Overview
- Bensalem police conducting a property and welfare check in October 2025 found 70-year-old Cynthia Bouffard dead inside her home.
- Investigators said the body was skeletal and covered with insects, pointing to at least several days of decomposition.
- Derrick Bouffard, 37, told officers he was about to call and that his mother had stopped breathing that morning, though local reports say he picked up meal deliveries while the body lay on a living-room mattress.
- The Bucks County prosecutor’s office said the medical examiner determined a medical cause of death with no sign of food deprivation.
- Bouffard faces a desecration-of-a-corpse charge with a preliminary hearing on April 8, 2026, a case that centers on post-mortem treatment rather than how she died.