Long before Conrad Murray was convicted of killing Michael Jackson, Jermaine Jackson had a feeling about him. He couldn’t name it at the time. But something about the doctor never sat right.
In interviews after Michael’s death, Jermaine described meeting Dr. Murray and walking away with an unknown suspicion.
The man’s presence bothered him in a strange way. Not because of anything specific he said or did, but because of the way he carried himself around Michael.
Something didn’t feel right, and Jermaine couldn’t shake it.
Jermaine Jackson Discuss Murray
On June 25, 2009, Conrad Murray was alone with Michael in his rented Holmby Hills mansion. He had been administering propofol — a powerful hospital-grade anesthetic — to help Michael sleep.
Murray later told police he stepped away briefly, and when he returned, Michael wasn’t breathing.
He said he waited before calling 911. Phone records told a different story — Murray had been on calls for nearly an hour, including a 32-minute call to one of his own medical clinics, while Michael lay unresponsive in the bedroom.
HE WAS CONVICTED OF INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER IN 2011 AND SERVED LESS THAN TWO YEARS.
Conrad Murray Speaks About The Night Michael Died
But for Jermaine, the conviction never answered everything. In his book, he pointed to something that still hasn’t been fully explained. The surveillance tapes from Michael’s house were erased. According to the investigation, the LAPD erased them.
BUT JERMAINE WROTE THAT SOMETHING ELSE WAS WIPED BEFORE THAT, TOO. WHAT EXACTLY, AND BY WHOM, REMAINS UNRESOLVED.
Murray was hired just weeks before Michael’s death, brought on specifically for the This Is It comeback tour. Jermaine had said publicly HE BELIEVED SOMEONE DID THIS DELIBERATELY — NOT NECESSARILY MURRAY ALONE, but that Murray was a piece of something larger.
The uneasy feeling he had the first time he met that man? It never fully went away.