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Jim Morrison: Who Killed Jim Morrison? · DISGRACELAND

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  Speaker 1: This episode contains content that may be disturbing to some listeners.
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  Speaker 1: Please check the show notes for more information. Disgraceland is
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  Speaker 1: a production of Double Elvis. This is the story of
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  Speaker 1: how Jim Morrison really died. It's not the story of
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  Speaker 1: a junkie rock star overdosing on heroin, a drug Jim
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  Speaker 1: Morrison didn't use, a drug Jim's friends knew that he despised,
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  Speaker 1: and it's not the story of a singer dying from
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  Speaker 1: an innocuous heart attack. This story deals with what I
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  Speaker 1: believe to be the truth behind Jim Morrison's death and
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  Speaker 1: the shadowy figure from one of music history's darkest corners,
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  Speaker 1: a man whose name seldom gets mentioned, but who is
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  Speaker 1: known not only by the door as frontman, but by
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  Speaker 1: Janis Joplin, Keith Richards, Parsons, and many others from the
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  Speaker 1: sixties and seventies rock scene who found themselves in need
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  Speaker 1: of hard drugs. This figure was an aristocrat, a French
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  Speaker 1: count by the name of Jean de Boutoi, and he
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  Speaker 1: was hated by Jim Morrison. But he was there in Paris,
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  Speaker 1: on the scene at Jim's apartment the morning after he died.
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  Speaker 1: Why what did this mysterious count have to do with
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  Speaker 1: Jim's common law wife, his girlfriend, Pamela Corson, And did
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  Speaker 1: he have something to do with Jim's death or did
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  Speaker 1: Jim Morrison, as conspiracy theorists would have us believe, ever,
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  Speaker 1: even die at all. Did he fake his own death
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  Speaker 1: to escape the pressures of being in the doors of
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  Speaker 1: being a rock star, of making music great music? Unlike
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  Speaker 1: that music I played for you at the top of
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  Speaker 1: the show. That wasn't great music. That was a preset
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  Speaker 1: loop from my melotron called Misty Mountain Flop MK one.
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  Speaker 1: I played you that loote because I can't afford the
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  Speaker 1: rights to It's too late.
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  Speaker 2: I Feel the.
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  Speaker 3: Earth Move under my feet by Carol King. And why
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  Speaker 3: would I play you that specific slice of double A
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  Speaker 3: side Cheese?
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  Speaker 2: Could I afford it?
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  Speaker 3: Because that was the number one song in America on
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  Speaker 3: July third, nineteen seventy one, And that was the day
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  Speaker 3: Jim Morrison supposedly died of a heroin overdose, or, depending
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  Speaker 3: on who you talk to, faked his own death. But
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  Speaker 3: neither of those things are true. This is what really happened.
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  Speaker 3: This is the story of how Jim Morrison really died.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Jake Brennan, and this is Disgraceland. Jim Morrison is alive.
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  Speaker 3: He's eighty two years old and living a quiet life
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  Speaker 3: in a cottage somewhere in the south of France, reading
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  Speaker 3: Rombeau and writing poetry.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, no, he's not. He's dead.
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  Speaker 3: But before he died, he was the Zodiac Killer, and
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  Speaker 3: then after he faked his death, he was Rush Limbaugh.
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  Speaker 3: But those things aren't true either, but people do believe them.
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  Speaker 3: Ever since the moment news broke back in July of
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  Speaker 3: nineteen seventy one that Jim Morrison, the singer of The Doors,
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  Speaker 3: had died, a good amount of people, even people close
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  Speaker 3: to Jim, wouldn't accept the fact that he was actually dead.
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  Speaker 3: They just wouldn't believe it. Dora's keyboard player Ray Manzak
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  Speaker 3: was immediately skeptical his own sister and is on record
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  Speaker 3: saying that Jim is the exact type of guy who
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  Speaker 3: would fake his own death.
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  Speaker 2: And he was.
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  Speaker 3: Jim Morrison courted death. He'd drank himself into oblivion and
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  Speaker 3: ate acid like it was candy. He dangled himself from
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  Speaker 3: hotel balconies, stumbled through traffic, cut himself in a cult
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  Speaker 3: blood sacrifices while blitzed on cocaine and saying about breaking
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  Speaker 3: on through to the other side in the evidence in
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  Speaker 3: the aftermath of his death, at least the evidence available
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  Speaker 3: to the public was most definitely sketchy enough to lead
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  Speaker 3: people to believe that Jim's death was perhaps something else. Supposedly,
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  Speaker 3: nobody close to the Doors who knew Jim besides his
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  Speaker 3: common law wife Pamela Corson aka Pam Morrison, saw the body,
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  Speaker 3: and by the time Doris manager Bill Siddons arrived in
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  Speaker 3: Paris three days after Jim's death, the coffin was sealed
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  Speaker 3: and there was no autopsy. A day after Bill Siddons arrived,
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  Speaker 3: Jim Morrison was quickly buried in Paris and his body
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  Speaker 3: was never returned to the United States. Jim Morrison died
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  Speaker 3: officially of heart failure, but no one believes that. Most
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  Speaker 3: believed that Jim died of a heroin overdose. But I
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  Speaker 3: don't believe that, and after listening to this podcast, you
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  Speaker 3: own either. At the time of Jim Morrison's death in
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  Speaker 3: July of nineteen seventy one, the Doors were one of
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  Speaker 3: the biggest bands on the planet. Embroiled in controversy because
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  Speaker 3: of Jim's antics. The band had just finished recording what
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  Speaker 3: would be their final album, La Woman. Though the band
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  Speaker 3: had experienced critical and creative highs and lows, the Doors
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  Speaker 3: were still a top selling band, and with the completion
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  Speaker 3: of La Woman, the band was free from their recording
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  Speaker 3: obligations with Electra Records and was now the subject of
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  Speaker 3: a new bidding war between other record labels. The word
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  Speaker 3: was that Atlantic Records was about to offer the Doors
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  Speaker 3: an unprecedented amount of cash to sign with them. All
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  Speaker 3: of this was happening at the same time that Jim
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  Speaker 3: Morrison was awaiting the verdict for an appeal of his
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  Speaker 3: conviction concerning an incident two years prior in Miami where
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  Speaker 3: Jim had exposed himself to an audience on stage. Jim
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  Speaker 3: was facing six months in prison for the crime. Nineteen
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  Speaker 3: seventy one was a time of great creative and personal
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  Speaker 3: turmoil for Jim Morrison. He had just completed what he
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  Speaker 3: believed to be his band's greatest album. He no longer
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  Speaker 3: had a record label to answer to, and he wasn't
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  Speaker 3: sure he wanted a new one. In a new set
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  Speaker 3: of headaches, his girlfriend Pam had left Jim in Los
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  Speaker 3: Angeles that spring to live in Paris. Jim suspected she
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  Speaker 3: was living with another man, one who indulged her heroin happy,
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  Speaker 3: a habit Jim Morrison hated. In addition to being separated
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  Speaker 3: from the one true love of his life and facing
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  Speaker 3: prison time, Jim was exhausted by the image he'd created,
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  Speaker 3: that of the Lizard King, a swashbuckling leatherclat Adonna's part
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  Speaker 3: rock and roll genius, part drunken buffoon. Jim had eaten
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  Speaker 3: all the acid, he slept with, all the groupies, it
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  Speaker 3: experienced all the things, and now he romanticized a quieter
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  Speaker 3: life as a poet. So he traded Los Angeles, the
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  Speaker 3: city of Night that he sang about an La Woman,
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  Speaker 3: for Paris, the City of Light. To understand how Jim
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  Speaker 3: Morrison really died in Paris in nineteen seventy one, you
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  Speaker 3: have to understand what happened in Los Angeles in nineteen seventy.
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  Speaker 3: Count Jean de Brettoi had one green eye and one yellow.
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  Speaker 3: He also had the strongest heroine in Los Angeles. The
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  Speaker 3: Count was young, handsome, mysterious, and hated by Jim Marrison,
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  Speaker 3: which was an anomaly as plenty of rock stars counted
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  Speaker 3: the Count as their friend, Keith Richards, Janis Joplin, Graham Parsons,
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  Speaker 3: members of the GTOs, and perhaps even Jimmy Hendricks. But
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  Speaker 3: Jim hated the Count for the exact reason that these
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  Speaker 3: other rock stars appreciated the young foreign aristocrat, because he
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  Speaker 3: dealt heroin. To Jim's great annoyance, the Count shared his
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  Speaker 3: heroine with Jim's girlfriend, Pamela. In fact, the two shared
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  Speaker 3: more than their love of the addictive opiate. Pamela and
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  Speaker 3: the Count had a romantic relationship that likely stretched back
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  Speaker 3: to the Count's first days in Los Angeles as a
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  Speaker 3: UCLA student, where he became the university's Hashish supplier by
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  Speaker 3: using his family's French diplomatic connections to smuggle drugs into
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  Speaker 3: the States through the moroccan An embassy and on to campus.
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  Speaker 3: The Count was rich and Pamela corson. Despite her relationship
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  Speaker 3: with Jim Morrison, one of the most famous rock stars
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  Speaker 3: on the planet, was not. The Count took Pamela on
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  Speaker 3: extravagant jet set shopping sprees all over the world.
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  Speaker 2: He spoiled her. Jim did not.
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  Speaker 3: The Count loved the fact that Pamela was friends with
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  Speaker 3: famous rock stars. Jim Morrison could care less about status.
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  Speaker 3: The Count used Pamela's connection to the La rock scene
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  Speaker 3: to move not only Hash but Heroin, and Jim Morrison,
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  Speaker 3: by every account from everyone.
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  Speaker 2: Who knew him, hated Heroin. He had an.
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  Speaker 3: Extreme lifelong fear of hypodermic needles. Pamela's Heroin used was
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  Speaker 3: seriously frowned upon by Jim and a regular source of
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  Speaker 3: tension between the couple, but that didn't keep the Count
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  Speaker 3: from creeping around Jim and Pam's Hollywood bungalow during this time.
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  Speaker 3: In the fall of nineteen seventy, Jim Morrison was cooling
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  Speaker 3: his jets in Los Angeles awaiting sentencing for his indecency charges.
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  Speaker 3: In Miami, the band was beginning work on their La
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  Speaker 3: Women album and dealing with the fact that their longtime
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  Speaker 3: producer and creative confidant, Paul Rothschild no longer wanted to
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  Speaker 3: work with them over the direction their music had taken,
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  Speaker 3: veering into schmaltzy territory. He said, sounded like cocktail music.
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  Speaker 3: So Jim Morrison drank a lot and snorted a ton
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  Speaker 3: of cocaine and carried on relationships with various women not
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  Speaker 3: named Pamela Corson. Elsewhere in the city of Los Angeles'
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  Speaker 3: bodies were dropping. A spate of heroin overdoses in the
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  Speaker 3: first few days of October nineteen seventy were overrunning La
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  Speaker 3: County emergency rooms. Street dealers went on the land when
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  Speaker 3: news began to circulate that their product was killing innocent attics,
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  Speaker 3: medical Examine and there's Toe attack victims who unwittingly injected
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  Speaker 3: what was known as the dealer's supply, uncut, highly potent,
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  Speaker 3: purebatch heroine that had flooded La streets that weekend. The
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  Speaker 3: lethal dope sent nine people to the morgue, all because
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  Speaker 3: some dealers screwed up and didn't dilute his illegal product
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  Speaker 3: with a cutting agent, an additive that would allow the
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  Speaker 3: drug to be injected without its potency.
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  Speaker 2: Stopping the user's hearts.
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  Speaker 3: It was the act of an irresponsible dealer, either that
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  Speaker 3: or someone who just didn't care, someone who believed they
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  Speaker 3: were not only above the law, but who looked down
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  Speaker 3: on his customers, who put on a pedestal those with status,
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  Speaker 3: the beautiful people like him, the rock stars. He coveted
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  Speaker 3: relationships with someone like the boyfriend of Jim Morrison's girlfriend Pamela,
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  Speaker 3: someone like the Count Jean de Bretoi. So Jim Morrison
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  Speaker 3: had reason to fake his own death to disappear. He
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  Speaker 3: was exhausted by his rock star image. He was potentially
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  Speaker 3: headed to jail because of the criminal sentencing in Miami.
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  Speaker 3: He was suddenly free from his obligations to his record
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  Speaker 3: label and to his bandmates. Los Angeles had become a
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  Speaker 3: hotbed of heroin use, a drug his girlfriend Pamela couldn't shake.
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  Speaker 3: Those were the reasons. But where could Jim Morrison, an
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  Speaker 3: internationally recognizable rock star, disappear to For Jim, there could
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  Speaker 3: be only one answer. Paris. Paris was perfect. It was Bohemian, romantic.
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  Speaker 3: It had a rich history of French poets like Arthur
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  Speaker 3: Rimbau and Paul Verlaine, who did some of their best
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  Speaker 3: work in the city. Plus American expat writers like Gertrude Stein,
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  Speaker 3: Ts Eliott and Ernest Hemingway had all left their marks
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  Speaker 3: on Paris back in the twenties. Perhaps now fifty years later,
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  Speaker 3: the city would inspire Jim Morrison to do the same.
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  Speaker 3: So how would Jim Morrison then fake his own death? Well,
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  Speaker 3: there would need to be a cause of death heart attack,
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  Speaker 3: that was believable, and he'd needed an accomplice to help
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  Speaker 3: him with the faking of the death, and then of
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  Speaker 3: course with the disappearing act, and ideally someone to disappear with,
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  Speaker 3: and that was obvious Pamela Courson was the only answer.
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  Speaker 3: He and Pam would likely have to prevent authorities from
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  Speaker 3: closely inspecting the body. There would need to be a
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  Speaker 3: quick burial of an empty casket, of course, and the
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  Speaker 3: burial would most certainly have to be in Paris.
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  Speaker 2: The body would have.
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  Speaker 3: To be interred locally and not return to the States
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  Speaker 3: in order to maintain their secret. And then well, at
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  Speaker 3: that point, after the funeral, Pam could disappear with Jim
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  Speaker 3: and they could go anywhere they wanted. They could retire
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  Speaker 3: to Vienna and live the life of bohemians. They could
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  Speaker 3: move to Tuscany and live off of the land. They
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  Speaker 3: could stay in Paris and lay low for a while
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  Speaker 3: until anonymously blending back into the rhythm of the city
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  Speaker 3: after some time. They could even return to the United
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  Speaker 3: States it was big enough to disappear in. They could
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  Speaker 3: head to Texas or Florida, or the mountains in Colorado
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  Speaker 3: anywhere was better than Los Angeles, but no one here
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  Speaker 3: gets out alive. To pull off their scheme, Jim and
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  Speaker 3: presumably Pam would need friends to help enter Alon Rene
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  Speaker 3: in Agnes Varda Alan was one of Jim's friends, a
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  Speaker 3: photographer who was in Paris at the time, and Agnes
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  Speaker 3: Vardo was another one of Jim's friends, the trail blazing
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  Speaker 3: French filmmaker who was at the time assisting Bernard Bertolucci
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  Speaker 3: with the script for Las Tango in Paris. Both were
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  Speaker 3: on the scene on July third, nineteen seventy one, in
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  Speaker 3: the immediate hours after Jim's death, at Jim and Pam's apartment,
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  Speaker 3: summoned by Pam that evening to help her through the
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  Speaker 3: ordeal of dealing with the French authorities and the police
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  Speaker 3: and medical examiner and their nosy neighbors. And from Milan
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  Speaker 3: Rene's depiction of the death scene, it doesn't appear at
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  Speaker 3: all that either he or Agnes Vardo were in any
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  Speaker 3: way in on any sort of scheme to help Jim
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  Speaker 3: Morrison fake his own death. Now, remember the evidence that
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  Speaker 3: conspiracy theorists used to support the theory that Jim Morrison
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  Speaker 3: didn't die is that number one, nobody saw the body,
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  Speaker 3: and number two, there was no autopsy. In three, he
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  Speaker 3: was buried very quickly in a sealed coffin. But Alan
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  Speaker 3: Renee and Agnes Varda did see the body, and so.
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  Speaker 2: Did a whole lot of other people.
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  Speaker 3: More on that in a minute. And there may not
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  Speaker 3: have been an autopsy, but that's because Pamela Corson was
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  Speaker 3: hell bent on making sure that that didn't happen, and
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  Speaker 3: Alan Renee and Agnes Varda had a front row seat
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  Speaker 3: to the decisions made by the medical examiner. More on
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  Speaker 3: that in a bit too sure. The body may have
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  Speaker 3: been buried quickly in a sealed coffin without anyone from
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  Speaker 3: America seeing it before it was interred, but that was
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  Speaker 3: because Pamela Corson was, according to Alan Rene, determined to
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  Speaker 3: make sure that authorities didn't discover that Jim Morrison, the
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  Speaker 3: American rock star, had died of a drug overdose. Pamela
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  Speaker 3: didn't want their apartments searched. She didn't want to be
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  Speaker 3: detained by authorities either. She also didn't want Jim's reputation
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  Speaker 3: tainted by a cause of death having to do with
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  Speaker 3: illicit drugs, so a quick burial without an autopsy was necessary,
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  Speaker 3: And if this meant that Jim's family and friends wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: have the chance to see him in the flesh one
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  Speaker 3: last time, then from Pamela Corson's perspective, so be it.
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  Speaker 3: But to the conspiracy theorist, I say, Alan Rene did
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  Speaker 3: see the body, as did a whole lot of other Parisians,
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  Speaker 3: including a Frenchman whom Milan saw on the scene at
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  Speaker 3: Jim and Pam's apartment in the hours just after his death,
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  Speaker 3: and that Frenchman, the Count Jean de Brettoi, back in
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  Speaker 3: Los Angeles a few months earlier, in the fall of
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  Speaker 3: nineteen seventy. Over that weekend, the emergency rooms were overrun
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  Speaker 3: with heroin fatalities. The Count Jean de Brettoi sat nervously
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  Speaker 3: in Mercy Fontano's Hollywood apartment. Mercy was known around the
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  Speaker 3: LA rock scene as Miss Mercy. She was a protege
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  Speaker 3: of Frank Zappa, part of the all girl rock group
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  Speaker 3: the GTOs, and like most of the LA scene at
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  Speaker 3: the time, she was friendly with the Count. The Count
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  Speaker 3: told her, I have something for you. Mercy had a
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  Speaker 3: habit of saying yes to any drug put in front
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  Speaker 3: of her. The Count had a new batch of dope.
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  Speaker 3: The Count wanted to see the effect that drug had
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  Speaker 3: on one of his clients. He just dropped off a
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  Speaker 3: few baggies with another client an hour or so ago
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  Speaker 3: and had a weird feeling about it. He was worried
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  Speaker 3: was this dope too strong? The Count could shoot up
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  Speaker 3: Miss Mercy and if everything was okay, then he'd know
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  Speaker 3: and he could stop worrying. And if the dope was
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  Speaker 3: too strong.
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  Speaker 2: Well it was too late to cut it.
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  Speaker 3: Too much of it was already out on the street,
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  Speaker 3: but at least the Count wouldn't know, and he could
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  Speaker 3: make arrangements to fly out of the country before anything
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  Speaker 3: bad came back on him. The Count sat back and
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  Speaker 3: watched Miss Mercy shoot his heroin. Immediately something was wrong.
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  Speaker 3: Miss Mercy felt it. She started struggling, panting, waving her
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  Speaker 3: arms and trying to speak, but the words wouldn't come.
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  Speaker 3: It was exactly like one of those dreams. The monster
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  Speaker 3: is there with you in the room. You can see him,
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  Speaker 3: but no one else can. He's going to kill you,
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  Speaker 3: but you can't get your voice to work. You're trying
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  Speaker 3: to scream, but nothing comes out. Miss Mercy was trying
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  Speaker 3: to say something. Her eyes rolled back into her skull
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  Speaker 3: and her head fell backward against the chair. She then
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  Speaker 3: pulled her head back up in the struggle, and it
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  Speaker 3: rolled loosely around her shoulders as she managed to somehow
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  Speaker 3: get out the words I'm going down.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going down.
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  Speaker 3: The Count could see that and was already working to
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  Speaker 3: solve the problem by loading a syringe with cocaine dissolved
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  Speaker 3: in water. He then jammed the needle into Mercy's other arm,
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  Speaker 3: a direct hit with a vein. Mercy shot up out
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  Speaker 3: of her seat with a gasp. She was going to
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  Speaker 3: be okay, but the Count had his answer. The heroine
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  Speaker 3: was not okay. This heroin was too strong, and yes,
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  Speaker 3: it most certainly needed to be diluted. He thought of
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  Speaker 3: his other client, the one whom he just left with
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  Speaker 3: numerous baggies of this lethal heroin. He remembered that she
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  Speaker 3: wore an amulet around her neck, and that she kept
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  Speaker 3: it filled with cocaine for occasions just like this, a
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  Speaker 3: precaution to snap her back to life if heroin ever
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  Speaker 3: sent her into an overdose. Except what she didn't know,
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  Speaker 3: and what the Count also didn't know, was that his
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  Speaker 3: client had a friend and that friend had decided that
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  Speaker 3: cocaine wasn't as useful to have around as heroin was,
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  Speaker 3: so that friend emptied the cocaine from the Count's client's
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  Speaker 3: amulet and stuffed it with heroin. That same night, when
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  Speaker 3: the Count's client injected his dope and had the same
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  Speaker 3: reaction Miss Mercy had, she reached for the cocaine in
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  Speaker 3: her amulet and quickly snorted it in an effort to
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  Speaker 3: save her own life. Except what she ended up snorting
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  Speaker 3: instead was more heroin. So Janis Joplin died of a
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  Speaker 3: double dose of Count Jean de Bertoi's lethal heroin on
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  Speaker 3: October fourth, nineteen seventy, along with eight other victims in
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  Speaker 3: the Los Angeles area that weekend. This happened just two
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  Speaker 3: weeks after Jimmy Hendrix died in London, officially from choking
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  Speaker 3: on his own vomit after taking too many of barbituates
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  Speaker 3: and drinking too much wine. But there were already rumors
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  Speaker 3: that authorities had it all wrong, that Jimmy had been murdered,
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  Speaker 3: something to do with his manager and an insurance policy
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: and a debt to the mob and being injected with
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: a hot shot of heroin. Either way, a couple days
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: later in Hollywood, when Jim Morrison got word that Janis
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: Joplin had died, he sat at the bar at Barney's Beanery,
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: stared into his whisky, raised his glass to the barflies,
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: and said, you're drinking with number three.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: We'll be right back after this word word word.
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: Jim Morrison was right. Less than a year later, he
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: would indeed become number three. He was dead, and he
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: most certainly did not fake his own death and disappear again.
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: To recap the conspiracy, theorist case that Jim faked his
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: own death relies on the claim that nobody saw his
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: body after he died, nobody besides Pamela and perhaps a
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: crooked Parisian official or two who were bribed. But this
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: is categorically false. According to Alan Rene, Agnes Varda, and
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: many others, there were numerous people who streamed in and
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: out of Jim and Pam's apartment in the hours after
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: he died, trying to make sense of the situation, and
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: Jim's body was on full display. Jim's heart stopped sometime
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: in the early morning hours of July third, nineteen seventy one.
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: His body was discovered by Pamela, she claims, a few
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: hours after that, in the bathtub, lying in the water dead,
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: and that's where the body was when Alan and Agnes
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: arrived a few hours later, after Pamela had called him
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: to come over to help assist with the ordeal that
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: was unfolding around her. When Alan arrived, there was already
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: a police investigator on the scene who had taken charge.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: He obviously saw the body. Alan, being a French expat,
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: helped the inspector translate the information that he needed from Pamela,
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: who only spoke English. Pamela, according to Alan, was determined
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: not to let the inspector or anyone else know the
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: truth of Jim's identity, that he was a rock star.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: She wanted them to believe he was an ordinary American citizen.
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: Alan assumed that this was to head off any unwanted
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: attention from the press, which is understandable. Along with the
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: police inspector, there were now paramedics on the scene, and
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: they also saw the body still in the tubs, still
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: submerged in water. More policemen arrived and more eyes on
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: the body. The front door to the apartment was opened,
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: Alan saw a curious neighbor from the building just wander
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: inside the apartment, and the neighbor later recounted that he
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: too saw the body. The apartment was a hive of
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: activity in those morning hours and during all of this.
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: At some point Alan and Agnes pulled Pamela aside to
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: get the story. Pamela explained that earlier in the evening,
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: she and Jim decided to sniff some heroin. She went
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: to bed. He then, apparently according to Pamela, snorted more heroin,
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: drew a bath, got into the tub, and never got out.
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: Alan was immediately skeptical. He was close with Jim Marson.
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: He knew that Jim hated heroin, and that Jim hated
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: when Pamela used heroin. The idea that he would use
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: heroin with Pamela was highly suspicious. There was now a
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: doctor on the scene. He saw the body as well,
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: and he wanted to know from Milan what Jim's story was.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: The phone then rang. Pamela answered it and spoke in
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: hushed tones. Alan knew who she was speaking with, her
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: Parisian friends, the ones Jim hated so much, the ones
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: Jim wanted Pamela to break free from the heroin addicts
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: Jim said to Alan recently about Pam in regards to
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: her and her friends and her heroin habit, quote, you
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: and I are on the side of life, She is
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: on the side of death. Pam told Alan that she
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: had gotten rid of all the drugs in the apartment,
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: but Alan also saw Pam inside of Jim's desk while
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: the authorities were pre occupied locking away his papers his poetry.
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: She then made for the fireplace with another stack of papers, letters,
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: letters that she had written musings. She told Alan about
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: her drug use that she didn't want the authorities to find.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: She set fire to the letters in the fireplace as
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: she also grabbed the newsweek magazine Jim was reading and
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: the cover story on that magazine the Plague of Heroin.
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: Pamela then grabbed a fur coat. It belonged to one
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: of her friends and it was seemingly.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: Worth a lot of money.
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: She told Alan that she had to call her sister
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: in Los Angeles and that she wanted her sister to
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: head to the Electra Records office to steal the latest
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: earnings from the doors before it was too late. Alan
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: Renee is on record recounting this statement from Pamela corson.
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: Alan suggested that instead of focusing on stealing money, that
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: they called Jim's lawyer in Los Angeles to help arrange
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: the necessary affairs of the deceased. Emila did not like
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: this idea. She then explained that she wanted Jim's body cremated.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: Alan protested cremation in France was something that criminals did
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: to the deceased when they didn't want to answer questions
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: about the recently departed. But Pamela didn't want Jim's body
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: flown back to the United States. She was suspicious of
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: the process the body would be inspected. She didn't want
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: it known that Jim overdosed, so cremation was necessary. Alan
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: protested again and convinced Pam that a proper burial could
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: take place there In Paris quickly at Perlachet's Cemetery, the
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: eternal home of great artists, befitting of Jim's post mortem company,
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: including Frederick Chopin, Eugene Delacroix, Edith Piaf, and Oscar Wilde.
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: In the meantime, Jim's body would remain in the apartment
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: in the tub on ice, with Pam sleeping next to him,
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: keeping guard throughout the end of the weekend and into Monday,
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: a highly unusual move, something that authorities told Pam was
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: nearly never done. But Pam wouldn't allow the police inspector,
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: or the medical inspector or the doctors to prevail against
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: her wishes to keep the body in the apartment until
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: the funeral. For reasons I still don't understand, authorities allowed
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: Pam to keep the body there in the apartment. Dry
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: ice was delivered and the bathtub was packed, and Jim
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: Morrison's dead body remained under the watchful eyes of his girlfriend,
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: Pamela Corson. A month earlier, in June nineteen seventy one,
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: in the south of France, on the French Riviera, at
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: a decadent hideaway known as Vaenelco, the Rolling Stones had
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: begun recording what would become their masterpiece Exile on Main Street.
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: They were outlaws on the run, hiding out from UK
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: tax collectors. In addition to their financial problems, the Stones
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: had another problem where to procure heroin to satiate the
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: habits of Stone's guitarist Keith Richards and his friend and
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: visitor to Nellcote, The cosmic American songwriter Graham Parsons. To
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: solve this problem, the Stones had another visitor, the Count
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: Jean de Brettoi. Keith Richards was so impressed by the
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: Count's product that he offered the Count use of his
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: home in London. The Count took Keith up on the offer.
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: He left the French Riviera for Keith's place, and when
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: he settled into Keith Diggs in the Tony neighborhood of
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: London's chain Walk, he made some new friends, new friends
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: with similar habits. Talithagetty, heiress to the Getty Fortune, an actress, songwriter,
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: Rolling Stone's muse and ex girlfriend to Mick Jagger, mary
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: Anne Faithful. The Count was especially keen on mary Anne.
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: Mary Anne was rock and roll Royalty. Mary Anne co
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: wrote the Stone song Sister Morphine. She was famously part
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: of the Stones bust at Redlands. She was the infamous
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: naked girl in Fur who was plastered all over the
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: front pages of the newspapers back in nineteen sixty seven,
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: and she loved heroin so in June of nineteen seventy one,
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: while Count Jean de Battoi took advantage of Keith Richards's
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: offer to use his home in London. He also took
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: advantage of his new neighbour's heroin habit and used his
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: supply to begin a relationship with one of London's hippis
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: young women, Mick Jaggers ex Maryanne Faithful. The pair quickly
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: decided to split from London for Paris. The Count had
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: another girl there, another girl who relied on his heroin,
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: another girl with a rock star boyfriend, Pamela Corson aka
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: Pam Morrison. In the early hours of July third, nineteen
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: seventy one, Marianne Faithful and the Count Jean de Battoia
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: awoke to the sound of the telephone they were in
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: bed in a five star Paris hotel. According to Marianne,
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: Pamela Corson was on the other end of the line
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: and she was frantic, begging the Count to come to
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: her apartment immediately. Marianne was not jealous anything, but she
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: wanted desperately to meet the notorious rock star Jim Morrison.
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: The Count wouldn't allow it, though. After hanging up, he
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: quickly dressed and left Marianne behind for Pamela.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: Jim Morrison was dead by that time.
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: On the morning of July third, nineteen seventy one. His
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: death was not faked. We know this because of the many,
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: many people who saw his body over the span of
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: many hours later on that morning. The more interesting question
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: isn't did Jim Morrison fake his death? No, the more
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: interesting question is how did Jim Morrison die? Officially, a
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: French medical examiner determined that Jim Morrison died of heart failure.
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: This is what Pamela Courson wanted. She did not want
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: it known that Jim died of a drug overdose, but
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: he did.
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: Clearly.
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: She'd admitted that on the scene to Lanrone. This information
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: was corroborated by Agnes Varda, who was also there with
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: Alan and Pam, and it's been confirmed over and over
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: again by others close to Jim and Pam. But Jim
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: Morrison dying of a heroin overdose doesn't make sense because
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: everyone who knew Jim Morrison, including Pamela Corson, knew that
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: he despised heroin.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: He didn't use heroin.
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: Jim Morrison drained and used cocaine. Furthermore, he was in
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: Paris to clean up, to get healthy, so it strands
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: credulity to believe that he chose this time in his
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: life to develop a heroin habit, especially after, according to
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: his close friend Alan Rene, he'd recently described the drug
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: and his girlfriend's and her friend's usage of the drug
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: as deathly. But wait, there's more. In the police report
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: file by the Paris Police Superintendent, Pamela Courson stated to
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: him that pam found Jim's body in the tub, submerged
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: in water sometime between eight thirty and nine am, and
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: then she called authorities shortly thereafter. Pam further claimed that
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: she last saw Jim alive sometime around four in the
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: morning before she went to bed. However, in the report
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: file by the Paris Fire Brigade detailing the evidence as
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: witnessed by the lieutenant on the scene that morning, when
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: he arrived on the scene at nine twenty one am,
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: the water in the tub was still luke warm. Now
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: would the water still be warm if Jim drew his
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: bath hours earlier, or perhaps was the bath drawn later after,
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: perhaps after Jim died, Perhaps after Jim died somewhere other
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: than the tub, perhaps after Jim was placed in the tub.
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: What happened between the hours of four am when Pamela
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: last saw Jim at nine to twenty one am when
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: authorities arrived at her apartment. According to Marianne Faithful, Pamela
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: called the Count and the Count went to PAMs to Pamela,
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: and the Count moved Jim's body.
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: Why would they do that?
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: Was that move part of a larger cleanup effort on
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: behalf of the two? Marianne Faithful has claimed that earlier
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: that evening, Pamela Morrison was snorting the Count's heroin. It
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: was the type of heroin with the street name cotton candy.
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: Heroin isn't like cocaine or marijuana. It doesn't have a
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: signature color. There's black heroin, brown heroin, and there was
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: cotton candy heroin called such because of its light color.
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: It was pinkish, nearly white, And because of this, Marianne
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: Faithful claims that Jim Morrison mistook Pamela Courson's heroin for cocaine,
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: snorted too much of it, overdosed and died. We know
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: the Count was at the apartment that morning. Remember the
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: phone call Pamela Morrison received from her Parisian friends, the
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: one that agitated Alan Rene.
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: After that phone call, Alan.
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: Claimed he saw the Count outside on the street and
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: that he himself let the Count into the apartment to
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: see Pam. Later that morning, when the Count returned to
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: Marianne at the hotel, Marianne claimed he was agitated and
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: that he beat her. Afterward, he told Marianne to get packed.
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: He was clearly scared to death, afraid for his life.
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: Jim Morrison had taken his heroin and died, and now
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: he and Marianne Faithful needed to leave for Morocco immediately,
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: or so goes the story by Marianne Faithful. This story
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: the story that Jim Morrison mistakenly snorted heroin thinking it
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: was cocaine and died. If we're to believe Marianne Faithful,
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: this story makes far more sense than the idea that
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: Jim Morrison was just another junkie rock star who overdosed
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: on smack. But wait, there's yet another story. In Paris,
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: in nineteen seventy one, there was a nightclub that Jim
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: Morrison hung out at called the Rock.
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: And Roll Circus.
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: It was a hotbed for drug use of all kinds,
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: including heroin. In two thousand and seven, the manager of
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: that club, Sam Benet, published a book in French only
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: in which he made the claim that Jim overdosed on
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: heroin that night at the Rock and Roll Circus, and
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: that his body was moved out of the club, back
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: to his apartment and placed in the tug. Conspiracy theorists
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: love this theory, but I don't. First of all, why
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: would they take the body all the way back to
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: Jim's apartment and carefully stage a scene with him in
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: the tug. Why not just take him out of the
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: club and leave the body in the street or in
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: somebody's car, or anywhere.
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: Really, why go through all the trouble.
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: Of having to sneak the body through the streets of
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: Paris into an apartment and then presumably convinced the dead
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: dude's girlfriend to get behind this fantastic lie with you,
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: a lie that would clearly complicate her life. What incentive
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: would Pamela Courson have to support this lie? An even
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: more interesting question is why was Pamela Coursen behaving so
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: dishonestly in the hours after the body was discovered. According
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: to Alan Rene, she was allegedly busy making arrangements to
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: get her hands on Jim's money back in la She
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: was hiding papers, burning letters, squirreling away expensive furs and
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: making plans to have the body quickly cremated, and when
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: that didn't work, she moved to have the body quickly
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: buried instead. She didn't want Jim's lawyer involved, so she
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: settled on dealing with his manager, Bill Siddons, who, once
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: he was informed in Los Angeles of Jim's death, dropped
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: everything and flew to Paris. According to John Densmore, the
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: Doors drummer, Bill Siddons told him that when he arrived
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: at the scene, he found heroin in the apartment in
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: a carved wooden box, and that it was his belief
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: that Jim snorted that heroin by accident and died. When
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: I look at stories like this, where multiple people are
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: saying different things, each with their own relationship to the truth,
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: I look for incentives. What incentives does the person making
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: the claim have for making that statement. Why would Bill
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: Siddons lie to John Densmore, the drummer for the band
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: that he managed, his client, his friend. I can't think
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: of a reason.
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: Why.
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: Why would Alan Rene, Jim Morrison's close friend, lie about
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: what he saw that morning, about the way Pam was acting.
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: Seems to me that doing so would make his life
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: more complicated, more painful. And why would Agnes Varda back
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: up his lies as well?
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: I have no answer for that.
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: Why would the manager of the rock and roll circus
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: publish a book with wild claims about where and how
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: Jim Morrison died?
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: Well?
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: I could think of a couple of reasons. None of
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: them speak to the author's credibility. Mary Anne Faithful's comments
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: strike me as the most credible. She had no incentive
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: to lie and no incentive financial or otherwise to say
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: what she said. She started talking immediately after Jim's death
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: and later published her depiction of her with the Count
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: and the Count's involvement with Jim's death in her autobiography.
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: Mary Anne's comments.
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: Never elevated or relegated her status in pop culture. They
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: were just part of her own wild rock and roll story.
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: In her story that Jim Morrison died by mistakingly snorting
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: her boyfriend, the Count, Jean de Bretoi's heroin an act
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: that was then covered up by Pamela Corson and the Count.
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: That story is the story that's supported by more evidence
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: than any of the other claims surrounding Jim Morrison's death.
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: We know who the Count was and what he did
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: for a living. We know others died from his heroin.
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: And after Jim died.
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: After the Count split from Morocco with Mary Anne, they
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: soon broke up and then his life spiraled out of control.
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: He died in nineteen seventy two.
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: Of a heroin overdose.
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: Some who were close with him believed that he committed
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: suicide over how he felt about the deaths that he caused,
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: most notably the deaths of Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison.
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: And in nineteen seventy four, Pamela Corson also died of
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: a heroin overdose, but not before telling many many different
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: versions to friends about what happened the night that Jim
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: Morrison died. Pamela Courson was the last person alive who
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: truly knew how Jim Morrison passed away, a death at
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: just the age of twenty seven that, no matter the cause,
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: was most definitely a disgrace. I'm Jake Brennan and this
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: is Disgraceland. All right, guys, thanks for checking out this
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: episode of Disgraceland.
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  Speaker 2: Listen. Question of the week.
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: This week's super simple, how do you think Jim Morrison died?
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: Was it heart failure, as officials have said. Was it
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: a heroin overdose by his own accord because he was
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: a junkie, or was it heroin overdose by mistake? Let
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: me know your theories and perhaps it was something else.
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• 42:26
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• 42:28
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• 42:31
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• 42:32
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• 42:36
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• 42:39
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• 42:44
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