     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION: THE DECEASED HAD NOT BEEN SEEN IN ABOUT TWO WEEKS.  AN UNAUTHORIZIED LIVE-IN WITH THE DECEASED HAD BEEN SEEN GOING IN AND OUT OF THE APARTMENT FOR THE PAST FOUR MONTHS.  ON AUG. 2, 1996 REPORTS OF A FOUL ODOR PROMPTED THE MANAGER TO CHECK ON THE DECEASED.  ONCE INSIDE SHE WAS FOUND COVERED ON HER BED IN AN ADVANCED STAGE OF DECOMPOSITION. 
     FURTHER INVESTIGATION REVEALED THAT THE DECEASED HAD FALLEN ON THE STREET ON JULY 12, 1996 AND STRUCK HER HEAD.  SHE HAD AN UNOPENED BOTTLE OF WINE AND A CAKE AT THE TIME.  SHE WAS TRANSPORTED TO NORTH SHORE MEDICAL CENTER.  SHE WAS ASSESSED WITH A CONTUSION AND MILD SWELLING TO LEFT FOREHEAD AND ABRASION TO LEFT SIDE OF FACE.  SHE SMELLED OF ALCOHOL, BUT DENIED ETHANOL CONSUMPTION THAT DAY.  SHE COULD NOT REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED, BUT REFUSED MEDICAL ATTENTION AND LEFT AGAINST MEDICAL ADVISE.
     THE DECEDENT'S ROOMMATE IS MENTALLY CHALLENGED AND SUFFERS FROM EPILEPSY.  HE ADVISED POLICE HE HAD BEEN TALKING TO THE DECEASED WHILE SHE LIED ON THE BED, BUT DID NOT GET A RESPONSE AND DIDN'T KNOW SHE WAS DEAD.  SHE MAY HAVE BEEN DEAD SINCE JULY 15, 1996.  THE DECEASED WAS AN ALCOHOLIC.
     THE DAUGHTER OF DECEASED ADVISED SHE WAS DESTITUTE AND COULD NOT AFFORT FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS.
     MEDICATIONS TRANSPORTED: SELDANE-D, ERYTHROMYCIN, TAMOXIFEN AND COMPAZINE.