One of two bodies discovered at the home of a former Rhode Island mayor earlier this week has been identified as former Woonsocket Mayor Susan Menard, Rhode Island health officials announced.
Authorities said they discovered two “severely decomposed” bodies belonging to an elderly man and woman at the Menard home earlier this week.
Rhode Island health officials announced Friday that they had identified the second body as Daniel Grabowski. They also revealed Menard’s cause of death as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Grabowski, officials said, died of type 2 diabetes.
Grabowski was identified as Menard’s longtime boyfriend, The Boston Globe reported.
Menard had been the longest-serving mayor of Woonsocket, a city of about 40,000 in northern Rhode Island near the Massachusetts border, the Providence Journal reported. He served from 1995 to 2009.
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Current Woonsocket Mayor Lisa Baldelli-Hunt told the Providence Journal that she remembered Menard as “a strong leader” who cared about the city’s elderly.
In 2017, a middle school in Woonsocket was named after Menard.
Contributing: Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY; Jack Perry, The Providence Journal
