     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION: THE DECEASED HAD NOT BEEN SEEN IN SEVERAL DAYS.  ON OCT. 4, 1996 ABOUT 2:30 PM THE APARTMENT MANAGER WENT TO CHECK ON HIM AND SMELLED A FOUL ODOR COMING FROM HIS APARTMENT.  UPON ENTERING HE DISCOVERED THE DECEASED DEAD ON THE BATHROOM FLOOR IN AN ADVANCED STATE OF DECOMPOSITION.  HE WAS LYING IN A POOL OF BODY FLUIDS.