when they did, they found the homeowner, edith ann haynes, dead in the bathroom. >> she became overwhelmed by the smoke and the heat and was unable to, you know, escape the fire and died inside. >> edith ann haynes, known to friends as ann, was divorced and was on disability from her job at the kendall company, makers of surgical dressings. a preliminary investigation indicated the fire started in a spare bedroom used as a storage space. officially the cause of the blaze was ruled undetermined, but it was believed to be an electrical fire. >> it was about at the time the weather started getting a little cooler and might have been some heated on and that might have started the fire. >> at the autopsy the medical examiner expected to find evidence of smoke inhalation. instead he found no soot or debris in her trachea and her hyoid bone in her neck was broken which usually indicates strangulation. >> i have never seen a situation where a bone in a person's throat has been crushed by accident unless there's been some traumatic car wreck or some other explanation. >> the medical examiner also f