Rolling Stones guitarist's death reviewed

One of the many rock stars to die at age 27, Brian Jones' death on
July 3, 1969, is being reopened and investigated once more by police,
reported NME and BBC News on Sunday.

Sussex detectives are re-examining the case after being handed
relevant new documents, reports BBC News.

Jones was found dead at the bottom of a swimming pool at his house in
East Sussex. The cause was "death by misadventure," but police are
reopening the case to determine whether he was murdered.

While BBC News and NME haven't reported much on the particulars, this
is what I'm assuming, as a self-described Rolling Stones afficionado.

Part of the reason for recent speculation may be that Jones'
girlfriend, Anna Wohlin, claimed he was alive and had a pulse when
Jones' body was pulled from the pool. By the time doctors arrived, it
was too late and he was dead. Wohlin also said in 1999 that Jones had
been murdered by a builder who had been renovating the house the
couple shared.

Some accounts suggest the builder, Frank Thorogood, allegedly
confessed to the murder on his deathbed to the Rolling Stones' driver,
Tom Keylock. Keylock has since denied the claim.

I, however, greatly doubt Jones was murdered. For one, he was kicked
out of his own group because he was too incoherent to play music
because of a debilitating drug addiction.

And as a side note, you must be on death's doorsteps if Keith Richards
kicks you out of his band because you're too high to play music.

So why wasn't he murdered?

Jones' attendance at rehearsals were erratic, at best, just before his
death. Where once he had been the band's de-facto leader, his musical
contributions became more infrequent from 1967 until 1969.

So is it so hard to believe that he took too many drugs and drowned?
Or that he had a lethal combination of drugs and alcohol and passed
out in the pool before drowning?

Or, even more grimly, that he committed suicide because he had just
been kicked out of the band he helped form, which had become one of
the biggest bands in the world?

All of these options seem more plausible than murder.