{"id":68791,"date":"2026-04-15T21:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T21:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/68791\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T21:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T21:35:08","slug":"womans-body-found-in-lebanon-county-home-after-sheriffs-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/68791\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman&#8217;s body found in Lebanon County home after sheriff&#8217;s sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA woman&#8217;s body was found in a home on Timber Lane in South Londonderry Township, Lebanon County, after the new owner checked the property following its purchase at a sheriff&#8217;s sale.  The woman has not been identified at this time. What a sheriff\u2019s sale meansA sheriff&#8217;s sale in Pennsylvania is a public real estate auction following a court-ordered foreclosure.The owner either didn&#8217;t pay a mortgage, taxes, or another court judgment. After the legal process, the county sheriff sells the property at auction to try to pay off the debt.In this case, the house was in the name of Sharlene Bence, also known as Sharlene Mikula.Court documents obtained Wednesday show she defaulted on the mortgage in April 2023.Without a financial resolution, the home was sold Tuesday at a Lebanon County sheriff&#8217;s sale.  Buyers usually cannot inspect the interiorIn Pennsylvania, prospective buyers usually cannot view the interior of a property before purchase.Would-be buyers usually can&#8217;t see the inside of a property because the owners may still occupy it until the deed is filed.The properties are sold as is.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A woman&#8217;s body was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgal.com\/article\/pa-body-found-lebanon-county-south-londonderry-township\/71024537\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">found in a home<\/a> on Timber Lane in South Londonderry Township, Lebanon County, after the new owner checked the property following its purchase at a sheriff&#8217;s sale.  <\/p>\n<p>The woman has not been identified at this time. <\/p>\n<p>What a sheriff\u2019s sale means<\/p>\n<p>A sheriff&#8217;s sale in Pennsylvania is a public real estate auction following a court-ordered foreclosure.<\/p>\n<p>The owner either didn&#8217;t pay a mortgage, taxes, or another court judgment. After the legal process, the county sheriff sells the property at auction to try to pay off the debt.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, the house was in the name of Sharlene Bence, also known as Sharlene Mikula.<\/p>\n<p>Court documents obtained Wednesday show she defaulted on the mortgage in April 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Without a financial resolution, the home was sold Tuesday at a Lebanon County sheriff&#8217;s sale.  <\/p>\n<p>Buyers usually cannot inspect the interior<\/p>\n<p>In Pennsylvania, prospective buyers usually cannot view the interior of a property before purchase.<\/p>\n<p>Would-be buyers usually can&#8217;t see the inside of a property because the owners may still occupy it until the deed is filed.<\/p>\n<p>The properties are sold as is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman&#8217;s body was found in a home on Timber Lane in South Londonderry Township, Lebanon County, after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[25521,25587,13239,7658,93,1542,15947,25585,25579,1544,6517,25580,25586,25584,25588,25577,25578,22219,25581,25514,25515,25589,8838,25582,25583],"class_list":{"0":"post-68791","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lebanon","8":"tag-body","9":"tag-buyer","10":"tag-court-document","11":"tag-home","12":"tag-lebanon","13":"tag-lebanon-county","14":"tag-mortgage","15":"tag-new-owner","16":"tag-owner-inspects-property","17":"tag-pennsylvania","18":"tag-property","19":"tag-prospective","20":"tag-purchase","21":"tag-sale","22":"tag-sale-meansa-sheriff","23":"tag-sharlene-bence","24":"tag-sharlene-mikula","25":"tag-sheriff","26":"tag-sheriffs-sale","27":"tag-south-londonderry-township","28":"tag-timber-lane","29":"tag-wednesday-show","30":"tag-woman","31":"tag-womans-body-found","32":"tag-would-be-buyers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116410877493333957","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}