Dad's Best Friend Passed Away - No information on how
I have no clue whether this is the right subreddit for this, but I feel bad that my dad may never get answers on this and wanted to try posting here. Also hoping to not violate any of the subreddit rules.
When I was growing up, my dad was in a band with his best friend, Kevin (not sure if I'm allowed to post a full name). We moved several states away about 10 years ago and they naturally stopped interacting as much as before due to distance and busy lives. Kevin bought a small property in the town that my dad lives in and his plan was to move into it eventually, but he was paying people from a distance to fix things up in it.
A couple of years ago, my dad stopped by Kevin's house in town to check on it and he ran into someone from the city who said they were wondering what was going to happen to the house. My dad was confused, but he hadn't talked to Kevin for a while and didn't know if he'd planned to sell it. The guy from the city told him that they'd gotten a call from the someone in the city that Kevin lived in, informing them that he'd been found dead. They must have been investigating properties that he owned because the probate case started around that time. All my dad was able to find out from them was that Kevin and his elderly mother were found by a neighbor a month after their deaths in their home. He tried calling the police department in Kevin's city, but they wouldn't release any information.
There was never a real obituary published for either Kevin or his mother, just a page saying they were cremated. There were no news articles or press releases about it. Kevin didn't have any family besides his mother and a really unpleasant brother he never spoke to who's still fighting for his estate in court. Unfortunately there's no one who my dad knows who would be able to tell him what happened. It makes me very sad that they died alone in that house though and were forgotten about without any record of what happened and my dad obviously felt very upset about it.
I'm not sure if there's any way to get details about how someone passed away, but I wanted to see if anyone had any ideas. I know it's a little gruesome, but it might bring my dad some closure.