The Unexplained Death of Shawn O'Brien, Part One

Murder, She Told

Kristen Seavey

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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2006 - Cranston, Rhode Island. Shawn O’Brien was the life of the party. Despite the trouble that he'd occasionally get into, he had the luck of the Irish, and would often emerge unscathed... until one hot summer night in 2006, when everything changed... Paramedics arrived to his basement apartment on a call for a seizure, something Shawn occasionally suffered from. According to accounts, he had been seizing for over an hour, making this a life threatening situation that ultimately took his life. But things just didn't add up, and questions swirled around the circumstances of Shawn's death. If Shawn died from a seizure, why was the medical examiner saying that his death was caused by blunt force trauma? And why won't the police rule it a homicide? 16 years later, his daughter, Natalia St. Louis has set out to fulfill a promise she made to herself as a girl: to find out the truth about what happened to her father. This is part one of the unexplained death of Shawn O'Brien. Detailed sources can be found on murdershetold.com Connect on Instagram @murdershetoldpodcast Support the show here 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Murder She Told, true crime stories from Maine, New England, and small town USA.
0:19.2	I'm Kristen Ceevy.
0:21.0	You can connect with the show at MurderSheTold.com or on Instagram at MurderSheTold Podcast.
0:30.7	This episode contains medical descriptions that are graphic in nature.
0:34.4	Please listen with care.
0:38.8	I'm waiting for the miracle to happen now.
0:42.0	For you to open your eyes and be okay, for all of us to snap awake and say,
0:47.6	oh, it was only a bad dream. But the doctors are telling us otherwise.
0:53.1	It's hard, Dad. Jen keeps telling me they need a roofer in heaven.
0:57.7	But why does God have to take my roofer? There's too much that you haven't seen yet.
1:03.0	It's just not fair. I'm not ready to say goodbye. But I know you wouldn't want to live like this
1:09.1	through tubes. 13-year-old Natalia wrote that under the hum of fluorescent lights at Rhode Island
1:16.0	Hospital. Just one day prior, she was sharing a sandwich with her father. But today, she was
1:23.6	sitting next to his gurney where you lay brain dead and in a coma. Her life had changed forever.
1:29.6	She also wrote a promise. I swear to you, Daddy, that I will find out what happened to you.
1:38.2	The party started when he showed up and like everyone was really loud and boisterous and like
1:42.6	in your face and they always have them, they always will be. But he was like the life of the party.
1:48.0	He walked in. He brought the energy. He just brought everything to anything he walked into.
1:53.2	He lit a room up in a way that I don't think many people are able to. He loves being a part of
1:58.9	all of that. He loved being in the men. Sean O'Brien only knew his daughter Natalia for four years.
2:05.6	But her memories are still so visceral and personal. She met him for the first time when she was
2:11.1	nine years old and lost him when she was 13. Sean was 21 years old when he and his girlfriend
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