     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION,   THE DECEASED WAS LAST SEEN ALIVE ON OCTOBER 31, 1996 AT ABOUT 6:00 PM., BY HIS NEIGHBORS.   HE REPORTEDLY LAST SPOKE TO HIS EX-WIFE AT 10:15 PM., ON THE SAME DATE.   ON NOVEMBER 1,1996 A.M., SOME OF HIS NEIGHBORS,  CONCERNED ABOUT HIS WELLBEING RESPONDED TO HIS RESIDENCE AFTER OBTAINING NO RESPONSE ON THE PHONE,  AND UPON ENTERING THE APARTMENT FOUND THE DECEASED LYING UNRESPONSIVE ON BED.   
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     FIRE RESCUE  RESPONDED TO THE SCENE AND FOUND THE DECEASED EXPIRED, STILL WARM TO THE TOUCH.  POLICE ON THE SCENE VIEWED THE DECEASED LYING SUPINE ON BED, WITH NO VISIBLE SIGNS OF TRAUMA.  POLICE ATTEMPTS TO CONTACT DR. SILVERMAN 443-3031 (THE NAME GIVEN AS HIS PHYSICIAN) WERE UNSUCCESSFUL.    MEDICATIONS SENT TO THE MEDICAL EXAMINER DEPARTMENT INCLUDED:  LANOXIN, VASOTEC, CEFTIN, NORVASC, CIPRO, HALCION, CARDIZEM, METOPROLOL, VANTIN, AMBIEN, ZOLOFT, NITROGYCERIN PILLS, NITRO-PATCHES, ETC.
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     MEDICAL HISTORY:  AS PER DR.DAVID KORN, 674-2150, THE DECEASED HAD BEEN UNDER HIS CARE FOR ABOUT THREE TO FOUR YEARS.  WAS LAST SEEN ABOUT A MONTH AGO.   DIAGNOSIS:   ARTERIOSCLEROTIC HEART DISEASE, CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE, VENTRICULAR ARRHYTHMIAS.  HAD UNDERGONE AN ANGIOPLASTY.  DR. KORN FURTHER STATED THAT HE WOULD HAD BEEN WILLING TO SIGN THE CERTIFICATE IF HE HAD BEEN CONTACTED BY POLICE.