00:00Who killed the guitar guard Jimi Hendrix?
00:06It's the 55th anniversary of his very suspicious death on September 18th, 1970.
00:13The tragic death of the only 27-year-old Jimi Hendrix,
00:17who therefore unfortunately joined the 27 Club
00:21and who was considered by most top guitarists to be the greatest rock guitarist in history,
00:27remained as one of the greatest unsolved mysteries.
00:32But now, after 55 long years and extensive investigations,
00:36collected data, insider leaks and analysis,
00:39by Jimi's preferred album cover photographer Carl Ferris,
00:42of his three US debut album covers.
00:46Are You Experienced, Electric Ladyland and Axis Bold as Love,
00:50the case has been finally solved.
00:52The original London coroner reported the cause of death,
00:58as inhalation of vomit following barbiturate intoxication.
01:03But later, New Scotland Yard reopened a brief inquiry in 1992,
01:07but due to inconclusive evidence and assumption that it was just an overdose,
01:11soon announced the case was no longer of public interest.
01:14Are you trying to prove that to you?
01:17But now, finally, new evidence has now come to light,
01:20proving that Jimi Hendrix was unintentionally murdered.
01:23But by whom?
01:26Just before his demise,
01:28Hendrix was about to finally fire his manager, Mike Jeffery,
01:31who had launched his career four years earlier.
01:34Jeffery was also the manager of the Animals and other groups,
01:39and had close British mob and New York Mafia connections,
01:44boasted of having once been a British intelligence operative
01:47and spoke fluent Russian,
01:49and was responsible for Cold War assassinations and undercover bomb attacks.
01:57Although Hendrix and his group, The Experience,
01:59had earned more than $30 million from three albums and relentless touring,
02:04they found themselves inappropriately paid,
02:07after discovering that their high living manager, the ex-spy,
02:10kept the money in hidden numbered bank accounts in the Bahamas.
02:16In the spring of 1969,
02:18a recording and tour exhausted Hendrix,
02:20decided to disband his tired of and repetitious experience band,
02:25which greatly infuriated Jeffery,
02:27and in an attempt to bring him back to heel,
02:29Jeffery engineered a drug plant and self-informed bust
02:32in Toronto, Canada, from which he then,
02:35with lawyers, saved Jimmy.
02:37Then months later,
02:38had Jimmy temporarily kidnapped at gunpoint
02:40by his New York Mafia friends,
02:42from who he also conveniently saved him.
02:45But these intimidations didn't work on Hendrix,
02:47and refusing to resurrect the cash cow,
02:49but repetitive experience band,
02:51Jimmy launched his all-black band of gypsies,
02:54which Jeffery then sabotaged by giving them
02:56some bad LSD during a performance.
02:59Then, later, following a brief, drug-addled German tour
03:04in September 1970,
03:06which ended with an in-concert Hell's Angels riot,
03:09and fire,
03:10Jimmy fled to London,
03:12telling a confidant he felt surrounded by wolves.
03:14Who were these wolves?
03:17Paternity suit lawyers?
03:19Breach of contract lawyers?
03:20New York Mafia loan collectors
03:22for his Electric Ladyland recording studio,
03:24ex-girlfriends?
03:26And Jeffery himself,
03:27whose management contract was about to expire.
03:31Hiding from them all,
03:32Jimmy convinced Miles Davis's manager,
03:35Alan Douglas, to represent him,
03:37and support his new jazz musical direction,
03:39and possibly arrange for him to join
03:41a new Miles Davis band.
03:45For Jeffery, losing Jimmy would mean
03:47a take-over auditing disaster,
03:49and prosecution for his embezzlement
03:51and mismanagement and fraud,
03:53plus bankruptcy,
03:54and possibly a long imprisonment.
03:56The ex-spy used phone-tapping devices
04:01and informants to keep track of his artists,
04:03especially Jimmy, who said,
04:05If I'm free, it's because I'm always running.
04:07In the end, he was running with a mysterious blonde,
04:11Monica Dannemann,
04:13who he had met on his disastrous German concert tour
04:16and had only known for a few days.
04:18So his friends called her a stalker
04:20because she'd just followed him from Germany.
04:23But despite his paranoia,
04:24he didn't seem to suspect his girlfriend Dejour
04:27might also be his manager's informant.
04:31But yes, she was,
04:32as Jeffery had called her
04:33to find out where they were staying.
04:35So he knew were to send his thugs
04:37to intimidate Jimmy.
04:41Tappy Wright, the author of the book Rock Roadie,
04:45in which he wrote that
04:46Jeffrey had confessed to killing Jimmy.
04:48But then later said to a colleague
04:50who disapproved of his betrayal of Jeffrey,
04:52that he had just made it up to sell his book
04:55with an ironic smile on his face.
05:00But then much later,
05:01shortly before his imminent death in 2016,
05:04when asked by an intimate family member
05:06in the hospital to finally tell the truth
05:08about how he actually knew
05:10that Mike Jeffrey was telling the truth
05:12about killing Hendricks,
05:13said,
05:14because I was Mike's right-hand man
05:16and knew all about it.
05:17And then,
05:18he finally confessed that
05:19on orders from Jeffrey.
05:20His infamous Newcastle club,
05:23Agogo security enforcer,
05:24the Turk,
05:25and two other thugs
05:26had in fact waterboarded Jimmy that night.
05:28Which was no doubt very familiar to Jeffrey,
05:32the spy,
05:34as forced hydration of this kind
05:36was an interrogation torture technique
05:38that left no marks on the body.
05:42But the intention, Tappy insisted,
05:44was definitely not to kill Jimmy,
05:46as this would have caused a huge police investigation,
05:49but it was only to put the fear of death
05:51and to intimidate him.
05:53And as with the former arranged kidnapping and drug bust,
05:56it was to terrify him into submission to Jeffrey's control
05:59once and for all.
06:02But this last intimidation got way out of control
06:05and proved fatal.
06:06Because unknown to them,
06:07Jimmy had taken several Vesperax tablets earlier
06:10and so was highly sedated.
06:12Therefore,
06:13Jimmy was unable to recover from the waterboarding.
06:17And,
06:18as the ambulance man, John Sauer,
06:20had originally testified,
06:21Hendricks must have put up a struggle
06:23by the looks of the room.
06:27And had the case been properly investigated
06:29and not mishandled by the police
06:31who assumed it was simply an overdose case,
06:34the result would have been severe
06:36because under British law,
06:38the perpetrators and their boss, Jeffrey,
06:40even though their intention
06:41may not have been to kill Hendricks,
06:43would have been prosecuted
06:44as a transferred malice murder case
06:46and face life imprisonment.
06:51On the day of the attack,
06:52Dannemann was told by the perpetrators to leave
06:54because they needed privacy with Jimmy,
06:56which she did.
06:59Then,
07:00hours later,
07:01an anonymous call for an ambulance
07:03was placed around noon
07:05and when the ambulance men arrived,
07:06they found Jimmy,
07:07fully clothed on top of the bed,
07:09covered with vomit and much dark liquid
07:11and no one else there.
07:15Then,
07:16on arrival at the local hospital,
07:17the doctor on duty,
07:18in a futile attempt to revive the star,
07:20tried to clear his windpipe with a suction tube
07:23and said huge amounts of vomit and liquids
07:26were coming out of his nose and mouth,
07:28he later testified.
07:29So,
07:30without the ability to breathe,
07:31he was drowned by the vomit and water.
07:33It was horrific.
07:35questioned by police later that day,
07:39Dannemann said she had given Hendrik
07:41some German brand of Sekenol Vesperax tablets
07:44to help him sleep,
07:45but she had no idea of what had later happened
07:48and how he might have been asphyxiated
07:50as she was out at that time looking for a cigarette shop.
07:53Then later,
07:57after Jimmy's funeral,
07:59she met secretly with Jeffrey,
08:00who warned and threatened her,
08:02never to reveal what really happened that night.
08:05But if she cooperated,
08:06he promised to manage her and market her paintings for her
08:09and provide her monthly financial support.
08:15But in 1995,
08:16after Jeffrey's supposed demise,
08:18she released a book titled
08:20The Inner World of Jimi Hendrix.
08:22And by that time,
08:23she had floated many ever-changing
08:25and contradictory stories
08:26about what had happened that night.
08:28But now,
08:29she was going to tell all,
08:30intimating murder
08:31and possible mob involvement.
08:35But days before,
08:36she was to do the tell all
08:38for an important London radio station.
08:40She was found very suspiciously asphyxiated
08:43by her car's exhaust,
08:44alone in her car
08:45with all the windows closed.
08:47Which was very convenient
08:50and probably arranged
08:51by the still-possibly-alive Jeffrey
08:53to get rid of witnesses.
08:57Because also earlier
08:58and seemingly connected,
08:59Devon Wilson,
09:00Jimmy's long-time close friend
09:02and confidant,
09:03had died from a suspicious fall
09:05from a window of the Chelsea Hotel in New York.
09:09As a result of Hendrix's death
09:10by what authorities originally classed
09:12as a misadventure,
09:14Jeffrey's management contract
09:16was continued by default.
09:18And he was able to collect
09:19on a million-pound life insurance policy
09:22which had been put in place
09:23a few months earlier.
09:25He also retained control
09:27over all the Hendrix music catalogue revenues
09:29which generated millions annually.
09:31In a final truth,
09:35stranger than fiction development.
09:37In 1973, the ex-spy,
09:40days before he was scheduled
09:41to return to London from Spain
09:43to face huge lawsuits
09:45relating to his Hendrix financial embezzlement,
09:47money laundering and fraud
09:49which would have resulted
09:50in a very long prison sentence.
09:52was reportedly killed
09:55in a very suspicious plane collision
09:56between two planes
09:57over Nantes, France
09:59in which all 68 people on board
10:01were killed
10:02and an unrecognisable headless body
10:04was labelled Michael Jeffrey
10:06simply because it was one
10:08of the unaccounted for bodies
10:09on the passenger list
10:11and was only assumedly identified
10:13by his recovered jewelry
10:15found scattered in the crash site.
10:17possibly from the travel case
10:20which he had checked in
10:21but then did not board the plane.
10:26But no DNA or dental chart cross checks
10:28were done for identification
10:29which are normally done
10:31and the French authorities
10:32mysteriously refused
10:33to release the aircraft's black box
10:35to independent investigators.
10:37Why?
10:41Then Eric Burden of the Animals
10:43and many other former Jeffrey clients
10:45surmised that
10:46their former manager,
10:47the ex-spy
10:48might have taken advantage
10:50of this accident
10:51to deliberately fake his own death
10:53because in the then
10:54low security boarding procedure
10:56he could have checked his bag
10:57and then deliberately missed the flight
10:59as he often did
11:00as he had told them
11:02that he was always paranoid of planes
11:04because he had many hardcore enemies
11:06and as a former spy
11:08was scared of a possible assassination
11:10by a plane explosion.
11:12Therefore he could have taken advantage
11:14of this very convenient actual crash
11:16to fake his own death
11:18thereby avoiding his impending long imprisonment
11:21for all his fraudulent activities.
11:27And then to make this believable
11:29he totally disappeared
11:31probably to his own secret estate somewhere
11:34with a fake identity
11:35and was never seen again
11:36living secretly and royally
11:38on Hendrix's money
11:39hidden away in his Bahamas
11:41numbered offshore accounts.
11:46And so the guitar god
11:47a genius Mozart of the 20th century
11:50was gone.
11:51But his immortal voodoo child refrain
11:55lives on
11:56If I don't meet you no more
11:58in this world
11:59I'll meet in the next
12:00and don't be late.
12:01If I don't see you no more
12:02in this world
12:04If I don't see you no more
12:06in this world
12:07I'll meet y'all on the next
12:09and don't be late
12:10Don't be late
12:12Don't be late
12:13That's all
12:14Cause I'm a voodoo child
12:16And I'm a voodoo child
12:20And I'm a voodoo child
12:22Hey!
12:23Hey!
12:28Blue jumping!
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