ST PETERSBURG POLICE DEPARTMENT INCIDENT 90-024846 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Report Title: CALL FOR ASSISTANCE Occurred: SUN 02/25/1990 05:40 To: Call Received: Dispatched: 02/25/1990 06:11 Arrived: 06:33 Completed: 08:55 Incident Address.: 12201 9 ST N Apt/Unit: 2210 City.:ST PETERSBURG State: FLORIDA Zip: 33716 Census Tract: 0462 Zone: 23 Dist: 2 Area: ------------------------------------ PERSONS ----------------------------------- Relationship: WITNESS Type: OTHER Name.: SCHIAVO, THERESA MARIE W/F Dob: 12/03/1963 Age: 39 Aprx Age: 26 Occupation: FIELD SERVICE RBP. Address: 12201 9 ST N Apt/Unit: 2210 City: ST PETERSBURG State: FLORIDA Zip: 33716 Home Phone: 813-577-0012 Employer: PRUDENTIAL INS./SEMINOLE Work Phone: 813-391-2410 Synopsis: Relationship: WITNESS Type: OTHER Name.: SCHIAVO, MICHAEL RICHARD W/M Dob: 04/03/1963 Age: 40 Aprx Age: 26 Occupation: GENERAL MANAGER Address: 12201 9 ST N Apt/Unit: 2210 City: ST PETERSBURG State: FLORIDA Zip: 33716 Home Phone: 813-577-0012 Employer: AGOSTINOS RISTORANTE/CLRWTR Work Phone: 813-573-2040 Synopsis: FOUND WIFE UNCONSCIOUS ON FLOOR/CALLED PARAMEDICS ----------------------------------- EVIDENCE ----------------------------------- Processed: NO By: Photos: NO Prints: NO -------------------------------- ADMINISTRATION -------------------------------- Officerl: BREWER, PHILLIP R #: 24914 Unit: Date: 02/25/1990 Officer2: TOWER, RODNEY L #: 28194 Unit: -Route...: HOMICIDE Sao.....: N/A Date: Division: Clearance: Exception: Cl. Date: 02/25/1990 Supervisor: CHAPMAN, GEORGE B RET #:11657 Approved By: #:24914 ----------------------------------- NARRATIVE ---------------------------------- **** This investigation was originally conducted by myself and then-probationary officer Rodney Tower. The date of the investigation was February 25, 1990. The report was typed and uploaded into the Police Information computer system by me at the end of that shift. The report was transferred to microfilm some time ago and is no longer stored in P.I. ST. PETERSBURG POLICE DEPARTMENT PAGE 1 ST. PETERSBURG POLICE DEPARTMENT 90-024846 Similarly, no entry exists in the P.I. system that this report was ever generated or uploaded. The quality of the microfilm onto which the report was transferred has degenerated; the report can be read on the microfilm screen but it is largely unreadable in printed form. Due to the circumstances of this case, I have reproduced the report in its entirety so the record can be preserved. This new entry is absolutely accurate as to the content of the narrative, which could be easily read on the microfilm screen. The captions are also easily readable on the microfilm screen and they, too, were reproduced accurately as to content. Only small, technical aspects of the captions are different because the report writing format has changed since 1990. The date and times listed in the first and last captions reflect the date and times recorded during the original investigation, not the date and times this report was reproduced, which was Wednesday, October 22, 2003. Below is the narrative as it was written on February 25, 1990. **** ============================================================================= WRITER RESPONDED TO THE ABOVE ADDRESS IN REFERENCE TO PARAMEDICS NEEDING ASSISTANCE ON A MEDICAL EMERGENCY. UPON ARRIVAL, WRITER SPOKE WITH FIREFIGHTER/PARAMEDIC J. RADJESKI. HE STATED HE RESPONDED TO THE ADDRESS FOR A MEDICAL EMERGENCY. THEY FOUND A SUBJECT IN QUESTION (THERESA) LYING FACE DOWN AND UNCONSCIOUS HALFWAY IN AND HALFWAY OUT OF A BATHROOM. SHE WAS UNRESPONSIVE THE ENTIRE TIME AND WAS TRANSPORTED TO HUMANA NORTHSIDE HOSPITAL BY SUNSTAR MEDIC ONE AMBULANCE #328 (J. CAMPBELL AND J. EISENBRANDT). SHE WAS FOUND WITH HER HEAD FACING EAST OUT INTO A HALLWAY AND HER FEET AND LEGS POINTING WEST ON THE BATHROOM FLOOR. HE STATED SHE SHOWED NO OUTWARD SIGNS OF VIOLENCE. THE POLICE WERE CALLED BECAUSE OF HER AGE AND BECAUSE THE SITUATION SEEMED UNUSUAL. WRITER FOUND NOTHING UNUSUAL INSIDE THE APARTMENT. THERE WERE NO SIGNS OF A STRUGGLE OR ANYTHING THAT WOULD INDICATE A CRIME HAD BEEN COMMITTED. VARIOUS BOTTLES OF PRESCRIPTION MEDICATION WERE PRESENT IN THE KITCHEN; HOWEVER, ONLY TWO WERE PRESCRIBED TO THERESA. WRITER SECURED THE APARTMENT AND BROUGHT THE KEYS TO THE HOSPITAL. WRITER SPOKE WITH THERESA'S HUSBAND (MICHAEL) WHO STATED HE WAS AWAKENED THIS MORNING WHEN HE HEARD A THUD. HE THOUGHT HIS WIFE HAD FALLEN DOWN AND GOT UP TO CHECK ON HER. HE FOUND HER UNCONSCIOUS ON THE FLOOR AND CALLED PARAMEDICS. MICHAEL STATED HE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT COULD BE WRONG WITH THERESA. THERE HAVEN'T BEEN ANY PROBLEMS AT HOME WHICH WOULD LEAD TO HER WANTING TO TRY SUICIDE AND THEY HAVE HAD NO MAJOR ARGUMENTS LATELY. SHE IS ALLERGIC TO CERTAIN ITEMS BUT KNOWS WHAT NOT TO INGEST. SHE DOESN'T HAVE A HISTORY OF HEART DISEASE. SHE HAS HAD RECENT "FEMALE" PROBLEMS AND IS SEEING HER GYNECOLOGIST ON A REGULAR BASIS. SHE HAS BEEN TIRED LATELY AND NOT FEELING WELL. WHEN WRITER OBSERVED THERESA SHE WAS STILL UNCONSCIOUS AND ON A RESPIRATOR. MEDICAL PERSONNEL ADVISED THAT SHE WAS UNRESPONSIVE UPON ARRIVAL. A DRUG SCREEN REVEALED NO AMOUNTS OF ILLEGAL NARCOTICS PRESENT IN HER SYSTEM AND HER BLOOD ALCOHOL LEVEL MEASURED AT "LESS THAN 10", WHICH A NURSE DESCRIBED AS BEING THE BOTTOM OF THE SCALE. A PHYSICAL INSPECTION BY WRITER ALSO REVEALED ST. PETERSBURG POLICE DEPARTMENT PAGE 2 ST. PETERSBURG POLICE DEPARTMSNT 90-024846 NO SIGNS OF TRAUMA TO HER HEAD OR FACE. WRITER REMAINED AT THE HOSPITAL FOR THE OUTCOME OF THE CAT SCAN. THE SCAN REVEALED NO "MID-LINE SHIFT" OF THE BRAIN WHICH WOULD INDICATE AN OBVIOUS ABNORMALITY. ADDITIONAL TESTING IS NECESSARY TO DETECT A POSSIBLE ANEURYSM OR PULMONARY EMB0LISM. WRITER GAVE MICHAEL A BUSINESS CARD WITH THE OFFENSE NUMBER. HE WAS TOLD THAT WRITER WOULD CALL FOR AN UPDATE OF HER CONDITION AND NO FURTHER ACTION WAS TAKEN. EOR ST. PETERSBURG POLICE DEPARTMENT PAGE 3