     ACCORDING TO THE INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION:  THE DECEASED WAS AN ELDERLY FEMALE WHO RETIRED FROM HER BOOK-KEEPING JOB OF MANY YEARS AND LIVED AT THE ABOVE ADDRESS WITH A HOUSE MATE. 
     ON MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1996, AT ABOUT 8:20 PM, THE HOUSE MATE WAS AT HOME WITH THE DECEASED WHEN SHE STOPPED BREATHING. METRO DADE POLICE WERE SUMMONED AND RESPONDED, SHE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD UPON THEIR ARRIVAL. 
     IT APPEARS THAT THE HOUSE-MATE HONORED A WISH OF THE DECEASED BY  WAITING A WHILE BEFORE SHE CALLED POLICE TO ADVISED THEM OF HER DEATH.  
     HER PAST MEDICAL HISTORY WAS PROVIDED BY DOCTOR EUGENE FIERER (933-4600), WHO TREATED HER FOR ATHEROSCLEROTIC CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE.   ACCORDING TO THE HOUSE-MATE, THE DECEASED HAD FALLEN SEVERAL TIMES IN THE PAST AND HAD SUSTAINED BROKEN RIGHT AND LEFT HIPS. SHE HAD ALSO BROKEN HER RIGHT AND LEFT WRISTS. NO MEDICATION WAS TRANSPORTED TO THE MEDICAL EXAMINERS DEPARTMENT. 