The Murder of Marilyn Monroe (45 page)

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(ABBOTT, ALLAN. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 13 JUNE 2012: “We had provided limousine service for JFK in Los Angeles for the Democratic Convention before he was elected . . .”)

(ABBOTT, ALLAN. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 7 JUNE 2012: “I drove the limo on Clark Gable’s service and the service for Ernie Kovacs . . .”)

(ABBOTT, ALLAN. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 20 JUNE 2012: “Clarence Pierce, who was the younger of the two brothers, originally put out the call . . .”)

(ABBOTT, ALLAN. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 7 JUNE 2012: “I actually stood at the door of the chapel . . .”)

(Hast, Ron. “Just Conversation.” October 2012—in the collection of Jay Margolis: “Founded in 1957 by my business partner Allan Abbott, and myself, our company . . .”)

(ABBOTT, ALLAN. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 22 JULY 2012: “Joe DiMaggio left at eleven o’clock at night . . .”)

(ABBOTT, ALLAN. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 13 JUNE 2012: “We stayed there until almost eleven . . .”)

(ABBOTT, ALLAN. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 20 JUNE 2012: “In Leigh Wiener’s book, it says we’re employees of Westwood . . .”)

(ABBOTT, ALLAN. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 13 AUGUST 2012: “I never met Noguchi until after Marilyn’s funeral . . .”)

(ABBOTT, ALLAN. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 21 JULY 2012: “Noguchi was a working fool. He would do six or eight or ten embalmings . . .”)

(ABBOTT, ALLAN. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 7 JUNE 2012: “As Abbott & Hast, we provide funeral cars, hearses, limousines . . .”)

(ABBOTT, ALLAN. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 21 JULY 2012: “Obviously when everyone found out that Westwood . . .”)

(ABBOTT, ALLAN. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 7 JUNE 2012: “I get to the cemetery and there’s about a hundred . . .”)

(ABBOTT, ALLAN. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 13 JUNE 2012: “Marilyn’s neck was bloated because I think Noguchi was in there . . .”)

(ABBOTT, ALLAN. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 7 JUNE 2012: “Of course, she was already embalmed at the Coroner’s Office . . .”)

(ABBOTT, ALLAN. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 21 JULY 2012: “We had just finished dressing Marilyn. Charles Maxwell, the embalmer . . .”)

(ABBOTT, ALLAN. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 7 JUNE 2012: “I kept thinking about those falsies . . .”)

(ABBOTT, ALLAN. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 21 JULY 2012: “If Mrs. Hamrock hadn’t come in, I would have never ended up with the falsies . . .”)

(ABBOTT, ALLAN. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 7 JUNE 2012: “Then, when I got outside, I pulled them out of my pocket and some of the hair that was cut off of her was between the two falsies . . .”)

(“The Marilyn Tapes—Questions Still Remain About the Movie Star’s Death.”
48 Hours
. 20 April 2006: Peter Van Sant said, “Dr. Steven Karch is one of the nation’s top forensic pathologists . . . All it would take are a few strands of that famously blonde hair . . . Dr. Karch says tests could be run to look for poisons or paralyzing drugs, not done back then.”)

(“The Marilyn Tapes—Questions Still Remain About the Movie Star’s Death.”
48 Hours
. 20 April 2006: Dr. Steven Karch said, “Somebody would have to open the crypt and take some hair and fingernails and analyze it.”)

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(BROWN AND BARHAM 1993, p. 338: Clemmons remembered a man with a European accent calling to notify him of the death of Marilyn Monroe.)

(Rebello, Stephen. “Somebody Killed Her.”
Playboy
. December 2005, p. 187: According to John Miner, Greenson did call the police, contrary to the official police report that said Engelberg called instead.)

(Shearer, Lloyd. “Marilyn Monroe—Why Won’t They Let Her Rest in Peace?”
Parade
. 5 August 1973: Greenson himself admitted it was he who called the police.)

(WOLFE 1998, p. 5: “Clemmons recalled, ‘She was lying facedown in what I call the soldier’s position. Her face was in a pillow, her arms were by her side, her right arm was slightly bent. Her legs were stretched out perfectly straight.’”)

(BROWN AND BARHAM 1993, pp. 340–341: Clemmons said of Greenson and Engelberg, “Liars, both of them.” Clemmons was not impressed when he felt Greenson was being fresh with him, “I strongly disliked Greenson’s attitude . . .”)

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(SUMMERS 2000, p. 415: “Dr. Greenson would later say he had brought in Dr. Engelberg to try to wean Marilyn away from sleeping pills . . .”)

(
Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days
TV documentary, 2001: Engelberg discussed Marilyn’s last night and diagnosed his patient as bipolar.)

(HEYMANN 1998, p. 320: Peter Lawford mentioned Marilyn’s “manic-depressive tendencies.”)

(CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE: District Attorney’s report dated September 27, 1982. Investigator Al Tomich interviewed Marilyn’s physician, Dr. Hyman Engelberg, who relayed, “I saw her Friday evening . . .”)

(HEYMANN 1998, p. 324)

(CAPELL 1964, p. 32: Engelberg’s Creditor’s Claim for giving Marilyn an injection on August 3, 1962.)

(CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE: Greenson wrote to Dr. Kris on August 20, 1962, “I had an internist [Hyman Engelberg] who would prescribe medication for her and to give her vitamin injections and liver injections . . .” The complete letter is located in Greenson Papers, Special Collections, UCLA, sealed from the public until January 1, 2039.)

(MALTZ, ESTHER ENGELBERG. INTERVIEW WITH DONALD SPOTO. 23 OCTOBER 1992: “Dr. Greenson used Hy to sedate [Marilyn].”)

(SPOTO 1993, p. 661: “Regarding the so-called ‘liver and vitamin injections,’ the first Mrs. Hyman Engelberg told DS [Donald Spoto] that she never heard of them.”)

(SPOTO 1993, p. 586: “Chloral hydrate interferes with the body’s production of enzymes that metabolize Nembutal.”)

(
Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days
TV documentary, 2001: Engelberg related, “The autopsy showed . . . a lot of chloral hydrate. I never gave her chloral hydrate and I don’t think any doctor in the United States gave it to her. She must have bought it in Tijuana.”)

(TARABORRELLI 2009, p. 378: “She was taking chloral hydrate to sleep, and Dr. Engelberg emphatically states that he never prescribed it to her, nor did Dr. Greenson. In fact, Engelberg would say . . . he now presumes she bought when she was in Mexico just before her death.”)

(GRAY, MARIJANE. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 17 MAY 2012: Physician Dr. Hyman Engelberg wrote chloral hydrate prescriptions for Marilyn including one dated June 7, 1962, one day before Marilyn was fired. This prescription was sold at Julien’s Auctions on May 7, 2011, for $1,664. Therefore, Engelberg lied when he claimed ignorance of Marilyn’s chloral hydrate prescriptions.)

(SPOTO 1993, pp. 497–498, 506, 581–582, 585–586, 590, 663: Greenson told biographer Maurice Zolotow and photographer William Woodfield that he was in fact aware of chloral hydrate prescriptions for Marilyn.)

(SPOTO 1993, p. 581: “100-milligram Nembutal capsules” and “500-milligram chloral hydrate capsules.”)

(SPERIGLIO 1986, p. 19: “The Hocketts arrived . . . Father and son first collected the pill bottles, establishing that there were fifteen.”)

(MURRAY 1975, p. 42: Mrs. Murray relayed, “Under Dr. Greenson’s guidance, she was taking only chloral hydrate pills for sleep.”)

(Zolotow, Maurice. “Monroe’s Last Days: Drowsy Death in a Barbiturate Darkness.”
Chicago Tribune
. 14 September 1973, sec. 2, p. 4: “Her psychiatrist, Dr. Ralph Greenson, was attempting to cut down her dependence on Nembutal by switching her to chloral hydrate as a sleep-inducer.”)

(SPOTO 1993, p. 590: Greenson to Woodfield regarding the large chloral hydrate prescriptions written by Engelberg, “Well, I’ve made a number of mistakes in my time.”)

(CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE: District attorney’s report dated September 27, 1982. Investigator Alan B. Tomich interviewed Marilyn’s physician, Dr. Hyman Engelberg, who relayed, “I don’t know of anything Dr. Greenson gave her. Maybe he did. I cannot answer for him . . .”)

(From the collection of CBS News: September 27, 1982, recorded interview for the District Attorney’s Office with Marilyn’s physician, Dr. Hyman Engelberg, conducted by investigator Alan B. Tomich:

TOMICH: Was there a reason there was a delay of half hour or do you consider it was a delay?

ENGELBERG: We were stunned. We were talking over what happened, what she had said. Ordinarily, when you pronounce somebody dead, you don’t call the police, you call the mortician. I was the one who I guess eventually said, gee, I think in this case, we’d better call the police.)

(Zolotow, Maurice. “Monroe’s Last Days: Drowsy Death in a Barbiturate Darkness.”
Chicago Tribune
. 14 September 1973, sec. 2, p. 4: In an interview with Dr. Engelberg, Zolotow quoted him as saying, “The reason there was [a] delay [was because] normally you don’t call the police. You call the mortuary to remove the body. Dr. Greenson and I discussed this back and forth. I strongly insisted that because of who she was and the possibility of suicide, we should call the police.”)

(HEYMANN 1998, p. 312)

(GREENSON, HILDI. INTERVIEW WITH CATHY GRIFFIN. 4 JUNE 1991: “The idea was that she was never to be said no to when she wanted a prescription . . .”)

(TARABORRELLI 2009, p. 377)

(CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE: GREENSON, JOAN. UNTITLED 90-PAGE MARILYN MONROE MANUSCRIPT, p. 84: “All she had to do was call her doctor and he would prescribe it to her . . .” The complete work is located in Greenson Papers, Special Collections, UCLA, sealed from the public until January 1, 2039.)

(WARNER 1991, pp. 582–583: “Part of improving the patient’s environment is prescribing ‘proper’ medication that will magically solve problems. This medication is either what has recently been reported in newspapers or magazines as new and effective or what other affluent patients report as ‘doing miracles.’”)

(GREENSON 1964, p. 209: “The administering of a drug is a responsibility since it may cause physical side effects . . .” The complete work is located in Greenson Papers, Special Collections, UCLA.)

(CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE: Greenson wrote to Dr. Kris on August 20, 1962, “I later found out that on Friday night she had told the internist [Engelberg] that I had said it was all right for her to take some Nembutal . . .” The complete letter is located in Greenson Papers, Special Collections, UCLA, sealed from the public until January 1, 2039.)

(SPOTO 1993, p. 586: How Greenson knew his star patient well enough to know on what prescription she was “somewhat drugged.”)

(CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE: Greenson wrote to Dr. Kris on August 20, 1962, “I received a call from Marilyn at 4:30 in the afternoon. She seemed somewhat depressed and somewhat drugged.” The complete letter is located in Greenson Papers, Special Collections, UCLA, sealed from the public until January 1, 2039.)

(GUILES 1969, p. 321: “She asked him to give her a new sleeping pill prescription. After he [Engelberg] was convinced that the drug she was taking—chloral hydrate—was not working, he agreed to prescribe twenty-five tablets of Nembutal.”)

(MIRACLE 1994, p. 197: “Friday evening Pat Newcomb arrives at Marilyn’s house to spend the night. Dr. Engelberg stops in, gives Marilyn an injection to help her sleep and, because the chloral hydrate has apparently not been working, writes her a prescription for twenty-five Nembutal capsules.”)

(GREENSON, HILDI. INTERVIEW WITH CATHY GRIFFIN. 4 JUNE 1991: “In trying to help Marilyn get off the barbiturates she was on he was giving her a different kind of medication that is not quite as addictive . . .”)

(MURRAY 1975, p. 42: Marilyn told Mrs. Murray regarding chloral hydrate: “You know they used to give these to the soldiers in the war for sleeping. They’re really very mild.”)

(From the collection of YouTube member wksufreshair: KNBC
Hard Copy,
April 20, 1992, Part 2 of 4 Marilyn Monroe: For
Hard Copy
’s reenactment of Marilyn’s last day, Mrs. Murray’s recollection of Marilyn taking chloral hydrate and how mild Marilyn thought it was.)

(CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE: On August 20, 1962, Greenson wrote to Dr. Kris, “At the end of the conversation she asked me whether I had taken away her Nembutal bottle . . .” The complete letter is located in Greenson Papers, Special Collections, UCLA, sealed from the public until January 1, 2039.)

(BROWN AND BARHAM 1993, p. 423: Joan Greenson said Engelberg didn’t tell her father about the Nembutal prescription the day before Marilyn died because his wife was kicking him out of the house that day and he had a lot on his mind. However, this does not explain a bigger problem: Engelberg’s original Nembutal prescription on July 25 just days before.)

(CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE: GREENSON, JOAN. UNTITLED 90-PAGE MARILYN MONROE MANUSCRIPT, p. 85: “That Saturday he had checked her medication . . .” 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: “It happened on a bad day. A divorce either became final or he was moving out of his house . . .”)