Shereen Carol Terkelsen Beaulieu, 51, a White female, was found shot to death in her McFarland, Wisconsin apartment on the night of July 14, 2009. Police had gone to check on her around 9:30 p.m. after attempts to reach her failed. Hours earlier, officers in Madison had responded to a shooting at an apartment complex in the 1100 block of Moorland Road and found her estranged husband, Robert S. Beaulieu, 61, with a gunshot wound; he died at a local hospital from what the coroner described as a self-inflicted injury. Investigators in both jurisdictions treated the events as a linked homicide-suicide, the first slaying in McFarland in decades.
In its statewide review of intimate-partner killings, End Domestic Abuse Wisconsin later summarized the case: Shereen was shot to death at home by Robert, who died a few hours later from a self-inflicted gunshot after returning to his apartment. The report noted that the couple had been separated for several years and had filed a joint petition for divorce three weeks before the shooting.
There were no arrests. Investigators identified the estranged husband as the lone suspect, and with his death the criminal case did not proceed. Public obituary records and memorial listings confirm Shereen’s death on July 14, 2009, in McFarland and her life details, but provide no contrary account of the manner of death or the absence of charges.
