The Murder of Marilyn Monroe (40 page)

(CARLSON, MIKE. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 19 DECEMBER 2011: “That’s what he told me . . .”)

(WOLFE 1998, p. 80: “Interviews with Hall’s father [George], his former wife [Kitty], his sister [Lynn], and his longtime friend Mike Carlson confirm that Hall told them his story shortly after Marilyn’s death.”)

(SUMMERS 2000, p. 514: “Hall’s story receives some corroboration from his family. His father, Dr. George Hall, a retired police surgeon, says his son told him of the incident at the time. Hall’s former wife and sister say the same.”)

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(
The Marilyn Files
documentary, 1991: James Hall said, “She was naked. She had no sheet, no blanket . . . There was no water glass. No alcohol.”)

(
Marilyn Monroe: A Case for Murder
documentary, 1988: James Hall said, “We ascertained that her breathing was very shallow . . .”)

(MURRAY 1975, pp. 125–126: “Sometime during the earlier part of the day, the bedside table [for the guest cottage] was delivered and Marilyn wrote a check for it.”)

(Flynt, Larry. “Marilyn Was Murdered: Eyewitness Account by James E. Hall.”
Hustler
, May 1986, p. 82: James Hall said, “I remember noticing she had a fairly fresh scar there.”)

(“Marilyn Monroe Rests Well After Gall Bladder Removal: 7 Doctors in Attendance at Surgery in New York; DiMaggio Standing By.”
The Blade
[Toledo, Ohio] 30 June 1961: The removal of Marilyn’s gall bladder occurred the previous day, June 29, 1961.)

(HALL, JAMES. INTERVIEW WITH MICHELLE MORGAN. SEPTEMBER 1997: “No one ever said that Marilyn was in the guest bedroom except myself until now . . .”)

(WOLFE 1998, p. 81: “In 1993, Liebowitz was located in a Los Angeles suburb living under the name Murray Leib. He admitted, after thirty years of denial, that he had been with Hall on the call to Monroe’s residence. Stating that Hall’s account was accurate, he then confirmed that Marilyn Monroe had died in the guest cottage.”)

(HALL, JAMES. INTERVIEW WITH MICHELLE MORGAN. OCTOBER 1997: “As some of my credentials, I would like to offer the following . . .”)

(HALL, JAMES. INTERVIEW WITH MICHELLE MORGAN. AUGUST 1997: “I am a big fan of Marilyn. I have been a fan since I was a young man . . .”)

(SPADA 1991, p. 325: “According to Hall, when he arrived with his partner, Marilyn was in the guest bedroom . . .”)

(NEWCOMB, PATRICIA. INTERVIEW WITH DONALD SPOTO. 3 AUGUST 1992: “Whoever the writer was who said I leaned over the body screaming, ‘She’s dead! She’s dead!’ I never saw the body. So what is he talking about, this ambulance driver? . . .”)

(SUMMERS 2000, p. 514: Hall “says Marilyn’s assistant, Pat Newcomb, was distraught, and already there when he arrived, and that Marilyn was not yet dead.”)

(GUILES 1969, p. 326: “Pat was awakened by a phone call at 4 a.m. It was lawyer Mickey Rudin. ‘Something’s happened to Marilyn,’ he told her; then added, ‘She’s dead.’ When she recovered from the initial shock, Pat got dressed and drove to the Brentwood house . . .”)

(HALL, JAMES. INTERVIEW WITH MICHELLE MORGAN. AUGUST 1997: “‘Oh my God, it’s Marilyn Monroe,’ I said. She lay unconscious . . .”)

(HALL, JAMES. INTERVIEW WITH JAMES SPADA. 3 JUNE 1990: “They [Lawford and Iannone] walked in at the time he [Ralph Greenson] was injecting her . . .”)

(FRANKLIN 2002, p. 112: Referring to the year 1992, Franklin wrote, “James Hall . . . told me that Sgt. Iannone and Peter Lawford had been present in the home . . . when Dr. Greenson injected Marilyn with the fatal heart needle.”)

(WOLFE 1998, p. 77: “Hall later identified the hysterical woman as Pat Newcomb, the man in the jumpsuit as Peter Lawford, the doctor as Ralph Greenson, and the police officer as Sergeant Marvin Iannone.”)

(HALL, JAMES. INTERVIEW WITH MICHELLE MORGAN. AUGUST 1997: “At that time, two men who I assumed were Los Angeles Police officers came in . . .”)

(Flynt, Larry. “Marilyn Was Murdered: Eyewitness Account by James E. Hall.”
Hustler
, May 1986, p. 82: James Hall relayed, “He [Noguchi] said he looked over the whole body with a magnifying glass and didn’t find any needle marks, including under the tongue . . .”)

(SLATZER 1975, p. 312: In the original autopsy report, Noguchi noted only two bruises, “A slight ecchymotic area is noted in the left hip and left side of lower back.”)

(BROWN AND BARHAM 1993, pp. 382–383: Noguchi mentioned for the first time there were bruises on Marilyn’s arms, not included in the original autopsy report!)

(SLATZER 1992, p. 207: Hall took credit for bruises on Marilyn’s arms that Noguchi a year later mentioned to Brown and Barham. Hall stated, “One was on her upper arm—that’s my fingerprints. One was on her fanny—that’s where we dropped her.”)

(CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE: District attorney’s report dated September 27, 1982. Investigator Al Tomich interviewed Marilyn’s physician Dr. Hyman Engelberg who said he didn’t see any needle marks from an injection to Marilyn’s chest, “I would have noticed any gross things. I didn’t notice any such thing.”)

(WOLFE 1998, p. 75: “Her body exhibited signs of cyanosis—the classic indication of rapid death. In cyanosis the body takes on a bluish cast due to the rapid depletion of oxygen and reduced levels of hemoglobin . . .”)

(From the collection of YouTube member TVOsnam: Leigh Wiener said in a 1987 documentary, “They’ll look like a frozen cube of ice. . . I took a picture of her toe with a tag on it . . .”)

(WIENER, DEVIK. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 7 JUNE 2012: “In 1982, a couple of deputy D.A.’s knocked on the door . . .”)

(WOLFE 1998, p. 10: James Bacon said, “I stayed there long enough to get a good view of the body . . .”)

(
Marilyn Monroe: A Case for Murder
documentary, 1988: John Miner’s account: “Her body was examined minutely by both of us under magnification to see if we could find any needle mark . . .”)

(SLATZER 1992, pp. 134–136: John Miner related, “We both examined the body very carefully with a magnifying glass for needle marks. . . The duodenum was felt all the way down to the ileum, which is at the end of the small intestine but there was nothing obstructive.”)

(NOGUCHI 1984, p. 67: “I found no needle marks, and so indicated on the body diagram in the autopsy report . . . On Monroe’s lower left back was an area of slight ecchymosis, a dark reddish-blue bruise that results from bleeding into the tissues through injury. And the color of the bruise indicated that it was fresh rather than old,” which supported James Hall’s account of dropping her.)

(NOGUCHI 1984, p. 221: In the John Belushi case, Noguchi wrote, “The very fact that the fresh punctures had been so difficult to discover worried me . . .”)

(WOLFE 1998, p. 28)

(SLATZER 1992, p. 258: Dr. J. DeWitt Fox explains how blue postmortem lividity could have hidden a needle injection on Marilyn’s chest. Sgt. Clemmons agreed with Fox and James Hall. Hall told Melvin B. Bergman for
The Marilyn Files
that since he and Liebowitz discovered Marilyn in the guest cottage, she later must have been moved from the guest cottage to the main bedroom where Sgt. Clemmons officially discovered her. Marilyn’s body was then placed facedown on the bed to hide the needle mark in her heart from Greenson’s injection of pentobarbital.)

(WOLFE 1998, p. 29: “The faint lividity noted on her posterior must have occurred immediately after death, when Monroe’s body was on its back for a period of time before being placed facedown . . .”)

(Carroll, Ronald H., and Alan B. Tomich. “The Death of Marilyn Monroe—Report to the District Attorney.” December 1982, p. 15: “Lividity, as described to our investigators, is a process by which blood drains . . .”)

(SLATZER 1975, p. 311: Under the heading EXTERNAL EXAMINATION, Noguchi noted in his autopsy report, “Lavidity [sic] of face and chest . . .”)

(SLATZER 1992, p. 258: Sgt. Jack Clemmons said, “It was obvious to me, apparent to me . . .”)

(BROWN AND BARHAM 1993, p. 373: John Miner’s admission that since the kidneys appeared to be clean of the barbiturates then an injection would have bypassed the stomach.)

(Carroll, Ronald H., and Alan B. Tomich. “The Death of Marilyn Monroe—Report to the District Attorney.” December 1982, pp. 13, 15–16: “According to Hall, the doctor ultimately plunged a giant syringe filled with a brownish fluid into her heart, after which she quickly died while on her back on the floor. . .”)

(NOGUCHI 1984, p. 84: “My involvement in the Marilyn Monroe case had caused me to study the young Senator [Bobby Kennedy], and I admired him very much. To me, he and his late brother [John Kennedy] represented what I called the ‘Great America.’ I respected everything about them . . . [including] their instinctive reaching out to all ethnic groups . . .”)

(Carroll, Donald. “Conversation with Dr. Thomas Noguchi.”
Oui
. February 1976: Noguchi said, “I was very fond of [Bobby] Kennedy.”)

(SUMMERS 2000, p. 542: Noguchi on not eliminating death by injection in Marilyn’s case.)

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

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

(MINER, JOHN. INTERVIEW WITH DONALD SPOTO. 11 JUNE 1992: “Dr. Curphey in one of his more exuberant moments said, ‘Oh, she gobbled 40 pills all at one time.’ That’s not possible . . .”)

(AMADOR, ELIAS, M.D. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 11 JANUARY 2011: An undiluted injection will kill someone regardless of the substance in the syringe and the amount injected into the body, therefore, this action by Ralph Greenson was murder, not adrenaline.)

(BROWN AND BARHAM 1993, p. 340: Clemmons related that Greenson was “cocky, almost challenging me to accuse him of something.”)

(LAWFORD, PETER. INTERVIEW WITH C. DAVID HEYMANN. 1983. Transcript located at the State University of New York at Stony Brook: “‘Marilyn has got to be silenced,’ Bobby told Greenson or something to that effect. Greenson had thus been set up by Bobby to ‘take care’ of Marilyn.”)

(HEYMANN 1998, p. 322)

(WOLFE 1998, p. 81: “In 1993, Liebowitz was located in a Los Angeles suburb living under the name Murray Leib. He admitted, after thirty years of denial, that he had been with Hall on the call to Monroe’s residence. Stating that Hall’s account was accurate, he then confirmed that Marilyn Monroe had died in the guest cottage.”)

(Flynt, Larry. “Marilyn Was Murdered: Eyewitness Account by James E. Hall.”
Hustler
, May 1986, p. 86: James Hall relayed regarding Ralph Greenson’s shot to the heart, “I say, ‘Yes, I saw her get that injection.’ So did Pat Newcomb. . .”)

(
Say Goodbye to the President
documentary, 1985: Dr. Ralph Greenson relayed to William Woodfield on a taped phone conversation: “I can’t explain myself or defend myself without revealing things that I don’t. . .”)

(Blackburn, John, Chuck Orman, and Dan McDonald. “I Saw Marilyn Murdered.”
Globe
. 23 November 1982, Volume 29, Number 47, p. 5: On Greenson, James Hall related, “Strange, but when he was trying to find her heart, he had to count down her ribs—like he was still in premed school and had really never done this before.”)

(Blackburn, John, Chuck Orman, and Dan McDonald. “I Saw Marilyn Murdered.”
Globe
. 23 November 1982, Volume 29, Number 47, pp. 5, 7: Dr. Sidney Weinberg stated, “Knowing the results of the toxicology examination and the negative findings in the stomach. . .”)

(WOLFE 1998, p. 463: Wolfe incorrectly surmised, “In the presence of Bobby Kennedy, she was injected with enough barbiturate to kill fifteen people.”)

(SLATZER 1992, pp. 257–258: John Miner said, “The amount of drugs found in Marilyn’s body was so large that had it been administered by injection [containing high dosages of Nembutal and chloral hydrate], the star would have died almost immediately . . .”)

(Blackburn, John, Chuck Orman, and Dan McDonald. “I Saw Marilyn Murdered.”
Globe
. 23 November 1982, Volume 29, Number 47, pp. 4–5: James Hall said Greenson had “pulled out a syringe with a long heart needle . . . filled it with a brownish fluid and injected it into Miss Monroe’s heart.”)

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(CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS: Fred Otash’s soundman arrived at Marilyn’s house
before
she was murdered by Dr. Ralph Greenson in the guest cottage with the undiluted Nembutal injection to the heart.)

(STRAIT, RAYMOND. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 28 JULY 2013: “Otash knew conversations between me and Jayne . . .”)

(STRAIT, RAYMOND. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 13 DECEMBER 2010: “I knew Peter [Lawford] was there . . .”)

(STRAIT, RAYMOND. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 18 NOVEMBER 2010: “Peter was drunk and hysterical . . .”)

(STRAIT, RAYMOND. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 18 NOVEMBER 2010: “Fred was there in the house as she was dying.”)