    ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION,  DECEASED WAS LAST SEEN ALIVE ON OCTOBER 14, 1996 BY A NEIGHBOR AND DID NOT COMPLAIN OF ANY PROBLEMS AT THAT TIME.  THE NEIGHBOR MADE AN APPOINTMENT FOR THE FOLLOWING DAY TO LOOK AT SOME OF THE MERCHANDISE THAT THE DECEASED WAS SELLING. ON OCTOBER 15, 1996 WHEN HE DID NOT KEEP THE APPOINTMENT, SHE BECAME CONCERNED AND RESPONDED TO HIS RESIDENCE.  UPON DOING SO, SHE SMELLED A FOUL ODOR EMITTING FROM INSIDE AND OBSERVED HIM SITTING IN A RECLINER, UNRESPONSIVE.   POLICE WERE SUMMONED AND GAINED ENTRY WITH A PASSKEY. HE WAS FOUND EXPIRED IN AN ADVANCED STAGE OF DECOMPOSITION.
   FAMILY MEMBERS STATED THAT HE WAS A HEAVY DRINKER AND WAS SUFFERING WITH KIDNEY AND LIVER DISEASE.