Conrad Murray: Before Michael Jackson

Los Angeles - Feb. 19, 1953
Conrad Murray is born in St. Andrews, Grenada. He lives for his first seven years with his maternal grandparents. He then moves to Trinidad and Tobago, where he joins his mother and stepfather. He is educated there and works as a schoolteacher in Trinidad, a customs clerk and insurance underwriter before turning to medicine.

1980
Moves to Houston to study medicine. He completes an undergraduate degree in pre-medicine and biological sciences from Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas in three years, graduating magna cum laude.

1989
Graduates from Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tenn. This follows his return from fourth year senior elective medical training at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.

1992
Completes his internship and residency at the Loma Linda University Medical Center in Calif. Training in cardiology follows at the University of Arizona, the University of San Diego and Sharp Healthcare. Files for bankruptcy in California.

1993 - 2003
Murray accumulates more than $44,000 in tax liens owed to California and Arizona.

1996
Murray starts a three-year stint as associate director for the interventional cardiology fellowship training program at Sharp Memorial Hospital in San Diego.

1999
Relocates to Las Vegas; opens a private practice in the spring of 2000.

2000
Founds Global Cardiovascular Associates in Las Vegas. Operates a second practice in Houston.

2005
A former partner in an energy-drink distribution venture claims Murray owes him $68,000. John Thomas, distributor of a drink called Pit Bull, says that in 2005 and 2006 Murray had the rights to distribute the product in Trinidad and Tobago. The drink never gains popularity there. Murray pays his bill for a first shipment, then doesn't pay for three subsequent shipments, Thomas says.