The Murder of Marilyn Monroe (46 page)

(SUMMERS 2000, p. 414: “An empty bottle, with a label indicating it had contained twenty-five Nembutal pills, would be among the medicines retrieved from Marilyn’s room after her death. The label showed it had been prescribed on Friday, the day before her death.”)

(SUMMERS 2000, pp. 432–433: A photograph in Summers’s book proved Engelberg wrote an original Nembutal prescription for Marilyn on July 25, 1962, which was subsequently refilled days later on August 3. Summers incorrectly assumed this was for chloral hydrate.)

(SMITH 2005, p. 31: Quoting from the official police report #62-509 463: “Dr. Engelberg made the statement that he prescribed a refill for this about two days ago and he further stated there probably should have been about 50 capsules at the time this was refilled by the pharmacist.”)

(NEWCOMB, PATRICIA. INTERVIEW WITH DONALD SPOTO. 3 AUGUST 1992: “She asked for some Nembutals. Engelberg was having problems with his wife . . .”)

(LITMAN, ROBERT, M.D. INTERVIEW WITH DONALD SPOTO. 23 APRIL 1992: “I am stuck with the information that she went out and got pills from Siegel and Engelberg.”)

(Carroll, Ronald H., and Alan B. Tomich. “The Death of Marilyn Monroe—Report to the District Attorney.” December 1982, p. 25: Engelberg’s refill and the alleged Nembutal prescriptions by Dr. Siegel.)

(SUMMERS 2000, p. 415: Dr. Lee Siegel from Twentieth Century-Fox denied seeing Marilyn in the last weeks leading to her death.)

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(“Quiet services for Marilyn Monroe.”
Redlands Daily Facts
. [Redlands, CA] 8 August 1962: Peter Lawford told a reporter he may have been the last person to speak to Marilyn on the phone.)

(CRAMER 2001, p. 419: “Peter Lawford came forward as the ‘mystery caller’—he’d talked to Marilyn that Saturday night—and he quoted her last words to him (or maybe he wasn’t really quoting): ‘Say goodbye to Pat, say goodbye to the President, and say goodbye to yourself, because you’re a nice guy.’”)

(SUMMERS 2000, p. 457: Peter and the 7:30 p.m. call to Marilyn.)

(SUMMERS 2000, p. 421: Harry Hall said DiMaggio “held Bobby Kennedy responsible for her death.”)

(SUMMERS 2000, p. 482: DiMaggio said to the funeral director, “Be sure that none of those damn Kennedys come to the funeral.”)

(DePaulo, Lisa. “The Strange, Still Mysterious Death of Marilyn Monroe.”
Playboy
. December 2005, pp. 194–195: DiMaggio’s best friend Morris Engelberg relayed, “No woman in the world will ever be loved the way he loved her . . .”)

(SUMMERS 2000, p. 482: Peter Lawford said, “It seems to be a concerted effort to keep some of Marilyn’s old friends from attending.”)

(SPADA 1991, p. 330: DiMaggio privately responded, “If it wasn’t for her so-called friends, Marilyn would be alive today.”)

(FANTA 1968, p. 37: On August 12, 1962, four days after Marilyn’s funeral, “The President and his guests aboard the MANITOU on second day of Maine cruising,” including Jack Kennedy, Peter Lawford, Pat Kennedy Lawford, and Pat Newcomb.)

(WOLFE 1998, pp. 244–245: Same
Manitou
photograph is located in the picture section between these two pages.)

(HEYMANN 1998, p. 325: “Three days after Marilyn’s death, RFK left San Francisco on a camping trip to Oregon . . .”)

(SLATZER 1992, p. 349: Quoting from the official police report # 62-509 463: “An attempt was made to contact Mr. Lawford . . .”)

(LITMAN, ROBERT, M.D. INTERVIEW WITH DONALD SPOTO. 23 APRIL 1992: “Probable suicide” based on the “physical evidence” and “past history of having made overdoses.”)

(SPOTO 1993, p. 582: Dr. Robert Litman related, “It was obvious to us, after speaking with Dr. Greenson about Marilyn’s psychiatric history, that the only conclusion we could reach was suicide, or at least a gamble with death . . .”)

(Rebello, Stephen. “Somebody Killed Her.”
Playboy
. December 2005, p. 187: Miner discussed how Marilyn would have been unconscious before she could finish taking 30–40 pills.)

(Rebello, Stephen. “Somebody Killed Her.”
Playboy
. December 2005, p. 187: Miner related, “I was called on a Sunday, and the techs wouldn’t even have gotten to the specimens until the following day . . .”)

(SUMMERS 2000, p. 432: Noguchi said, “For some reason I felt uncomfortable and shortly after the case was formally closed I called Toxicology . . .”)

(History’s Mysteries:
The Death of Marilyn Monroe
documentary, 2000: Noguchi said of Coroner Curphey, “He certified the manner of death to be ‘probable suicide . . .’”)

(History’s Mysteries:
The Death of Marilyn Monroe
documentary, 2000: John Miner vehemently discounted the “probable suicide” verdict by Dr. Curphey: “What we really have is a coroner chief medical examiner . . .”)

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(Zolotow, Maurice. “MM’s Psychiatrist a Troubled Man.”
San Antonio Light.
[San Antonio, TX] 13 October 1973, p. 9-A: Ralph Greenson said, “I will always believe it was an accidental suicide, because her hand was on the receiver, her finger still in the dial . . .”)

(MAILER 1975, p. 341: “Dr. Thomas Noguchi stated for
Time
magazine that ‘no stomach pump was used on Marilyn.’”)

(“Two Myths Converge: NM Discovers MM.”
Time
. 16 July 1973, p. 70)

(“Psychiatrist Breaks Silence in Defense of Marilyn Monroe.”
Yuma Daily
Sun.
[Yuma, AZ] 23 October 1973: Ralph Greenson said, “I’ve decided that all I can do I’ve tried to do . . .”)

(SUMMERS 2000, p. 337: “Dr. Litman says today that Greenson spoke to him of a ‘close relationship with extremely important men in government,’ that the relationship was ‘sexual,’ and that the men concerned were ‘at the highest level.’ Dr. Litman says . . . he had ‘no real doubt’ whom he meant by ‘important men in government.’”)

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(MURRAY 1975, p. 156: Mrs. Murray said, “It’s well known that Marilyn had a history of attempts at suicide. But at this particular time, she didn’t seem to have a desperate need to end it all. Plans were being resolved and there were many promising, exciting possibilities for the future.”)

(WIENER 1990, p. 11: “Years later, in an interview, Mrs. Murray would change parts of her story, but not the belief that Marilyn’s death was probably accidental.”)

(SLATZER 1992, p. 184: Marilyn’s neighbor Abe Landau was told by Mrs. Murray how Marilyn took too many pills because she forgot that she had taken some earlier then died.)

(“Two Myths Converge: NM Discovers MM.”
Time
. 16 July 1973, p. 70: “It was not a case, says Noguchi, of ‘automatism’—that gray area . . .”)

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(BROWN AND BARHAM 1993, p. 345: “To Allan, the master publicist, Lawford’s story sounded as though it had been written for him by a public relations expert . . .”)

(EBBINS, MILTON. INTERVIEW WITH DONALD SPOTO. 6 AUGUST 1992: “I was a confidant of Peter’s . . .”)

(EBBINS, MILTON. INTERVIEW WITH DONALD SPOTO. 6 AUGUST 1992: “I called and got a busy signal . . .”)

(EBBINS, MILTON. INTERVIEW WITH DONALD SPOTO. 6 AUGUST 1992: “Peter Lawford wanted to go badly . . .”)

(EBBINS, MILTON. INTERVIEW WITH DONALD SPOTO. 6 AUGUST 1992: “Peter was getting drunker by the minute . . . He’d be coughing then be silent . . .”)

(EBBINS, MILTON. INTERVIEW WITH JAMES SPADA. 13 DECEMBER 1988: “I know the way this story may go and I’m prepared for it. I can’t dispute you because you’re liable to have proof . . .”)

(EBBINS, MILTON. INTERVIEW WITH DONALD SPOTO. 6 AUGUST 1992: “That’s a lot of crap . . .”)

(EBBINS, MILTON. INTERVIEW WITH DONALD SPOTO. 6 AUGUST 1992: “How’s Marilyn? . . .”)

(EBBINS, MILTON. INTERVIEW WITH DONALD SPOTO. 22 SEPTEMBER 1992: “Come on! Bobby Kennedy had more ways. He could’ve gotten rid of Marilyn Monroe with a phone call to Peter Lawford . . .”)

(EBBINS, MILTON. INTERVIEW WITH JAMES SPADA. 8 NOVEMBER 1988: “Marilyn was destined to die. She’d tried suicide four times. Peter felt guilty about not going over to save her, but Dr. Greenson told him . . .”)

(EBBINS, MILTON. INTERVIEW WITH JAMES SPADA. 13 DECEMBER 1988: “Greenson told Peter that Marilyn had tried to commit suicide four or five times. . .”)

(EBBINS, MILTON. INTERVIEW WITH JAMES SPADA. 8 NOVEMBER 1988: “I was on the phone to Peter all night the night Marilyn died . . .”)

(ASHER, WILLIAM. INTERVIEW WITH DONALD SPOTO. 25 SEPTEMBER 1992: “I heard from Peter at eight or nine . . .”)

(
Say Goodbye to the President
documentary, 1985: George “Bullets” Durgom relayed, “He [Peter Lawford] mentions maybe I ought to go up there and see if she’s okay . . .”)

(EBBINS, MILTON. INTERVIEW WITH DONALD SPOTO. 6 AUGUST 1992: “There were two numbers. Peter didn’t have the other number . . .”)

(RUDIN, MILTON. INTERVIEW WITH DONALD SPOTO. 31 OCTOBER 1992: “I did not call [Greenson]. He had had enough quite frankly . . .”)

(“Peter Lawford Phoned MM on Her Last Night.”
San Antonio Express
. [San Antonio, Texas] 9 August 1962: Milton Ebbins relayed, “He [Lawford] said Miss Monroe told him she would like to come but that she was tired and was going to bed early . . .”)

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(LAWFORD 1992, pp. 77–80: Lady May Lawford, Peter Lawford’s mother, suspects her son of foul play on August 4, 1962.)

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(Scott, Vernon. “Debunking MM Murder Rumors Latest Hollywood Industry.”
European Stars and Stripes
. [Darmstadt, Germany] 7 October 1985: Milt Ebbins related, “I talked to Peter on the telephone several times that night . . . I suggested we call Mickey Rudin, Marilyn’s attorney, and her psychiatrist, Dr. Ralph Greenson, Mickey’s brother-in-law . . .”)

(Boyes, Malcolm. “The Passing of Peter Lawford Rekindles Memories of the Joys and Sadness of a Camelot Lost.”
People
. 14 January 1985, Volume 23, Number 2: Peter Lawford remained “on good terms with the Kennedys. In fact, presidential candidate Robert Kennedy, after winning the California primary in 1968, was headed for a Lawford-hosted party when he, too, was killed by an assassin’s bullets.”)

(NAAR, DOLORES. INTERVIEW WITH JAMES SPADA. 5 JANUARY 1989: “We were all to go to that. Pat would have been there . . .”)

(ROMANOFF, GLORIA. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 2 SEPTEMBER 2010: “I don’t think there was a lot of affection between Bobby Kennedy and Peter Lawford . . .”)

(FRANKLIN 2002, p. 109: On Bobby Kennedy snapping at Peter, “Lawford didn’t react; apparently he was used to verbal whippings.”)

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(ASHER, WILLIAM. INTERVIEW WITH DONALD SPOTO. 25 SEPTEMBER 1992)

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(NAAR, DOLORES. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 4 NOVEMBER 2010: “Peter called our house and said, ‘Don’t pick up Marilyn. She’s not coming.’”)

(SPADA 1991, p. 321: “Around seven-thirty, just as the Naars were leaving the house, they got another call from Peter. Marilyn wasn’t feeling well, he told them, and wouldn’t be coming.”)

(NAAR, DOLORES. INTERVIEW WITH JAMES SPADA. 6 JANUARY 1989: “I read in one of the books that Bobby was upstairs . . .”)

(NAAR, JOSEPH. INTERVIEW WITH DONALD SPOTO. 22 JULY 1992: Joe Naar claims Lawford told him, “I just talked to Marilyn and I’m scared. I don’t like the way she sounds. I think she’s taken some pills . . .”)

(NAAR, JOSEPH. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 2 SEPTEMBER 2010: “I was on the phone with Peter most of that night . . . That’s one-on-one with me at 11:30 at night . . .”)

(SPADA 1991, p. 323: Dolores Naar stated that to her husband Joe, Lawford “said that he’d spoken to Marilyn’s doctor and [Dr. Greenson] had said that he had given her sedatives because she had been disturbed earlier . . .”)

(SPADA 1991, p. 323: During Peter’s party, Dolores Naar recalled, “I picked up on nothing. Except that during the evening there was a call and Peter said, ‘Oh, it’s Marilyn again’—like she does this all the time. His attitude didn’t change. It was very light, up evening.” Erma Lee Riley, Peter’s maid, agreed: “There wasn’t a word of worry about Marilyn.”)

(NAAR, DOLORES. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 3 NOVEMBER 2010: “I was in the room.”)

(NAAR, DOLORES. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 4 NOVEMBER 2010: “So you don’t need to go.”)

(SMITH 2005, p. 180: “Peter Lawford telephoned to say that Marilyn had taken too many pills . . . Joe Naar . . . dressed in readiness, but Lawford called again before he set off. He said it was unnecessary to go . . . Dolores Naar recalls Lawford telling them that Marilyn’s doctor had given her a sedative and she was resting.”)

(SUMMERS 2000, p. 514: “Lawford phoned soon after that to say ‘Marilyn’s doctor’ had given her a sedative, and she was resting.”)

(SPADA 1991, p. 324: Dolores Naar said, “Peter probably called Jack or Bobby and was told to take care of things . . .”)

(SPADA 1991, p. 323: “These were an odd pair of telephone calls in an evening replete with oddities . . .”)