Doctor made 11 cell calls and waited 25 minutes

Sade Anding, a girlfriend of Dr. Conrad Murray’s at the time of Michael Jackson’s death, testified that she received a call from Murray at around 12:30 PM. This is important because it seems to indicate that Murray waited around 25 minutes after noticing MJ was lifeless before calling 911.

Anding was in Houston the day MJ died. Phone records show there is only one call in the phone records from Murray to Anding, and that’s at 11:51 AM PT.

According to her testimony Anding says Murray asked her how she was doing. She spoke for a few minutes telling Murray about her day but realized Murray wasn’t on the phone anymore.

Anding then said she heard commotion, as if the phone was in his pocket, and heard “coughing and voices.” The cocktail waitress recounted Friday how she was called by Michael Jackson’s personal doctor the day the pop icon died and heard a “commotion,” apparently as the medic struggled with the crisis. She said the call lasted about 5 minutes.

Anding is a waitress and said she had met Murray in a Texas steakhouse in February 2009. They exchanged phone numbers, and she received a call from the doctor on the morning of the fateful day.

“He told me that he was doing well,” she said, adding she had cut him off and started talking, but realized five or 10 minutes later that Murray was no longer on the phone.

“I heard a commotion… coughing, mumbling of voices,” she said, adding that she was unsure if the mumbling was coming from Murray.

Anding said she stayed on the phone for about five minutes, saying it was unusual for Murray to stop responding. “I just remember saying, ‘Hello? Hello? Hello? Are you there?’ Are you there? Are you there?’” she said.

The waitress eventually hung up and tried to call Murray back and send him text messages, but got no reply.

This timeline is important because it indicates the 911 call wasn’t made until 12:21 PM PT, which means — if Murray did indeed first realize MJ was in distress at around 11:55 AM PT — there was a long delay in sounding the alarm.

After that fateful conversation, Anding said she heard nothing more until LA police contacted her. She called Murray, who apologized for involving her, and urged her to call his lawyer to be present if she met with detectives.

Los Angeles detective Dan Myers told the hearing that Murray had made or received 11 cellphone calls, totalling some 90 minutes of conversations, in the roughly five hours leading up to midday on the fateful day.

These included a 32-minute call to his medical practice in Las Vegas and an 11-minute call shortly before Murray called Jackson’s personal assistant at 12:12 pm to say the singer had had a “bad reaction.”

Prosecutors allege that Murray “abandoned his patient” after administering the propofol some time between 10:40 am and 11:00 am.