When paramedics arrived at Michael Jackson's house, he was already dead and it took them a while to even realize the victim was the music icon, new reports say.
Jackson was flatlined when the paramedics arrived shortly after noon PST on June 25. There was no electrical activity in Michael's heart and no sign of life.
Paramedics wanted to pronounce him dead at the scene but Dr. Conrad Murray, Jackson's personal physician, insisted the singer be transported to the hospital.
As a higher medical authority than the EMTs, Dr. Conrad Murray had the power to overrule them. So it went and EMT personnel could not "call it" at his home.
Paramedics didn't realize for nearly 10 minutes the victim was Michael Jackson. As one emergency worker put it: "It just looked like a frail, old, sickly man."
Meanwhile, law enforcement sources continuing to investigate Conrad Murray say he kept a stash of drugs - including the powerful anesthesia Propofol, which they think stopped Michael Jackson's heart - hidden in his closet.
Sources say when the LAPD first searched Jackson's home the night he died, they did not turn up Propofol or many of the other drugs that were in his house.
Dr. Murray talked to the LAPD the following Saturday and the incriminating statements he supplied triggered another, broader search warrant, police are saying.
Cops returned to the house the next Monday and found "various drugs" clandestinely stashed in a closet of the guest room where Dr. Conrad Murray stayed.
Dr. Murray himself apparently told detectives about the closet when interviewed, triggering the search and ultimately a manslaughter investigation against him.
A law enforcement source tells TMZ that "The drugs were concealed... they weren't obvious." Among the stash - Propofol, the drug they believe killed Jackson.
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15 Comments
July 26th, 2009 11:40 AM
Well I sure hope that these dangerous drugs were concealed from everybody else living in that house. Not only that they should've been kept under lock and key.
July 26th, 2009 1:45 PM
I cant believe that the paramedics didnt relise it was Michael for nearly 10 minutes!!!!!!!! Poor Michael!
RIP MJ!
July 26th, 2009 1:51 PM
Michael Jackson is dead. Can we change this? No. Would it be different if they found out that he was indeed murdered? Of course! We need to know the truth!
July 26th, 2009 5:04 PM
Of course he was dead by the time they arrived there; I always knew that, because was to obvious !!!
When they realized it , they PANIC, tried to COVER UP THE CRIME, ROBBED HIM of whatever valuable they could find, hid the EVIDENCE OF MURDER.......(in vain!). They could not even tell paramedics, WHO THE VICTIM WAS !!!.....because they were TERRIFIED > knowing WHAT was COMING!.......
What a sad, tragic end of a such HUMAN BEING, who suffered so much when was alive !!!
Finally..... "PETER PAN" CAN SLEEP.....FOREVER.....IN PEACE !!!.....
Thanks so much for the good memories !
July 26th, 2009 7:09 PM
This garbage was posted on TMZ's website. I am not buying into any comments that these trashy internet magazines are paying for from their SOURCES. I will watch CNN, a credible news source on the day the coroner and LAPD release their reports about Michael and his death. All this rumor, gossip and speculation is ridiculous.
July 27th, 2009 2:37 AM
i can not believe michael is dead...
but it really...
and i`m happy on the islam...
July 27th, 2009 2:40 AM
i can not believe michael is dead...
but it really...
and i`m happy cause he`s daed of the islam
July 27th, 2009 3:51 AM
I am still very sad and sometimes crying when I hear a song by michael that brings back good memories, I did not even know how much he meant to me until he died. RIP MIke. when you are rich the world is at your feet the doctor forgot about his oath and greed set in he forgot that he is to heal the sick not cater to their illness. He is going to get his.
July 27th, 2009 6:17 AM
Michael Jackson was a drug addict. He is responsible for his death just like all the other 'regular' drug addicts whose addiction eventually takes their life. You can argue all you want about how he got these drugs. The reality is that he hooked himself on these drugs because of a variety of self-induced health issues that forced him to seek relief through prescribed medication.
July 27th, 2009 2:48 PM
They didn't recognize him because it wasn't him