A second decomposed physique discovered this week within the house of former Rhode Island mayor Susan Menard, who was recognized as the opposite physique, has been recognized as her boyfriend, authorities stated Friday.
Daniel Grabowski additionally died in Menard’s Woonsocket house, in line with an announcement from the Workplace of the State Medical Examiners on the Rhode Island Division of Well being. Grabowski’s reason for dying was sort 2 diabetes, officers stated.
Authorities recognized Menard’s physique earlier this week as one of many two useless in the home. Menard died from power obstructive pulmonary illness, officers stated Friday. The our bodies had been found on Monday.
Grabowski was recognized as Menard’s longtime boyfriend, The Boston Globe reported.
Menard, Woonsocket’s longest-serving mayor, was in workplace from 1995 to 2009, in line with town’s web site.
Police had been flagged after a neighbor reported that he hadn’t seen the pair who lived within the residence on Marian Lane in Woonsocket in a couple of week. The neighbor additionally stated {that a} robust odor was coming from the house, Police Chief Thomas Oates stated Tuesday.
Oates stated officers who responded to the house and compelled entry Monday discovered “no outward indicators of any foul play or any sort of wrestle.”
He stated the police division was conscious that each of the folks it believed to be the deceased had “fairly important” medical points.
Woonsocket, house to 43,000 folks, is about 20 miles northwest of Windfall.
Menard was recognized shortly after the dying of her brother Robert Miller, who labored as a toxicologist for the state Well being Division for 30 years. He died Saturday at age 81, in line with an obituary printed in The Windfall Journal, which lists her as a survivor.
Woonsocket Mayor Lisa Baldelli-Hunt stated Wednesday, “On behalf of the residents of town and staff of town of Woonsocket, we lengthen our deepest condolences to her household and buddies.”
Baldelli-Hunt stated Menard not solely was the longest-serving mayor within the metropolis’s historical past, she was additionally solely the second elected feminine mayor within the historical past of Rhode Island.
She stated Menard was a trusted public servant who served on town’s college committee and the Metropolis Council earlier than she grew to become mayor.
Menard will probably be remembered for her “robust persona” and “need to guide,” Baldelli-Hunt stated.
