Evaluating Theories of the Overdose

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And now Beachbum is expanding wellness services to many locations, with red light therapy and infrared sauna, with more on the way, Rcharge your body, refresh your skin, reset your day. Beachbum isn't just tanning. It's full spectrum wellness. Visit beachbum dot com to find a location near you This episode contains content that may be disturbing to some listeners please check the show notes for more information Disgrrace Land is a production of Double Elvis This is the story of how Jim Morrison really died. It's not the story of a junky rock star overdosing on heroin drug Jim Morrison didn't use drug Jim's friends knew that he despised. And it's not the story of a singer dying from an innocuous heart attack This story deals with what I believe to be the truth behind Jim Morrison's death and the shadowy figure from one of Music History's darkest corners A man whose name seldom gets mentioned, but who was known not only by the Door' front man but by Janice Joplin, Keith Richards, Graham Parsons, and many others from the sixties and seventies rock scene who found themselves in need of hard drugs. This figure was an aristocrat A French count by the name of Jean de Retooy and he was hated Jim Morrison But he was there aris on the scene at Jim's apartment morning after he died What did this mysterious count have to do with Jim's common law wife, his girlfriend Pon And did he have something to do with Jim's death Or did Jim Morrison, as conspiracy theorists would have us believe, ever even die at all Did he fake his own death to escape the pressures of being in the doors Being a rock star aking music Mus sic Unlike that music I played for you at the top of the show. That wasn't great music That was a preset loop for my melatron called Misty Mountain flop Okay One I played you that loop because I can't afford the rights to It's too late. I feel the earth move under my feet by Carol King And why would I play you that specific slice of double A side cheese? C I afford it becausecause that was the number one song in America. On july third, nineteen seventy one. And that was the day Jim Morrison supposedly died of a heroin overdose or depending on who you talk to. his own death. But neither of those things are true This is what really happened This is the story of how Jim Morrison really died I'm Jake Brennan this is disgraceeland Jim Morrison is alive He's eighty two years old and living a quiet life in a cottage somewhere in the south of France, reading Rimbeau and writing poetry actually No he's not He's dead But before he died, he was the Zodiac killer And then after he faked his death, he was Rush Limbaachgh. But thoseose things aren't true either do believe them Ever since the moment news broke back in July of nineteen seventy one, that Jim Morrison, the singer of the Doors, had died. Good amount of people, even people close to gymms wouldn't accept the fact that he was actually dead They just wouldn't believe it Dor's keyboard player Rayman Zerich was immediately skeptical Jim's own sister, Anne is on record saying that Jim is the exact type of guy who would fake his own death. He was. Jim Morrison courted death. drank himself into oblivion and ate acid like it was candy. He dangled himself from hotel balconies, stumbled through traffic, cut himself in ocult blood sacrifices while blitzed on cocaine and sang about breaking on through to the other side the evidence in the aftermath of his death, at least the evidence available to the public, was most definitely sketchy enough to lead people to believe that Jim's death was perhaps something else Supposedly Nobody close to the doors who knew Jim, besides his common law wife, Pamela Corson, AK Pam Morrison, saw the body And by the time Dor's manager, Bill Siddons arrived in Paris three days after Jim's death coffin was sealed And there was no autopsy day after Bill Siddons arrived Jim Morrison was quickly buried Paris. body was never returned to the United States Jim Morrison died officially failure. No one believes that Most believe that Jim died of a heroin overdose, but And after listening to this podcast You won't either At the time of Jim Morrison's death in July of nineteen seventy one Doors were one of the biggest bands on the planet Embroiled in controversy because of Jim's antics, the band had just finished recording what would be their final album, LA Woman Though the band had experienced critical and creative highs and lows, the Doors were still a top selling band, and with the completion of LA Woman, the band was free from their recording obligations with Electra Records and was now the subject of a new bidding war between other record labels The word was that Atlantic Records was about to offer the doors an unprecedented amount of cash to sign with them. All of this was happening at the same time that Jim Morrison was awaiting the verdict for an appeal of his conviction concerning an incident two years prior in Miami, where Jim had exposed himself to an audience on stage Jim was facing six months in prison for the crime nineteen seventy one was a time of great creative and personal turmoil for Jim Morrison. He had just completed what he believed to be his band's greatest album he no longer had a record label to answer to And he wasn't sure he wanted a new one and a new set of headaches His girlfriend, Pam had left Jy in Los Angeles that spring to live in Paris Jim suspected she was living with another man one who indulged heroin habits Jim Morrison hate it In addition to being separated from the one true love of his life and facing prison time, Jim was exhausted by the image he'd created That of the lizard King swash buuckling leather clat, Adama's part rock and' roll genius, part drunken buffoon Jim had eaten all the acid he'd slept with all the groupies, and experienced all the things, and now he romanticized a quieter life. So he traded Los Angeles, the city of night that he sang about an LA woman. Paris, the city of lightight undernderstand how Jim Morrison really died. Paris in nineteen seventy one have to understand what happened in Los Angeles In nineteen seventy. Jean de Retoy had one green eye and one yellow eye He also had the strongest heroine. Los Angeles C was young handandsome, mysterious and hated by Jim Mars Which was an anomaly as plenty of rock stars counted the count as their friend Keith Richards, Janis Joplin, Graham Parsons, members of the GTOs, and perhaps even Jimmy Hendriicks Jim hated the count for the exact reason that these other rock stars appreciated the young foreign aristocrat In Jim's great annoyance, the C shared his heroine with Jim's girlfriend, Pamela In fact, the two shared more than their love of the addictive opiate. Pamela and the Count had a romantic relationship that likely stretched back to the Count's first days in Los Angeles as a UCLA student He became the university's Hish supplier by using his family's French diplomatic connections to smuggle drugs into the States through the Moroccan Embassy and onto campus. Now Rich And Pamela Corson, despite her relationship with Jim Morrison, one of the most famous rock stars on the planet was not. Pamela on extravagant jetet shopping sprees all over the world. Foil her. Jyim did not Count love the fact that Pamela was friends with famous rock stars Jim Morrison could care less about status used Pamela's connection to the LA Rock scene to move not only hasash, but oine. Jim Morrison, by every account, from everyone who knew him hated heroin He had an extreme lifelong fear of hypodermic needles Pamela's heroin used was seriously frowned upon by Jim and a regular source of tension between the couple. But that didn't keep the count from creeping around Jim and Pam's Hollywood bungalow During this time in the fall of nineteen seventy Jim Morrison was cooling his jets in Los Angeles awaiting sentencing for his indecency charges in Miami The band was beginning work on their LA woman album and dealing with the fact that their longtime producer and creative confidant, Paul Rothschild no longer wanted to work with them direction their music had taken veering into schchmalzi territory he said sounded like So Jim Morrison drank A lot and snorted a ton of cocaine and carried on relationships with various women not named Pamela Corson Elsewhere in the city of Los Angeles bodies were dropping of heroin overdoses in the first few days of october nineteen seventy, were overrunning LA County emergency rooms. The street dealers went on the lamb when news began to circulate that their product was killing innocent addicts. medical examiners tow attack victims who unwittingly injected what was known as the dealer' supply uncut highighly potent pure batch heroin that had flooded LA streets that weekend The lethal dope sent nine people to the morgue All because some dealers screwed up and didn't dilute his illegal product with a cutting agent an addive that would allow the drug to be injected without its potency stopping the users's hearts It was the act of an irresponsible dealer Either that or someone who just didn't care someone who believed they were not only above the law, but who looked down on his customers. Who put on a pedestal, those with status Beautiful like him The rock stars he coveted relationships with. someone Boyfriend. Jim Morrison's girlfriend, Pamela. someomeone Jean D Broy Fanicspest NYC returns to the Javbit Center july sixteenth through the nineteenth for the biggest sports event weekend of the summer. S stars like LeBron James, Tom Brady,raron Judge, John Cena, Jayalen Brunson, Serena Williams, and hundred ands more. featuring more than five hundred athletes and celebrities, live shows. Eclusive merch, rare collectibles, Sanatics games with two million dollars in prizes. A full tailgate zone, and New York City's largest Indoorf FIFA World Cup fininal watchatch party. Fanatics Fest is the world's number one spports fan festival. Get your tickets now at fanaticsfest dot com d That's fanaticspest dot com d When it comes to looking your best, Beachbum Tanning does it better. Beachbum delivers advanced sun and spray tanning, luxury skincare, and an elevated salon experience designed around you. It's why so many guests trust Beachbum for flawless color and real confidence. And now Beachbum is expanding wellness services to many locations, with red light therapy and infrared sauna, with more on the way, recharge your body, refresh your skin, reset your day. Beachbum isn't just tanning. It's full spectrum wellness. Visit beachbum dot com to find a location near you Corvad Azona Is that a word In the twenty twenty six KSportage Turbo hybrid, it might as well be, because it can be one road trip. It's all about turbocharged power and hybrid efficiency working together. So you get the thrill of quick acceleration and the satisfaction of fuel efficiency. Book a test drive and keep the adventure going Kia, movement that inspires Call eight hundred three three three four KM for details. Always drive safely. Jim Morrison had reason to fake his own death disappear He was exhausted by his rockstar image He was potentially headed to jail because of the criminal sentencing in Miami. He was suddenly free from his obligations to his record label to his bandmates Los Angeles had become a hotbed of heroin use drug his girlfriend, Pamela and shake Those were the reasons But where could Jim Morrison, an internationally recognizable rock star disappear to gym There could be only one answer Paris was perfect It was Bohemian. It had a rich history of French poets like Arthur Rimbeau and Paul Verlaine, who did some of their best work in the city. Plus American expat writers like Gertrude Stein, T.S Elliott, and Ernest Hemingway had all left their marks on Paris back in the twenties Perhaps now fifty years later The city would inspire Jim Morrison to do the same How would Jim Morrison then fake his own death There would need to be a cause of death heart attack And he'd need an accomplice to help him with the faking of the death, and then of course with the disappearing act, and ideally someone to disappear with And that was obvious. Pamel of Csin was the only answer. He and Pam would likely have to prevent authorities from closely inspecting the body. there would need to be a quick burial of an empty casket, of course And the burial would most certainly have to be in Paris body would have to be interred locally and not returned to the states in order to maintain their secret And then, well point after the funeral disappear with Jim. And they could go anywhere they wanted they could retire to Vienna live the life of boohemians. They can move to Tuscanany live off of the land They could stay in Paris and lay low for a while until anonymously blending back into the rhythm of the city after some time They could even return to the United States He was big enough to disappear in Texas or Florida or the mounts in Colorado Anywhere was better than Los Angeles. No one here. alive. Pull off their scheme Jim and presumably Pam would need friends to help Enter Eon Ronet and Agnes Varda Alan was one of Jim's friends, a photographer who was in Paris at the time And Agnes Varda was another one of Jim's friends The trailblazing French filmmaker, who is at the time assisting Bernard Bertolucci with the script for Last Tango in Paris Both were on the scene on july third, nineteen seventy one, in the immediate hours after Jim's death at Jim and Pam's apartment. summoned by Pam that evening to help her through the ordeal of dealing with the French authorities, and the police and medical examiner, and their nosy neighbors. And from Melan Ronet's depiction of the death scene It doesn't appear at all that either he or Agnes Varda were in any way in on any sort of scheme to help Jim Morrison fake his own death Now remember The evidence that conspiracy theorists use to support the theory that Jim Morrison didn't die is that number one, nobody saw the body Tw, there was no autopsy. In three, he was buried very quickly in a sealed coffin Alon Ron and Agnes Varda did see the body And so did a whole lot of other people And there may not have been an autopsy, but that's because Pamela Corsson was hellbent on making sure that that didn't happen and Elon Ronay and Agnes Varda had a front row seat to the decisions made by the medical examiner on that in a bit too. Sure, the body may have been buried quickly in a sealed coffin without anyone from America seeing it before it was interred That was because Pamela Corson was, according to Alon Ronay, determined to make sure that authorities didn't discover that Jim Morrison, the American rock star, had died of a drug overdose Pamela didn't want their apartment searched. She didn't want to be detained by authorities either. She also didn't want Jim's reputation tainted by a cause of death having to do with illicit drugs So a quick burial without an autopsy was necessary And if this meant that Jim's family and friends wouldn't have the chance to see him in the flesh one last time, then from Pamela Corson's perspective, So be it to the conspiracy theorists, I say Alon Rone Did see the body as did a whole lot of other Parisians oting A Frenchman Whom Alan saw on the scene Jim in Pam's apartment and the hour is just after his death. that Frenchman Jean de Bretis Back in Los Angeles a few months earlier, in the fall of nineteen seventy Over that weekend, the emergency rooms were overrun with heroin fatalities. Jean de Breertoy sat nervously in Mercy Fonteau's Hollywood apartment Mercy was known around the LA. rock scene as Miss Mercy She was a protege of Frank Zapper Part of the all girl rock group, the GTOs And like most of the LA scene at the time she was friendly with the count holder something for you Mercy had a habit of saying yes to any drug put in front of her. a new batch of dope wanted to see the effect the drug had on one of his clients. He just dropped off a few baggies with another client an hour or so ago had a weird feeling about it worried This is stoke too strong could shoot up Miss Mercy and if everything was okay, then he'd know Stop worrying And if the dope was too strong, well It was too late T much of it was already out on the street But at least the countount would know And he could make arrangements to fly out of the country before anything bad came back on him sat back and watched Miss. Mercy shoot his heroine Immediately, something was wrong Miss Mercy felt it She started struggling panting, waving her arms trying to speak the words wouldn't come. It was exactly like one of those dreams. The monster is there with you. in the room see him, but no one else can. He's got to kill you But you can't get your voice to work. You're trying to scream, but nothing comes out Miss Mercy was trying to say something. Her eyes rolled back into her skull, and her head fell backward against the chair. She then pulled her head back up in a struggle, and it rolled loosely around her shoulders as she managed to somehow get out the words. I'm going down. I'm going down The countount could see that, and was already working to solve the problem by loading a syringe with cocaine dissolved in water He then jammed the needle into Mercy's other arm direct hit with a ane. Mercy shot up out of her seat with a gasp. she was going to be okay his answer roine. It was not okay This heroine was too strong And yes It most certainly needed to be diluted He thought of his other client one whom he just left with numerous baggies of this lethal heroine. He remembered that she wore an amulet around her neck and that she kept it filled with cocaine for occasions just like this Cution snap her back to life if heroin ever sent her into an overdose what she didn't know alsoso didn't The client had a friend and that friend had decided that cocaine wasn't as useful to have around as heroin was. so that friend emptied the cocaine from the count's client's amulet and stuffed it with heroin That same night account's client injected his dope. the same reaction Miss. Mercy had She reached for the cocaine in her amulet snorted in an effort to save her own life. except which she ended up snorting instead. was more heroine So Janice Joplin died of a double dose of Count Jean de Berttoy's lethal heroin on october fourth, nineteen seventy along with eight other victims in the Los Angeles area that weekend This happened just two weeks after Jimy Hendricks died in London, officially. from choking on his own vomit after taking too many barbiturates and drinking too much wine. There were already rumors that authorities had it all wrong that Jimmy had been murdered. something to do with his manager. an insurance policy and a debt to the mob being injected shot Ho Either way days later in Hollywood, when Jim Morrison got word that Janice Joplin had died He sat at the bar at Barney's Beanery. stared into his whiskey raised his glass to the barfies and said drinking. with number three. We'll be right back after this word, word, word Fanicspest NYC returns to the Javbit Center july sixteenth through the nineteenth for the biggest sports event weekend of the summer. S stars like LeBron James, Tom Brady,raron Judge, John Cena, Jayalen Brunson, Serena Williams and hundreds more. featuring more than five hundred athletes and celebrities, live shows. Eclusive merch, rare collectibles, Sanatics games with two million dollars in prizes. A full tailgate zone. and New York City's largest indndoor FIFA World Cup fininal watchatch party. Fanatics Fest is the world's number one spports fan festival. Get your tickets now at fanaticsfest dot com. That's fanaticsfest dot com When it comes to looking your best, beachbum Tanning does it better. Beachbum delivers advanced sun and spray tanning, luxury skincare, and an elevated salon experience designed around you. It's why so many guests trust Beachbum for flawless color and real confidence. And now Beachbum is expanding wellness services to many locations. with red light therapy and infrared sauna, with more on the way, recharge your body, refresh your skin, reset your day. Beachbum isn't just tanning. It's full spectrum wellness. Visit beachbum dot com to find a location near you Corvad Azona Is that a word In the twenty twenty six KSportage Turbo hybrid, it might as well be, because it can be one road trip. It's all about turbocharged power and hybrid efficiency working together. So you get the thrill of quick acceleration and the satisfaction of fuel efficiency. Book a test drive and keep the adventure going Kia. Moment that inspires. Call eight hundred three three threety four Kia for details. Always drive safely Jim Morrison was right Less than a year later, he would indeed become number three He was dead And he most certainly did not fake his own death and disappear. again to recap. Conspiracy theorist's case that Jim faked his own death relies on the claim that nobody saw his body after he died Nobody besides Pamela and perhaps a crooked Parisian official or two who were bribed But this is categorically false According to Elon Ronay, Agnes Varda and many others There were numerous people who streamed in and out of Jim and Pam's apartment in the hours after he died trying to make sense of the situation And Jim's body was on full display to all Jim's heart stopped sometime in the early morning hours of july third, nineteen seventy one His body was discovered by Pamela, she claims, a few hours after that in the bathtub, lying in the water And that's where the body was when Eon and Agnes arrived a few hours later after Pamela had called them to come over to help assist with the ordeal that was unfolding around her When a law arrived, there was already a police investigator on the scene who had taken charge He obviously saw the body Alan, being a French expat, helped the inspector translate the information that he needed from Pamela, who only spoke English Pamela, according to Alan, was determined not to let the inspector or anyone else know the truth of Jim's identity that he was a rock star She wanted them to believe he was an ordinary American citizen Alam assumed that this was to head off any unwanted attention from the press which is understandable. Along with a police inspector, there were now paramedics on the scene and they also saw the body still in the tub, still submerged in water. More policemen arrived and more eyes on the body door to the apartment was open Alan saw a curious neighbor from the building just wander inside the apartment And the neighbor later recounted that he too saw the body The apartment was a hive of activity in those morning hours And during all of this, at some point Palan and Agnes pulled Pamela aside to get the story. Pamela explained that earlier in the evening She and Jim decided to sniff some heroin. She went to bed He then, apparently, according to Pamela, snorted more heroinine drew a bath, got into the tub and never got out Alan was immediately skeptical He was close with Jim Morrison He knew that Jim hated heroin Jim hated when Pamela used heroin The idea that he would use heroin with Pamela was highly suspicious. There was now a doctor on the scene He saw the body as well. If he wanted to know from Man Jim's story was. The phone then rang. Pamela answered it and spoke in hushed tones Alan knew who she was speaking herer Parisian friends. the ones Jim hated so much the ones Jim wanted Pamela to break free from The heroin addicts. Jim said to Alan recently Ham in regards to her and her friends and her heroin habits You and I are on the side of life She is on the side of death Pam told Eon that she had gotten rid of all the drugs in the apartment But Alon also saw Pam inside of Jim's desk while the authorities were preoccupied aking away his papers, his poetry She then made for the fireplace with another stack of papers Letters letters that she had written Musings, she told Alan about her drug use that she didn't want the authorities to find She set fire to the letters in the fireplace she also grabbed the Newswek magazine Jim was reading cover story on that magazine plague of heroine Pamela then grabbed a fur coat belonged to one of her friends, and it was seemingly worth a lot of money She told Elon that she had to call her sister in Los Angeles and that she wanted her sister to head to the electro Records office to steal the latest earnings from the doors before it was too late Alon Ron is on record recounting this statement from Pamela Corson Alan suggested that instead of focusing on stealing money they called Jim's lawyer in Los Angeles to help arrange the necessary affairs of the deceased Pamela did not like this idea She then explained she wanted Jim's body cremated tested. remation in France was something that criminals did to the deceased when they didn't want to answer questions about the recently departed Pamela didn't want Jim's body flown back to the United States She was suspicious of the process The body would be inspected She didn't want it known that Jim overdosed, so cremation was necessary. Alan protested again. and convinced Pam that a proper burial could take place there in Paris quickly at Per Loches Cemetery the eternal home of great artists befitting of Jim's postmortem company including Frederick Chopin Eugene Delacroix, Edith Piff, and Oscar Wilde In the meantime Jim's body would remain in the apartment in the tub . Ham sleeping next to him, keeping guard throughout the end of the weekend and into Monday a highly unusual move something that authorities told Pam was nearly never done an wouldn't allow the police inspector or the medical inspector or the doctors to prevail against her wishes to keep the body in the apartment until the funeral For reasons I still don't understand The authorities allowed Pam to keep the body there in the apartment Dry ice was delivered The bathtub was packed, and Jim Morrison's dead body remained under the watchful eyes of his girlfriend Con A month earlier In June nineteen seventy one in the south of France on the French Riviera at a decadent highaway known as Venelco The Rolling Stones had begun recording what would become their masterpiece exxile on Main Street Laws. On the run Hoting out from UK tax collectors In addition to their financial problems, the Stones had another problem. Where to procure heroin to satiate the habits of Stones guitarist Keith Richards and his friend and visitor to Nell Coke Cosmic American songwriter, Graham Parsons to solve this problem The Stones had another visitor Jean de Breoi Keith Richards was so impressed by the Count's product that he offered the C use of his home in London. account took Keith up on the offer He left the French Riviera for Keith's place And when he settled into Keith Stiggs in the Tony neighborhood of London's chain walk He made some new friends New friends with similar habits Alalitha Getty, heiress to the Getty Fortune actress songwriter, Rolling Stoness Muse and ex girlfriend to Mick Jagger Mar Anne Faithful Count was especially keen on Mary Anne Mary Anne was rock and roll royalty Mary Anne co wrote the stone song, Sister Morphine She was famously part of the stone's bust at Redlands She was the infamous naked girl in fur who was plastered all over the front pages of the newspapers back in nineteen sixty seven she loved So in June of nineteen seventy one, while Count Jean de Bertoy took advantage of Keith Richards's offer to use his home in London He also took advantage of his new neighbor's heroin habit and used his supply to begin a relationship with one of London's hippest young women Jagger's ex, Mar Anne Faithful The pair quickly decided to split from London for Paris Count had another girl there Another girl who relied on his heroine Another girl with a rock star boyfriend Pamela Corson They came in. Morris. who feed who bred who bd who fd who for. In the early hours of july third, nineteen seventy one Marianne Faithful and the Count Jean de Bretoy awoke to the sound of the telephone They were in bed in a five star Paris hotel According to Mary Anne Pamela Corson was on the other end of the line and she was frantic, begging the count to come to her apartment immediately Marianne was not jealous Anything by she wanted desperately to meet the notorious rock star Jay Morrison C wouldn't allow it though After hanging up, he quickly dressed and left Marianne behind for Pamel Jim Morrison was dead by that time. seventy one His death was not faked We know this because of the many, many people who saw his body over the span of many hours later on that morning The more interesting question isn't did Jim Morrison fake his death No, the more interesting question is how did Jim Morrison die Officially, a French medical examiner determined that Jim Morrison died of heart failure. This is what Pamela Corarson wanted She did not want it known that Jim died of a drug overdose. Clearly She'd admitted that on the scene to Alon Rone. This information was corroborated by Agnes Varda, who was also there with a line And it's been confirmed over and over again by others close to Jim and Pam. Jim Morrison dying of a heroin overdose doesn't make sense because everyone who knew Jim Morrison, including Pamela Corson knew that he despised heroin He didn't use heroin. Jim Morrison drank and used cocaine Furthermore, he was emparrassed to clean up get healthy So it's strange's credulity to believe that he chose this time in his life to develop a heroin habit. especially after, according to his close friend, Alon Ronet, He'd recently described the drug and his girlfriend's and her friend's usage of the drug as deathly But wait There's more police report filed by the Paris pololice superintendent Pamela Corson stated to him that Pam found Jim's body in the tub, submerged in water sometime between eight thirty and nine AM And then she called authorities shortly thereafter Pam further claimed that she last saw Jim alive sometime around four in the morning before she went to bed However In the report filed by the Paris fire Brigade, detailing the evidence as witnessed by the liieutenant on the scene that morning When he arrived on the scene at nine twenty one A The water in the tub was still lukewarm. Now Would the water still be warm if Jim drew his bath hours earlier Or perhaps was the bath drawn later after. After Jim died Perhaps after Jim died somewhere other than the tub perhaps after Jim was placed in the tub What happened between the hours of four AM when Pamela last saw Jim at nine twenty one AM when authorities arrived at her apartment A accccording to Marary Anne Faaceful Pammela called the count Pamela and the cow move Jim's body Why would they do that? Was that move part of a larger cleanup effort on behalf of the two Marianne Faithful has claimed that earlier that evening Pamela Morrison was snorting the countount's heroine It was the type of heroin with the street name cotton Candy Heroin isn't like cocaine or marijuana It doesn't have a signature color. Black heroin, brown heroin. And there was cotton candy heroin called such because of its light color. It was pinkish nearly white Because of this, Marianne Faithful claims that Jim Morrison mistook Pamela Corson's heroin for cocaine, snorted too much of it Odosed and died. We know the cow was at the apartment thatmore Remember the phone call Pamela Morrison received from her Parisian friends, the one that agitated Alon Ronet? After that phone call, Alan claimed he saw the cow outside on the street. and that he himself let the count into the apartment to see Pam Later that morning, when the count returned to Mar Anne at the hotel, Marianne claimed he was agitated and that he beat her Afterward, he told Maryianne to get packed He was clearly scared to death, afraid for his life Jim Morrison had taken his heroin and died. And now he and Marianne Faithful needed to leave for Morocco immediately. Or so goes the story by Mary Facebful. This story The story that Jim Morrison mistakenly snorted heroine thinking it was cocaine and died If we're to believe Mary Anne's faaceful This story makes far more sense than the idea that Jim Morrison was just another junky rock star who overdosed on smack. There's yet another story In Paris in nineteen seventy one There was a nightclub that Jim Morrison hung out at called The Rock ' and' rooll Circus. It was a hotbed for drug use of all kinds, including heroin In two thousand seven, the manager of that club, Sam Benet, published a book in French onlyn, in which he made the claim that Jim overdosed on heroin that night at the rock and' roll circus and that his body was moved O of the club. to his apartment placed in the tug Conspiracy theorists love this theory But I don't First of all Why would they take the body all the way back to Jim's apartment and carefully stage a scene with him in the tub Why not just take them out of the club and leave the body in the street or in somebody's car or anywhere, really Why go through all the trouble of having to sneak the body through the streets of Paris, into an apartment, and then presumably convince the dead dude's girlfriend to get behind this fantastic lie with you? a lie that would clearly complicate her life What incentive would Pamela Corson have to support this liide An even more interesting question is Why was Pamela Corson behaving so dishonestly in the hours after the body was discovered According to Allon Ronay She was allegedly busy making arrangements to get her hands on Jim's money back in LA.