Human skeletons found
in Somerton home are identified

Authorities have confirmed the identities of two human skeletons found on May 3 inside a Somerton home.
As suspected, the remains were of former Philadelphia police officer John Connor, 55, and his mother, Assunta Connor, 84, a police spokeswoman said.
Investigators believe that both had been dead for months, perhaps a year or more, when discovered by a Philadelphia Water Department crew responding to a neighbor’s complaint of a water leak at the home, on the northwest corner of Bustleton Avenue and Larkspur Road.
One of the bodies was lying on a bed.
The other was sitting in a nearby chair with a gun at its side.
The bodies were so decomposed that investigators initially were unable to determine their gender or race.
Police found a note at the scene of the apparent murder-suicide but have not disclosed its contents.
Both Connors lived in the home but had not been seen by neighbors for months.
With grass and shrubs in the small yard growing out of control last summer, the city’s Community Life Improvement Program mowed it twice.
But CLIP did not enter the home.
The post office reportedly stopped delivering mail to the home when it became apparent that no one was picking up the letters. ••