Autopsy Results: Finished But Sealed
After weeks of waiting, the autopsy results for Michael Jackson have finally been completed! But that doesn’t mean we’ll get to find out the results.
LA police have requested that the coroner’s test results be sealed until the death investigation is completed. That means that it may several more weeks until the public gets to learn about the official cause of death and the toxicology results. According to MTV, the security hold on the results has been put in place to ensure that the investigation doesn’t get derailed. Here’s the latest:
More than six weeks after Michael Jackson’s death, the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office announced on Monday that it had completed an autopsy on the singer that details his cause of death. Those results, however, are being withheld indefinitely to allow police to complete their investigation, according to the Los Angeles Times.
“The investigation was thorough and comprehensive,” a coroner’s official explained in a news release. But in order to avoid interfering with the ongoing criminal probe by the Los Angeles Police Department into what might have killed the 50-year-old singer, the office will honor the LAPD’s request to put the results on a “security hold.”
Quoting an unnamed police source, TMZ reported that the LAPD doesn’t want the autopsy released, because it could hamper their ongoing investigation. In a statement released on Monday, the police department said its investigation “has included dozens of individual interviews and the service of search warrants locally and out of-state.”