      ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION,  DECEASED WAS LAST SEEN ALIVE ON NOVEMBER 2, 1996 AND HAD COMPLAINED TO FAMILY MEMBERS THAT SHE FELT LIKE SHE WAS DYING.   ON NOVEMBER 5, 1996 POLICE RESPONDED TO HER RESIDENCE AND FOUND HER LYING ON THE KITCHEN FLOOR IN AN ADVANCED STAGE OF DECOMPOSITION.   A POOL OF BLOODY FLUID WAS OBSERVED UNDERNEATH HER HEAD, HOWEVER, THERE WERE NO SIGNS OF TRAUMA.
     SHE HAD A HISTORY OF BREAST CANCER AND HAD RECENTLY UNDERGONE SURGERY AT JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL.