According to witnesses in the house, Dr. Conrad Murray halted CPR on Michael and delayed calling paramedics so he could collect drug vials at the scene and hide bottles of Propofol in a secret compartment of a closet. Police did eventually retrieve the bottles, etc. that were in a bag in the closet. (A list of the contents is at the bottom of this page.) He then proceeded to give Michael CPR...on the bed...with one hand. The account was given to investigators by Alberto Alvarez, Jackson's logistics director, who was summoned to the stricken star's side as he was dying. His statement and those from two other Jackson employees paint a grisly scene in Jackson's bedroom. Alvarez told investigators that he rushed to Jackson's room and saw him lying in his bed, an IV attached to his leg. Jackson's mouth and eyes were open and there was no sign of life. Two of Michael's children, Prince and Paris, came in the room and cried as they saw Murray performing CPR. A nanny was called to usher them away and they were taken to wait outside in a vehicle. After Michael was declared dead, Murray insisted he needed to return to the mansion to get cream that Michael had "so the world wouldn't find out about it." This explains his return to the home soon after. It gave him ample time to clear out evidence. Unfortunately for him, he left the canvas bag in the closet. The "cream' Murray was referring to was skin bleaching cream that Michael used to even his skin tone because he had dark blotches in various places. It isn't like everyone didn't already know about his condition, so Murray using that as an excuse to return to the house is very suspicious. In April 2010, Murray claimed that Michael overdosed after getting out of the bed and injecting himself with Propofol while Murray was out of the room for a minute or two. If Michael felt "brave" enough to do this (considering he was afraid of needles), why would he have needed a doctor there in the first place? If someone is that bold, it's obvious in their mind, that the "med" is harmless. Instead of Michael "yelling" at Murray to give him an injection of Propofol (or what he called milk), he would skipped arranging for Murray to come over and he would have done it himself. Propofol was already in the house.
The overall public opinion is that Murray became angry with Michael's yelling and complaining about not being able to sleep. He then injected Michael with enough Propofol to "shut him up". In his angered state, Murray failed to acknowledge the dangers of doing this. He then left the room, waited a few minutes, made some phone calls, and returned to find Michael not breathing. Since Michael was not hooked to a heart monitor, Murray realized he was dead only because Michael was laying on the bed with his mouth and eyes wide open...yet he was quiet. (Michael was never quiet when he was very frustrated.) That's when Murray panicked, attempted CPR, then yelled for someone to help.
Alvarez and the others, Michael's personal assistant Michael Amir Williams and driver/bodyguard Faheem Muhammad, could be key witnesses during the trial against Murray. Except for the brief appearances by the nanny and the children, Alvarez and Muhammad were the only others in the room with Murray before paramedics arrived.
Murray failed to inform paramedics that he had given Michael Jackson Propofol, the anesthetic drug that coroners ruled killed him. Murray didn't mention it until he was interrogated by police. Murray also insisted the paramedics continue to perform CPR on Michael, although he knew he was dead for quite some time before the ambulance arrived. Had Murray called 911 immediately after he noticed Michael was not breathing, there's a strong possibility he may have survived.
Below are major parts of the ambulance report from June 25, 2009:
1) Jackson is lying "supine" on the floor of his home in LA when the paramedics arrive. Dr Murray is conducting CPR (cardio-pulmonary resuscitation) on his patient. The paramedics intubate Jackson, reporting "good lung sounds". This is a simple check to make sure the tube has gone down the patient's windpipe and not into the stomach.
They record that an intravenous drip is already in place in the patient's left leg, put there by Murray. It is unusual that it should be in his leg and not his arm. We can only speculate that Murray couldn't find a vein in his arm because he had been dead for some time and his veins had retreated into his body.
Capnography, or the build-up of carbon dioxide in the body, is recorded initially at 16 parts per unit, then 26 when he is transported. This shows he is not breathing and therefore not expelling the gasses and they are building up inside him.
2) Jackson's Vital Signs - blood pressure, pulse and respiration - are measured twice by the paramedics, at 1pm and eleven minutes later. The chart shows "zero" in each case, meaning he was technically dead.
3) The record shows the results of an electrocardiogram measurement. He would have had electrodes placed on his chest, arms and legs to measure heartbeat.
Three doses of drugs are given intravenously: 1mg of epinephrine, an adrenalin-like drug used to try to stimulate the heart. The result is "N" for negative. They then try atropine. This blocks the nerves, taking the body's brake off the heart to allow it to beat as much as it likes. Again, it is a negative result. Finally they try sodium bicarbonate. When there is no circulation, the blood becomes acidic as a by-product of the build-up of CO2. By introducing sodium bicarbonate, you hope to return the blood to alkaline and help restart the heart. It looks like they tried 50cc, about a cupful. Again the affect was recorded as negative. All these measurements have ASY next to them for a systole - no heartbeat. The treatments simply weren't working.
4) The patient does not respond to two rounds of RX/TX (treatment) so the hospital advises stopping. But Murray assumes responsibility and asks for Jackson to be transferred to the ER. There is a third round of treatment en route. At this point, his blood CO2 level is 26 parts per unit so his body is continuing to build up CO2.
5) Any time the body is moved or given a shock the electrocardiogram flutters. But we can clearly see from the charts that Jackson was flat-lining.
6) The "time left scene" and "time at hospital" indicators show the journey to UCLA took just six minutes.
Items seized by police that include the contents of the bag Murray hid in Michael's closet:
- 3 - 10 mg/ml 1% lydocaine vials (2 empty, 1 3/4 full)
- 1 empty bottle propofol 200 mg
- 1 pulse monometer
- 1 empty vial lorazepam 4 mg
- 2 empty vials midazolam 10mg
- 1 empty vial propofol 1g/100ml
- 1 black nylon bag
- 1 dark blue Costco bag
- 1 light blue canvas bag
- 1 pill bottle with 13 tablets containing 25 mg ephedrine, 200 mg caffeine,
80mg aspirin
- 4 vials propofol 200mg/20ml
- 2 vials 5 mg flumazenil
- 1 vial lorazepam
- 1 vial lidocane
- 200mg vials of propofol (1 full, 1 1/4 full)
- 1 empty bag I.V. drip of sodium chloride with syringe
- 1 Ziploc baggy containing 18 tubes of Benoquin
Note that one of the items seized was a canvas bag. Alberto Alvarez told police
Murray told him to put vials of propofol in a plastic bag and put that bag in a
canvas bag.