No, he wasn’t murdered - which is against the odds for Detroit - I do know that. I never really learned the actual cause of death, but it is my guess that it was a heart attack brought on by the fact that he was kind of living on borrowed time and in need of a liver transplant. He was going to “live” whatever time he had. By the time his body was returned to Nashville for the funeral, he was the deadest-looking dead person I’ve ever seen. But, hell, what he would have said is, “As long as I’m dead, why try to look like I’m not?”