The Murder of Marilyn Monroe (44 page)

(CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE: District attorney’s report dated September 27, 1982. Investigator Al Tomich interviewed Marilyn’s physician, Dr. Hyman Engelberg, who relayed, “I was parked in the basement of the parking area of a small apartment house and somebody parked in back of me . . .”)

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(SUMMERS 2000, pp. 416–417: “At about 3:30 a.m., at the Greenson home in Santa Monica, the psychiatrist’s daughter, Joan, heard the telephone ring in her parents’ bedroom . . .”)

(CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE: GREENSON, JOAN. UNTITLED 90-PAGE MARILYN MONROE MANUSCRIPT, p. 82: “I went to bed around 8:00 . . .” The complete work is located in Greenson Papers, Special Collections, UCLA, sealed from the public until January 1, 2039.)

(GREENSON, HILDI. INTERVIEW WITH CATHY GRIFFIN. 4 JUNE 1991: “I was very worried, and my daughter was here and we immediately stayed up. We just went downstairs and sat around . . .”)

(CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE: GREENSON, JOAN. UNTITLED 90-PAGE MARILYN MONROE MANUSCRIPT, p. 83: “I must have been in my bed for maybe five minutes when I heard the phone ring . . .” The complete work is located in Greenson Papers, Special Collections, UCLA, sealed from the public until January 1, 2039.)

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(GREENSON, HILDI. INTERVIEW WITH CATHY GRIFFIN. 4 JUNE 1991: “Her room was locked and with a bolt lock . . .”)

(GREENSON, HILDI. INTERVIEW WITH CATHY GRIFFIN. 4 JUNE 1991: “I don’t think so, but it was locked that night.”)

(SPOTO 1993, p. 486: Cherie Redmond wrote to Hedda Rosten, “There isn’t one door in the place that locks.”)

(MARSHALL 2005, p. 282: “Linda Nuñez . . . explained . . . that no one in her family ever had a key to any of the locks on any of the interior doors . . .”)

(BROWN AND BARHAM 1993, p. 441: “We found out . . . that Monroe’s housekeeper, Eunice Murray, had a skeleton key to Monroe’s bedroom. It was attached to her own key ring. Greenson had insisted on it because Murray was often on suicide watch. Thus, there should have been no need to break in the movie star’s bedroom window.”)

(SPOTO 1993, pp. 575–576: “Between March 15 and June 30, according to their invoice # 7451, the A-1 Lock & Safe Company of 3114 Wilshire Boulevard, Santa Monica, installed only two locks in the house: a cabinet lock for Cherie Redmond’s files, and a replacement lock for the front door of the house . . .”)

(TURNER, ROY. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 19 JUNE 2012: “I never felt Marilyn killed herself . . .”)

(SUMMERS 2000, p. 515: “In 1982, in a conversation with researcher Justin Clayton, she [Mrs. Murray] said she had ‘found Marilyn’s door ajar’ at about midnight. As Clayton vividly recalls, Mrs. Murray then stopped dead, suddenly raising her hand to her mouth, and said, ‘I mean, I found the door locked.’”)

(TARABORRELLI 2009, p. 474: “More intriguingly, Eunice would later say that there was no lock on Marilyn’s door. If that’s the case, then the entire story of how she was found seems to fall apart.”)

(SLATZER 1975, pp. 289–290: see for the A-1 Lock & Safe Company Creditor’s Claim and Invoices)

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(SPOTO 1993, p. 570: Determining the exact time of Joe DiMaggio, Jr.’s call to be 7:00 p.m.)

(WOLFE 1998, p. 460: According to DiMaggio, Sr., Joe Jr.’s call with Marilyn lasted 15 minutes.)

(CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE: Greenson wrote to Dr. Kris on August 20, 1962, “When I left at 7:15, she seemed somewhat depressed . . .” The complete letter is located in Greenson Papers, Special Collections, UCLA, sealed from the public until January 1, 2039.)

(Shearer, Lloyd. “Marilyn Monroe—Why Won’t They Let Her Rest in Peace”
Parade
. 5 August 1973: “That was the last conversation Greenson had with Marilyn Monroe. It was Saturday Aug. 4, 7:30 p.m. After dinner with the Alberts [Eddie and Margo], Dr. Greenson returned to his home . . . around midnight . . . He was tempted to phone Marilyn but didn’t want to wake her . . . At 3 a.m. his phone rang. It was Mrs. Murray.”)

(CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE: Greenson wrote to Dr. Kris on August 20, 1962, “About an hour later, someone [Mickey Rudin] called the housekeeper . . .” The complete letter is located in Greenson Papers, Special Collections, UCLA, sealed from the public until January 1, 2039.)

(CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE: Greenson wrote to Dr. Kris on August 20, 1962, “At midnight, the housekeeper awakened and saw that there was a light on in Marilyn’s room . . .” The complete letter is located in Greenson Papers, Special Collections, UCLA, sealed from the public until January 1, 2039.)

(MURRAY 1975, p. 135: “I knew that the new white wool carpet filled the space under the door . . .”)

(GREENSON, HILDI. INTERVIEW WITH CATHY GRIFFIN. 4 JUNE 1991: “People say that there were four hours before it was reported . . .”)

(GREENSON, HILDI. INTERVIEW WITH CATHY GRIFFIN. 4 JUNE 1991: “Eunice Murray awakened at midnight and saw . . . the light under the door, and wondered about it, but fell asleep while wondering . . .”)

(GREENSON, HILDI. INTERVIEW WITH CATHY GRIFFIN. 4 JUNE 1991: “The ‘if’ then was,
if
[Mrs. Murray] hadn’t fallen asleep at midnight, [Marilyn] probably still could have been saved . . .”)

(HEYMANN 1998, p. 323)

(CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE: GREENSON, JOAN. UNTITLED 90-PAGE MARILYN MONROE MANUSCRIPT, p. 84: “Her bedroom door was locked, there was a light, and a telephone cord under the door . . .” The complete work is located in Greenson Papers, Special Collections, UCLA, sealed from the public until January 1, 2039.)

(CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE: GREENSON, JOAN. UNTITLED 90-PAGE MARILYN MONROE MANUSCRIPT, p. 84: “He could see that she had been dead for some time . . .” The complete work is located in Greenson Papers, Special Collections, UCLA, sealed from the public until January 1, 2039.)

(CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE: District attorney’s report dated September 27, 1982. Investigator Al Tomich interviewed Marilyn’s physician, Dr. Hyman Engelberg, who relayed, “That particular line about being called at midnight, I remember Mrs. Murray telling us clearly that she went to sleep around midnight and she saw the light on . . .”)

(CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE: Greenson wrote to Dr. Kris on August 20, 1962, “At 3:30 the housekeeper awakened and saw the light and phoned me . . .” The complete letter is located in Greenson Papers, Special Collections, UCLA, sealed from the public until January 1, 2039.)

(CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE: Greenson wrote to Dr. Kris on August 20, 1962, “It seems she had died around midnight . . .” The complete letter is located in Greenson Papers, Special Collections, UCLA, sealed from the public until January 1, 2039.)

(RUDIN, MILTON. INTERVIEW WITH DONALD SPOTO. 31 OCTOBER 1992: Rudin said he got a call from Greenson telling him Marilyn was dead and this was before midnight.)

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(SMITH 2005, pp. 30–33: Police report # 62-509 463: Mickey Rudin claims he called Mrs. Murray at 9 p.m.)

(SUMMERS 2000, p. 458: “Eunice Murray agrees that Rudin called, but insists the lawyer said nothing about the troubling call Marilyn had supposedly had with Lawford. She assumed it was merely a casual inquiry and, without checking on Marilyn, said all was well.”)

(SUMMERS 1994, p. 347: “Dr. Greenson confirmed privately, years later, that Robert Kennedy was present that night and that an ambulance was called.”)

(SPOTO 1993, p. 575: On the morning of August 5, Mrs. Murray claimed she went outside Marilyn’s house and used a fireplace poker to “part the draperies” of the only unbarred window.)

(NEWCOMB, PATRICIA. INTERVIEW WITH DONALD SPOTO. 3 AUGUST 1992: Newcomb recalled there was no “middle-divider” to the draperies Eunice Murray claimed she parted.)

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(SUMMERS 2000, p. 516: Account of Detective Sgt. Robert E. Byron.)

(BYRON, DOROTHEA. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 13 SEPTEMBER 2010)

(SUMMERS 2000, pp. 424–425: Parker’s wife Helen told Anthony Summers, her husband “wanted special attention paid to this particular case by the investigators . . .”)

(BROWN AND BARHAM 1993, p. 440: “With the stroke of a pen, Chief Parker began the cover-up by refusing to assign a full-time detective team . . .”)

(BROWN AND BARHAM 1993, p. 440: May Mann relayed, “He told me it would be bad for my health if I kept writing stories like that.”)

(BROWN AND BARHAM 1993, p. 467: Rothmiller said, “It was this unit [the OCID] which had undertaken the clandestine probe of Monroe’s death . . . Since nobody really ever investigated this death—they only covered up—all the trails were allowed to turn cold.”)

(BROWN AND BARHAM 1993, p. 430: Rothmiller relayed, “This is precisely what they did with the Monroe investigation . . . they protected the name of the Kennedy dynasty . . .” “Intelligence chiefs” did this in 1962, 1975, and 1982.)

(From the collection of YouTube member SGTG77: 1992
Hard Copy
documentary with Anthony Summers where Daniel Stewart discusses his knowledge that Robert Kennedy was in town at Marilyn’s home before and after she died.)

(STRAIT, RAYMOND. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 18 NOVEMBER 2010: “Bobby skipped out of town and said he was never there but everybody knew he was there. You cover your tail as best you can . . .”)

(BROWN AND BARHAM 1993, pp. 343, 503: Lady Lawford is adamant that neighbors saw Bobby Kennedy coming in and out of Peter’s beach house that last Saturday.)

(BROWN AND BARHAM 1993, p. 330: Lawford’s neighbor Ward Wood said, “It was Bobby all right . . .”)

(
Say Goodbye to the President
documentary, 1985: Ward Wood’s account.)

(SUMMERS 2000, p. 471: “As she [Lawford’s third wife Deborah Gould] understood it from Lawford, ‘He [Bobby Kennedy] left by helicopter to the airport.’ Joe Hyams . . . and the former policeman both say they learned that a helicopter touched down on the beach, close to the Lawford house, late that night. They discovered this in separate interviews with Lawford’s neighbors.”)

(SUMMERS 2000, pp. 472–473: William Woodfield relayed, “The time in the log was sometime after midnight . . .”)

(SUMMERS 2000, p. 517: James Zonlick remembered, “Hal had picked Robert Kennedy up at the beach house and left him at Los Angeles International Airport . . .”)

(SUMMERS 2000, p. 517: Patricia Conners recalled, “Next morning, I remember saying, ‘Did you hear that Marilyn Monroe died?’”)

(SUMMERS 2000, p. 472: Bobby Kennedy’s aide told Woodfield, “The Attorney General would appreciate it if you would not do the story.”)

(SUMMERS 2000, p. 468: “Certainly the parish priest confirms, Kennedy was in Gilroy by 9:30 a.m. on Sunday, attending Mass at the church of St. Mary.”)

(LAWFORD 1969, p. 36: Carmine S. Bellino and Bobby Kennedy’s strict dedication to Mass.)

(STEWART, DANIEL K. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 14 JANUARY 2011)

(BROWN AND BARHAM 1993, pp. 437–438: Assumption of suicide tainted the Monroe investigation.)

(CARPOZI, GEORGE, JR. INTERVIEW WITH JOANNE GREEN-LEVINE. 21 JANUARY 1992: “They never conducted a criminal investigation . . .”)

(GRANDISON, JR., AND MUQADDIN 2012, pp. 22–23, 26, 194: Account of Deputy Coroner’s Aide Lionel Grandison from his memoirs.)

(DAMBACHER, ROBERT. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 9 MARCH 2011: “I was a Deputy Coroner at the time. My partner’s name was Cletus Pace. So Cleet and I were dispatched at eight in the morning to go out to Westwood Village Mortuary to pick up her remains . . .”)

(
The Death of Marilyn Monroe
documentary, n.d.
New York Herald Tribune
reporter Joe Hyams said, “I had a source at the telephone company. My source came back and said the Secret Service has already been here and taken our records . . .”)

(SUMMERS 2000, p. 448: Joe Hyams contacted the telephone company “the morning after her death.”)

(WOLFE 1998, p. 50: Florabel Muir wrote on August 8, 1962, how sources asserted, “Strange ‘pressures’ are being put on Los Angeles police . . .”)

(SUMMERS 2000, p. 451: Jack Tobin said, “Hamilton told me he had the telephone history of the last day or two of Marilyn Monroe’s life . . .”)

(Carroll, Ronald H., and Alan B. Tomich. “The Death of Marilyn Monroe—Report to the District Attorney.” December 1982, pp. 16–17: “Confidential LAPD records supplied to our office support the published media reports that toll records . . .”)

(
The Death of Marilyn Monroe
documentary, n.d. Arthur Jacobs’s employee Michael Selsman relayed, “I believe that the Kennedys were concerned that Pat, being a close friend of Marilyn’s, would become very emotional and might at some point mention something to somebody about the extent of the relationship between the Kennedys and Marilyn.”)

(
The Death of Marilyn Monroe
documentary, n.d.
New York Herald Tribune
reporter Joe Hyams said, “Eunice Murray, who was Marilyn’s housekeeper and who had found the body, disappeared. And Pat Newcomb disappeared but she reappeared very hastily working for the Kennedys in Washington. It just began to look like a vast cover-up.”)

(BARRIS, GEORGE. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 7 JANUARY 2011: “I’ll tell you about Pat Newcomb . . .”)