{"id":15793,"date":"2025-10-26T16:27:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T16:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/15793\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T16:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T16:27:11","slug":"bucks-county-investigating-death-of-emaciated-elderly-bensalem-woman-found-in-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/15793\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucks County investigating death of emaciated elderly Bensalem woman found in home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bucks County authorities are investigating the suspicious death of an elderly Bensalem woman found emaciated in a home.Bensalem police responded to a request for a well-being check in the 5000 block of Hunters Court South on Saturday, Oct. 25.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Bucks County police and courts generic breaking news\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"940\" height=\"788\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2ce6ef36578e8b6605e4657e11fcc052.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Bucks County police and courts generic breaking news<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Inside the home they found 70-year-old Cynthia Bouffard dead. She appeared to be emaciated and had been dead for some time in the living room, Bensalem police said in a press release Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bouffard\u2019s body was transported to the Bucks County Coroner\u2019s Office for an autopsy to determine the cause and manner of death.At this time, Bensalem Police and the Bucks County District Attorney\u2019s Office are treating this as a suspicious death investigation pending the results of the autopsy, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No other information was released Sunday regarding the circumstances of the death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally appeared on Bucks County Courier Times: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phillyburbs.com\/story\/news\/crime\/2025\/10\/26\/emaciated-bensalem-womans-death-being-investigated-by-bucks-county\/86915935007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Emaciated Bensalem woman&#039;s death being investigated by Bucks County;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Emaciated Bensalem woman&#8217;s death being investigated by Bucks County<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bucks County authorities are investigating the suspicious death of an elderly Bensalem woman found emaciated in a home.Bensalem&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191,193,192,194,197,11636],"class_list":["post-15793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bensalem","tag-bensalem","tag-bensalem-headlines","tag-bensalem-news","tag-bensalem-township","tag-bucks-county","tag-suspicious-death"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15793","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=15793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}