Contradictions in Murray’s confession
There are contradictions regarding the dosage of the propofol drug and the times stated by Dr. Conrad Murray.
Dr. Murray once told police that he left Michael—who was unconscious from propofol—alone for ten minutes so he could make a phone call. He later admitted that he had only been away for two minutes so he could go to the bathroom. Police say that if he had noticed at 11:00 a.m. that Michael was not breathing, then it would have taken about an hour and a half to notify emergency services—and in an emergency, time is life. If Murray admitted that at 11:00 he noticed Michael’s abnormal condition, then why was he talking on the phone from 11:18 to 12:05? Michael’s rental home staff manager in Bel Air said that Murray informed him at 12:13, and that the call to emergency services was placed at 12:21 by a security officer named Alvarez.
On the other hand, experts in anesthesia believe that the dose of propofol injected into Michael by Murray must have been more than what Conrad Murray claimed. Murray said he had injected only 25 milligrams of propofol at 10:40 a.m. on June 25 into the King of Pop—while, according to the medical examiner’s report, the amount of propofol present in Michael Jackson’s body at the moment of death was lethal.
One of these specialists says: “If the amount of propofol was more than that and other drugs were combined with it, then it could be said that an ‘overdose’ occurred.”
Unnamed court sources told TMZ that the medical examiner cannot accept Conrad Murray’s claims. One source says that to incapacitate someone with Michael’s physical condition for 8 hours, 400 milligrams of propofol would have been needed—16 times the amount Murray claimed. The source says he doesn’t believe 25 milligrams of propofol could have killed Michael, who had previously been put to sleep with a 50-milligram dose.
Emergency responders said that Michael Jackson had died about an hour before they arrived at around 12:30 p.m. They intended to contact the medical examiner to transport Michael’s body, but Dr. Murray insisted on continuing the resuscitation efforts. Doctors at the hospital also continued giving artificial respiration and electric shocks. Michael goes into a coma before his death, and then at 2:26 p.m. Los Angeles time, the news of his death is announced.
The exact time of Michael’s death is not known. The medical examiner can determine how long it has been since death based on the temperature of the deceased’s body, because after death the body temperature becomes the same as room temperature and drops by one to one and a half degrees each hour. But when officers arrived, the room temperature was very high, which means that even if Michael had died long before, his body temperature would still remain high. However, emergency officers did not spend much time measuring his body temperature because they were busy performing resuscitation. Perhaps Michael had been dead for more than an hour before Dr. Murray realized it, but apparently there is no scientific way to determine the exact time of death.
Police records describe Michael Jackson’s death as a homicide, but that does not necessarily mean a crime occurred. Still, it helps the police greatly to pursue Murray in court for involuntary manslaughter.
Murray’s attorney rejected the published reports and said his client never admitted that he found Michael in a state of suffocation at 11:00 a.m., and that these are all police theories.
Source: eMJey / TMZ / LA Times / AP