Inside The Mystery Of Jim Morrison’s Death And The Disturbing Theories That Surround It
- by Aimee Lamoureux | Checked by John Kuroski
BECAUSE NO AUTOPSY WAS EVER PERFORMED, THE TRUTH ABOUT HOW JIM MORRISON DIED IN HIS PARIS BATHTUB AT AGE 27 HAS REMAINED MURKY FOR DECADES.
On July 3, 1971, rock icon Jim Morrison died at age 27 in Paris. The untimely demise of The Doors frontman stunned the world and left his fans devastated. But the questions surrounding Jim Morrison’s death have endured far longer than the short time he spent on Earth.
Officially, he was found dead in a bathtub in Paris by his girlfriend Pamela Courson. French officials said that Jim Morrison’s cause of death was heart failure — without conducting an autopsy. Before the world knew what had happened, he was quietly laid to rest in Paris’s Père Lachaise Cemetery.
