She declined to comment on the claims of the unnamed sources cited in the Times. Murray did not lie to them," Chernoff said. Investigators are still sifting through the evidence from raids on Murray's offices in Houston, Texas, and Las Vegas.
Among the items seized from Murray's Texas office in July were a vial containing 27 tablets of the weight-loss drug phentermine, a vial containing a tablet of the muscle relaxant clonazepam, a photocopy picture of Murray, Rolodex cards, public storage receipts and a receipt for a "Cricket" phone, according to an inventory attached to the warrant.
In the warrant, police said they were investigating potential charges of manslaughter, excessive prescribing, prescribing to an addict and unprofessional conduct. Other items seized from the Texas storage unit, according to the court records, included two computer hard drives and a "Texas Department of Public Safety controlled substance registration.
In the wake of the investigation, a slew of liens and lawsuits against Murray has emerged. Murray was also charged with domestic violence in February while undergoing a cardiology fellowship at the University of Arizona at Tucson. He stood trial in July of that year and was ultimately acquitted. Murray's lawyers have maintained for weeks that the doctor was simply a witness in Jackson's death and had nothing to do with it. Murray had known Jackson since late , when the singer rented a mansion near offices Murray opened in Las Vegas and called on the doctor to treat one of his children for an undisclosed minor illness.
Murray didn't set out to be a doctor to the stars. He was born on the Carribean island of Grenada in He was raised by his mother in neighboring Trinidad. She never married his father, Dr. Rawle Andrews , a renowned physician in Houston, Texas. Murray was a customs clerk, a teacher and an insurance agent before beginning his studies at Texas Southern University at age After graduating magna cum laude, he went on to medical school at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tenn.
He then did his residency at Loma Linda University, in California, before eventually opening a practice in Houston, serving the largely poor, African-American community, where his father had been a local hero.
Conrad Murray moved to the United States in In , he opened a private practice. Michael Jackson hired him as a personal physician for Jackson's concert tour. In June , Jackson died of a prescription drug overdose. Murray was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Jackson in November , and was sentenced to four years in prison. He served about two years at a Los Angeles County jail before being released in October Conrad Robert Murray was born on February 19, , in St. Andrews, Grenada.
The man who would become embroiled in the controversy surrounding the death of the "King of Pop" in June did not come from money. With his mother Milta spending most of her time in Trinidad and Tobago in search of better paying work, Murray lived with his maternal grandparents, two Grenadian farmers.
His fractured family life was compounded by the total absence of his father, Rawle Andrews, a Houston area physician who, up until his death in , focused his career on offering medical services to the poor. Murray didn't meet his dad until he was At the age of seven, Murray relocated to Trinidad and Tobago to live with his mother, where he became a citizen and finished high school.
Like Milta, Murray was determined to make a better life for himself, demonstrating at an early age a propensity to work hard. After high school he volunteered as an elementary school teacher in Trinidad, an experience he followed with work as a customs clerk and an insurance underwriter in order to pay for his college education.
Murray also wasn't afraid to take advantage of an opportunity. At the age of 19 he bought his first house, then later sold it for a decent profit to support his university tuition in the United States. In , two years after first visiting Houston and getting a chance to introduce himself to his father, Conrad Murray returned to Texas to enroll at Texas Southern University, where in just three years he graduated magna cum laude with a degree in pre-medicine and biological sciences.
Other training stints followed; he studied at the University of Arizona on a Cardiology Fellowship and landed back in California, where he eventually worked as the associate director for the interventional cardiology fellowship-training program at Sharp Memorial Hospital in San Diego.
In , Murray left California for a second time and struck out on his own, opening up a private practice in Las Vegas. Locating his office just east of the strip, Murray — again taking a cue from his father — aimed to serve not just the city's wealthy, but its underserved as well.
In , Murray expanded his scope and returned to the city where his father had made a name for himself to open the Acres Homes Heart and Vascular Institute. Murray and that clinic in this community," Houston patient Ruby Mosley told People magazine.
Those who've had financial dealings with the doctor, however, might feel otherwise. Unpaid debts, lawsuits and tax liens have followed Dr. Murray's life. I try to do better and I try to accept this, but I do not understand why people will put themselves in that state of misery and become so helpless that they die. He was absolutely in withdrawal when he died. That's why he was so restless that night. That's the reason why he couldn't sleep.
And that's the reason why they couldn't find the metabolite or the substance in his bloodstream because he was longing for it. He needed it. Murray said that one of the hardest things was having to break the news to Jackson's children that he had not been able to save him.
He said he always tried to protect the three children - and became angry when bodyguard Alberto Alvarez allowed Paris and Prince to walk into the bedroom when their father had stopped breathing. That these words came out of that beautiful blue-eyed girl's mouth.
That's the way I see it. Murray said that before Jackson died, he told him how he had been sexually abused - including how he had been raped by doctors. I have no interest in the same sex. That would never happen. It was a lot for me to witness.
It was a lot for me to have to console him on. Murray said much of Jackson's pain also came from his fractious relationship with his family. And he says Jackson "does not rest in peace" because he didn't get his wish to be cremated and have his ashes scattered in the warm oceans surrounding the Bimini islands in the Bahamas.
Murray says he currently practices medicine in the Caribbean and he plans to reinstate his medical license in the US. He says he's also in the process of building a medical centre there for patients with cardiovascular disease and other ailments.
My kids were put on the street, my homes were foreclosed. And he was right.
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