Anna Nicole: The Mystery Begins

A crime scene unit van of the Royal Bahamas Police Force is parked outside Horizons, the oceanfront home that was shared by Anna Nicole Smith and her partner, Howard K. Stern, in Nassau, Bahamas, Feb. 15, 2007. Stern filed a burglary report after claiming that a computer, home videos and other items were taken from the mansion before he returned from Florida.

Ron Rale, an attorney representing the late Anna Nicole Smith, left foreground, speaks during the hearing at the Broward County Circuit Court in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Thursday, Feb. 15, 2007. A judge Thursday ordered another DNA sample be taken from Anna Nicole Smith's body as he heard more arguments in the fight over the former Playboy Playmate's remains and custody of her infant daughter.

Tony Gaston, the administration coordinator for Broward Sheriff's Office, checks a line of reporters for their credentials as they file into Judge Lawrence Korda's courtroom Wednesday morning, Feb. 14, 2007, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., for a hearing regarding the release of Anna Nicole Smith's body from the Medical Examiners office.

Broward County Circuit Court Judge Larry Seidlin gestures during a hearing in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Feb. 14, 2007. Attorneys for Howard K. Stern, Anna Nicole Smith's mother and an ex-lover of Smith's each claimed before Judge Seidlin that they should have control of the Playboy Playmate's remains. The judge made no ruling, and the proceedings were continued until Thursday.

Jonathan Savarese arranges flowers Feb. 14, 2007, outside the Broward County Medical Examiners Office as a make-shift memorial to model Anna Nicole Smith continues to grow in Dania Beach, Fla.

Hubert Ingraham, former Prime Minister and leader of the opposition Free National Movement, walks into the House of Assembly building in Nassau, Bahamas, Feb. 14, 2007. His party has called for an investigation of Shane Gibson, the immigration official who has been criticized for giving preferential treatment to Anna Nicole Smith's application for permanent residency, an allegation he has denied.

Journalists wait out in front of Anna Nicole Smith's former residence, named "Horizons," in Nassau, Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2007. Smith's 5-month-old daughter and the baby's purported father have reoccupied the Bahamas mansion where they lived before Smith died in Florida last week, her lawyer said.

The gate of Anna Nicole Smith's former residence, named "Horizons," is seen closed in Nassau, Bahamas, Monday, Feb. 12, 2007. Smith's 5-month-old daughter and her companion, lawyer Howard K. Stern, are believed to be living there.

This photo shows the front page of the Monday, Feb. 12, 2007, edition of The Tribune newspaper, from The Bahamas, that published undated photos allegedly showing Anna Nicole Smith lying in bed with Bahamian Immigration Minister Shane Gibson.

Members of the media gather, Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2007, as police spokesman Carlos Negron plays a recording in Hollywood, Fla. According to the 31-second tape, the Seminole tribal police department asked Hollywood paramedics for help in assisting Smith, who was found unconscious in her room at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino on the tribe's reservation.

A 1985 Blackcat yearbook photo shows Anna Nicole Smith when she went by the name Nikki Hart during her sophomore year at Mexia High School in Mexia, Texas. Smith died Thursday, Feb. 8, 2007, in Hollywood, Fla., at the age of 39.

Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Joshua Perper, left, talks to the media regarding results of an autopsy on Anna Nicole Smith at the Broward County Medical Examiners Office in Dania Beach, Fla., Friday, Feb. 9, 2007. At right is Seminole Deputy Police Chief Mike Browne.

Prince Frederick von Anhalt speaks at a news conference Friday, Feb. 9, 2007, in Los Angeles. Von Anhalt said he had a decade-long affair with Smith and may be her infant daughter's father. The claim comes amid a paternity fight over the girl between Anna Nicole Smith's former boyfriend and a lawyer whose name is on Dannielynn's birth certificate.

This photo, supplied by ABC News.com, shows Vergie Arthur, the mother of former Playboy playmate Anna Nicole Smith, in Houston, where she was interviewed by ABC's "Good Morning America" on Friday, Feb. 9, 2007.

A photograph showing Anna Nicole Smith hugging her late son, Daniel Wayne Smith, is taped to the front door of the home where Anna Nicole lived in Nassau, Bahamas, Feb. 8, 2007.

Broward County Sheriff Officer T. Way guards the entrance to the Broward County Medical Examiners office, where Anna Nicole Smith's body reportedly was Feb. 8, 2007, in Hollywood, Fla. Smith died after being rushed to the Hollywood Memorial Regional Hospital after collapsing at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino.

A man leads his horses past the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino where Anna Nicole Smith, 39, died after collapsing at the hotel in Hollywood, Fla., Feb. 8, 2007.

Dr. Joshua Perper, the chief Broward County medical examiner speaks, to the media Feb. 8, 2007, in Davie, Fla., about the death of Anna Nicole Smith. Perper, who will perform the autopsy on Smith, said if her death was from natural causes, the findings would likely be announced quickly. He cautioned, however, that definitive results could take weeks.

Ronald Rale, a lawyer for Anna Nicole Smith, answers questions about Smith's sudden death in Florida and the ongoing paternity dispute over Smith's 5-month-old daughter, Dannielynne Hope Marshall Stern, during a news conference in Los Angeles on Feb. 8, 2007.

Broward County Sheriff's Office detectives place evidence contained in brown paper bags into a van while investigating the death of Anna Nicole Smith at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Fla., Feb. 8, 2007. Smith died after collapsing at the hotel.