was broke and fractured out. >> it looked as if florence had been sitting on the railing and it gave way. investigators measured the height of the railing and discovered that it was ten inches below the state building code. >> you look at that railing, it's low enough that you think if somebody had been sitting on it, they could lose their balance and fall over the edge. i know that i, personally, didn't want to sit on it. >> the splintered railing led to suspicions it was structurally unsound. >> they referred to it as a death trap and that it was an accident waiting to happen. >> a person could reasonably piece together someone fell through a railing, hit the ground, and ended up, perhaps, in the lake there. >> florence's body was transported to the medical examiner for an autopsy. the medical examiner found no drugs or alcohol in her system. he did find evidence of severe head trauma.