Woman's death in hot tub not a drowning, investigators say

<p>A Boyes Hot Springs woman who died in a hot tub at her home late Thursday likely succumbed to a medical condition, authorities said Friday.</p><p>The woman, Patricia Schoenfeldt, 58, died shortly after 11 p.m. while in the hot tub with another family member at her Baines Avenue home in a neighborhood across Highway 12 from Boyes Boulevard, authorities said.</p><p>Emergency dispatchers first understood she might have drowned, and coroner’s detectives had some questions as well, Sonoma County sheriff’s officials said.</p><p>But investigators quickly decided she probably had some kind of medical problem, sheriff’s Lt. Scott Dunn said.</p><p>“Initially, we were prepared to look at it as a suspicious death,” Coroner’s Sgt. Mitch Mana said, “but we are not currently doing so.”</p><p>An autopsy is scheduled for Monday, they said.</p>