Autopsy Report documents & things that don't add up....................

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Hello everyone, I'm new here. I have a health care background myself. I was recently reading MJ's Autospy Report (found online: http://www.autopsyfiles.org/reports/Celebs/jackson, michael_report.pdf ) and I noticed some interesting things:

1. On page 5 under the section "Informant/Witness Statements" (end of the first paragraph), it's stated that Murray found MJ not breathing at 12:00 and he proceeded to put him onto the FLOOR and begin CPR. Now I'm not sure WHO gave this info to law enforcement such that it was reported this way in this document (Murray? someone else?) but this totally goes against the 911 call made by Alberto Alvarez that was apparently made at, what, 12:21pm?....where he indicated to the 911 dispatcher that MJ was having CPR performed on him ON THE BED.

2. If you look on pg 8 and 9 of the documents, you'll see documents indicating the meds that MJ was on/had been prescribed/were at his home. If you look at the bottom of both pages 8 and 9 in the section "Paraphernalia Description" you'll see that an Empty glass vial of Propofol was found......but ALSO (!!) an EMPTY glass vial of the medication FLUMAZENIL. This is medication that's given to COUNTERACT Benz the sedative effect of Benzodiazepines. As you can see from these documents, MJ either took/was prescribed (many by Murray) or had in his possession, many different benzodiazepine meds (diazepam, lorazepam, temazepam, midazolam, clonazepam).

We know that MJ's cause of death has been determined to be acute Propofol toxicity which was further accentuated by benzodiazepines. So it would appear that SOMEONE had given MJ Flumazenil IV at some point, to counteract the benzos in his system. How well was someone (Murray) monitoring him if there was a point that he had so much benzo meds in his system that he needed a Benzo-antagonist med? I wonder if mention of this med will come up in the trial

3. From everything I've read about Propofol, it just seems like a very, very strange choice of medications to use to help an insomniac sleep. Because of it's very short half-life, in order to keep someone sedated for any length of time, one would have to be giving a continuous IV drip of this med as opposed to giving bolus injections (a syringe of it injected into the port of the IV periodically). And you cannot run a continuous Propofol IV drip without using a proper IV pump and a pump was never found or said to have been used.

4. It seems interesting to me that according to the testimony of, I believe Firefighter/Paramedic Senneff, that Murray "accidentally" pulled out the IV that was in MJs left lower leg/foot. Was it really an accident or was did he do it intentionally (knowing it would be very difficult to get another IV started to therefore administer meds that could help to revive MJ/start his heart) to reduce the chances that he would be resuscitated?

5. Alberto Alvarez testified that it was during the call to 911 that he was instructed to get MJ down onto the floor so they did this. He also testified that Murray was stupidly doing CPR with only one hand, on a soft bed. It makes me wonder if.......Murray knew that MJ had been dead for quite some time and knew that CPR wasn't going to help anyway..................OR................he was intentionally performing CPR incorrectly/ineffectively because he didn't really want to save MJ.

6. Firefighter Senneff testified that when he entered the bedroom MJ was in, he saw Murray and some other unnamed security person, moving MJ from the bed to the floor; that at the moment he walked into MJ's room he saw MJ's torso (upper body) on the bed but his lower body closer to the floor. This conflicts what Alvarez testified previously (or does it? Did he ever really say that they DID move MJ down onto the floor when the 911 told them to get him onto the floor? It's not like he said clearly that they DID move him to the floor at that point did he?). BUT, say they DID move him to the floor as directed by the 911 dispatcher, there's nothing to say that he wasn't moved back ONTO the bed for some other reason (as directed by Murray) following that.

7. Alvarez stated that MJ had only ONE IV in his left foot and it was connected to a bag of Normal Saline. Just because that's all he SAW (and all that paramedics saw) doesn't mean he didn't have an IV in the other lower leg/foot PRIOR (that Murray had previously removed). Of course only one patent IV was necessary for Murray to be injecting ANY med into.

8. I find it very strange that apparently there were 'bottles of urine' located in that bedroom. Why on earth wouldn't the urine that would have been emptied from the collection bag that was attached to MJs condom catheter just have been emptied into a toilet/discarded? That's just bizarre to me.

9. In the Autopsy Report documents, I don't read anything about there having been extra bags of IV fluids found. If MJ was apparently being treated for "dehydration", wouldn't you expect to find extra bags of fluid on hand?

10. If Murray claims that he witnessed MJ having stopped breathing around noon, and paramedics noted no change in MJ's condtion despite CPR, despite the meds given (epinephrine, atropine, sodium bicarb) such that Dr Cooper told them that they were authorized to pronounce him dead, why did they continue to work on him at UCLA? What on earth did they think they would be able to do if he'd been clinically dead since at LEAST noon? (wasn't it about 13:13 or 13:17 that he arrived by ambulance @ UCLA?) If a person's been clinically dead for that long, what hope would there have been? They officially pronounced him dead as 14:26. That's pretty much 2.5 hours after he was reported found not breathing. Do you really think they worked on him that long (from 13:17 to 14:26) at UCLA? I realize he was a celebrity and they'd want to ensure that they did EVERYTHING to revive him but they reportedly never saw any change in his condition (with respect to his heart function) so it seems strange to me that they would have kept trying for that long. Does anyone else find this strange?
 
Wow....lots to read here...........all very puzzling........

And thank you for taking the time to write this in a way that everyone can understand!!


Hopefully the prosecution will pick this up!!!
 
I thought of something else that doesn't make any sense.

Remember how Murray allegedly admitted to Alvarez that he'd never performed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation before but he was doing it on MJ because he was a 'friend.' Why was he doing mouth to mouth to begin with? Remember one of the photos that shows an Ambu-bag (blue) down on the floor of the bedroom (on the left side of the bed if looking toward the head of the bed).....and one of the firefighters was asked about this bag when questioned on the stand and he indicated that this was not THEIR Ambu-bag.

It doesn't make sense that in a situation where someone requires CPR that if you have an Ambu-bag that would be much preferable to use to give breaths as opposed to doing basis mouth-to-mouth.
 
10. If Murray claims that he witnessed MJ having stopped breathing around noon, and paramedics noted no change in MJ's condtion despite CPR, despite the meds given (epinephrine, atropine, sodium bicarb) such that Dr Cooper told them that they were authorized to pronounce him dead, why did they continue to work on him at UCLA? What on earth did they think they would be able to do if he'd been clinically dead since at LEAST noon? (wasn't it about 13:13 or 13:17 that he arrived by ambulance @ UCLA?) If a person's been clinically dead for that long, what hope would there have been? They officially pronounced him dead as 14:26. That's pretty much 2.5 hours after he was reported found not breathing. Do you really think they worked on him that long (from 13:17 to 14:26) at UCLA? I realize he was a celebrity and they'd want to ensure that they did EVERYTHING to revive him but they reportedly never saw any change in his condition (with respect to his heart function) so it seems strange to me that they would have kept trying for that long. Does anyone else find this strange?

You have lots of good questions! For question 10, If I remember correctly, it was reported that Murray wanted the EMTs and the ER to keep trying to revive him. Then, someone (I don't remember who) didn't want the ER docs to declare that he had died until Katherine arrived at the hospital.
 
Thanks for your insightful questions!

About Number Four: "4. It seems interesting to me that according to the testimony of, I believe Firefighter/Paramedic Senneff, that Murray "accidentally" pulled out the IV that was in MJs left lower leg/foot. Was it really an accident or was did he do it intentionally (knowing it would be very difficult to get another IV started to therefore administer meds that could help to revive MJ/start his heart) to reduce the chances that he would be resuscitated?"

This is something I especially took note of during testimony. (I wish it had been addressed further). It wasn't clear whether or not the I.V. was "accidentally" pulled out, or deliberately. If "accidentally," that may be understandable, as clumsiness? If "deliberately," that is alarming, for the reason you gave! It was then very difficult to start another I.V. Testimony showed that paramedics tried on both of Michael's left and right arms, and were unsuccessful (if he'd been just recently "arrested," that was a loss of precious time!) They were finally successful in putting in a line into his jugular vein (in the neck).

Having an I.V. already in place would be IMPORTANT, in that the fluids would help keep blood-pressure up (at least if the heart was beating?), and also could have been used for "bolus" delivery of medications, quickly. Instead, EMTs spent precious time in failed attempts to start a NEW I.V. At worst, the I.V. was deliberately removed. At best, Murray was very clumsy in a high-stress situation. . . .
 
1. On page 5 under the section "Informant/Witness Statements" (end of the first paragraph), it's stated that Murray found MJ not breathing at 12:00 and he proceeded to put him onto the FLOOR and begin CPR. Now I'm not sure WHO gave this info to law enforcement such that it was reported this way in this document (Murray? someone else?) but this totally goes against the 911 call made by Alberto Alvarez that was apparently made at, what, 12:21pm?....where he indicated to the 911 dispatcher that MJ was having CPR performed on him ON THE BED.

That was said by Murray to detective Smith at the hospital.

Page 5: "I spoke with Detective S. Smith from the LAPD and he reported..." (signed by the coroner investigator, Elissa Fleak on 26th June).
 
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4. It seems interesting to me that according to the testimony of, I believe Firefighter/Paramedic Senneff, that Murray "accidentally" pulled out the IV that was in MJs left lower leg/foot.

I remember Senneff said the IV (catheter, I think) was "compromised", and the one who said that Murray "pulled" it was Alberto, while they were moving Michael to the floor and as Alberto could not move properly with the tubing there.

What I don't have now clear is whether Alberto Álvarez was referring to the IV catheter or the tubing attached to it. Most outlets have referred to the "tubing", which would make sense with Senneff's testimony (that the catheter was "compromised" and they could not use it to apply their medicines).
 
smoothlugar;3500085 said:
I remember Senneff said the IV (catheter, I think) was "compromised", and the one who said that Murray "pulled" it was Alberto, while they were moving Michael to the floor and as Alberto could not move properly with the tubing there.

What I don't have now clear is whether Alberto Álvarez was referring to the IV catheter or the tubing attached to it. Most outlets have referred to the "tubing", which would make sense with Senneff's testimony (that the catheter was "compromised" and they could not use it to apply their medicines).

Right. That part wasn't clear.

The part of the catheter that goes INTO the vein is typically taped in-place to the skin, not so easy to just "pull out." Would have had to be a hard yank, or accidentally as Michael was being moved. The tubing attached to the catheter could easily be reattached. It would be more difficult to reinsert, or insert, the catheter into a vein if Michael was "down" and veins collapsed. As we saw then EMTs tried to put I.V.s in both arms, and failed at that.
 
Something else I've never understood. Wasn't it Alberto Alvarez who said that he saw a near empty vial of Propofol INSIDE an IV bag? How can you have anything "inside" an IV bag except fluid? Did he mean the outer wrapping of an IV bag, I wonder? An IV bag is a sealed unit that can't be opened up nor would someone open one up.
 
Something else I've never understood. Wasn't it Alberto Alvarez who said that he saw a near empty vial of Propofol INSIDE an IV bag? How can you have anything "inside" an IV bag except fluid? Did he mean the outer wrapping of an IV bag, I wonder? An IV bag is a sealed unit that can't be opened up nor would someone open one up.

There are photos in some other threads? The I.V. bag was slit open, and the vial was inside it. It wasn't functional any more as an I.V. bag to deliver saline.
 
There are photos in some other threads? The I.V. bag was slit open, and the vial was inside it. It wasn't functional any more as an I.V. bag to deliver saline.

Hmmm. Will have to look for that pic. That's very interesting. The only reason i can think of that someone would cut open an IV bag would be to more quickly drain the contents out of it............like maybe Murray wasn't just giving him bolus injections of Propofol but had injected it directly into the bag of NS (normal saline) and was giving a continuous infusion that way (which would be beyond ludicrous and unsafe if for no reason that no IV pump was being used to administer it).
 
Thank you for posting this. I'm going to go re-read. This is interesting
 
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