Today...years ago On October 4, 1970, Janis Joplin was found dead in her Hollywood hotel room with cigarettes in one hand and a wad of cash in the other. Investigators ruled her death an accidental heroin overdose, claiming that Joplin must have shot up, gone down to the hotel lobby to buy cigarettes, and then returned to her room to die. But one of Joplin's close friends, who had once overdosed herself, didn't believe that Joplin would've been capable of taking a lethal dose of heroin and then