      ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION,  DECEASED HAD BEEN LIVING ALONE SINCE HIS WIFE WENT INTO THE NURSING HOME.  ON OCTOBER 24, 1996, HIS NEIGHBOR RESPONDED TO HIS RESIDENCE AND DID NOT GET AN ANSWER.  SHE ENTERED THROUGH THE REAR DOOR AND UPON DOING SO, FOUND THE DECEASED LYING IN BED UNRESPONSIVE.  POLICE RESPONDED AND FOUND HIM EXPIRED WITH NO VISIBLE SIGNS OF TRAUMA.
     DECEASED WAS REPORTEDLY TREATED BY DR. FERNANDEZ.  HOWEVER, CONTACT WAS MADE WITH HIM AND HE ADVISED THAT HE HAD NEVER TREATED THE DECEASED -ONLY HIS WIFE.   THE DECEASED HAD A PAST MEDICAL HISTORY OF CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE, CARDIOMYOPATHY AND MITRAL VALVE DISORDER.  HE WAS BEING TREATED BY DR. RONALD FLAM.