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Though the coroner's report found otherwise, Caserta still believes her friend died not of a heroin overdose, but a fatal trip. Less than 24 hours later, Joplin would be dead. 'That started her thinking about it, and she came up to my room to get high.' 'She just happened to walk out to get cigarettes and ran into George in the Landmark lobby,' Caserta recalled. That is, until she ran into a drug dealer delivering dope to Caserta in the hotel lobby where she later died. 'It has to be the gay thing.'Ĭaserta admits to Vulture that Joplin had been clean in the time leading up to her death. 'Sam certainly shot as much dope with her as I did,' she said. She thinks her openly gay identity 'tipped the scale' when it came to assigning blame for Joplin's death. 'Janis and James Gurley and Sam Andrew were shooting heroin from the beginning of Big Brother and the Holding Company, the three of them,' Caserta said of Joplin's former bandmates. In the interview, Caserta said she didn't turn Joplin onto heroin, though admits to being her 'dope-shooting pal.' It took this many years to write a correction, she said, due to her drug addiction and a decade spent caring for her ailing mother.

'I didn't write that trash,' she said of 'Going Down with Janis.' 'I sold out for drug money, and I've lived in the shadow of it for 40-some-odd years.' Caserta, in a new interview with Vulture, said she sees 'I Ran Into Some Trouble' (co-written by Maggie Falcon) as a correction to her earlier memoir. Nearly five decades after Joplin's death, Caserta, now 77, has written another memoir that recounts her experiences hanging out in Haight-Ashbury, her longtime heroin addiction and her efforts to get clean later in life. Ghostwritten by Dan Knapp, the book tells of Caserta shooting heroin with Joplin innumerable times, and recounts the 24 hours leading up to her death, when Caserta and Joplin's fiance, Seth Morgan, stood up the singer for a planned threesome.

JOPLIN MOVIE THEATER SHOOTING FULL

Joplin Police Captain William Davis speaks to the media following the release of bodycam footage of a deadly officer-involved shooting March 8, 2022.īelow is the link to the full 28-minute narrated video released by the Joplin Police Department.After the publication of her ghostwritten memoir, 'Going Down with Janis,' 45 years ago, Caserta became better known, in some people's minds, as the catalyst of Joplin's death. (KABC) - An 18-year-old woman is dead and a 19-year-old man is on life support after a shooting at a Corona movie theater during a showing of 'The Forever Purge.' The. That’s been turned over and there is an ongoing investigation concerning that,” stated Rowland. “He was a convicted felon and could not possess a weapon. Rowland said the suspect, Anthony Felix, bought the gun he used from “a local individual” who had purchased it legally.

Rowland stated that the prosecutor’s office reviewed the footage and determined that Captain William Davis was justified in fatally shooting the assailant, stopping his deadly rampage. He says the Missouri State Highway Patrol completed their investigation last month and turned it over to the Jasper County Prosecutor’s office. Police Chief Sloan Rowland says the release of this requested footage is required by Missouri’s Sunshine law. The Joplin Police Department has released video footage of a deadly officer-involved shooting that took place March 8 which claimed the lives of Corporal Ben Cooper and Officer Jake Reed, and seriously injured Officer Rick Hirshey.

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