The official cause of death for Jimi Hendrix was always listed as choking on vomit due to a barbiturate overdose. However recent revelations show that foul play was involved.
Upon reading an account of Hendrix’s death in a book the attending emergency room doctor, Dr Bannister, came forward to say he experienced an unusual amount of wine in Hendrix’s lungs, stomach, and hair. He determined that Hendrix had not choked on his own vomit but had been drowned in wine instead. He said that when he unplugged the vomit from Hendrix’s windpipe an unusual amount of wine gushed out, like bottles worth, and that he had never experienced anything like it. In his opinion the vomit occurred after Hendrix had drowned, as occurs in many drowning victims. This incidence was accompanied by a negligible level of alcohol in the blood. It’s a simple fact that you can’t have bottles worth of wine in your body and not have a corresponding blood alcohol level unless the wine was forced quickly and death soon followed. This is the firm forensic of murder.
What furthers this is the fact Hendrix had 9 Vesperax sleeping pills in him at the time. Eric Burdon of the Animals claimed Hendrix committed suicide, but the coroner said 9 Vesperax was not enough to kill Hendrix alone. Also, there were 50 Vesperax available at the time so if Hendrix intended to kill himself he would have taken more. So it stands to reason that Hendrix could not have administered a large amount of wine into himself while knocked-out on Vesperax barbiturate. This forensic is quickly indicating that Jimi Hendrix had a large amount of wine forced down his throat while incapacitated on sleeping pills. That is the forensic of murder.
It wasn’t until the early 1990’s that anyone bothered to question the ambulance attendants who treated Hendrix. When they did they found that the main witness, Hendrix’s girlfriend Monika Danneman, had told a false story. She claimed she woke up and found Jimi unresponsive but was afraid to call for help lest it be unnecessary and Hendrix would be angry. She eventually called Burdon who told her to call an ambulance and that Hendrix was alive when she accompanied him to the hospital. The attendants said they found nobody there and that Hendrix was obviously dead. They followed procedure and called a constable and that nobody accompanied Hendrix to the hospital.
It’s a long story, but eventually Hendrix girlfriend Kathy Etchingham sued Monika Danneman and managed to get her subpoena-ed where she would be forced to explain the conflicts in her accounts. Danneman was found dead from fumes in her Mercedes shortly after. With that the only known person with Hendrix when he died was gone along with any chance of knowing what exactly happened.
Recently a road crew member came forward and revealed that Hendrix’s manager Michael Jeffery confessed to him that he had murdered Hendrix because he was about to fire him and it would have ruined him financially. The crew member James “Tappy” Wright said Jeffery had borrowed money from the mafia he would have been unable to repay had Hendrix fired him and that an insurance policy Jeffery had on Hendrix was incentive to kill him. However, some say there was no such policy and no one has been able to identify one. After Hendrix’s death Jeffery was flush with cash. The money was probably the money he had ripped-off from Hendrix - which was Hendrix’s reason for firing him.
In any case, Wright said Jeffery had told him he was in London that night and got some street tough friends to go to Monika’s flat and shove pills down Hendrix’s throat followed by wine. There’s a couple of problems though, Jeffery was said to be in Majorca, Spain that night. Also, the sleeping pills were in Hendrix long enough to register in his blood stream and incapacitate him, so the story doesn’t jibe. This brings suspicion on Wright’s story. However the drowning part does fit the forensics.
This really all comes down to Monika Danneman. She admitted to UPI reporter and friend of Hendrix Sharon Lawrence that she tried to wash ‘sick’ off of Jimi with wine. But who washes vomit with wine??? Besides the forensic says there was a large amount of wine forced into the body, not any shallow penetration by surface washing. So this is yet another example of a bogus story from Danneman.
A member of Hendrix band’s inside circle said they were sleeping on a couch in Michael Jeffery’s Electric Lady Studio’s office where they couldn’t be seen and overheard Jeffery telling Danneman she was going to help poison Hendrix. I can’t vouch for the veracity of this story but it makes sense in light of what happened. Wright said he never came forward because Hendrix girlfriend Devon Wilson was thrown from the 8th floor of Manhattan’s Chelsea Hotel a few months after Hendrix’s death. She had been going around telling people Jeffery murdered Hendrix.
A Hendrix author said Eric Burdon admitted he found Hendrix dead when he arrived at Danneman’s flat. They were concerned any drugs found in the flat would bring heat down on the London rock community so they cleaned the place out and left before the ambulance arrived. Burdon can’t come clean on this because lying to the Inquest is a serious matter. So that explains Danneman’s false story - but it doesn’t explain the manner in which Hendrix died.
It’s becoming clear that Danneman either witnessed Hendrix being murdered or was told to go get some cigarettes while the foul deed was done. The scene she would have arrived back to witness fits her story.
Michael Jeffery was with British MI5 intelligence during his national service. Some are speculating his murder of Hendrix was government influenced. He had bragged he had killed people and friends said he had done insurance scams as well.
Scotland Yard refuses to re-open the case and admit evidence of murder.