bedroom, and the third was in a room above the garage, the warrant said.
The medical examiner ruled out carbon monoxide poisoning, and foul play was not suspected, the Courant reported. Decomposition complicated efforts to determine a cause of death, and neither the cause nor the manner of death had been determined.
No arrest or criminal charge has been reported. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner identified all three sets of remains as Paul Cash, Sally Anne Cash and their son Brian Cash.
