Murder, She Told

The Unexplained Death of Shawn O'Brien, Part Two


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2006 - Cranston, Rhode Island.

The case was doomed from the start.

In July of 2006, when paramedics arrived at the apartment of 34-year-old Shawn O'Brien, they believed it was for a medical emergency. It wasn't until after he passed away—and the police consulted with the medical examiner—that they realized the magnitude of his injuries were not consistent with what allegedly happened: a fall from a seizure. His cause of death was blunt force trauma. By the time police got a search warrant, it had been 4 days and the crime scene was contaminated.

What's worse, the medical examiner didn't have a clear story from police about how his injuries occurred, and ruled the manner of death as undetermined, beginning an uphill battle with the police (to investigate as a homicide) that continues to this day.

16 years later, the family is still asking themselves the same questions they did in 2006, and pushing even harder for the answers. His only daughter, Natalia St. Louis, remains determined to find out the truth about what happened to her father... and won't stop until she does.

This is part two of the unexplained death of Shawn O'Brien.

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If you have any information about the death of Shawn O’Brien, I encourage you to contact the Cranston Police Dept at (401) 942-2211.

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