Officials Release Names Of People Whose Remains Were Found At Dover Funeral Home

DOVER, Del. (AP) — State officials have released the names of more than two dozen people whose cremated remains were recently discovered inside an abandoned funeral home in Dover after unsuccessful efforts to locate surviving relatives.

Thirty-eight sets of remains, 31 of which were clearly labeled, were discovered last month. They included nine victims of the 1978 Peoples Temple mass suicide-murder in Jonestown, Guyana.

Authorities were able to contact the families of five of the deceased, including four Jonestown victims, shortly after they were discovered.

But officials said Monday that further efforts to contact family members of the deceased have been unsuccessful. The names released Monday included those of five other Jonestown victims.