A new owner walking through a Burlington home bought at auction found three sets of skeletal remains inside on Sunday, turning a foreclosure sale into a death investigation in a matter of hours. Connecticut State Police said the deaths are not considered suspicious, but the case is now centered on who the three people were and how they ended up in the house on Stanwich Lane.

The discovery matters because the property had only just changed hands earlier this month after foreclosure, and the remains were found in a four-bedroom home built in 2002 on more than two acres. Investigators believe the three people may have been dead for several months, a rough estimate that fits the reality of a case where a person can be gone long before anyone notices.

Jaden Slipsky, who lives nearby, said the news landed with the kind of unease that makes ordinary places feel unfamiliar. “I think everyone’s kind of in their life, trying to get through the day by day, but I would definitely be concerned about what’s going on. But you would think their family would call,” he said. His reaction reflects the sharpest question in the case: how three people could remain unidentified inside a home long enough for the remains to become skeletal.

Town records show Paul Cash and Sally Anne Cash bought the property in 2019 for more than $800,000, but authorities have not confirmed whether they were among those found inside the residence. That gap has left the public with a grim fact pattern and few answers. The home was sold as is after foreclosure, and the property had been described as overgrown with shrubs, weeds and tall grass before the new owner entered it.

Doug Thompson said he was avoiding speculation as the investigation continued. “I don’t want to get into any type of speculation. Let the police do their investigation is all I can really say,” he said. That restraint matches the current state of the case: investigators do not believe a crime was committed, yet they still have not identified the remains or explained what happened in the months before Sunday.

For now, Connecticut State Police are left to do the work that the sale could not reveal. The unanswered piece is not whether the house changed hands, but who had been living — and dying — inside it before the door opened on Sunday.