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Reporter: Do you feel as though you missed out on something

by not remembering, not performing?

Of course, but I've gained a lot, too.

A lot of people never get out of their own hometown

and get to see other wonderful places.

A lot of kids read about things that I get to see in person

all over the world in different places.

I am so happy about that.

I mean, you never can have everything.

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Hey, everyone.

Welcome to "How It Really Happened."

I'm Hill Harper.

June 25, 2009.

Paramedics rushed to answer a call at 100 Carolwood

in Los Angeles.

They were told they would find

a 50-year-old male not breathing.

They found Michael Jackson unconscious on a bed

in a rented mansion and in such a state

that the lead paramedic firefighter

said he didn't even recognize him.

Tonight, Part 2 of our examination of the death

of Michael Jackson.

What really happened?

Did he kill himself?

Was it an overdose?

Or was he murdered?

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Senneff: In all my years as a paramedic,

I had never seen that level of chaos

at any incident I've ever been at.

Evenstad: I could see kind of through the hinge area of the fence

that there was a gurney being wheeled out to the ambulance,

and I could tell that it was Michael on the gurney.

So at that point, I told my photographers,

"We really need to try to get this picture

when the ambulance pulls out."

Senneff: Once the patient and the equipment was loaded

in the ambulance, myself and Dr. Murray

got into the ambulance

and then started backing out of the driveway.

At that point, that's when I knew

that this was not an ordinary call.

Evenstad: His staff during that time looked like

I've never seen them before in any situation.

They looked very afraid and frightened,

and this was a security team

that was always in charge and had a plan.

When we arrived at the hospital,

there were already some people there,

and these private security that Mr. Jackson had

immediately formed a corridor

so that we could get the patient into the hospital.

We unloaded the patient, went through the doors

where the emergency room staff was waiting for us.

Announcer: This is CNN breaking news.

Michael Jackson, the King of Pop,

we're told by our affiliates in Los Angeles,

has been rushed to a local hospital.

I love you very much.

Cooper: What a long, strange trip it has been for Michael Jackson

from child star to creator of the best-selling album ever...

Hopefully, you know, that's what I do with my music

is bring happiness to people

and to bring joy and some peace in their lives.

...to reclusive billionaire and criminal defendant,

but famous or infamous,

one of the best-known people on the planet ever.

Alan Duke of CNN is over at the UCLA Medical Center.

Duke: They're not saying anything here at the hospital.

In fact, many of the hospital employees don't know

or at least didn't know what was going on.

We didn't know about Dr. Murray at that point.

We didn't know that Michael had a personal physician who had,

every night, been giving him this Propofol infusion

to treat his insomnia.

Who would have imagined that?

Cooper: Tonight, what we know about how he died,

how he is being remembered, and how he lived.

When we arrived at the hospital and proceeded inside,

we went into one of the treatment rooms

where there was a large gathering of technicians,

nurses, the doctor who's in charge,

and the doctor in charge spoke with Dr. Murray.

Duke: Dr. Murray didn't want the paramedics

to give up at the house.

He resisted when they wanted to basically call it.

When he got to the emergency room,

he also was insistent that, "We got to keep trying.

We got to keep trying," but what we found out

was that the other doctor that was in charge there said

that she didn't see any signs of life,

but there was this doctor who knew Michael Jackson

who was saying, "No, I felt a pulse.

There's signs of life here. Let's keep trying."

So they kept up some pretty desperate efforts

to get Michael's heart beating again,

to get him breathing again, and of course, there was no hope.

What's clear is that he wasn't honest with medical staff

there about the drugs Jackson was taking,

about the ailments he was suffering from,

and about the treatment he had given him.

He did not tell them about the Propofol,

which is the most important thing

that he should have mentioned at the time.

Finally, the doctor who was in charge of the emergency room

at UCLA Medical Center said, "We're not trying anything.

We've tried everything. There's nothing left to try.

Let's call this," and so they stopped.

Lemon: Michael Jackson is declared dead at the hospital.

The family is in a room waiting.

Conrad Murray, his physician

who is supposed to be in charge of him,

goes into the room with the family and...

Jermaine: Michael Jackson passed away

on Thursday, June 25, 2009, at 2:26 PM.

It is believed he suffered cardiac arrest in his home.

However, the cause of his death

is unknown until results of the autopsy are known.

Something that's interesting,

it was Conrad Murray that told doctors at UCLA

that there should be an autopsy of Michael Jackson.

He requested it.

Dr. Murray began asking the security detail right away

for rides back to the Carolwood residence.

He wanted to avoid the world discovering that Michael Jackson

had some cream back at the house.

That's what he told the security detail his reasonings

were for wanting to return to the Carolwood residence.

The security detail wasn't really --

didn't think that was a real good idea

and collectively decided that

"We're just going to tell Dr. Murray that the law enforcement,

the police department have taken our keys and no one can leave."

Shortly after that, Dr. Murray

spoke with detectives from West L.A.

and did inform him that he was treating Michael Jackson

for dehydration and exhaustion.

He never mentioned any types of medication

that he had given Mr. Jackson,

and those detectives actually spoke

and told Dr. Murray to stick around.

"Don't go anywhere.

The detectives from robbery/homicide are coming.

They'd want to talk to you."

Shortly after detectives Smith and Martinez

arrived at the hospital,

they began calling Dr. Murray

on the phone that he had provided

to the West L.A. detectives.

All their calls were met with voice mails,

and eventually, it just turned off.

They actually went and looked at surveillance,

and he was seen leaving through a side door of the hospital.

We realized, "Okay, there is something going on here

that we need to look into."

King: We're told that that helicopter carrying Michael Jackson's body

has left UCLA Medical Center, heading to the coroner's office.

Myers: After Michael's death,

his body was taken to the Los Angeles County morgue.

Halperin: The world was eager to know

what really happened to the King of Pop.

Many people thought that if you read online

that Michael was murdered.

Many people thought that he committed suicide.

Many people thought maybe one of his handlers just did him in

because the fact of the matter is,

Michael was deeply in debt

when he died to the tune of $470 odd million,

and it turns out, unfortunately,

Michael was worth much more dead than alive.

Morgan: You have been quoted as saying

you believe it may have been murder.

Do you still think that? -Absolutely.

Reporter: We begin with the latest on the memorial for Michael Jackson.

There are estimates that this morning, hundreds of millions

will be planning to watch

Michael Jackson's memorial service on TV

and online tomorrow.

Dimond: When Michael Jackson died,

the family set out to make a funeral for him,

and very good sources of mine told me they contacted the LAPD

and wanted all the streets in downtown L.A.

closed off for Michael Jackson's cortege

so they could have, you know, a proper mourning period.

Duke: The world was in mourning,

and we needed some kind of a service, a focus,

but it was going to take weeks

before the family would ever sort out

where Michael would be interred, who would pay for it,

how that would come about, and so AEG Live

and some of the others, music companies and others,

and friends of Michael Jackson came together and organized

a memorial service for the public.

Richards: The ceremony itself cost $1 million.

Duke: This was July 7th at the Staples Center, and it was incredible.

Halperin: When everybody congregated on stage, all the artists,

to sing "We Are the World," it really was a moving moment.

People felt goose bumps.

I was there, and I felt goose bumps.

♪ We are the world ♪

♪ We are the children We are the children ♪

♪ We are the ones who make a brighter day ♪

Duke: At this memorial, they brought the children on stage,

and Paris gave one of the most moving speeches

I have ever heard.

Ever since I was born...

Daddy has been the best father you could ever imagine.

After years of Michael Jackson covering his children's faces

with masks or scarves when they went out in public,

there they were at his memorial with no coverings,

and it was sort of a jarring moment.

Duke: And we saw Blanket holding a doll,

a Michael Jackson doll in his hand

as his father's coffin was right in front of him.

It was the most touching thing you can imagine.

Dimond: Naturally no one felt worse about the death

of Michael Jackson than his family.

I mean, this was a family that had raised him,

gotten famous with him, been through hard times with him,

and now he's dead, but it was a bizarre set of circumstances.

It was kind of strange to see family members

who by all accounts were estranged,

in the end having to come together at that funeral

and talk about their brother with the children,

and also, they ended up having to fight

for justice for their brother

and for the truth to come out about exactly what happened.

Lemon: For years there were rumors initially about

how Joe Jackson treated his children,

especially Michael Jackson.

That is probably the last person Michael Jackson

wanted as his spokesperson was his father, Joe Jackson.

It just so happens a couple days

after Michael Jackson died the B.E.T. Awards were happening.

And so we set ourselves up on the red carpet,

and then all of a sudden, Joe Jackson walks up,

and so he walks up, and I say...

How you doing, sir?

How is the family holding up? -I'm great.

My family is doing pretty good.

-Yeah? -Yes, they are.

You want to tell -- the last couple days,

I know it's been tough for you guys.

And...

And it was a slight pause

when I go back and look at the tape,

but in that moment it seemed like forever.

We're working on that.

Lemon: And in the middle of the interview,

I'm trying to get this heartfelt interview

about Michael Jackson and the family.

What about Janet and the rest of the family,

the daughters and... -They're all doing fine,

but I want to make this statement.

This is a real good statement here.

Marshall and I have --

we owned a record company called -- tell him.

Ranch Records, okay, distributed by Blu-Ray Technology,

and that's his next step.

And I was flabbergasted.

He's hawking his DVD on Blu-Ray,

and I'm like, "Okay, your son just died a couple days ago."

It was the oddest experience

that I'd have ever had on live television.

It was a continuation of a bizarre family dynamic

between the superstar son and all the hanger-ons.

Morgan: How do you think he died?

You've been quoted as saying you believe it may have been murder.

Do you still think that? -Absolutely.

-Why are you so sure? -Absolutely.

I would never ever think differently.

Because, first of all, Michael told me

that they were going to murder him.

He was afraid. -Who?

Who was going to... -He was afraid for his life.

The people that were involved in his life,

the people that were controlling him.

Without a doubt, Michael Jackson is worth more dead than alive.

This has been proved with the escalation

in the profits that his estate have made since his death.

In fact, he's made more in the years since he died

than the combined earnings

of Jay-Z, Kanye West, and Taylor Swift.

Given those figures, it's natural

to assume conspiracy theories.

People might suspect that AEG Live had a lot to gain

from Michael Jackson dying.

LaToya: They knew he wouldn't be healthy enough,

yet they put their own doctor in who said,

"Michael, he passed with flying colors.

He's in perfect health."

Michael was not in perfect health.

He was very, very fragile, very thin, and the coroners,

I will tell you, this was not an O.D.

The coroners told me immediately that the only drug

that was in Michael's body

was the drug that was administered to him that night,

and that was it.

He was totally clean.

Do you think we will ever find out the truth?

I'm going to make sure we do.

Blitzer: Kara Finnstrom is out there at the home.

We're seeing motorcycles and activity

outside the Michael Jackson home.

Kara, tell our viewers what we're seeing.

We have just watched as a group of police officers pull up,

and I think they are actually securing off the area.

At that time, detectives from robbery/homicide responded

to the Carolwood address along with the Department of Coroner

and their field investigators.

We are just looking for any evidence of foul play

or anything like that.

They were directed upstairs,

and they noticed an IV on an IV stand,

some medicine on a nightstand near the bed

and one bottle of Propofol that was underneath the nightstand.

That was the first time in this investigation

where Propofol had been observed.

So our biggest goal was to talk to Dr. Murray.

Richards: He was lying low.

Perhaps that was on the advice of his attorneys.

The LAPD called him, texted him, no response.

It was only a couple of days later, 2 or 3 days later,

when, on the advice of his attorney,

Conrad Murray made contact with the LAPD,

and an interview was arranged.

And he talked, and he gave them information.

Wass: After the rehearsal on the 24th, when Michael Jackson got home,

Dr. Murray was there waiting for him.

Dr. Murray set up the saline IV

and tried to get Jackson to go to sleep.

He administered some sedatives, Lorazepam and Midazolam,

and Jackson would only go to sleep for minutes

and then wake up, and Jackson was very frustrated

that he couldn't go to sleep.

Well, that was the very first time

that Dr. Murray used the word "Propofol."

Karas: Conrad Murray says that at about 10:40 in the morning,

he pushed a very small amount of Propofol

intravenously into Michael Jackson

and that he watched him sort of fall asleep or go under,

that he left the room for just a couple of minutes

and came back, and Michael wasn't breathing

and that he immediately started resuscitative efforts.

But the phone records, if you look at them,

point to a different story altogether.

In fact, Murray was on the phone for a lot of this time.

Karas: He was making phone calls between approximately 11:15,

11:17 AM for 45 more minutes,

including to a girlfriend in Houston,

Sade Anding, the last person he called at 11:51.

She remembers Conrad Murray going silent.

Perhaps dropping the phone or putting into his pocket

and hearing a kerfuffle going on in the room.

She didn't know what was going on.

She had no idea and hung up, called him back.

Just got his answerphone.

There is an hour's difference there in his testimony.

When did Michael Jackson receive Propofol?

What was Conrad Murray specifically saying?

When did he come back in the room?

Who's telling the truth?

Another big revelation from the police interview,

what happened to Dr. Murray's medical bags on the morning

Michael Jackson died?

Murray was seen by Alberto Alvarez security

and also a paramedic, taking medicines

and medical paraphernalia and putting them into bags.

Well, he put that bag in another room,

and investigators never searched the other room,

so they never found that bag.

Now, I believe that Dr. Murray fully believed

that the Los Angeles Police Department

had possession of his medical bag.

I think it was for that reason Dr. Murray agreed to talk to us.

He agreed to this interview with his lawyer

to get out in front of the Propofol

and explain why he was giving Propofol.

So on Monday, June 29th,

Detective Martinez had authored a search warrant

for the residence of 100 West Carolwood.

We went directly to the closet that Dr. Murray

had indicated his medical bag was,

and inside there was a lot of medical debris

and several bottles of Propofol, and that was the treasure.

Casarez: As far as police are concerned, Dr. Murray

essentially handed them the smoking gun.

Tonight, breaking news.

Preliminary word from the Los Angeles Coroner

on what killed Michael Jackson.

The Coroner is ruling Jackson's death a homicide.

Kobilinsky: The Coroner concluded that Michael Jackson died

of acute Propofol intoxication.

That was supplemented by the presence

of Benzodiazepines in his system.

The combination of Propofol with the Benzodiazepines

will inhibit the central nervous system,

and that causes the heart to slow down,

and so ultimately, if you're not careful,

what can happen is cardiac arrest and respiratory failure,

and that is exactly what happened in this case.

We assembled a book that contained our investigation,

11 books, and we sent these books

to 11 specialists in a variety of medical expertise.

They were each asked to render a medical opinion

as to the level of care provided by Dr. Murray.

All of them indicated to us that there was a major departure

from the standard level of care, and in this particular case,

the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office

decided to charge Dr. Murray with manslaughter.

During opening statements, we heard a voice

that none of us were expecting to hear.

Welcome back to "How It Really Happened."

I'm Hill Harper.

When September 2011 came, it had been over 2 years

since Michael Jackson passed away.

Conrad Murray had been charged in his death,

but so many questions remained.

Was Murray to blame?

What happened behind the closed doors of Jackson's mansion?

With the trial came never-before-heard stories

and new audio from prosecutors that shocked almost everyone.

It's Day 1 in the trial of Conrad Murray,

the doctor who was charged with involuntary manslaughter

in the death of Michael Jackson.

On September 27, 2011, the trial started,

People versus Conrad Murray.

The big day has arrived. Are you ready?

Are you ready for your opening statement, sir?

I think we're ready.

We're ready. -Yeah?

Karas: It was a mad house outside the courthouse.

Not like any courthouse I have ever seen around the country,

and I've seen a lot of them.

And you're seeing this wild scene here

as all the fans are protesting.

Casarez: I remember the fans of Michael Jackson

during the course of this long trial

would line the hallway in the courthouse.

Many of them would applaud and cheer

when the prosecution walked past

and sort of give a stink eye to the defense.

Reporter: Jermaine!

Casarez: The Jackson family was in that trial every day.

So you'd have Katherine Jackson.

You'd have LaToya Jackson.

You'd have Janet Jackson.

And I remember that they would walk in,

and sometimes the jury would already be seated,

and you would just see this family

that you've known through your television screen for your life,

and it had to have impacted why we were all there.

Kim: At trial, jurors got two completely contradictory

pictures of who Dr. Conrad Murray was.

On one hand his attorneys brought in a string of patients

who described him as a kind, effective doctor

who cared about his patients, and on the other hand,

prosecutors described him as an opportunistic,

money-grabbing doctor who was eager to make a windfall

out of his treatment of Michael Jackson.

Dr. Conrad Murray's defense's theory

was that Michael Jackson had done something

while Dr. Conrad Murray

was out of the room leading to his own death.

The prosecution's theory was that,

in a laundry list of ways, Dr. Conrad Murray

was negligent as a physician,

leading to his patient's death.

It was Dr. Murray's repeated

incompetent and unskilled acts that led

to Mr. Jackson's death on June 25, 2009.

During opening statements,

we heard a voice that none of us were expecting to hear,

which was Michael Jackson himself.

His words rang out from a recording that Conrad Murray

had made at his bedside.

Trials have their highs and lows,

and many of them have a bombshell moment.

This was that moment in Conrad Murray's trial.

No one had previously discussed this recording,

disclosed the fact that it existed.

It was unbelievable to hear how out of it he was.

Karas: He's under the influence of drugs.

It was hard without, you know,

without some substantiation to even believe

it was Michael Jackson,

yet Conrad Murray had recorded him like this,

and for what?

And why would you record that?

I didn't even recognize or realize

that that recording was actually on my phone.

And I think the big moment is when they showed all the drugs.

-Two milligrams... -"you gave him

this much of this, the Propofol,

this much anti-anxiety, this much sleeping pills,"

and they put them all out on a table,

and your jaw just dropped.

How much medication and drugs could one person take?

Kim: Prosecutor David Walgren tallied for jurors

just how much Propofol Conrad Murray

had ordered to be shipped to Los Angeles,

and he pointed out that it all added up

to more than 4 gallons of Propofol.

And I think one of the shocking things

was he initially made the first order of Propofol,

I mean, very close in time

to when he was hired by Michael Jackson.

So all of a sudden, you see that's the reason

that Conrad Murray was his personal physician.

Franklin: The biggest piece of evidence that we had

was the audiotape of Conrad Murray

talking to the police detectives.

We went over that for hours and hours and hours.

That was our main piece of evidence,

and that's what we used the most, his own words.

Friday morning, we came back to actually start

the deliberations.

We still didn't know where anybody stood

so we decided that we would finally take a vote

towards the end of the day on Friday

and found out that it was 11 to 1,

and when we talked to the juror again,

he says, "I don't care what you guys tell me.

I am not changing my mind."

He said, "I am not going to vote guilty for Conrad Murray.

I'm going to vote guilty for Alberto Alvarez,

the security guard."

We said, "The security guard?

He's not on trial," and we said, "Why would you vote --

why would think that he was involved?"

He says, "I believe that Alberto Alvarez

has a secret insurance policy

on Michael Jackson's life of $500,000,

and I think he was in on this,

and I think he's responsible for his death

because he wanted to collect the insurance policy."

So once we told the juror that he's not on trial,

and he said, "Fine, I want to vote guilty

on the personal chef, Kai Chase."

"Kai Chase? What did she do?

She's not on trial."

We, again, talked him out of that.

So we thought, "Well, you give us your side of the story.

You now convince us 11 guilties

why we should switch to not guilty," and he said,

"Well, the only reason I don't want to vote guilty

is because I think if we vote guilty,

we're going to give Propofol a bad name,"

so we said, "Look, you are breaking the law."

We told him that if, "You are not following

what the jury instructions say,"

and he says, "Well, I don't break the law,"

and then we knew we kind of had him.

When we went back into that courtroom,

my heart was pounding.

Blitzer: And we're following the breaking news this hour,

a verdict to be announced any minute now

in the involuntary manslaughter trial of Dr. Conrad Murray.

Blitzer: And we're following the breaking news this hour.

A verdict to be announced any minute now

in the involuntary manslaughter trial of Dr. Conrad Murray,

Michael Jackson's personal physician.

On November 7th, the jury returned with a verdict.

When we heard that a verdict had been reached,

we all rushed to the courtroom.

There was time, though,

to assemble everyone before it was read.

The judge took the bench.

The jurors came in.

And we all walked out there, dead silence.

I mean, you could have heard a pin drop.

Karas: I remember making a note that none of the jurors

looked over at Conrad Murray.

That's often a sign of bad news for a defendant.

Franklin: As they were handing the verdict to the judge,

and he looked at it and handed it to the clerk...

...and as she was reading it, my heart was just pounding.

Clerk: We, the jury in the above entitled action,

find the defendant, Conrad Robert Murray,

guilty of the crime of involuntary manslaughter.

Somebody to my left screamed.

I jumped a mile.

Karas: Michael Jackson's niece did let out a yelp.

We all heard it. I mean, it's audible.

She couldn't help it.

As soon as she heard guilty of involuntary manslaughter,

it was what she wanted to hear.

Guilty! Guilty!

Ha, ha, ha!

Justice has been served!

[Cheering]

Blitzer: Dr. Conrad Murray

is going to be escorted to jail right now

until his formal sentencing on Tuesday, November 29th.

Wass: On the day of the sentencing,

the judge imposed the maximum sentence.

Man: The honorable Michael E. Pastor Judge presiding,

please be seated.

And he went off on this tangent and made Dr. Murray

look like the most horrific person in the world.

Dr. Murray created a set of circumstances

and became involved in a cycle of horrible medicine.

The judge, Judge Pastor,

then sentenced him the maximum he could, 4 years in prison.

After the sentencing, when Dr. Murray

was led off back to jail,

he blew a kiss back to all of his supporters, Brooke.

Okay. Casey Wian for us in Los Angeles.

Michael's fans were infuriated

because they believed he murdered the King of Pop.

Karas: There were many fans who believed

that this should have been a second degree murder charge.

That's punishable by 15 years to life.

Involuntary manslaughter, ultimately the decision

the District Attorney Steve Cooley went with,

easier to prove.

I remember one day seeing a small plane circling overhead

and trailing a banner behind it

that was demanding murder charges

that was critical of the Prosecution

for bringing only a manslaughter charge.

In fact, I had fans tell me that they were going to organize

and defeat Steve Cooley's

run for Attorney General of California.

He did indeed run for Attorney General,

and he did indeed get defeated.

They credit themselves with a bloc of votes

that supported his opponent.

Wass: I strongly believe that if Michael Jackson

hadn't have been the victim that Dr. Murray

would not have been charged with a felony.

It would have been a medical board proceeding.

You know, he might have lost his license

or been suspended for a while,

but it never would have turned into a felony conviction.

There was never any attempt by Murray to --

I mean, Michael Jackson was his lifeline.

Michael Jackson was a source of income for Mr. Murray.

They both needed each other.

Franklin: The jurors felt that he --

we did think he was a good friend,

and we even thought that he's probably a good doctor.

He just made a very bad decision.

Conrad Murray is now a free man

after being released overnight in Los Angeles.

He served nearly 2 years of a 4-year sentence

for involuntary manslaughter.

Wass: Dr. Murray was released from prison in October 2013.

A month after Dr. Murray was released from jail,

I spent Thanksgiving with Dr. Murray

and his family and friends, and Nicole,

Dr. Murray's girlfriend, wanted us to play Family Feud.

It was a CD you put into the DVD player, you know.

The second question for our team

was, "Name the top five reasons a person can't fall asleep."

It was like a movie script, I swear. It was crazy.

Man: What was the number one answer?

The number one answer was insomnia,

and nobody on our team got that answer.

Lemon: Do you take any responsibility

in Michael Jackson's demise, in his death?

You know, I am very remorseful that Michael has passed away.

Michael was a friend.

I felt as though I was protecting Michael all the time.

I did.

Morgan: What are your feelings towards Dr. Conrad Murray?

I can't even describe the way I feel about him.

He did a terrible thing,

and there might have been others involved.

I don't know that, but I feel that.

Reporter: Michael's mother, Katherine Jackson,

has just filed a lawsuit against AEG.

Reporter: And the mother of the late pop star

Michael Jackson has filed a wrongful death lawsuit

against the company behind his planned comeback tour in the UK.

In the suit, Katherine Jackson claims that AEG Live

was responsible for her son's health

because it hired and directed his doctor, Conrad Murray.

Michael Jackson's family was looking for someone to blame,

and they were blaming AEG.

His family is seeking more than a billion dollars in damages.

Duke: Michael Jackson's mother, Katherine Jackson,

hired a team of powerful lawyers to go after AEG Live,

to sue them for Michael Jackson's death.

♪ They don't even care about us ♪

Duke: Arguing that Michael would be alive

if they had taken better care of him,

not pressured him to perform,

not hired the doctor that went to prison for his death.

Of course AEG Live said, "We didn't hire him.

Michael brought him to us."

Man: And the sad truth here is Mr. Jackson's death

was caused his choices,

and it would have happened no matter what,

with or without AEG Live.

Duke: In closing arguments, Brian Panish,

the lawyer for Katherine Jackson actually acknowledged

that Michael Jackson contributed to his own death.

The jury ultimately decided that Dr. Murray

was not incompetent,

so AEG couldn't be held liable for hiring an incompetent doctor

because they said he was a medical doctor.

It was really kind of an odd verdict.

Concert promoter AEG Live found

not liable for Michael Jackson's death.

A jury cleared AEG of wrongdoing and awarded the Jackson family,

therefore, nothing. -Good morning there, Chris.

This was a shocker of a verdict,

given how complex and how long this trial went on.

Michael Jackson was pretty used to getting his own way.

Anybody who said, "No," well they were out of the mix,

and he would find somebody else.

Everybody needed something.

Conrad Murray needed the cash.

Michael Jackson needed the drugs.

AEG Live needed the show to take place.

Ultimately none of that happened, and nobody won.

Everybody lost.

The names of Conrad Murray and Michael Jackson

will always be linked together.

In fact, Michael Jackson once foretold this

by telling Conrad Murray that,

"You know, our names will be linked forever,"

and when Conrad Murray asked Michael Jackson,

"How do you know that,"

Jackson said, "I'm a clairvoyant."

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It seems that the story is over.

It's a tragedy.

We lost Michael Jackson.

Karas: The world lost someone they'll never get back.

This is a very sad tale. It's a very --

Shakespeare couldn't have written this story

any more dramatically or tragically.

Geragos: I think his legacy is what it should be,

one of the greatest performers,

songwriters, and human beings of all time.

You know, Michael Jackson's real legacy is his music,

is his art,

and with Michael Jackson the person out of the picture,

I think future generations can focus once again

on what made Michael Jackson great.

That's his music.

Reporter: How does it feel when you go in to do a concert somewhere

and literally there are tens of thousands of people

that are rushing over to you just to get a glimpse?

It's a wonderful feeling,

especially when you see them smiling, and I love the fans.

I think it's very sweet.

I feel thankful is how I feel. I really do.

I don't take any of it for granted.

For me and millions of others,

Michael's genius and legacy live on.

As for Dr. Murray,

his medical license was suspended in California,

Nevada, and revoked in Texas.

He turned down our interview requests

but self-published a book of his version of events.

He still maintains he did nothing wrong.

We all miss you, Michael.

Thanks for watching.

Good night.

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