{"id":143000,"date":"2026-03-19T18:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T18:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/143000\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T18:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T18:46:12","slug":"male-lived-in-house-with-his-dead-mother-in-bensalem-delaware-valley-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/143000\/","title":{"rendered":"Male Lived In House With His Dead Mother In Bensalem \u2013 Delaware Valley News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 19, 2026<\/p>\n<p>by Alex Lloyd Gross<\/p>\n<p>Derrick Bouffard is in serious trouble, after police went to his mothers residence on October 25. 2025 on Hunters Court South, in Bensalem.   When they went into the house, they found the decomposed body of Cynthia Bouffard lying on a mattress on the first floor family room, police wrote in court papers.<\/p>\n<p>Her body was decomposing and there were insects and bugs throughout the house, police wrote in court documents.  The original reason for police arriving was to stand by as the township Public Works Department cut the grass. Apparently, there had been issues when they were there before, as the lawn was out of control.<\/p>\n<p>Police knocked several times but there was no answer at the front door. As they were going to the rear of the property, Derrick emerged from the front and told police that he was \u201cjust about to call you guys, my mom stopped breathing this morning\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Alex-Gross-Advertisement-1-1-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46953 size-full\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>When officers entered the property, it was in complete disarray, they wrote in court papers.  The refrigerator held nothing except condiments and a door dash bag. The freezer had rotting food that was covered in insects, police said in court documents.<\/p>\n<p>Police contacted  the coroner who stated that the body had been dead for close to two weeks. When police searched Derrick\u2019s phone, they found searches for \u201cBensalem Probate Court\u201d and \u201cWhen to notify bank of deceased family member\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1015\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/DSC_0634-1015x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-55888 size-full\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>ALEX LLOYD GROSS Photo Delaware Valley News.com  The townhouse on Hunters Court.<\/p>\n<p>Cynthia Bouffard suffered from dementia and died from natural causes. However Derrick was charged with abuse of a corpse just recently.. Court documents reveal he lives in Levittown but stayed at the Hunters court address to take care of his mother.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 19, 2026 by Alex Lloyd Gross Derrick Bouffard is in serious trouble, after police went to his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191,193,192,194],"class_list":["post-143000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bensalem","tag-bensalem","tag-bensalem-headlines","tag-bensalem-news","tag-bensalem-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}