American Found Naked And Dead In Dumaguete Apartment

An American was found naked and dead in the living room of the apartment he was renting in Dumaguete.

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An American national was found dead inside his rented apartment in Barangay Mangnao here on Monday evening, December 1, 2019. 

Police Lieutenant Colonel Wilfredo Alarcon, Dumaguete City Police Chief, said the body of Harold Kenneth Smith, 69 years old and a native of Michigan, USA, was discovered by the apartment owner, Ely Abarado. 

According to a police report, Smith was alone in his rented apartment when the owner noticed that the victim didn’t come out for the whole day. 

This prompted the owner to open the back door of the apartment. 

Initial investigation revealed that once inside the living room, Abarado saw the body of the victim with no clothes on. 

Police found no signs of foul play. 

All the personal belongings and valuable items of the victim were also intact, the police said. 

Joan Catan Smith, wife of the victim who arrived at the apartment later, said her husband was suffering from a Chronic Pulmonary Disorder. 

The City Heath Officer is expected to conduct a post mortem examination on the body of the American national to determine the exact cause of his death.  

Police Staff Sergeant Catalino Entea, investigator on the case, said the wife of the victim won’t have the body autopsied since she was fully convinced that her husband’s death was caused by health problems

Is this not the hope of every American retiree? To die naked in the living room of their rented apartment and have a photo of their nude corpse posted on the internet? At 69 the man was not young but plenty of people live healthy enough lives into their 80s and beyond. But some things in this story do not sound right.

Obviously I do not know anything about this guy or his routine but is it really all that strange if one never leaves the house all day? Sometimes I never leave mine. But it must have been strange if it prompted the owner of the apartment to OPEN THE DOOR AND WALK RIGHT IN!  Did he knock? Did he call? 

And where was the wife all day? Again there are scant details here but is she always gone all day? Funny that she does not want an autopsy because she is "fully convinced" that he died from his chronic pulmonary disorder. Wouldn't she want to be 100% about it? Maybe he died from something else? 

Why was he naked in his living room? Did he get out of the bath and collapse on his way back to the bedroom? Does he strut around naked often? 

Too many questions.  Maybe its all above board. The media could at least have the decency to not publish a picture of a corpse. Any corpse. But that's not how things work here. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of ageing foreigners face the prospect of their bodies being shown in the news after they have collapsed and died.