     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION: ON NOVEMBER 24, 1996,  APARTMENT MANAGER WHO WAS NOTIFIED BY ONE OF HIS TENANTS THAT HE SMELLED A FOUL ODOR COMING FROM THE DECEASED APARTMENT. THE APARTMENT MANAGER OPENED THE DOOR WITH THE MASTER KEY AND FOUND DECEASED FACE DOWN ON THE LIVINGROOM FLOOR IN AN ADVANCED STAGE OF DECOMPOSITION.  IT IS UNKNOWN WHEN THE DECEASED WAS LAST SEEN ALIVE.  
    DECEASED WAS TREATED AT VETERANS ADMINISTRATION  MEDICAL CENTER,  RECORDS TO BE OBTAINED. POLICE RESPONDED TO THE RESIDENCE AND VIEWED THE DECEASED WITH NO VISIBLE SIGNS OF TRAUMA.

 
