The 91-year-old female white victim, Ida Russell, was discovered dead on June 5 1998 inside her small home at 343 London Street in San Francisco's Excelsior District. A neighbor, concerned by the smell of decomposition, alerted authorities. Examiners noted extensive blunt-force injuries to the female nonagenarian's head and torso, yet—largely because Ms. Russell had a history of falls and previous hospitalizations—they ruled the death an accidental fall, cremated her remains, and closed the
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