     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION: THE DECEASED WAS LAST SEEN ALIVE BY HER SISTER ON SEPT. 20, 1996 ABOUT 11:00 PM.  SHE WAS DRINKING COFFEE AND TOOK ONE PROSOM THEN WENT TO BED.  ON SEPT. 21, 1996 HER SISTER WENT TO CHESCK ON HER ABOUT 7:00 AM, BECAUSE SHE WAS NOT AWAKE YET.  SHE FOUND THE DECEASED UNRESPONSIVE AND CALLED FIRE RESCUE, BUT THEY PRONOUNCED HER DEAD UPON ARRIVAL.
     THE DECEASED HAD A HISTORY OF HYPERTENSION AND WAS UNDER THE CARE OF DR. QUINTANA (643-6571).  DR. QUINTANA ADVISED HE TREATED THE DECEASED FOR MILD HYPERTENSION AND PRESCRIBED VASOTEC.  HE ALSO TREATED HER FOR ALLERGIES.  
     THE DECEASED HAD A HISTORY OF BREAST CANCER IN WHICH SHE UNDERWENT A MASTECTOMY ABOUT 24 YEARS AGO.  SHE WAS TREATED BY DR. TIRONE (932-1067) WHO ADVISED THAT HE GIVES THE DECEASED A COMPLETE EXAMINATION EVERY YEAR AND THE CANCER HAD NOT RECURRED.  HER LAST CHECK-UP WAS ABOUT TWO WEEKS AGO.  X-RAYS, MAMOGRAM AND BLOOD PRESSURE WAS NORMAL.
     MEDICATIONS TRANSPORTED: CHLORZOXAZONE, VASOTEC, LORAZEPAM, PROSOM AND DYAZIDE.