John "Darrell" Hamilton was pronounced dead at 5:36 a.m. May 3, 2014, with reported signs of lividity and rigor mortis.
Those conditions take at least an hour after death to set in.
Yet Hamilton is heard on a 911 call about 5:25 a.m. – just 11 minutes before he was pronounced dead.
And a Winter Haven crime scene technician said rigor mortis had not set in when she examined the body at 6:13 a.m.
Polk County Fire Rescue and Winter Haven Fire Department responded to Lois Fulkerson's 911 call to 595 Lake Martha Drive N.E. after her 58-year-old son collapsed down the stairs with chest pains.
"They didn't come in with nothing as much as a stethoscope," Fulkerson recalls, sitting in the living room where Hamilton died almost two years ago. "They left him for dead."
A Christmas tree decorates the room. Fulkerson refuses to bring down the last tree her son helped decorate.