Missing the statue of Jim Morrison found 37 years after he slipped from his grave

A stolen statue of Jim Morrison’s tomb has resurfaced 37 years after he disappeared mysteriously.

The marble bust of the doors leader was recovered by the Financial Police and Anti-Corruption of Paris during an unrelated search, according to the France-Presse agency.

After its discovery, the French police shared a photo of the sculpture, which already lacked his nose and graffiti covered at the time of his robbery.

A representative of the Morrison farm told Rolling Stone that they were “happy to listen to the news,” he added: “It is obviously a piece of history, and that Jim’s family wanted there in his grave, so it is gratifying to see that he has recovered.”

After his death in 1971 at age 27, the singer of “Light My Fire” was buried in the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris, which is also the home of the tombs of icons such as Édith Piaf, Marcel Proust, Gertrude Stein and Oscar Wilde.

The sculpture of 280 pounds, designed by the artist Croata Mladen Mikulin, settled in Morrison’s memory a decade later, only to disappear in May 1988.

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Morrison’s tomb is still one of the most visited in the world.

The site has also attracted chaos. In 1991, on the 20th anniversary of Morrison’s death, a riot broke out that led the cemetery to boost security around the grave, according to the BBC.

The legend of rock, which was behind successes such as “Riders on the Storm,” Love Me twice, “” breaks (on the other side) “and more, lived in the District of Marais in Paris when his girlfriend found him dead in the bathroom, Pamela Courson.

Doctors determined that the cause of death is due to heart failure aggravated by excessive alcohol consumption.