     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION: THE DECEASED WAS LAST HEARD FROM ON SEPT. 12, 1996 BY A FRIEND.  ON SEPT. 19, 1996 HER FRIEND ATTEMPTED TO CONTACT HER AND GOT NO ANSWER.  SHE RESPONDED TO HER RESIDENCE AND FOUND TWO NEWSPAPERS DATED SEPT. 18, 1996 AND SEPT. 19, 1996 BY THE FRONT DOOR.  SHE CONTACTED THE BUILDING MANAGER WHO ENTERED THE APARTMENT AND FOUND THE DECEASED DEAD ON THE BATHROOM FLOOR.
     THE DECEASED WAS BEING TREATED BY DR. SCHEIB (674-3088) FOR ADVANCED CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE, ON OXYGEN; HYPERTENSION ON MAXIDE AND PAST HISTORY OF COLON CARCINOMA WITHOUT RECURRENCE.  HE PRESCRIBED MAXIDE AND OXYGEN.
     MEDICATIONS TRANSPORTED: TRIAMTERENE AND DARVOCET.