     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION AND INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM FAMILY MEMBERS,  ON DECEMBER 18, 1996 DECEASED COMPLAINED OF ARM PAINS AND WENT TO BED ABT. 12:00 MIDNIGHT.  THE FOLLOWING MORNING, HIS WIFE DID NOT DISTURB HIM AS SHE LEFT FOR WORK.  WHEN SHE RETURNED LATER THAT EVENING, HE WAS FOUND LYING FACE DOWN ON THE BED, UNRESPONSIVE.  FIRE RESCUE AND POLICE WERE SUMMONED AND FOUND HIM EXPIRED WITH NO VISIBLE SIGNS OF TRAUMA.
      DECEASED HAD A HISTORY OF CARDIOMYOPATHY, CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE AND HEAVY SMOKER.  HE WAS HOSPITALIZED ABT. 8 MONTHS AGO AT KENDALL REGIONAL AND HAD BEEN TREATED BY DR. ARCE WHO REFUSED TO SIGN THE DEATH CERTIFICATE BECAUSE HE HAD NOT SEEN THE PATIENT SINCE HOSPITALIZATION. MEDICATIONS SENT TO THIS OFFICE INCLUDED: BUSPAR, CAPTOPRIL, FUROSEMIDE, LANOXIN AND MINITRAN.