At about that same time period as your incident, I was riding my bike up a mountain road when I spotted a person lying about 100 feet or so down a sort of steep hill/embankment off the side of the road wearing a running outfit. I stopped and yelled at him and got no response, so I went down the embankment to get to him. He wasn't ripe yet but he was dead, I didn't touch anything on him in case it was a murder or hit and run, but I didn't see any wounds other than some brush scratches, but I wasn't going to turn him over to check and disturb any evidence, so I followed my steps back up the hill just in case it was a murder body dump as not to disturb any more of the scene then I already did going down to him. I stood waiting on the side of the road for about an hour waiting for a car to down, and they went to a pay phone and called the cops which took them about 45 minutes to get there, but that was due to the driver having to drive to find a pay phone, then the cops had to come, it was in a remote lightly traveled area as well. I found out later the guy died of heart attack, they speculated he probably sat down on the guard rail to rest when he died and fell over; the family was glad that someone found him.

When I was in college I had two jobs, one of them was managing a 48-unit apartment complex in Glendale CA. One day I was walking down the sidewalk on the ground floor when I saw something weird on the living room window of a particular unit, it looked like a black mess of something, so as I came closer, I discovered they were flies, and then the smell hit me! I didn't touch the door nothing, called the cops. This is sort of funny, in a weird way. The cops were instructing a new recruit how to investigate a crime scene, I gave the key to the recruit, and then I stepped back about 25 feet to reduce the smell, even though I was breathing through my mouth I still could smell it a bit. Anyway, the recruit opens the door and goes in, he's back out in about 15 seconds puking his guts out, all the cops watching from the outside just start busting up laughing. They had placed bets on how long it would take him to come back out! So, then they instruct the recruit to go back in but breathe through his mouth instead. That guy died of natural causes, he had been dead for about 3 days, but he had left his wall heater running so it got hot inside, so he was overly ripe, so ripe that his skin came off when they tried to remove him! The fire department sprayed the place with something, and opened the windows and put in large fans, and that odor was gone the next day! I had to have everything removed, from the unit, and the carpeting removed, it was rented 3 weeks afterwards with no clue that someone died in it.

Those cops told me some wild stories about going to houses where someone died and some of crazy stuff that people did to live in their houses, that neighbors knew nothing about, including multimillion dollar home owners, which was really strange to me.