No, it wasn’t LaToya Jackson employing some special eye of newt potion that enabled MJ’s body to disappear from the Staples Center, but an underground tunnel. E!Online has the exclusive information:

A source tells E! News that after the service, security moved the golden casket through an underground tunnel that connects the Staples Center to the Nokia Theatre. The tunnel—typically used by maintenance and food service workers and occasionally talent—runs beneath Chick Hearn Court, where hundreds of media were encamped following the ceremony.

La Toya, Rebbie and Janet Jackson used the secret passageway when they went across the street to thank the fans at the Nokia Theatre.

M.J.’s body was loaded into a van at an L.A. Live loading dock and was transported to refrigerated mortuary storage at an undisclosed location.

Sources also say that a “skulking gangrel creature with an ill-favoured look” was their guide through the passageway.