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The Rhode Island Medical Examiners Office has ruled that an 83-year-old Tiverton woman whose body was found in the Fogland Beach area Monday morning died of hypothermia due to environmental exposure, according to the state Department of Health.

Alfreena Blanchette was reported missing Sunday afternoon. The police said her car apparently drove past the end of Fogland Road down a boat ramp into the Sakonnet River. They said that her death appeared accidental.

The Tiverton police also this week found the body of a young man on the Sakonnet shoreline. Today, the state Medical Examiner's Office said the cause of death for Alexander Rothman, 22, of Newton, Mass., is "pending further studies." Rothman's family owns a summer home in the area, according to the police.

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David Carpenter said:

It is really odd that this fine young man has had no press, obituary or any information published, whatsoever. There are many people who knew Lex that are left incomplete. I really wonder why this is so. Why is the public not informed better? A Wellesley girl drowned in a brook in Andover a couple of days ago and it is front page news! I don't feel I dwell in a cave to have missed any release of information. What's up with this?

Link | February 17, 2009 9:35 AM
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