Connecticut’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has identified two of the three people whose skeletal remains were discovered inside a Burlington home earlier this month.
Officials announced Monday that the medical examiner, the Burlington Police Department, Connecticut State Police, and the state’s forensic laboratory identified the two as 22-year-old Brian Cash and 54-year-old Sally Ann Cash.
State police said the two were mother and son. Sally Ann Cash was listed as a homeowner at the Stanwich Lane house where investigators found the remains.
A third person whose remains were also recovered from the home has not yet been identified and is currently undergoing DNA testing, officials said.
The new owner of a foreclosed property on Stanwich Lane entered the home on June 14 and discovered the bodies. State police said the home had recently been purchased at a foreclosure auction in “as-is” condition.
Records show that the Burlington Volunteer Fire Department made two trips to the home before the skeletal remains were discovered, including one earlier on the day the bodies were found.
Call logs also show the fire department responded to three medical calls at the Stanwich Lane home in 2021 — on Nov. 28, Nov. 29, and Dec. 18.
The Burlington Volunteer Fire Department said that in each of these medical responses, a patient was transported to John Dempsey Hospital in Farmington for further evaluation and care.
The next response came on May 23 of this year, when Burlington police dispatched firefighters after reports of an audible fire alarm sounding at the home.
First responders walked around the home that day and saw no signs of fire or smoke. The report stated the home appeared vacant from the outside, with signage instructing anyone with concerns to contact a management company.
Burlington police contacted the management company to report the fire alarm, but the report says the alarm was left sounding because entry could not be gained without damaging the property.
On June 14, firefighters returned to the property at the request of police to test for carbon monoxide. No carbon monoxide was detected.
Later that afternoon, at approximately 4:45 p.m., Connecticut State Police were called to the home after someone discovered the skeletal remains inside.
State police have said there appears to be no criminal aspect and no indication of anything suspicious.
Burlington property records show a couple purchased the home in 2019. The foreclosure process began in August 2025, after which a public auction sold the house in “as-is condition.”
Delivery driver Nate Hafele said he never saw anyone at the home when he dropped off packages.
“I never saw a car,” Hafele said. “I’ve never seen any sort of movement.”
He said he dropped off packages periodically in 2023 but visited more frequently that October, delivering what he recalled were cleaning products almost every day. He suspected someone was collecting the boxes, since they were gone each time he returned.
Near the end of the month, he brought a package to the door and was hit with a stench.
“It was just very sour and foul, so it smelt like death,” Hafele explained. “I didn’t immediately know what it was, but I called Troop L, and I asked them to do a wellness check, and I never heard anything back from that.”
About a year later, regular mortgage payments appeared to have stopped, according to court documents.
A new document filed Monday said the attorney managing the foreclosure sale never entered the house because he “never received permission from the owner.” The property appeared abandoned, but new “keep out” and “owner occupied” signs appeared outside the home, according to neighbors.
Those signs are the reason a locksmith was not hired, according to the documents — though it remains unknown who placed them there.
Officials continue to investigate.