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LOS ANGELES - Determining exactly how Michael Jackson died will take four to six weeks, county forensic examiners said Friday.

Standing in the street outside the county coroner's building, Los Angeles County Department of the Coroner spokesman Craig Harvey said an autopsy on Jackson's body was completed Friday. But additional blood toxicity tests, as well as other tests, need to be carried out and analyzed, he said.

Harvey said Jackson's death did not appear to be suspicious.

"There is no indication of external trauma or foul play," he said, surrounded by a throng of news reporters, who spilled off the sidewalk and onto the street, forcing police to halt traffic.

The news conference was notable more for what officials didn't say than what they did comment on.

A private memorial service is scheduled for Sunday.

Also, a Jackson will, written in 2002, has been located, according to Jackson family lawyer Londell McMillan.

The question of where Jackson will be buried remains unanswered.

The singer's hometown of Gary, Indiana, is asking the family to send him there, according to the mayor's spokeswoman.

Gary Mayor Rudy Clay has been in contact with the Jackson family hoping to make that happen, spokeswoman Lalosa Burns said Tuesday.

Clay told Chicago radio station WGN that he expects Jackson's body will, at the least, be taken to Gary for a memorial service he is planning for next week.

"I believe that his body will lie in state in Gary, Indiana," Clay said Tuesday. "Now, it may not happen, but I believe it will."
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It would be "a memorial that's fit for the prince of peace and a memorial that's fit for Gary, Indiana's favorite son, the greatest entertainer that ever d," Clay said.

A burial site for the singer could be near a proposed Jackson family museum and a performing arts center, Burns said.

"The mayor had spoken with a contact of the Jackson family and expressed our interest in having that to be a part of the history of this great family," Burns said. "We have not received confirmation on that."

Jackson's father, Joe, visited the city last year and talked with Clay about a Jackson museum, Burns said.


Michael Jackson purchased the Neverland Ranch, which is located north of Santa Barbara, in 1987 and filled it with animals and amusement rides. He later ran into financial problems with the property but retained a stake in it at the time of his death June 25.

The ranch is named for the fictional world in J.M. Barrie's "Peter Pan."


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