     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION: ON AUG. 21, 1996 THE DECEDENT'S WIFE LEFT THE DECEASED SLEEPING ABOUT 7:20 AM.  SHE ALSO LEFT THEIR TWO CHILDREN AT HOME WITH THE DECEASED.  ABOUT 2:00 PM HIS WIFE CALLED HOME AND WAS ADVISED BY HER CHILDREN THAT THE DECEASED WAS STILL ASLEEP.  SHE TOLD ONE OF THEM TO GO AND WAKE HIM, BECAUSE THEY HAD NOT BEEN FED.  THE OLDEST CHILD TOLD HER MOTHER THAT THE DECEASED WAS COLD, PURPLE AND NO LONGER SNORING.  HIS WIFE THEN CALLED 911 AND HAD THEM RESPOND TO HER RESIDENCE WHERE THE DECEASED WAS FOUND DEAD.  UPON REMOVING HIS SOCKS A SMALL HEART SHAPED PILL BOX CONTAINING A WHITE POWDERED SUBSTANCE WAS FOUND INSIDE WITH A DRINKING STRAW THAT HAD BEEN CUT TO 2 1/2 TO 3 INCHES. 
     THE DECEASED HAD SURGERY AT JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL (MR#2073208) ABOUT A YEAR AGO.  HE WAS NOT DEPRESSED OR SUICIDAL.  THE DECEASED LOST HIS HEARING AND WAS TAKING NUMEROUS MEDICATIONS.  
     MEDICATIONS TRANSPORTED: NEOM-POLY, ULTRAM, PROSOM, AMBIEN, METRONIDAZOLE, ASACOL, DICLOFENAC, TEMAZEPAM, BUSAR, PROPOXY N AND PAXIL.

                            *** REFILED ON OCTOBER 29, 1996 ***  BAR**