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- Avicii was a huge, wildly popular DJ and producer,

electronic musician.

- Avicii was thrown into the lion's den

of the exploding EDM scene, but he was also a lion himself.

- That lifestyle is fast and furious.

- His fans were along for the ride.

- The DJ became the new rock star.

- There wasn't anyone around him who said,

"Maybe this is too much."

- To die so young and so suddenly,

I think it was an awful shock to a lot of people.

- It came out immediately that it was suicide.

- There's also a ton of fans out there who have come up

with all sorts of alternative explanations.

- We don't have the definitive clues about how he died,

why he died, what happened.

- Fans are saying this was a murder,

and who could have done it?

- If he decided to fake his death,

the way he died would have been a really good way to do it.

Everything is shrouded in mystery.

- 911 emergency.

- The official narrative doesn't tell the whole story.

- You really have to look at everything.

You still have to go down that rabbit hole,

still have to go down that path.

- When a celebrity dies,

the search for answers moves online,

and the truth may be one click away.

April 2018.

The Swedish DJ and EDM superstar known as Avicii escapes to Oman

on the Arabian Peninsula for a secluded holiday.

- Avicii had a friend who was in Oman.

Some some people visited him.

He was socializing.

He was working on music.

- But a vacation in the remote kingdom turns tragic.

Ten days into the trip, Avicii is found dead.

A statement released by the family explains the cause.

They believe their son killed himself.

It's an ending that no one following Avicii

and his entourage saw coming.

- They're just making music.

There's nothing to worry about here.

There's no, like, problem that is obvious.

- The unexpected news stuns the music and entertainment world.

Avicii's fans and the entire music industry

are in disbelief that this young superstar's life

has ended almost as quickly as it came to be.

- My name is Zel McCarthy.

I'm a music journalist.

He had a real kind of orchestral, symphonic mind.

Electronic music allowed him to create the sounds

he was hearing in his head

without assembling a 100 person orchestra.

- Behind the EDM heavyweight known as Avicii is Tim Bergling.

He's just a kid from Stockholm

born with a talent for making music.

- He was able to get his hands on some software

that allowed him to make computerized music

in his bedroom as a teenager.

And he started posting tracks on message boards.

- With just a laptop and his musical instincts,

he captures the attention

of a growing electronic dance music industry.

- This is at a time when a huge influx of people

were coming into the dance music scene

and they wanted to go to these massive festivals

and see this kind of orgy of pyrotechnics

and LED screens and sound.

- He swims in a sea of aspiring DJs.

But his tracks stand out and his reputation grows.

- There was a real fascination with who this young

Swedish dude was.

And the real mystique started building.

- When Tim Bergling makes his first appearances

at music festivals around the world,

he stands behind the boards with a stage name.

Tim Bergling becomes Avicii.

- Avicii came to the party as a newcomer,

and that's actually what people wanted.

The new generation of fans

wanted someone they felt like was their own.

- With a 2011 release of a track called "Levels",

Avicii rockets to the pinnacle of the EDM world.

- It was a huge hit in the clubs,

and then it became a huge hit on the charts.

But that was really only the beginning.

- Avicii takes levels to Ultra and Ibiza.

He headlines the biggest electronic music

festivals in the world.

But his biggest hit is still to come.

The next big release from Avicii was called

"Wake Me Up", and that transcended genre.

It became a certifiable pop hit,

and it solidified Avicii's status as a pop megastar.

There were no other DJs or, like, electronic music producers

who had become global pop icons before then.

- But behind the tables of the most electrifying DJ

in the world is just a kid that made it big.

- I'm Kathryn Frazier.

I have been in the music industry for 30 years.

Avicii obviously was an icon

and, you know, a very revered person in electronic music.

And then as a human, I always heard nothing

but that he was a sweetheart.

Tim is a sweetheart. That's all I ever heard.

- Avicii's sudden death reveals the humanity

behind the face of a superstar.

- He was a little shy and a little socially awkward,

but he didn't dislike people.

I mean, he wanted to connect.

And that's what I always felt when he was talking to me,

is, like, he wanted to say

something to connect to another person,

to let someone else know what it was

that he was thinking or feeling.

- In the days after Avicii's death,

Omani authorities conduct an autopsy.

They say Avicii died of blood loss.

No further details are given.

It's a report so vague that it sows doubt,

confusion, and suspicion.

- My name is Deanna Thompson.

I was in a documentary called "Don't F... k With Cats".

It highlights my work as a sleuth

trying to find a person who was killing cats online

that eventually ended up killing a human being.

Ever since that documentary came out,

my inbox was full of people asking for help with cases

that have been difficult to break open.

When the autopsy confirms

that Avicii died from blood loss,

and that's all that we really know for sure.

- Two weeks after the autopsy,

a bombshell report from TMZ provides grim new details.

- It's reported in different ways.

One is that he used a wine bottle to slash his on throat.

The other is that he used a wine bottle to slash his wrists.

- Disturbing details about Avicii's death

come from the tabloids.

They're inconsistent

and the source of information is unclear.

Online sleuths break down the few known facts about his death.

One report stands out.

- According to "People Magazine",

DJ Avicii's brother was on his way to Oman,

was like literally in the air on a plane,

landed 2 hours after DJ Avicii had been found.

- One of Avicii's friends called his brother for help.

- Something must have happened to scare

that friend enough to call his family.

Nobody knows what that is.

It was bad enough that his brother hopped on a plane

from Stockholm to Oman.

- Online, fans question why Avicii's brother

was rushing to see him in Oman.

- Was he threatening to kill himself?

Was he in a bad place?

What does his family say?

Maybe they'll have some information.

But they're not giving any details

about the circumstances about the suicide.

- Avicii's family references a suicide note.

But there's no mention of one anywhere else.

It's a fact that causes some to question

whether one actually exists.

- There's no mention of what the suicide note said,

where it was, who found it.

Was it in his writing? Was it typed up?

Was it on his computer?

There's no details about it.

- The only document made public is a cryptic statement

from Omani authorities.

- And they don't even release the autopsy report.

They release, like, a photo of the autopsy report

that's highly redacted.

It doesn't really give any information at all.

- The complete absence of real information leaves fans

and amateur investigators completely baffled.

With so little to go on, some begin to raise questions

about Avicii's decision to escape for a holiday in Oman.

It's small kingdom in the Middle East

run by an extremely powerful and secretive royal family.

Freedom of the press doesn't exist.

The lack of transparency immediately triggers

conspiracy theorists and amateur investigators alike.

- My name is Justin Ling.

I am a freelance investigative journalist.

I think whenever there's a death like this

in a country like Oman,

there's always going to be a desire

or maybe a need to actually press the authorities there

for actual details about what investigative steps they took.

- Omani authorities have offered up only sparse details

on the circumstances surrounding Avicii's death.

Avicii's family reports that, under mounting pressure,

the DJ superstar killed himself.

Media outlets report that he used a broken wine bottle

to cut himself.

Without an official line,

the Internet explodes with alternative theories.

On Reddit and on Rumble, users discuss an Omani cover up.

Elsewhere online,

posts suggesting Avicii was worked to death grow in number.

And a far out theory claiming that Avicii faked his death

continues to evolve in corners of the Internet.

- If there's one thing I've learned,

it's that the more transparent somebody is,

the less speculation needs to be done.

But the more confusing, the more secretive that things are,

the more that you see conspiracy theories popping up online.

He's still alive.

Maybe somebody killed him.

Maybe he was worked to death.

Maybe. We don't know.

- There is no consistency on certain details.

And those details are what he was doing the day

prior to his death,

where his body was found,

and who found him.

Those kind of details matter.

- Family and friends say Avicii's trip

to the remote Middle Eastern country

was a much needed holiday.

- That was supposed to be an opportunity for him to recharge,

get back into the studio,

return to the thing that he loved to do,

which was to make music.

And I think for some time, it was.

- Scanning press releases and social media posts,

online sleuths break down details about the trip.

They learn that Avicii sets up shop with friends

at the luxurious Muscat Hills Resort.

- So he reportedly has friends in the royal family in Oman.

So he's going to Oman to, like, kind of rest and recuperate

and hang out with his friends in the royal family.

- According to a report in "Rolling Stone Magazine",

a day after arriving,

he holds a conference call with members of his management team.

There's discussion over which guest artists

he wants to recruit for some new music.

It seems like it's all routine business for the superstar DJ.

- Six days before he died,

a fan sees him in, like, the lobby and approaches him and,

"Oh, my God, DJ Avicii, can I get a picture?"

"Sure." And he's all smiles.

She posted to Instagram.

"I can't believe I met DJ Avicii.

What's going on? Oh, my God."

- He's discussing new projects.

He's talking to fans.

As investigators break down the days

leading up to Avicii's death,

they can't identify anything unusual about his activities.

- According to everyone who saw Avicii in the days

before his death,

he seemed to be in a pretty good mood.

- It seems like there's nothing extraordinary

about Avicii's behavior in Oman.

But a late breaking story upsets everything that's known

so far about Avicii's last days.

- And they reported that Avicii was visiting the Sultan's

relatives at this farmhouse and his body was found there.

Now they're reporting from the Swedish consulate in Oman.

So they're on site,

they're in Oman, and they say,

"This is where his body was found."

There's two sets of stories.

One is that DJ Avicii was found

at the royal family, like, farmhouse,

and another is that DJ Avicii was found at the hotel.

I have no have no idea which one is true.

- The conflicting story overturns the authority

of an already vague official explanation.

- So when determining where DJ Avicii was found

or where he died,

that's super complicated and hard to determine.

It's in a total information blackout.

There's no information that's available to us

that is validated to say where DJ Avicii died.

- A controversial theory spreads online.

It's an accusation that claims Omani authorities

are behind a cover-up.

And it's a theory that's spreading fast.

- Do I think that it's being reported

that way intentionally to obfuscate some facts?

Yes, I do.

His fans are saying, "We deserve answers."

- We don't know because it's secret.

So all that leaves us to do is sit here and speculate.

- This is going to be a lot more difficult

than I thought it was going to be.

- There's a complete information blackout

on Avicii's mysterious death.

Oman is an absolute monarchy.

A wall of official silence prevails.

- The monarchy in Oman controls everything.

I mean, they control everything from top to bottom.

- But in the West, suspicions that Omani authorities

covered up a murder circulate online,

undercutting the official line.

- The fans are saying,

"There's no way he killed himself.

This was a murder.

And who could have done it?"

- Fans collect disturbing rumors from the tabloids

and look for holes in the official story.

All across the Internet,

without dependable information,

theories from the plausible to the absurd multiply.

But amidst all the chatter online,

users of one particular site

are investigating a highly charged and shocking allegation

against the Oman royal family.

- DJ Avicii has a pretty active Reddit board,

and there are a couple threads in there about his death.

There's rumors and speculation about the former sultan of Oman,

and I could not substantiate those rumors.

They're just rumors online.

- It's the wildest theory found online.

There's speculation that Avicii discovered a deeply

hidden secret in the Omani court.

And supposedly, complicit police cover it up by hiding the facts.

- With the absence of real cold, hard facts,

this is what happens when somebody famous dies.

- It's a theory that racks up thousands of views

and gains more and more traction.

It seems as far out as it is popular.

- Avicii's death came just about a year

after the death of Chris Cornell,

came around the same time as the death of Chester Bennington,

the former Linkin Park frontman.

And they concluded that they must all be linked.

- Reddit users post theories that Avicii was working

with other artists to expose a worldwide conspiracy.

- Avicii, Chris Cornell, Chester Bennington,

and maybe some others

had all been working on a documentary

exposing child sex trafficking.

And supposedly, this documentary was going to expose

the global human trafficking elite.

- Now it spreads across all social media platforms.

- There is increasingly a social media ecosystem

for conspiracy theories and disinformation.

So I started digging around for more information about Avicii

as he might relate to a human trafficking ring.

And there's a lot.

- There's a whole bunch of videos

that claim to have uncovered kind of the truth

behind what happened to Avicii,

obviously claiming that he was murdered, particularly

because he was about to expose

some kind of human trafficking operation.

- The Omani authorities still haven't released

a formal cause of Avicii's death.

- His fans are saying,

"We as people who loved him deserve answers.

The government of Oman owes it to us."

- But requests for more information go unanswered.

- It's hard for us here to understand

living in a closed society

where those rights and freedoms do not exist at all.

And maybe even asking about that type of information

could make you disappear.

- An Omani cover-up is just one viral theory spreading online.

One explanation gives fans hope.

- Somewhere like Oman does offer some real possibilities

if you want to fake your own death and disappear.

- Another claims that the reason for his death

came from within his own circle.

- I'm looking into whether or not the music industry

has some blame to bear for Avicii's death.

- Online and in the media,

theories that Avicii was pushed beyond human limits are growing.

And many think EDM and pop icon Avicii

paid the ultimate price on the road to success.

- There are stories of Broadway actors

who will go from one show where they're in Act One

to across Broadway to the next show,

where they're in Act Two.

They've been rehearsing as actors for years.

And that's effectively what Avicii was expected to do.

- A career that Avicii couldn't possibly fathom

took flight from the musical ideas

he composed in his bedroom.

Insiders worry that it took him into a world

with demands he couldn't handle.

- When you are in your bedroom producing records,

it's impossible to imagine

what the effect of those records can be.

Yeah, like, you can think of yourself standing on the stage

in front of thousands and thousands of people

and how that might feel.

But you really don't know what it's like

until you've been on that stage

- Before Avicii steps foot in a club,

he's composing tracks that plug into the exploding EDM scene.

- They wanted to have someone at the center of it

that they could be in awe of.

- The world of electronic music production has grown massive.

That definitely blew up with the explosion of EDM

and big artists like Avicii, who toured all over the world,

playing big, giant parties, basically.

- Avicii rises with the popularity

of a new kind of dance music.

But it's a performance that puts mounting demands

on a one person show.

- It's a different set up than when you have groups and bands.

You can hit a different city every night.

So the touring and the travel is really rigorous.

- Avicii's career starts small.

He begs to get in the door.

- One year, 2010, Avicii was trying to get booked in Miami

during Ultra Music Festival week for $400 for a gig.

Could not get that.

The next year, he's making $250,000.

He's headlining at Ultra.

He's playing on the main stage.

- With explosive success comes more shows and more travel.

Dates in Avicii's touring schedule multiply.

After the release of "Wake Me Up",

Avicii rockets into the stratosphere.

It's the most streamed track on Spotify.

But fans don't just want to listen.

They want to see him live.

- This lifestyle can sound really glamorous.

You get on a private jet, you fly to a new city,

you play a show, you do the after party,

you get on a plane, you go to another show,

you play that, do the after party.

That can be incredibly hard to keep up.

- It's a pounding schedule.

The pressure mounts as Avicii's growing success

demands more and more work.

- It's estimated he played 800 shows

in just a span of a few years,

sometimes more than 200 shows in a single year.

- That sort of thing can have a really damaging effect.

But the problem is, is that when you go from nothing

to the peak of the industry,

you have missed the opportunities to gain

all the experience that other artists

have had on their way to that same peak.

- Avicii is new to the never ending cycle of tours.

His health suffers.

And with little experience to fall back on,

every day, it brings a growing toll.

- It's really easy to get lost in the fantasy of that.

And when that fantasy starts becoming a reality,

it's really hard to think of reasons why you should stop.

- I mean, here's somebody who's doing

something that they deeply loved

that was causing them an immense amount of pain.

- The things that people want musicians to do,

you can't do it if you're falling apart.

- And he knows he's vulnerable.

He knows he's vulnerable.

- After Avicii is found dead during a trip to Oman,

fans spread alternate theories

attempting to explain his sudden death.

- I do think that there is some value

in looking at these different theories

and saying, "Hmm, do any of these make sense?

Do any of these have the ring of truth?"

- One theory suggests Avicii pushed himself too hard.

As his success grows,

he's showing signs he can't keep the pace.

To cope with the pressure, he looks for help

before he hits the stage.

- He would drink to calm himself down, make himself feel better,

give himself that confidence,

that liquid courage to get up on the stage.

That takes a toll.

I mean, it takes a toll on anybody,

but especially when your lifestyle is just drinking,

drinking, not a lot of sleep, staying up late,

going from city to city.

- The touring schedule alone

can be extremely harmful to your health.

But when you add in the drinking and the partying,

it can be incredibly toxic.

- He eventually missed the dates at Ultra in Miami,

which became the first sign of there being actual trouble.

This wasn't just a DJ who was off the rails getting too drunk.

This was a DJ who might not be on the right path.

- Signs of an imminent breakdown are nearly invisible

to those on the outside.

- At that point, a lot of us were saying,

"Well, there's something more here

that isn't just a bad boy who likes to drink.

- Then the wheels come off.

Searing abdominal pain lands Avicii in a New York hospital.

- And they're telling him you have pancreatitis.

You need to quit drinking.

- All this fame, coupled with the punishing touring schedule,

definitely took its toll on Avicii's health.

- But Avicii doesn't quit.

- He was meant to do a string of dates

and had to cancel several of them

because the pancreatitis flare up

was so severe.

It was advised that he had his gallbladder removed.

But that would have pulled him off the road for even longer.

- Doctors urge surgery.

But Avicii's relentless schedule continues.

- I think for most of us, if you are being advised

to have an internal organ removed by doctors,

there's really not a lot of debate

as to whether or not you should do that.

But when you are at the center

of a burgeoning multimillion dollar industry

that is based on you, it's not that cut and dry.

- He was in a lot of pain

and he was addicted to opioids and drinking.

I mean, just like the recipe for disaster.

- Avicii limps to show after show,

igniting one crowd after another.

But he needs to stop for the sake of his own health.

- You know, when you're a famous musician,

you're kind of like an avatar.

You're a character.

I do think people forget,

you know, that there's a human behind this

and that things can go very dark.

- Throughout Avicii's short career, cameras roll.

- This was also the beginning of an era

where artists would have their own camera person with them,

creating kind of the illusion of transparency,

like everything's being documented.

- It's documentation that feeds the machine

building Avicii's success.

- The reality is that camera person's footage

was being highly managed

and controlled by the artist's management.

So they were able to control their own narrative.

- But after Avicii dies, a documentary is released

that uses the footage to tell a different story.

- It's uncomfortable watching that documentary,

seeing how hectic his life was.

Like, it made me uncomfortable.

- It blows the cover off a story only insiders may have known.

- There's a scene where DJ Avicii is on tour.

He's, like, always on tour, right?

And he lands in Australia and he's like,

"I need to go to the hospital, like, right now."

So they take him to the hospital

and the cameraman is in the hospital room.

- Many start to wonder if some blame for Avicii's death

should lie elsewhere.

He's like, "I can't take it anymore.

I need a break."

- No matter what level of success they reached,

it was never going to be enough.

- The music industry and its intense greed

is what killed Avicii.

- An explosive documentary fuels a controversial theory

about why Avicii was suicidal.

- There's a scene where he's in Las Vegas

and he's in front of this big glass window.

And he's talking to his, like, entourage.

And he's like, "Guys, I can't keep doing this."

- A lot of people who were in his immediate entourage

were on the payroll.

And you never really know in that case

if their best interests are aligned

with the artists that they're around.

- Proponents of this theory suggest Avicii

was overworked by his management,

and this intense pressure

may have contributed to his death.

- So they're pushing him to keep going and keep going,

keep going,

and he's like, "I can't take it anymore.

I need a break."

- Some investigators online point towards one person.

- A lot of scrutiny has been paid to his former manager,

Arash Pournouri.

- Pournouri may have been the secret to his success.

- Arash is very driven.

He is clearly very good at what he does.

And he took Avicii from, like, posting on the Internet

and MySpace to making a $750,000 show.

- Arash Pournouri is a well known EDM promoter

who signed Avicii in 2007.

It was after the pair teamed up that Avicii's career

went into the stratosphere.

- According to some people who knew Avicii,

they said he took advantage of the DJ,

and that according to one

somewhat distant family member,

he was greedy and too hard on him.

- Online, there's emphasis on how much Arash Pournouri

stood to gain from Avicii's success.

Collecting a hefty percentage of every dollar

that Avicii made,

money is a clear motive from his management

to push him to do more and more.

- There's no turning off for these kids.

Like, they have to keep going

because there's a lot of money at stake

and there's a lot of shows to be played.

So it's the cycle, the vicious cycle.

- Avicii plays hundreds of shows.

He takes on promotions with dozens of companies.

He's travelling. He's doing interviews.

He's producing.

- The last time I saw him was at a brand event

where he was the brand ambassador

or really just like the model in the ad.

And he just seemed like he didn't want to be there.

And you could understand why,

because there's a lot of pressure on a person

to be the face of a multimillion dollar ad campaign.

- His mountain of work is booked primarily by his management.

It's a never ending cycle that may have been a factor

in landing Avicii in the hospital

- There is a physical manifestation

that comes from this lifestyle.

The machine can't stop.

It's hard to jump on and off and also repair yourself.

- Despite Avicii's failing health,

his team continues to book gigs.

Online sleuths wonder if the never ending tours

should have stopped.

It's a lifestyle that's unsustainable, and Tim Bergling,

the human being behind Avicii,

pleads for the wild ride to slow down.

- He had tried for some time to kind of downgrade the pace.

It just wasn't possible.

Once you get to that level,

nobody was willing to say,

"Okay, yeah, let's do a club tour.

Let's play to 500 people and secondary markets

and just have a good time."

- With so much riding on Avicii's career,

to some, he's no longer

taking control of his schedule or his health.

- The documentary 100% fueled the theory

that his management team pushed him to the point

where Ash had to, like, address it.

He had to come out and make a statement

saying that the way that the documentary was edited

made him look bad

and that things weren't really that way.

- Online, there's debate whether being overworked

contributed to Avicii's decision to take his own life.

Arguments that his management team

is a convenient scapegoat for a much bigger issue

within the entire industry gain traction.

- The music industry has always been greedy

and, frankly, unconcerned with the health

and the well-being of many of the people

who go through their star system.

Whether that was predominantly Black musicians

earlier in the century,

whether it was Motown in the '60s and '70s,

or whether it's Britney Spears in the early 2000s,

Avicii comes from a long line of stars

who have been used and abused by the music industry.

- Show after show, Avicii is transformed from man to machine

with a momentum of its own.

And it just won't stop.

- It seems very clear that the music industry,

the fame, the demanding schedule

had worsened his problems of addiction,

had worsened his anxiety and his depression.

- The machine basically took over,

and it needed to be fed.

It needed to keep running.

And the fuel for that was Tim's blood, sweat, and tears.

You know, there's no evidence that he died anywhere.

- He's still alive somewhere.

- On April 20, 2018,

fans of Swedish deejay and music producer Avicii

are shaken by the news of his death.

But some conspiracy theorists refuse to believe

that the pressures and exhaustion he faced

overwhelmed him, leading him to take his own life.

They have a much bolder theory.

- That is a fake death if I've ever seen one

in my entire life.

- They believe the deejay faked his own death

to escape the success that was killing him.

- If Avicii's plan was to disappear and he did,

I mean, that's literally a true conspiracy.

Do I find it a possible scenario?

Yes.

I imagine when certain people

reach such a high level of fame,

they may actually want to retreat

back to what we would consider, like, a normal life

and maybe try to disappear themselves.

- Online sleuths analyze a theory

that has taken hold on the Internet.

- My background lies in Army counterintelligence,

as well as forensics and criminal justice

and law enforcement.

- The violent and unusual way

that Avicii reportedly takes his own life

leads some fans to believe the whole thing could be a hoax.

- Why break a bottle and use a piece of broken glass

when there's probably other instruments in the room

that would be easier to use?

- The method feels too brutal to be plausible.

- It always makes me wonder if they did it at all.

- Online, fans start pulling on a thread

that unravels a different kind of cover-up...

An elaborate plan designed to help the EDM star

escape his professional persona.

- What if Avicii died, but Tim Bergling is still alive?

- I think DJ Avicii loved his fans.

I absolutely believe that. But I don't think he loved fame.

- In 2016, Avicii tries to take a step back from touring.

He writes an open letter explaining his need to slow down

for the sake of his mental health.

- He didn't want to disappoint people.

He didn't like people being upset with him.

- The letter resonates with many fans.

They post notes of encouragement

in support of Avicii's decision to quit touring.

But there is still an outcry.

Many fans wonder if he needed

to take more drastic steps to escape it all.

- And the only way for him to, like, get out of it totally

without disappointing people and having to face them

is to, like, fake his death, right?

In order for that to be possible,

everything would need to be planned

down to the exact detail.

- According to the theory,

Avicii's decision to vacation in Oman

is a calculated one.

- I pondered for a while why Avicii chose to go to Oman.

Looking at Oman from, like, a military tactical standpoint,

it's actually a great location to disappear from.

- Even the resort where Avicii allegedly stayed

could be a launching pad to a new life.

- Looking at Google Earth maps,

there are no other residential or commercial properties

bordering this resort,

and it has basically an inlet,

or a bay of water, all to itself.

- He has access to a private dock.

He could get on a boat, and then he can go to

about a dozen other countries.

- And Avicii has prior links to some of these countries.

- Avicii had vacationed in Madagascar previously,

and that's also where he filmed the music video

for his song "Heaven."

- Madagascar is one of the countries

down the coast from Oman.

Not only is Oman geographically a good strategic choice,

but elements in the country

may give him the help he needs to pull off the plan.

Online investigators focus in on his rumored connections

to Oman's royal family.

- They may have had the resources and their own connections

to actually help him leave their country and go elsewhere.

- In Oman, where he was so well connected,

where the autopsies are not going to come out,

it certainly is a good place to... to vanish.

- But there are still a lot of unknowns,

including what exactly is going on in Avicii's head

in the days leading up to his alleged death.

- This is a case where there is a real void

of confirmable, observable information.

- That is, until 2021,

when a new, crucial source of information is released...

Entries from Avicii's diary.

- And he wrote, "The shredding of the soul

is the last attachment before it restarts."

- It is the final entry in his diary

and had been made the day before his death.

- It could be interpreted in so many ways.

That statement could have so many different meanings.

- Reports that Avicii was deeply exploring his spirituality

could provide some insight.

- In the beginning of April of 2016,

he's starting to get into, like,

meditation and things like that.

And he gets a guru to, like, train him

how to do transcendental meditation.

And he wants to move, like, super quick.

He wants to get whatever's inside him fixed.

And the teacher is like,

"No, this is, like, a learned practice,

and you should only be really doing this

like 15 minutes a day."

But DJ Avicii was doing like two hours at a time,

which is not recommended.

And I don't know what happens to you

when you exceed that timeframe.

Like, do you get too into your own head?

- It's a fascination on the brink of obsession.

- It could be an indicator

that Avicii was ready to move on,

to basically, you know, be reborn in a way,

to start this new alternate life

and leave the last one behind.

- But in order to vanish without a trace,

Avicii would need to make the ultimate sacrifice.

- If someone truly disappears,

it's almost like going into the witness protection program.

You have to cut all ties

with everybody that you knew in your life,

including your family.

- If Avicii is still alive,

he's left his loved ones to grieve.

- This really made me think twice.

- For Avicii, a new life may be priceless,

but one thing is certain...

If anyone can afford it, he can.

- Avicii had the means to disappear,

if that's what he wanted to do.

But to really effectively disappear for years,

he probably would need somebody

who can be a conduit between his money and himself

so that there's not a direct link between the two.

- There's zero evidence of such a thing happening.

People just start speculating

and coming up with scenarios on what could have happened.

- If it was Avicii's intention to never be seen again,

we may never know the truth.

- If somebody disappears effectively,

no one's gonna know about it.

- Unless he decides to be found again one day.

But the debate continues about all the conspiracy theories

explaining Avicii's death.

- I want the answers because I'm super into justice

and I want the truth,

but I know that I'm not owed any answers.

- By most accounts, Avicii is on vacation

during his time in Oman. Days of overwork and stress

are in the past.

But his death is so unexpected, fans can't help but speculate

on whether he really took his own life.

- The Omani authorities have never released the autopsies,

nor any investigative files into the deejay's death.

There's so little detail,

I think it's kind of natural

that people are expecting more answers than they got.

- But if it wasn't suicide,

many fans feel the true story of Avicii's death needs to be told.

Lack of transparency from the Omani government

leads to suspicion of a murder cover-up.

- I think with a case like Avicii,

where everything is shrouded in mystery,

there is nothing you can really rule out 100%

as being totally false.

- Sleuths search for the origins of a theory spreading online

that implicates the Omani royal family.

But the sources seem questionable.

- This article about Avicii's death was written

by one of the conspiracy theorists behind Pizzagate.

And Facebook removed it for violating their terms of service

because it's so bogus.

It is so fake.

- It's a conspiracy within a conspiracy,

fake news of the first degree.

Others believe the real culprit of Avicii's death

is his own work and management team.

But this theory runs up against some of the hard facts.

- By 2016, he quit touring altogether,

opting instead to just stick to the studio and recording music.

He said in interviews years later that the anxiety

and the stress of all that touring

was just too much for him.

- That same year, Avicii also parts ways

with his manager, Arash Pournouri.

- Meaning they weren't working together

for the last two years of the star's life.

- Having scaled back significantly in 2016,

the timing for this theory doesn't quite add up.

And his former manager may not be the monster

some fans say the documentary made him out to be.

- Pournouri has slammed the documentary,

suggesting they took him out of context

and made him look intentionally bad.

In fact, he added that after Avicii's pancreatitis,

he worked hard to keep alcohol away from the star.

And Avicii's family have been pretty blunt

that they do not blame Pournouri for Avicii's death.

- Finally, a more optimistic theory

is held by those who hold out hope

that Avicii is still alive.

But there are clear problems with this theory.

- The logistics are just so difficult.

And I would think by now, six years later,

that somebody who Avicii needed help from

to put this plan together

would have leaked some information

and we would have heard of it by now.

- And there's an even bigger hole in this conspiracy.

Avicii's family flies to Oman to personally identify his body.

There's no question about his death.

- Sometimes fans have a hard time processing

that the person they really love and look up to is gone.

- While all of these theories have circulated,

the people who know Avicii best have never appeared to waver

in their belief that the real explanation for Avicii's death

is also the simplest.

- This is horrible to say, but it's the truth.

When he died, people were not surprised.

It was shocking, it was horrible, it was sad,

but this is...

This was the outcome that so many had feared

and hoped would never come,

but knew was possible all along.

- It's important that those

who want to delve into Avicii's death

listen to what his family is saying.

- In their public statement following his death,

Avicii's family more or less confirms

he had taken his own life.

- People who kill themselves

really never give any clear warnings.

Depression and addiction and pain

and things that you can't really control...

They come over you like a tsunami.

It's unexpected, and, you know,

you don't always present that you want to die, right?

It just happens.

And it's very rarely planned

that you're going to kill yourself.

- This was a person, a regular person

whose predilection for addiction

and struggles with mental health

were ignored by an industry,

whose own human experience

was at odds with the expectations

of a world that wanted him to do inhuman things.

- By the time he tried to distance himself

from all of this and take a break,

it was too late.

- Tim's family honors his memory

by creating the Tim Bergling Foundation.

- Hoping to use some of the publicity around this tragedy

to educate others,

to draw attention to mental health,

and hopefully to prevent other suicides in the future.

- In the end, Tim couldn't save himself from his own demons.

But at the center of this tragedy is a person

who was able to speak directly

to the hearts of millions in the EDM community.

- It's hard to process the information

that they would want to... To end their own life.

It's hard to comprehend how the person who made "Wake Me Up,"

one of the most beautiful and optimistic records, could...

I mean, I don't want to get emotional.

Um...

It's hard to understand why that person would want to...

To... to no longer be alive.

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