     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION, THE DECEASED WAS LAST SEEN ALIVE ON JULY 19,1996 AT 7:00 PM., AT WHICH TIME, ACCORDING TO FRIENDS, HE DID NOT LOOK WELL.  WHEN FRIENDS RETURNED TO CHECK ON HIM AT 10:00 PM., FOUND HIM EXPIRED, SITTING ON A CHAIR BY THE DOOR.  
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      POLICE RESPONDED TO THE RESIDENCE AND VIEWED THE DECEASED WITH NO VISIBLE SIGNS OF TRAUMA. IT APPEARED THAT HE HAD BEEN READING A BOOK TITLED " LEARNING TO LIVE WITH CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE."   HE REPORTEDLY HAD BEEN A LONG TIME PATIENT AT THE VETERANS ADMINISTRATION MEDICAL CENTER, HOWEVER, WHEN THE UNIFORM OFFICER ON THE SCENE CONTACTED THE V.A. HOSPITAL, WAS TOLD THAT THEY HAD NO RECORDS OF HIM.   THE DECEASED WAS A HEAVY SMOKER.
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     WAS LAST ADMITTED TO THE VETERANS ADMINISTRATION MEDICAL CENTER ON OCTOBER 4,1992 TO OCTOBER 21,1992. FINAL DIAGNOSIS:  CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE.  ATRIAL FIBRILLATION. DILATED CARDIOMYOPATHY.  HISTORY OF ETHANOL ABUSE.  WAS LAST SEEN AT THE CARDIOLOGIC CLINIC IN JULY/96. HAD SEVERAL OTHER APPOINTMENTS TO THE CARDIAC CLINIC IN JULY AND PREVIOUS MONTHS.