Alarm bells were raised over the weekend following the news that the matriarch of the Jackson family and legal guardian of Michael's three children, Katherine Jackson, 82, was officially reported missing. But while the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has since revealed that Mrs. Jackson is safe with family in Arizona, inside sources tell Fox411 that this latest incident is evidence that the family dynamic has grown increasingly dysfunctional.

On Sunday, Michael's daughter Paris tweeted that she hadn't spoken to her grandmother in over a week, and wanted her "home now." A day earlier, Jermaine took to Twitter to declare that his mother was resting per doctor's orders, and that the family "wasn't plotting anything."

But it has since emerged that Ms. Jackson is under the medical care of a doctor with a close connection to Dr. Conrad Murray - the man convicted of involuntary manslaughter for the 2009 propofol overdose death of the King of Pop.