1. Five gorillas, four chimps, three orangutans, the monkey from Friends and Peter Tork
Evidence description: The animals were all found in good condition, living in climate-controlled pens apparently designed to mimic their natural environment. Although disoriented, Mr. Tork appeared quite content and had been adopted by one of the female gorillas. There was some violent behavior when the two were separated, but tranquilizers were used to quell the disruption, and Mr. Tork quickly calmed down. The animals were sent to the Los Angeles Zoo for full physicals and monitoring.
2. Macaulay Culkin's career
Evidence description: Missing since 1992 and presumed lost in New York, detectives uncovered Culkin's career in one of the compound's bedrooms. The career was unresponsive upon discovery and appeared to be suffering from severe mistreatment and malnourishment. Attempts to contact the rightful owner were unsuccessful. If further attempts are unsuccessful, the career will be given to Jonathan Lipnicki.
3. 200,000 copies of "Invincible" album
Evidence description: Eight boxes discovered in the master bedroom turned out to contain more than 200,000 copies of Mr. Jackson's compact disc entitled "Invincible." Detectives found this suspicious, given that only 2.1 million copies were sold, but found no outstanding complaints of stolen property from local record stores. Receipts for the discs were eventually found. A similar discovery of 63 unused tickets for "Captain EO" at Disneyworld proved equally benign.
4. Lisa Marie Presley's "To Whom It May Concern" compact disc
Evidence description: The CD from Mr. Jackson's first wife was found next to a dartboard to which a picture of actor Nicholas Cage was attached. Ms. Presley's picture on the cover of the CD had been defaced, with the eyes poked out and horns and a goatee drawn in some sort of permanent ink. In a potentially related discovery, detectives found a picture of Sony chairman Tommy Mottola with a clipping of Ms. Presley's face taped over Mr. Mottola's face.
5. Human nose
Evidence description: Originally thought to be human remains, a medical team determined the item in question to be a plaster relief nose. The remainder of the face was later uncovered next to a bathroom medicine cabinet, and experts are conducting tests to determine if the face is that of Jackson himself or Diana Ross.
6. Michael Jackson's Moonwalker
Evidence description: A video game manufactured for use with the Sega gaming console, this evidence was discovered in one of several arcade rooms (all of which were monitored on closed-circuit television). Detectives found a sheet of paper with numbers and letters which were determined to be secret codes for the game -- in which a character modeled after Mr. Jackson rescues endangered children and becomes a robot.
7. 200 white gloves
Evidence description: Found in one of Mr. Jackson's closets, but not the one from which he refused to come out. All 200 gloves were white and appeared to fit the right hand of a small male or medium female. Note: Once tested for DNA evidence, gloves should be forwarded to the LAPD in case they prove of any use in the unsolved murder investigation of Nicole Brown Simpson.
8. White tiger
Evidence description: A large white tiger, later determined to be 7 years old, was found wandering on the estate. The tiger was not initially aggressive and did not resist capture by animal control, but later became enraged when a radio advertisement for Las Vegas came on in the transport truck. Sequins found in the tiger's mouth turned out not to match any of those on Mr. Jackson's clothing.
9. Steel chin-up bar
Evidence description: Initial tests of the chin-up bar in Mr. Jackson's bedroom suggested skin was present on the bar from a number of different individuals, but additional tests revealed all samples matched the various skin transplants associated with Mr. Jackson's 1988 surgery to add cleft to his chin.
10. J.D. Salinger
Evidence description: Detectives discovered the reclusive writer -- thought to be living in New England -- in the compound's guest house. Investigators have been unable to corroborate Salinger's alibi that he was watching a baseball game in an Iowa cornfield on the night of the alleged incident involving Mr. Jackson, but there is evidence that he is telling the truth about having spent the last 31 years writing the lyrics to Jackson's songs.
