Who Killed Michael Jackson?

Dr. Conrad Murray

Dr. Conrad Murray is on trial this week, and for three more weeks to come, for involuntary manslaughter in the death of Michael Jackson.  He could get four years for not only enabling Jackson’s serious drug habit, but for leaving the room after administering a dangerous surgical sedative, and when he finally walked back in and found his patient unconscious, or dead—no one’s sure—he did not perform proper CPR or call for help immediately.

The doctor insisted that he injected only a certain amount of propofol, the anesthetic that the entertainer used as a sleeping pill, but the autopsy showed higher levels.  The question is:  Did Jackson, who knew how to administer injections, give himself that final dose after the doctor left the room or did the doctor do it and is lying to the world?

surgical sedative, propofol

I say, who cares?  The doctor is already guilty of a million other things, like getting the propofol illegally, supplying Jackson with hundreds of drugs that should’ve killed a football stadium jammed with fans, leaving his only patient alone, and not performing proper CPR.                       

And of course, how come he didn’t call 911 or tell an assistant to do so immediately?  No, he waited, and after a bodyguard entered, Murray asked him to help him clear away the drugs.  Murray was still clearing away vials when the paramedics were leaving with Jackson’s lifeless body. 

                                

Do I feel sorry for Murray?  He’s sitting in court teary-eyed, horrified at the facts presented.  But there’s a pattern here.  He’s been in trouble before—filing for bankruptcy in 1992 and having his Texas medical license revoked in 2002.  A couple years later he met the rock star.  The doctor needed money, and Michael, a serious addict, needed a personal M.D. to write his scripts.  He hired Murray, and ta da! the problem was solved!
No two ways about it, Murray was culpable the day he accepted the job.

 

Unfortunately as time passed, the drugs became incredibly dangerous, and many doctors, had they known, would have predicted that Jackson didn’t have long to live.  If he didn't die the day he did, he would’ve dropped a day later or the day after that, or maybe a week...

There’s a tape of him slurring his speech on May 10, 2009.  Forty-eight hours later, the wizardly Doctor Murray ordered 40 vials of 100 milligrams of propofol.   What the hell was he thinking? 

He didn’t—not anymore.
The only forces that were pushing the physician were greed, stupidity, and hubris.

 Bill Mauer said Murray killed Michael.  I don’t believe that.  Murray certainly expedited the singer’s death, but don’t get the story confused.  Though the proceedings on TV sounds like a murder trial, they aren't.  The people of California know that if it wasn’t Dr. Murray, it would’ve been someone else.
 

There were other doctors before Murray and certainly other incidences, but the only one who killed Michael was Michael.  Sadly, the genius of entertainment could never stop himself.