Editor’s Note: The Bucks County Courier Times and The Intelligencer have been telling the stories of unclaimed dead and their impact on the community since 2019. The cremated remains of at least 215 individuals have found final resting places since the project started in 2019. But hundreds more remain unclaimed in Bucks and Montgomery counties.
The dead woman had been living in a mostly empty, unoccupied condo. Authorities suspected that she was a squatter whose death was not recent.
A bag of papers found with her provided a possible clue to her name. But with no one to confirm her identity in 2016 she was given a new one: BCC16-0557. The number of her Bucks County Coroner case file…