     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION,  THE DECEASED REPORTEDLY RETURNED HOME FROM WORK ON OCTOBER 19,1996  AT ABOUT  10:30 PM.    AT THAT TIME HE DID NOT APPEAR INTOXICATED ALTHOUGH, AS PER WIFE HE WOULD DRINK HEAVILY ON OCCASIONS.  AT APPROXIMATELY 12:01 AM., OCTOBER 20, HE WENT TO SLEEP.   AT 12:20 PM.,  HIS WIFE ATTEMPTED TO WAKE HIM AND NOTICED THAT HE WAS COLD AND PURPLE IN COLOR.  FIRE RESCUE WAS SUMMONED AND UPON THEIR ARRIVAL FOUND THE DECEASED EXPIRED.
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     POLICE RESPONDED TO THE SCENE AND VIEWED THE DECESED WITH NO VISIBLE SIGNS OF TRAUMA.  HE REPORTEDLY HAD NO PREVIOUS MEDICAL PROBLEMS, EXCEPT THAT HE HAD BEEN DIAGNOSED TO HAVE SLEEP APNEA IN 1991,  BUT DID NOT FOLLOW-UP WITH TREATMENT.  HAD BEEN COMPLAINING OF CHEST DISCONFORT FOR THE PAST THREE DAYS  BUT DID NOT SEEK MEDICAL ATTENTION.  HE SMOKED THREE (3) PACKS OF CIGARETTES A DAY AND USED COCAINE HEAVILY UNTIL 1991-92, BUT AS PER WIFE HE HAD BEEN DRUG-FREE SINCE THEN.  THE DECEASED WAS IN FEDERAL PRISON FOR TWO YEARS AND WAS RELEASED IN NOVEMBER/1995.  DURING HIS INCARCERATION HE LOST OVER 200 LBS,  BY DIET AND EXERCISE. 

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