     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION: NOVEMBER 13, 1996 AT APPROX 8:45 A.M. THE DECEASED NEIGHBOR WAS WALKING HIS DOG WHEN HE OBSERVED THAT NEWSPAPERS HAD GATHERED IN FRONT OF THE DEC'D HOUSE. HE MADE SEVERAL ATTEMPTS TO CONTACT HER HOWEVER, HE GOT NO RESPONSE. HE THEN ENTERED THE RESIDENCE WITH A KEY THE DECEASED HAD GIVEN HIM SEVERAL YEARS AGO. UPON ENTERING, HE DISCOVERED THE DEC'D EXPIRED IN THE BATHROOM, SHE WAS IN ADVANCED STAGES OF DECOMPOSITION. HE SUMMONED POLICE.
     UPON POLICE ARRIVAL, THEY OBSEVRED AN OVERTURNED ASHTRAY ON THE FLOOR AND A BURNED OUT CIGARRETTE WAS ON THE SINK NEARBY. THE RESIDENCE WAS SECURE AND DEC'D WAS WEARING HER JEWLRY.
     ACCORDING TO HER NEIGHBOR, SHE WAS AN ALCOHOLIC WHO FREQUENTED A NEARBY BAR. SHE OCCASIONALLY  ATE BUT NEVER SHOPPED FOR FOOD. DEC'D FRIENDS HAD MENTIONED TO HER NEIGHBOR THAT SHE MAY HAVE HAD LIVER DAMAGE BUT THEY HAD NO KNOWLEDGE OF ANY MEDICAL HISTORY OR HOSPITALIZATIONS.