{"id":27868,"date":"2025-10-30T15:00:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/27868\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T15:00:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:00:19","slug":"new-homeowner-finds-dead-body-in-house-purchased-at-a-property-auction-addison-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/27868\/","title":{"rendered":"New homeowner finds dead body in house purchased at a property auction, Addison police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dallas County Medical Examiner&#8217;s Office is working to determine the cause of death.<\/p>\n<p>ADDISON, Texas \u2014 The new owner of a home purchased at auction found the body of a deceased elderly woman inside the house, officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The body of an elderly woman was found Wednesday, Oct. 29 at a house in the 17000 block of Planters Row in Addison, the Addison Police Department said in a press release.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The man who purchased the home during a property auction entered the home, noticed a strong smell and immediately left to call the police, officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police found the body of an elderly woman inside the home, the release states. The body appeared to have been deceased for some time, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Dallas County Medical Examiner&#8217;s Office took custody of the body to determine the cause of death.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to police, there is no ongoing threat to the public.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas County Medical Examiner&#8217;s Office is working to determine the cause of death. ADDISON, Texas \u2014 The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":{"0":"post-27868","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-plano","8":"tag-plano","9":"tag-plano-headlines","10":"tag-plano-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}