The Murder of Marilyn Monroe (39 page)

(ABBOTT, ALLAN. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 7 JUNE 2012: “The pathologist never signs the death certificate . . .”)

(Carroll, Ronald H., and Alan B. Tomich. “The Death of Marilyn Monroe—Report to the District Attorney.” December 1982, p. 3: Concentrations of chloral hydrate and pentobarbital found in Marilyn’s body at the time of her death.)

(Plant, Tony. “How Marilyn Died,” n.d.: “Marilyn was taking 500 mg capsules of CH [chloral hydrate]. A normal dose of CH is between 500—1000 mg. The lethal dose is considered to be 10 grams, which is 20 capsules. Marilyn had roughly 80% of the lethal dose of 20 capsule amount in her blood so she would have had to take 17 capsules.”)

(LITMAN, ROBERT, M.D. INTERVIEW WITH DONALD SPOTO. 23 APRIL 1992: “High content in the liver just means she died slowly.”)

(AMADOR, ELIAS, M.D. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 11 JANUARY 2011)

(SLATZER 1992, p. 137: John Miner said as for the 13 mg. percent of Nembutal in the liver, “It indicates that however the drugs were administered, hours and not minutes were involved before she died.”)

(SPOTO 1993, pp. 581, 583–585: Dr. Abrams estimated that the 4.5 mg. percent of Nembutal in the blood is equivalent to 40–50 pills.)

(WOLFE 1998, p. 36: “Norman Jefferies verified the existence of the diary. He recalled that Marilyn kept her red diary either in her bedroom or locked in the file cabinet located in the guest cottage. Jefferies said that on the night she died, [one of] her [two] filing cabinet[s] was broken into and many of the contents were removed.”)

(SUMMERS 2000, p. 416: “At about ten o’clock, Ralph Roberts learned the next day, a woman with a ‘slurred voice’ called his answering service. Told Roberts was out, the caller hung up.”)

(AMADOR, ELIAS, M.D. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 11 JANUARY 2011: “Chloral hydrate will put a person to sleep.”)

(SUMMERS 2000, p. 469: “Two fragmentary reports, one from a police source, one from a former member of the Twentieth Century-Fox staff, Frank Neill, suggest Kennedy arrived in the city by helicopter, putting down near the studio’s Stage 18, in an open space then used by helicopters serving the area near the Beverly Hilton.”)

(BROWN AND BARHAM 1993, p. 328: “The chopper had been approved to land at just after 11:00 a.m., as duly noted in the studio’s security log. . . Neill later noted that Kennedy was preoccupied, gazing from side to side before sliding into the backseat. Through the open door, Neill caught a glimpse of the carefully tanned face of Peter Lawford.”)

(SLATZER 1975, p. 232: Mrs. Murray related, “I saw that the telephone was under her. She was lying on it.”)

(WOLFE 1998, pp. 461–462: Norman Jefferies relayed when he and Mrs. Murray returned, they discovered Marilyn in the guest cottage. Jefferies also noted that the phone was under her. Norman Jefferies said, “I thought she was dead. She was facedown, her hand kind of holding the phone . . .”)

(WOLFE 1998, pp. 461–462: Norman Jeffries said, “Eunice took the phone and called an ambulance. Then she put through an emergency call to Dr. Greenson, who was someplace nearby and said he would be right over . . .”)

(SUMMERS 2000, p. 515: Mrs. Murray blurted out to Anthony Summers, “Why, at my age, do I still have to cover this thing up? . . .”)

(
Say Goodbye to the President
, 1985: Mrs. Murray told Anthony Summers, “When he [Dr. Greenson] arrived, she was not dead because I was there then in the living room.”)

(Bryan, C. D. B. “Say Goodbye to Camelot.”
Rolling Stone.
5 December 1985, p. 74: Anthony Summers asked, “Marilyn was not dead when the first doctor arrived, is that what you’re saying?” Mrs. Murray replied, “That’s what I’m saying.”)

(WOLFE 1998, pp. 461–462: Norman Jefferies said, “I went to the gates to wait for the ambulance, but before the ambulance got there Peter Lawford and Pat Newcomb arrived . . .”)

(SUMMERS 2000, p. 516: Detective Sgt. Byron said, “Engelberg told me he’d had a call from the housekeeper . . .”)

(SUMMERS 2000, p. 425: Helen Parker recalled her husband telling her regarding Marilyn’s death, “This thing has to be straightened out in more ways than one.”)

(
The Marilyn Files
documentary, 1991: Jack Clemmons and Sam Yorty’s comments about Police Chief William Parker.)

(WOLFE 1998, p. 49: Former mayor Sam Yorty said, “Hamilton’s Intelligence Division was Parker’s version of the FBI. Parker believed that he was the man who would one day succeed J. Edgar Hoover, and Bobby and Jack Kennedy led Parker to believe he was their choice.”)

(SUMMERS 2000, p. 425: Helen Parker on her husband drawing a question mark in the air regarding the Marilyn Monroe case.)

(DOUGHERTY 2001, p. 179: Marilyn’s first husband Jim wrote, “Did someone know she was in trouble? . . .”)

(BROWN AND BARHAM 1993, p. 455: Ted Schwarz, author of
Candy Barr
, reported how Otash told him that he heard over surveillance that Bobby Kennedy and Peter Lawford knew Marilyn was in trouble but let her die instead. However, Raymond Strait made it clear to Margolis that Otash was also present in the home as Marilyn was dying before Dr. Greenson injected her in the heart.)

(Carroll, Donald. “Conversation with Dr. Thomas Noguchi.”
Oui
. February 1976, p. 74: Dr. Thomas Noguchi said, “Our examination was coupled with what we call a psychological autopsy . . .”)

(ABBOTT, ALLAN. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 22 JULY 2012: “They had this first-time autopsy called the ‘psychological autopsy . . .’”)

(ABBOTT, ALLAN. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 19 AUGUST 2012: “Noguchi seemed to be very cooperative with everyone involved . . .”)

(Carroll, Donald. “Conversation with Dr. Thomas Noguchi.”
Oui
. February 1976: Dr. Thomas Noguchi relayed, “When the case was assigned to me—I was only a deputy coroner then.”)

(NOGUCHI 1984, pp. 80–81: Noguchi believed an oral accidental overdose of that many pills was highly improbable. Noguchi also asked Suicide Team member Dr. Robert Litman if he thought the actress had been murdered.)

(SMITH 2005, p. 55: Official Statement by Dr. Theodore J. Curphey dated August 17, 1962.)

(SLATZER 1975, p. 268: Q & A with Dr. Curphey.)

(BROWN AND BARHAM 1993, pp. 368–369: “[Police Chief William] Parker . . . told his force to investigate it as a suicide, and gave the coroner similar guidelines. . . He turned the case over to the new Suicide Prevention Team, which . . . could only determine
why
Monroe had killed herself. The team was not allowed to investigate
how
she had died.”)

(SPOTO 1993, p. 582: “Litman and his colleagues submitted a verdict of suicide because that had been Curphey’s initial judgment.”)

(LITMAN, ROBERT, M.D. INTERVIEW WITH DONALD SPOTO. 23 APRIL 1992: “How do you explain how these pills got into her? . . . The coroner says we got a case here, which looks like they took fifty Nembutals and chloral hydrates and died . . . We want you to evaluate the mental state of the person from the standpoint, were these ingested intentionally or not intentionally?”)

(“In Search of . . .”
The Death of Marilyn Monroe,
History Channel documentary, 1980: Dr. Robert Litman said, “At the autopsy, her stomach was empty . . .”)

(AMADOR, ELIAS, M.D. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 11 JANUARY 2011: “I am surprised that there are no capsules in the stomach . . .”)

(SUMMERS 2000, p. 338: Farberow admitted the Kennedys were not questioned.)

(SUMMERS 2000, p. 455: Farberow and Pat Newcomb)

(FARBEROW, NORMAN, PhD. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 17 JANUARY 2011)

(NOGUCHI 1984, pp. 80–81: “An accidental overdose of that magnitude was extremely unlikely . . .”)

(NOGUCHI 1984, p. 68: “I found absolutely no visual evidence of pills in the stomach or the small intestine . . .”)

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(NOGUCHI 1984, p. 73: “The most prevalent of [the theories] called Monroe’s death murder, done to silence her and prevent her from destroying Robert Kennedy’s political career . . .”)

(WOLFE 1998, p. 14: Undertaker Guy Hockett said rigor mortis places the death sometime before midnight between 9:30 and 11:30 p.m.)

(NOGUCHI 1984, p. 77: Hall had described the killer doctor as having had “a mustache, longish sideburns, and a pockmarked face. Not me.”)

(SLATZER 1992, p. 259: “Dr. J. DeWitt Fox shares Jack Clemmons’ view that Marilyn was killed by a combination of two different drugs, but believes they were administered in a different way.”)

(SLATZER 1975, p. 315: Noguchi’s autopsy report read: “The stomach is almost completely empty . . .”)

(
Marilyn Monroe: A Case for Murder
documentary, 1988—Interview with medical expert Dr. Sidney Weinberg: “Let me tell you about the doubts that were raised in my mind . . .”)

(SUMMERS 2000, pp. 541–542: Noguchi’s consideration of murder: “She had a bruise, on her back or near the hip, that has never been fully explained . . .”)

(EBBINS, MILTON. INTERVIEW WITH DONALD SPOTO. 6 AUGUST 1992: “When there’s an overdose of drugs, the first thing the doctor would give her was a shot of adrenaline.”)

(Carroll, Ronald H., and Alan B. Tomich. “The Death of Marilyn Monroe—Report to the District Attorney.” December 1982, p. 13: “In the November 23, 1982 edition of the
Globe
, a weekly tabloid published in West Palm Beach, Florida, the headline article states that a former ambulance driver by the name of James Hall alleges that he saw Marilyn Monroe murdered.”)

(Carroll, Ronald H., and Alan B. Tomich. “The Death of Marilyn Monroe—Report to the District Attorney.” December 1982, p. 13: “Mr. Hall first contacted the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office on 8/11/82. Thereafter, under a code name ‘Rick Stone,’ he telephonically contacted this office several times.”)

(Blackburn, John, Chuck Orman, and Dan McDonald. “I Saw Marilyn Murdered.”
Globe
. 23 November 1982, Volume 29, Number 47, p. 4: Hall said he arrived at Marilyn Monroe’s “between three and four in the morning.”)

(CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE: In a recorded phone call sometime after August 11, 1982, Carroll told Hall, “One of the things I’m concerned about. You mentioned the man in the business suit used a needle in the heart . . .”)

(WOLFE 1998, p. 77: “The time discrepancy is perhaps explained by Hall’s disclosure that he worked a twenty-four-hour shift . . .”)

(CARLSON, MIKE. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 19 DECEMBER 2011: “Jim was working nearly twenty-four hours a day . . .”)

(SUMMERS 2000, pp. 514–515, 604: Including Joe Tarnowski and Tom Fears, “No less than seven former employees of Schaefer’s, one now a company vice president [Carl Bellonzi] recall hearing about the call in 1962.”)

(CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE: In a recorded call sometime after August 11, 1982, Hall told investigator Alan Tomich, “You go in and you turn to the left and the bed was facing longways as you’re looking at it . . .”)

(Blackburn, John, Chuck Orman, and Dan McDonald. “I Saw Marilyn Murdered.”
Globe
. 23 November 1982, Volume 29, Number 47, p. 5: “Private investigator John Harrison, who had been conducting polygraph examinations for 40 years, reports: ‘When I was first brought into this, I thought the whole thing was a fairy tale . . .’”)

(Blackburn, John, Chuck Orman, and Dan McDonald. “I Saw Marilyn Murdered.”
Globe
. 23 November 1982, Volume 29, Number 47, p. 5: “Hall was interviewed while under hypnosis by Henry Koder, a professional forensic hypnotist with more than 20 years of law-enforcement experience and veteran of hundreds of major crime investigations . . .”)

(WOLFE 1998, pp. 80–81: In 1992, polygraph examiner Donald E. Fraser relayed to Wolfe that he tested Hall ten years after the release of the article from
Globe
, “There’s no question that James Hall is telling the truth . . .”)

(
The Marilyn Files
Live TV Special, 1992: Fraser gave Hall polygraphs on August 10, 1992.)

(SPADA 1991, p. 326: Danny Greenson said, “I hate all this speculation, and especially that guy who says he saw my father plunge a needle into Marilyn’s heart. That’s ridiculous . . .”)

(GREENSON, HILDI. INTERVIEW WITH CATHY GRIFFIN. 4 JUNE 1991: “I sometimes have a feeling that this ambulance driver went on a call that night somewhere else . . .”)

(HALL, JAMES. INTERVIEW WITH MICHELLE MORGAN. OCTOBER 1997: “I told everyone I knew and everyone who showed even a casual curiosity . . .”)

(HALL, JAMES. INTERVIEW WITH MICHELLE MORGAN. SEPTEMBER 1997: “It was definitely Dr. Greenson at Marilyn’s house.”)

(Flynt, Larry. “Marilyn Was Murdered: Eyewitness Account by James E. Hall.”
Hustler
, May 1986, p. 84: James Hall said, “I thought that a doctor had futilely given her adrenaline . . .”)

(CARLSON, MIKE. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 3 FEBRUARY 2012: “Days or weeks right after it happened . . .”)

(CARLSON, MIKE. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 19 DECEMBER 2011: “He had no reason to tell me a story. . .”)