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August 2, 2006

No sign of violence in Fall River couple's deaths

FALL RIVER, Mass. -- The Massachusetts Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has ruled out physically induced "traumatic injury" as a cause of the deaths of an elderly Fall River couple found in their Ray Street home yesterday.

"There is no consideration of any violent trauma," said Kelly Nantel, director of communications for the state Executive Office of Public Safety, said this afternoon.

What did cause the deaths of Michael and Victoria Mone "is pending further study," Nantel said.

The police received a call from a neighbor at 9:42 a.m. yesterday because the couple had not been seen for days, according to a Fall River press release. Officer Gary Pasternam went into the 139 Ray St. home and found the two.

The police are saying little about the case. Their home has been treated as a crime scene by the city's Major Crimes Division with assistance from state police who are assigned to the office of Bristol County District Attorney Paul F. Walsh Jr.

-- Journal staff writer Michael P. McKinney

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