United Kingdom, May 20 -- A stolen memorial bust of Jim Morrison has been found.

Thieves nabbed the statue that adorned the grave of The Doors frontman - who died from heart failure brought on by alcoholism at the age of 27 in Paris, France, in 1971 - in 1988, and now French police have tracked it down in the country's capital city in a fraud investigation by the police's financial and anti-corruption department that was unrelated to the original theft.

The Direction de la Police Judiciaire de la Prefecture de Police posted a statement on its Instagram account on May 17, which said: "After 37 years of absence, the bust of Jim Morrison, stolen in 1988 from the Pere Lachaise cemetery, has been found!

"During an investigation conducted by...