From A&E, this is Panama City Beach, Florida. Just a few steps from the Gulf of Mexico sits a string of beachfront homes. Inside one of

them a phone is ringing. Jennifer Sybers waits for her mom Kaye to pick up, but

the phone goes unanswered. Jennifer makes her way down the hall to her mother's bedroom.

There she finds Kaye Cybers still in bed, not breathing.

Jennifer telephones her father Bill Cybers, a doctor who doubles as the city coroner.

Cybers can't break away from work and sends two of his assistance to check on his wife.

An hour later, they call back with the bad news.

CPR has failed.

At 10-18 a.m. K. Cybers is pronounced dead.

One hour later, in St. Augustine, Florida,

Dr.

Terence Steiner is a medical examiner and a former partner of Bill Sibers.

He is one of the first that morning to learn that Kaye has passed.

Steiner calls Bill Sbers' office for confirmation.

I called the medical examiner office and yes, she had died and no autopsy was being done.

Cibers at that time was 52 years old and everyone knew her to be in good health.

That's an automatic autopsy anywhere in this state.

As county coroner, Bill Cybers has concluded his wife died of a heart attack without an autopsy or any type of exam.

In the eyes of a fellow doctor, Cybers' decision seems strange.

Profationally, it was absurd.

It's defined by Florida statutes and basically anybody who dies

unattended by a physician

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