The Lehigh County Coroner’s Office is seeking to contact the family or next of kin for 14 individuals.
“When the coroner’s office encounters a decedent who is unclaimed, disclaimed, or estranged from their family, the current policy is to cremate the remains and retain them. However, I am overhauling this policy to create a more practical approach. I believe there is no valid reason why these remains cannot be returned to families who wish to receive them,” Lehigh County Coroner Dan Buglio says.
The coroner says the following cremains are at the coroner’s office and the return of the cremains will be at no cost to the family…