Dead Wrong: Straight Facts on the Country's Most Controversial Cover-Ups (13 page)

•If she had swallowed that many capsules, she would have died long before the entire amount had been digested. Therefore, there would have been drug crystals undigested. No crystals mean that she did not swallow the drugs that killed her.

The pills could not have been swallowed because
(aside
from the fact that there was nothing nearby to swallow them with!) the victim dies before they can digest that many pills. When the victim dies, the heart stops and so does the digestive system, inevitably leaving
un
digested traces of the drugs in the stomach and intestines- which she didn’t have!

Therefore, “with this amount she would have died long before the entire amount had completely digested past her stomach and completely past her small intestine. So in simple terms it would have taken so many capsules to kill Marilyn that there should have been undissolved capsules and been a lot of drug crystals found in her digestive system. No crystals mean that she did not swallow the drugs that killed her.”
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If she had swallowed the pills, then:

•The fact that there was no yellow die in her stomach from the pills
may
be explainable, but is certainly not likely;

•The fact that there was no capsule residue at all found in her stomach or intestines is
almost impossible
to explain;

•The fact that there were no refractive crystals found anywhere in her stomach or intestines is
literally impossible
to explain (if the drugs were ingested orally);

•Proving to a scientific certainty that she did not swallow the pills. The drugs—by scientific necessity—were ingested by a means
other than oral,
i.e., either anal or injection.

Marilyn had far in excess of a fatal dose. And when her established high tolerance for the drug is factored into the equation, it was a
massive
overdose— one of 77-to-88 pills, and one that could not have been ingested orally (impossible),
or
via injection or IV (both would have bruised her substantially making the marks easily identifiable at autopsy). Therefore the vehicle of ingestion was anal:

“Marilyn did not swallow the drugs that killed her. She didn’t have any oral Nembutal in her possession. Still it was a very large amount of Nembutal that killed her and since it wasn’t swallowed or injected that only leaves enema bulb or IV (which would have taken a long time and left a mark).”
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Nor could it have been the result of some horrible medical miscalculation. That possibility has been suggested, because liquid Nembutal can also be administered via enema. The largest bags it was medically distributed in, circa 1962, were fifty cc bags of the drug. So, it has been posited that possibly someone meant to give her five cc’s but accidentally gave her all fifty cc’s instead.

However, that would
not
account for the huge amount of drugs that were found in Marilyn’s body. A full bag was 50cc’s of liquid Nembutal, equal to 37.5 grains, the equivalent of 25 1.5-grain tablets of Nembutal. Marilyn had over double that much Nembutal in her bloodstream (leaving liver content totally out of the equation), almost triple that much (the most accurate medical method comes out to the equivalent of between sixty to seventy Nembutal capsules). And she had no access to Nembutal. Even if we pushed it and factored in the missing twenty-five capsules prescribed to her, it’s still not nearly enough Nembutal (and since there were no refractive crystals in her digestive tract, they could not have been swallowed anyway). Now note the very clear conclusion of medical researcher Tony Plant:

“My calculations actually come up with more than fifty cc’s in her blood and if so then she was murdered on purpose.”
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Non-Suicidal Frame of Mind

An examination of Marilyn’s actions on the last day of her life provides a profile of a person who is clearly
not
contemplating suicide. The Timeline which follows tells us a great deal about Marilyn’s frame of mind.

When reconstructing a crime scene, it’s often helpful to “work-the -evidence backwards”; to start at the end and come forward. Doing so in the case of Marilyn’s death, we can begin with the fact that there was an obvious cover-up. There is substantial evidence that—for whatever reason—facts were covered up, stories were changed, and evidence linking Marilyn to an affair with President Kennedy and/or Attorney General Robert Kennedy was “taken care of” to protect the White House. That fact is indisputable.

COMPREHENSIVE TIMELINE

Reconstruction of Last Day
of Marilyn Monroe’s Life
Saturday, August 4, 1962

Shortly after FBI Director Hoover warned President Kennedy and Attorney General Robert Kennedy about the Administration’s vulnerability to blackmail from the President’s “liaisons” (February, 1962), JFK broke off his relationship with Marilyn. It has been established that, somehow, during that process, Marilyn became romantically involved with Robert Kennedy, and then that relationship got “cut off” at some point (quite possibly on August 4).
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It is also well-established that Marilyn’s home was “wired;” her phones were tapped, and there were also covert listening devices in it. The Justice Department had her phones tapped and the mob, via Jimmy Hoffa (arch-enemy of Robert Kennedy), had her under electronic surveillance. The mob also had Peter Lawford’s Santa Monica beach home wired, the presumed purpose being to “get dirt” on the Kennedys (who often visited there), just as Hoover had warned. Lawford (who is the brother-in-law of the Kennedy brothers and their protector in Hollywood) actually knew that his phones were bugged and went to pay phones when he needed to talk to the President (and was patched right through by standing orders to the White House operator). FBI surveillance of Marilyn on her vacation to Mexico City revealed that a friend of hers was also a high-ranking Communist, which also worried the FBI.
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8:00 AM Saturday, August 4, 1962

Housekeeper Eunice Murray arrives at Marilyn’s home at 12305 5
^th
Helena Drive in Brentwood, a classy suburb close to Hollywood. Mrs. Murray is a regular at Marilyn’s home (she also uses her son-in- law, Norman Jeffries, for small repairs at the property). At this moment, Marilyn is still in her bedroom and house guest Pat Newcomb, who spent the night, is still asleep in the guest room.

9:00 AM

Marilyn comes into the kitchen, Mrs. Murray gives her a glass of grapefruit juice, and the two start to chat. Marilyn explains that her publicist (and friend), Pat Newcomb, has spent the night because she is suffering from bronchitis (Pat had planned on checking into a hospital, but Marilyn convinced her to spend the night at her home instead, hoping that some good rest and lots of sunshine would nurse her back to health without hospitalization). So Marilyn says to let her sleep for her bad cold and then maybe in the afternoon she can “bake it out” at poolside.

9:30-10:00 AM

Marilyn meets at the house with Larry Schiller of
Playboy Magazine
regarding a proposal for a photo shoot and cover story on Marilyn. Schiller says Marilyn “looks fresh, unworried and without a care.”
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Even though it is Saturday, among her plans today, in addition to meeting with
Playboy,
include a designer fitting with the renowned Jean Louis, a meeting with famed actor/ dancer Gene Kelly regarding the
I Love Louisa
project (the name was later changed to
What A Way To Go!
when actually made), and making plans for her upcoming trip to New York City, during which she has planned a meeting with composer Jule Styne to work on Marilyn’s proposed musical version of
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn,
an interview and photo essay with
Esquire Magazine,
meeting with executives from
20th Century Fox
about resuming filming of
Something’s Got To Give,
and scheduling a meeting with Italian film producers on some possible future film projects.
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10:00-11:50 AM

A small piece of furniture, a nightstand that Marilyn had ordered, is delivered to her home and Marilyn writes a check for and receives it.
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Marilyn makes a phone call to friend Ralph Roberts, and they discuss a singer whom Marilyn is trying to help along in his career. Marilyn asks Ralph if he can try to locate an unreleased record of him. They also discuss a possible barbecue dinner at Marilyn’s home tomorrow (Sunday) and agree to talk again a little bit later.
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Marilyn receives a phone call from Sidney Skolsky. He asks her what her plans are for the evening and she says that she is expecting to see one of the Kennedys at a dinner at Peter Lawford’s home.
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11:00 AM

A helicopter arrives at the landing pad at
20th Century Fox
movie studios. This has previously been the method that Robert Kennedy takes to visit Marilyn; landing at the helicopter pad at
Fox,
being driven to Peter Lawford’s beach home in Santa Monica, then visiting Marilyn either at her home or at Lawford’s. There are eighteen credible witnesses to Robert Kennedy’s presence in Los Angeles on August 4, 1962, from police officers, to neighbors who were familiar with his comings and goings. He was positively identified arriving at the
20th Century Fox
helicopter pad, and also entering the homes of both Marilyn Monroe and Peter Lawford later that day.
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11:50 am-12:30 PM

Pat Newcomb wakes up and joins Mari-lyn and Eunice in the kitchen. Eunice prepares one of her fresh herb omelets for Pat, but Marilyn does not eat (this is confirmed by the fact that the autopsy also showed that she had not eaten anything on Saturday). Marilyn and Pat end up in an argument. Some of Marilyn’s biographers have theorized that the argument was because Pat had slept so well and Marilyn, who has difficulty sleeping, was jealous of that fact. That simply doesn’t hold up to scrutiny—the reason Pat spent the night to begin with was because Marilyn knew Pat had a terrible cold and wanted her to rest. Other reports from witnesses make much more sense—that Marilyn saw Pat as always defending the Kennedys (which was very true; she even went to work with Robert Kennedy after Marilyn’s death). Marilyn was becoming more and more convinced that those closest to her were not taking her side in matters related to the Kennedy brothers (which was also true).
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12:30-2:00 pm

The tension between Marilyn and Pat cools off and the two spend some time around the house. Pat rests and gets some sun for her cold. Marilyn occupies herself with a bunch of trees that have been delivered for her yard’s new landscaping. Furniture had recently been delivered (in addition to the nightstand that was delivered this morning) and Marilyn concerns herself with these matters around the house. She is in the process of redecorating her home, the first that she has ever owned.