Michael Jackson Investigation: The Houston Search Warrant & Dr. Murray’s Alleged Phone Calls
The search warrant that surfaced Monday raises many questions, but this post focuses on whether Dr. Conrad Murray left Michael Jackson alone after administering Propofol the day he died.
[Bauer Griffin Online]
According to the search warrant, Dr. Murray administered Propofol to MJ at approximately 10:40 a.m. on June 25. Then:
JACKSON finally went to sleep and MURRAY stated he remained monitoring him. After approximately 10 minutes, MURRAY stated he left JACKSON’s side to go to the restroom and relieve himself. MURRAY stated he was out of the room for about 2 minutes maximum. Upon his return, MURRAY noticed that JACKSON was no longer breathing.
The search warrant also states:
In his statement, MURRAY estimated the time he noticed JACKSON was not breathing to be approximately 1100 hours. MURRAY’s cellular telephone records show MURRAY on the telephone, with three separate calls for approximately 47 minutes starting at 1118 hours, until 1205 hours. MURRAY did not mention this to the interviewing detectives.
In response, Dr. Murray’s attorney released this statement:
Much of what was in the search warrant affidavit is factual. However, unfortunately, much is police theory. Most egregiously, the timeline reported by law enforcement was not obtained through interviews with Dr. Murray, as was implied by the affidavit. Dr. Murray simply never told investigators that he found Michael Jackson at 11:00 am not breathing. He also never said that he waited a mere ten minutes before leaving to make several phone calls. In fact, Dr. Murray never said that he left Michael Jackson’s room to make phone calls at all.
So, the big questions remain unanswered: Did Dr. Murray leave MJ’s room? Did he stay in the room while talking on the phone? Or did he leave the room to do something other than make phone calls?
The lawyer’s statement is anything but clear. Ugh.
Click here to read the search warrant.
We have to give the man his due: Michael Jackson was – beyond a shadow of a doubt – a great artist whose recorded legacy will endure for decades, maybe even a century or more. But an examination of his life is riddled with questions of all that might have been; all that should have been. It is more than likely that this was a severely mentally ill human being who never sought the treatment he so desperately needed; surrounded by fawning sycophants who enabled his sickness by constantly reassuring him that he could do no wrong. As John Lennon once said in the same context about Elvis Presley, another victim of the excesses of fame: “It’s always the courtiers that kill the king”.
The sad, inescapable truth is that for reasons we will probably never be able to fully understand, his talent and his career were ultimately wasted. Like Charlie Parker, Montgomery Clift, Judy Garland and Lenny Bruce before him, his brilliance as an artist would be overshadowed by severe, psychological torment and an unexplainable desire for self-destruction. Therein lies the real, unspeakable tragedy of Michael Jackson.
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Tom Degan
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