1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,400 Speaker 1: This episode contains content that may be disturbing to some listeners. 2 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:08,000 Speaker 1: Please check the show notes for more information. Hollywood Land 3 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:15,520 Speaker 1: is a production of Double Elvis I Want a Gold Bang, 4 00:00:15,840 --> 00:00:18,520 Speaker 1: You Want a Gold Bang, I Want a Gold Bank 5 00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:29,360 Speaker 1: to Love follow from with an I Fail on the 6 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:34,640 Speaker 1: Marilyn Monroe story. Her background, her explosion into America's consciousness 7 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:38,360 Speaker 1: as a sex symbol in Megawatt talent, her personal life, 8 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:41,640 Speaker 1: and of course, her death and the mystery surrounding it 9 00:00:41,680 --> 00:00:45,560 Speaker 1: is so complex that two episodes were needed to properly 10 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:49,040 Speaker 1: tell this story. If you're just getting hip to this now, 11 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:51,559 Speaker 1: I suggest you hit pause and go back to the 12 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:55,080 Speaker 1: last episode of Hollywood Land, Part one of the Marilyn 13 00:00:55,120 --> 00:00:58,600 Speaker 1: Monroe Story, where we discuss Marilyn's early days on the 14 00:00:58,680 --> 00:01:03,360 Speaker 1: glamorous but rough Hollywood party Girls, circuit her massive stardom 15 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:07,560 Speaker 1: and split with American hero and Yankee slugger husband Joe DiMaggio. 16 00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:11,320 Speaker 1: We get into Marilyn's complex marriage with Pulitzer Prize winning 17 00:01:11,319 --> 00:01:15,400 Speaker 1: playwright Arthur Miller in disastrous turn in Miller's John Houston 18 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:20,240 Speaker 1: directed screenplay The Misfits, starring opposite her hero Clark Gable, 19 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:24,000 Speaker 1: a man many believe Marilyn drove to an early grave 20 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:26,559 Speaker 1: with her behavior on the set of what would become 21 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:30,800 Speaker 1: his last film. In this film, The Misfits was also 22 00:01:30,959 --> 00:01:35,680 Speaker 1: Marilyn Monroe's last film, and despite its notoriously flawed production, 23 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:39,120 Speaker 1: it is a great film, different than anything Marilyn had 24 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:42,360 Speaker 1: done prior, but no less great than her comedic turns 25 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:44,920 Speaker 1: and some like it. Hot The Seven Year Itch and 26 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:49,880 Speaker 1: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes all great. That clip I played for 27 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:52,280 Speaker 1: you at the top of the show that wasn't from 28 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:55,120 Speaker 1: a great film, That was a fair youth sample from 29 00:01:55,120 --> 00:01:58,520 Speaker 1: the Library of Congress of Vaudeville star Billy Murray performing 30 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:01,120 Speaker 1: Irving Berlin's I Want to go back to Michigan for 31 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:05,520 Speaker 1: Edison Records in nineteen fourteen. I played you that clip 32 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:08,960 Speaker 1: because I can't afford the rights to sample Morton Dacosta's 33 00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:12,040 Speaker 1: film The Music Man. And why would I play you 34 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:15,760 Speaker 1: that specific slice of marching band cell you, Lloyd Cheese? 35 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:19,560 Speaker 1: Could I afford it? Because that was the number one 36 00:02:19,639 --> 00:02:23,720 Speaker 1: movie in America on August fourth, nineteen sixty two, and 37 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:27,480 Speaker 1: that was the day Marilyn Monroe died, a day that 38 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:31,160 Speaker 1: would kick off numerous conspiracy theories about the most famous 39 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:34,200 Speaker 1: woman in the world, a woman so famous that the 40 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:39,400 Speaker 1: world won't let die. On this episode, the death of 41 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:43,320 Speaker 1: Marilyn Monroe in three acts. Was it suicide? Was it 42 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:46,200 Speaker 1: the White House? Or was it well, let's just call 43 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:50,679 Speaker 1: it what's behind door number three. I'm Jake Brennan, and 44 00:02:50,880 --> 00:03:16,400 Speaker 1: this is Hollywood Land. Most people die once. Marilyn Monroe 45 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:22,360 Speaker 1: died three times. Her allure, her fame, her sexuality. It's 46 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:25,600 Speaker 1: so strong even in death that the legions of skeevy, 47 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:29,400 Speaker 1: middle aged male hack journalists and board past their prime 48 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:33,360 Speaker 1: Hollywood publicists. The only way to explain her death and 49 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:35,960 Speaker 1: to make a couple easy bucks, is to explain it 50 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:39,480 Speaker 1: through conspiracy theory. And for some fans who can't let go, 51 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:44,040 Speaker 1: they of course accept these theories. And given just how 52 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:47,840 Speaker 1: iconic Marilyn Monroe has become, it's easy to see how 53 00:03:47,840 --> 00:03:52,800 Speaker 1: these fantastical theories have metastasized from conjecture to accepted fact. 54 00:03:53,720 --> 00:03:58,600 Speaker 1: So on August fourth, nineteen sixty two, Marilyn Monroe died, 55 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:03,960 Speaker 1: Then rumors started, and she died again. And now we're 56 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:06,360 Speaker 1: going to set the record straight and learn about the 57 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:10,920 Speaker 1: way Marilyn Monroe actually died. The third way, but first 58 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:20,039 Speaker 1: death number one, the probable suicide. Peter Lawford kept calling 59 00:04:20,080 --> 00:04:23,520 Speaker 1: Marilyn's place in Brentwood. He reached her earlier that evening. 60 00:04:23,520 --> 00:04:26,960 Speaker 1: On the phone. She was in rare form, even for Marilyn. 61 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:29,600 Speaker 1: Peter was trying to get her to come by his place, 62 00:04:29,760 --> 00:04:32,560 Speaker 1: and they were all there, him, his wife, Patricia Kennedy, 63 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:36,359 Speaker 1: sister of Bobby and Jack, some other famous friends, and 64 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:39,039 Speaker 1: Marilyn had committed to go earlier. But then when she 65 00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:41,720 Speaker 1: hadn't shown, and when Peter called to check in on her, 66 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:45,839 Speaker 1: she seemed pretty well in the back, woozy, slurring her words. 67 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:49,240 Speaker 1: Peter insisted she come by. She was missing a hell 68 00:04:49,279 --> 00:04:50,880 Speaker 1: of a time and they all wanted to see her. 69 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:54,920 Speaker 1: Marilyn declined, seeming to fade further away with every word 70 00:04:55,040 --> 00:04:57,919 Speaker 1: she spoke to the other end of the phone. Peter 71 00:04:58,040 --> 00:05:00,080 Speaker 1: struggled to hear her over the party picking up in 72 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:03,200 Speaker 1: the background, but he did hear her final haunting words, 73 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:07,040 Speaker 1: say goodbye to pat, say goodbye to Jack, and say 74 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:11,039 Speaker 1: goodbye to yourself, because you're a good guy. But with 75 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:15,520 Speaker 1: that the phone went dead. Peter was worried. He called 76 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:18,719 Speaker 1: back nothing. He called his manager, who advised him not 77 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:22,080 Speaker 1: to go by Marylynd's. If something bad was going down, 78 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:23,960 Speaker 1: it was best to not get caught up in it 79 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:27,640 Speaker 1: and bring the Kennedy name into the drama. Lawford's manager 80 00:05:27,720 --> 00:05:31,960 Speaker 1: tracked down Marilynd's lawyer, Milton Rudin, who got Marilyn's housekeeper 81 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:35,080 Speaker 1: Eunice Maury, who was spending the night at Maryland's, on 82 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:38,800 Speaker 1: the phone. Eunice insisted everything was all right, without even 83 00:05:38,839 --> 00:05:41,000 Speaker 1: looking in on Marilyn, who was in her room at 84 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:44,880 Speaker 1: that moment dying from an overdose of Nembutal, having taken 85 00:05:44,960 --> 00:05:47,280 Speaker 1: what would later be learned was a heavy dosage of 86 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:53,279 Speaker 1: the powerful sedative. At three am, Eunice Mario awoke in 87 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:56,240 Speaker 1: the guest room. It was then, hours after her call 88 00:05:56,279 --> 00:05:59,240 Speaker 1: from Marilyn's lawyer, that she decided to check in on her. 89 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:05,200 Speaker 1: What she found was immediately distressing. Marilyn's door was locked, 90 00:06:05,279 --> 00:06:08,080 Speaker 1: which it never was, and the phone's cord was stretched 91 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:11,159 Speaker 1: under the door, which was odd considering that Marilyn's nightly 92 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:14,600 Speaker 1: pre bed ritual included taking the phone into a faraway 93 00:06:14,720 --> 00:06:16,960 Speaker 1: room and covering it in pillows so as to not 94 00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:19,719 Speaker 1: let a late night ring disturb her heart. To find 95 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:25,080 Speaker 1: sleep Eunice then called Marilyn's psychiatrist, doctor Greenson, who instructed 96 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:28,360 Speaker 1: Unus on what to do next, which was so incredibly 97 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:30,800 Speaker 1: obvious it's hard to wonder why Unice needed to call 98 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:34,360 Speaker 1: doctor for instructions. To knock on the goddamn bedroom door. 99 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:38,320 Speaker 1: She did, and Marilyn did not answer, and doctor Greenson 100 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:41,480 Speaker 1: decided then to head over to Marilyn's himself again past 101 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:44,760 Speaker 1: three in the morning, rather than call authorities or paramedics. 102 00:06:45,880 --> 00:06:48,320 Speaker 1: When he arrived at three forty am, he broke the 103 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:52,039 Speaker 1: window outside Marilyn's bedroom to gain entry and found her dead, 104 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:55,600 Speaker 1: based down on her bed, with the phone's receiver by 105 00:06:55,640 --> 00:06:58,080 Speaker 1: her head, in an array of half empty pill bottles 106 00:06:58,080 --> 00:07:01,920 Speaker 1: on the nightstand next door. At four twenty five, some 107 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:06,160 Speaker 1: forty five minutes after arriving, doctor Greenson called the police. 108 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:09,960 Speaker 1: The coroner called it based on Marylyn's past history of 109 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:13,520 Speaker 1: attempted suicide, based on the amount of nembutah and chorhydrate 110 00:07:13,560 --> 00:07:21,080 Speaker 1: in her body, probable suicide. The cops bought it, America 111 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:25,200 Speaker 1: bought it. Joe DiMaggio did not buy it. He later 112 00:07:25,240 --> 00:07:29,120 Speaker 1: told his biographer, I always knew who killed her. But 113 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:51,880 Speaker 1: I didn't want to start a revolution in this country. 114 00:07:57,560 --> 00:08:04,760 Speaker 1: Death number two, Operation You Blonde. Marilyn Monroe kept calling 115 00:08:04,840 --> 00:08:08,160 Speaker 1: the White House. She couldn't understand why the President wouldn't 116 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:11,200 Speaker 1: take her calls. His brother would over at the Department 117 00:08:11,240 --> 00:08:14,120 Speaker 1: of Justice. What was the big deal? Had he not 118 00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:16,760 Speaker 1: seen her in that dress at his birthday party? Had 119 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:20,600 Speaker 1: their time in Palm Springs meant nothing? She introduced him 120 00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:24,680 Speaker 1: to her doctor for Christ's sakes? Had he no gratitude? 121 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:27,360 Speaker 1: He didn't love Jackie? Why was he still carrying on 122 00:08:27,520 --> 00:08:31,320 Speaker 1: the charade. It was nineteen sixty two. Times had changed. 123 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:35,240 Speaker 1: America would understand she was Marilyn Monroe. After all, she 124 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:38,080 Speaker 1: was no less desirable than Jacqueline Kennedy. They'd all see. 125 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:42,880 Speaker 1: Marilyn would bring real glamor to the White House. Jack 126 00:08:42,960 --> 00:08:46,600 Speaker 1: had enough. White House switchboard operators were talking to back 127 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:50,000 Speaker 1: bench press corps in DC bars, backbenchers looking to make 128 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:53,360 Speaker 1: names for themselves by breaking the code, going public with 129 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:56,360 Speaker 1: the salacious rumor that the President was carrying on a 130 00:08:56,400 --> 00:09:00,880 Speaker 1: torred affair with none other than Marilyn Monroe. Jack couldn't 131 00:09:00,920 --> 00:09:03,520 Speaker 1: have that. He told Bobby to sort it out, and 132 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:06,720 Speaker 1: Bobby called Marilyn, and that was rich. She thought, just 133 00:09:06,840 --> 00:09:09,080 Speaker 1: like an entitled rich kid to have his little brother 134 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:13,559 Speaker 1: clean of his mess. Frank Sinatra warned Marilyn Monroe about 135 00:09:13,559 --> 00:09:17,840 Speaker 1: Bobby Kennedy. He wasn't like Jack. He was ruthless. He'd 136 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:20,079 Speaker 1: wink at you with one eye and stared daggers at 137 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:22,480 Speaker 1: you at the other at the same time. And he 138 00:09:22,559 --> 00:09:25,520 Speaker 1: was loyal to keeping the Kennedy name clean above all else, 139 00:09:25,880 --> 00:09:28,960 Speaker 1: above God, country, even above his beloved wife Ethel and 140 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:33,240 Speaker 1: their seven kids. At the time, Marilyn didn't care. She 141 00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:35,320 Speaker 1: took a page out of Frank's book and told Bobby 142 00:09:35,360 --> 00:09:38,199 Speaker 1: to go pound sand and she kept calling Jack, who 143 00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:41,079 Speaker 1: by now had Marilyn firmly placed on the pay no 144 00:09:41,240 --> 00:09:45,520 Speaker 1: Mind list. Marilyn spun out of control. She wrote letters 145 00:09:45,559 --> 00:09:48,400 Speaker 1: to Jack. She threatened to talk to the press herself. 146 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:51,520 Speaker 1: She took more pills, drank more champagne, and made it 147 00:09:51,520 --> 00:09:54,240 Speaker 1: a nightly ritual to harass the most powerful man on 148 00:09:54,280 --> 00:09:57,720 Speaker 1: the planet with the only weapon she had left her phone. 149 00:09:59,080 --> 00:10:03,040 Speaker 1: Bobby was dispatch to Hollywood. Operation Mute Blonde was in 150 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:06,400 Speaker 1: full effect. Peter Lawford arranged for the two to meet 151 00:10:06,400 --> 00:10:08,880 Speaker 1: at his place while his wife Bobby's sister was out 152 00:10:08,880 --> 00:10:12,160 Speaker 1: of town. Bobby and Marilyn walked on the beach while 153 00:10:12,160 --> 00:10:15,400 Speaker 1: the Attorney General explained gently that his brother was a 154 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:18,560 Speaker 1: busy guy, running the country in all and how shopping 155 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:21,240 Speaker 1: for divorce lawyers wasn't high on his priority list. At 156 00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:27,240 Speaker 1: the moment, Marylyn was crushed. Her vulnerability was intense, as 157 00:10:27,280 --> 00:10:31,320 Speaker 1: intense as her beauty, and Bobby couldn't help himself. He 158 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:34,480 Speaker 1: buried that Catholic guilt deep in that night they slept 159 00:10:34,480 --> 00:10:38,240 Speaker 1: with each other. Now the switchboard of the Department of 160 00:10:38,440 --> 00:10:42,640 Speaker 1: Justice began lighting up, and similarly, Bobby married supposed a 161 00:10:42,679 --> 00:10:46,320 Speaker 1: devoted Catholic and family man, made like Jack, and ignored 162 00:10:46,400 --> 00:10:52,480 Speaker 1: Marylyn until he couldn't anymore. Operation Mute Blonde, the sequel, 163 00:10:55,880 --> 00:10:59,160 Speaker 1: Bobby Kennedy touched down at Santa Monica Airport on August fourth, 164 00:10:59,280 --> 00:11:03,000 Speaker 1: nineteen sixty. He would now have to clean up both 165 00:11:03,040 --> 00:11:06,360 Speaker 1: his and his brother's mess, and by now the mess 166 00:11:06,480 --> 00:11:10,480 Speaker 1: was spinning Marilyn out of control. Distraught over being rejected 167 00:11:10,480 --> 00:11:13,560 Speaker 1: by both Kennedy brothers, who, by her account quote passed 168 00:11:13,559 --> 00:11:17,640 Speaker 1: her around like a football, Marilyn began sleeping with her therapist, 169 00:11:17,679 --> 00:11:21,160 Speaker 1: the esteemed colleague of Anna Freud, daughter of Sigmund Freud, 170 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:24,880 Speaker 1: the father of psychoanalysts. The very married, very concerned about 171 00:11:24,920 --> 00:11:29,120 Speaker 1: his reputation in maintaining his professional code of ethics, doctor Greenson. 172 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:31,400 Speaker 1: If it ever came out that he was sleeping with 173 00:11:31,440 --> 00:11:34,240 Speaker 1: his patient, forget about his marriage, the doctor would have 174 00:11:34,240 --> 00:11:37,360 Speaker 1: faced jail time for the crime of sexual exploitation by 175 00:11:37,400 --> 00:11:41,679 Speaker 1: a therapist. Bobby Kennedy knew this because he had Marilyn's 176 00:11:41,679 --> 00:11:44,680 Speaker 1: home bugged, and Bobby Kennedy knew an opportunity when he 177 00:11:44,679 --> 00:11:47,800 Speaker 1: saw one. She's your problem too, Doc. Marilyn has to 178 00:11:47,800 --> 00:11:51,280 Speaker 1: be silenced, Bobby told doctor Greenson, and you're going to 179 00:11:51,320 --> 00:11:54,640 Speaker 1: help us do it, And so the plan was hatched. 180 00:11:55,120 --> 00:12:02,960 Speaker 1: Mute the Blonde Forever. The black, unmarked cruisers slammed into 181 00:12:02,960 --> 00:12:05,160 Speaker 1: the spot immediately out in front of Marylyn and Rose 182 00:12:05,200 --> 00:12:08,000 Speaker 1: home at one two three oh five Fifth Helena Drive 183 00:12:08,080 --> 00:12:11,560 Speaker 1: in Brentwood. The Attorney General, along with his bodyguard and 184 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:14,040 Speaker 1: his brother in law, Peter Lawford, exited the car with 185 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:18,000 Speaker 1: authority and walked briskly to Marylyn's front door. She was 186 00:12:18,040 --> 00:12:21,079 Speaker 1: expecting them and excited. She had laid out a spread 187 00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:24,320 Speaker 1: of Mexican food for the occasion. But for Bobby Kennedy, 188 00:12:24,520 --> 00:12:27,240 Speaker 1: this wasn't a social call. He got down to business 189 00:12:27,280 --> 00:12:30,599 Speaker 1: straight away. No more calls, Marilyn, not to me, not 190 00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:33,640 Speaker 1: to Jack, not to our wives, You bastard, she cried, 191 00:12:33,679 --> 00:12:37,120 Speaker 1: becoming immediately hysterical. Lawford chimed in and telling her to 192 00:12:37,160 --> 00:12:39,960 Speaker 1: cool out. Fuck off, Peter fucking Aaron boy, what do 193 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:42,559 Speaker 1: you know about it? Lawford was used to being put 194 00:12:42,600 --> 00:12:45,120 Speaker 1: in his place, part of the gig. When you marry Kennedy, 195 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:48,360 Speaker 1: he fell into line. Bobby did not. He told her 196 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:50,520 Speaker 1: it was over all of it. They'd sent her career 197 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:53,080 Speaker 1: with the studio. She trumped his threat with one of 198 00:12:53,120 --> 00:12:55,280 Speaker 1: her own. She was going to hold a press conference 199 00:12:55,320 --> 00:12:57,679 Speaker 1: on Monday and tell the world about her relationship with 200 00:12:57,760 --> 00:13:03,080 Speaker 1: both Kennedy brothers. Bobby, real serious, You will not, Marilyn 201 00:13:03,120 --> 00:13:05,240 Speaker 1: screamed back at him. She would do whatever the hell 202 00:13:05,280 --> 00:13:07,760 Speaker 1: she wanted to. She was Marilyn Monroe and she wouldn't 203 00:13:07,760 --> 00:13:10,640 Speaker 1: be treated like this, like an object, used and abused 204 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:13,199 Speaker 1: and cast aside. It was the same old story or 205 00:13:13,240 --> 00:13:16,800 Speaker 1: whole life. Attorney General, Presidents, studio head director pulled it. 206 00:13:16,840 --> 00:13:19,120 Speaker 1: Serprize winning author. They were all the same. She was 207 00:13:19,160 --> 00:13:21,520 Speaker 1: going on and on and on, and it was no use, 208 00:13:21,960 --> 00:13:24,360 Speaker 1: And Bobby bounced his bouncer and his brother in law 209 00:13:24,400 --> 00:13:27,400 Speaker 1: brought up the behind and they went back to Peter's place, 210 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:31,320 Speaker 1: called doctor Greenson. It was on now, meet us at 211 00:13:31,320 --> 00:13:35,679 Speaker 1: Marylyn's and they got back in the car and beat 212 00:13:35,679 --> 00:13:39,040 Speaker 1: a quick path back to Brentwood. This time the Attorney 213 00:13:39,040 --> 00:13:41,520 Speaker 1: General was spotted by a neighbor walking from the car 214 00:13:41,559 --> 00:13:45,400 Speaker 1: into the famous starlet's home. Marilyn let them in, hoping 215 00:13:45,400 --> 00:13:49,080 Speaker 1: for a reprieve. She got none. The doctor arrived carrying 216 00:13:49,120 --> 00:13:52,960 Speaker 1: his black doctor's bag. Marilyn went full hysteria him too. 217 00:13:53,320 --> 00:13:55,400 Speaker 1: They were all in on it, every last swinging dick. 218 00:13:55,520 --> 00:13:59,080 Speaker 1: She screamed, She attacked Bobby, He held her down. The doctor, 219 00:13:59,120 --> 00:14:02,920 Speaker 1: ready with a syringe, pounced. Lawford panicked, nearly pissed his pants. 220 00:14:03,040 --> 00:14:06,640 Speaker 1: Bobby held Marylyn firm. Marilyn scream bloody murder. The doctor 221 00:14:06,679 --> 00:14:09,199 Speaker 1: stuck his needle into her armpit, delivering a fatal injection 222 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:13,160 Speaker 1: of nembutal and chlorohydrae and Marilyn Monroe would be found 223 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:18,720 Speaker 1: dead the next morning with little explanation, but the shot 224 00:14:18,800 --> 00:14:21,840 Speaker 1: to the armpit explained some things like how when the 225 00:14:21,880 --> 00:14:24,840 Speaker 1: autopsy reported the crucial detail that there was no pill 226 00:14:24,880 --> 00:14:28,440 Speaker 1: residue in Marylyn's system. The effects of the nembutal and 227 00:14:28,520 --> 00:14:31,560 Speaker 1: chlorohydrate were visible in her system, but there was no 228 00:14:31,680 --> 00:14:34,920 Speaker 1: indication that the drug was delivered in pill form because 229 00:14:34,960 --> 00:14:37,920 Speaker 1: there was no pill residue in her stomach. So how 230 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:41,560 Speaker 1: then did Marilyn Monroe kill herself from taking all those 231 00:14:41,640 --> 00:14:44,800 Speaker 1: pills from the containers on her bedside table? How did 232 00:14:44,840 --> 00:14:50,040 Speaker 1: she die? Probable suicide? Operation Mute Blonde aka was she 233 00:14:50,120 --> 00:14:53,800 Speaker 1: murdered by the Attorney General? No? And no, No, it 234 00:14:53,880 --> 00:14:56,760 Speaker 1: wasn't probable suicide. And no, she was not murdered by 235 00:14:56,800 --> 00:15:05,600 Speaker 1: Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. There was a third way. 236 00:15:05,720 --> 00:15:12,720 Speaker 1: We'll be right back after this. We're were were death 237 00:15:12,800 --> 00:15:17,920 Speaker 1: number three the Unite scenario. Marilyn Monroe was a lot 238 00:15:17,960 --> 00:15:21,960 Speaker 1: of things in nineteen sixty two, the most famous woman 239 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:24,560 Speaker 1: in the world by most men's account, the most beautiful, 240 00:15:24,640 --> 00:15:29,160 Speaker 1: the most desired in a Hollywood trailblazer. But suicidal she 241 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:33,920 Speaker 1: was not. She had reconnected with Joe DiMaggio and renegotiated 242 00:15:33,920 --> 00:15:37,120 Speaker 1: her latest contract with Fox, and she had roles in 243 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:40,000 Speaker 1: the gene Harlowe story and a black comedy was assumed 244 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:42,120 Speaker 1: to be ironic title What a Way to Go to 245 00:15:42,160 --> 00:15:45,480 Speaker 1: Look forward to? Despite recent troubles on the set of 246 00:15:45,560 --> 00:15:49,360 Speaker 1: Something's Got to Give over Marilyn's inconsistent availability, she was not, 247 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:53,840 Speaker 1: as has been salaciously reported and accepted as fact, hung 248 00:15:53,920 --> 00:15:56,840 Speaker 1: up on either Kennedy, at least not in any sort 249 00:15:56,840 --> 00:15:59,920 Speaker 1: of dangerous or reckless way. She never slept with a 250 00:16:00,160 --> 00:16:04,120 Speaker 1: therapist doctor greenson either or with Bobby Kennedy. She did 251 00:16:04,160 --> 00:16:09,480 Speaker 1: sleep with Jack once. These are facts backed up by evidence, 252 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:13,440 Speaker 1: phone records, travel records, personal journals, and first hand corroborated 253 00:16:13,480 --> 00:16:16,160 Speaker 1: accounts that are confirmed by people close to not only 254 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:19,680 Speaker 1: the Kennedys but also to Marilyn, people without anything to 255 00:16:19,720 --> 00:16:23,400 Speaker 1: gain by telling the truth. These aren't publicists or journalists 256 00:16:23,440 --> 00:16:26,640 Speaker 1: spinning tales together to sell books or command lucrative speaking 257 00:16:26,680 --> 00:16:30,200 Speaker 1: in interview fees. The temptation of making a quick buck 258 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:33,080 Speaker 1: from the what if surrounding Marilyn Monroe and the Kennedys 259 00:16:33,440 --> 00:16:36,400 Speaker 1: is just too much. The star power is just too 260 00:16:36,520 --> 00:16:40,240 Speaker 1: high wid hell. Even renowned Pulitzer Prize winner Norman Mayler 261 00:16:40,280 --> 00:16:43,880 Speaker 1: admitted that he built wild speculation about Bobby Kennedy's role 262 00:16:43,920 --> 00:16:47,280 Speaker 1: out of unverified sources in his book about Marylyn's death 263 00:16:47,680 --> 00:16:51,600 Speaker 1: simply titled Marylyn Coppying later to sixty minutes that he'd 264 00:16:51,640 --> 00:16:55,640 Speaker 1: gone all in on sensationalism because quote, I needed money 265 00:16:55,760 --> 00:17:00,160 Speaker 1: very badly. What Marilyn Monroe was in nineteen sixty two 266 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:04,400 Speaker 1: was dependent, dependent on prescription drugs to level her out 267 00:17:04,400 --> 00:17:08,400 Speaker 1: emotionally and most important, to help her sleep to slady 268 00:17:08,400 --> 00:17:11,960 Speaker 1: insomnia and anxiety. And she was dependent on her physician, 269 00:17:12,080 --> 00:17:16,399 Speaker 1: Heiman Engelberg and her therapist doctor Greenson to prescribe and 270 00:17:16,480 --> 00:17:20,600 Speaker 1: administer her the drugs. Of the two doctors, she was 271 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:23,960 Speaker 1: more dependent on doctor Greenson, not just for the pills, 272 00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:28,440 Speaker 1: but for emotional support. House calls were normal, and Marilyn 273 00:17:28,560 --> 00:17:32,080 Speaker 1: was a frequent guest of his and his families. Marilyn 274 00:17:32,119 --> 00:17:34,600 Speaker 1: expected doctor Greenson to be there for her as a 275 00:17:34,640 --> 00:17:38,520 Speaker 1: significant part of her emotional and physical support system. She 276 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:41,560 Speaker 1: was in near constant contact with him to get her 277 00:17:41,640 --> 00:17:44,200 Speaker 1: right when the anxiety and the insomnia had her out 278 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:47,720 Speaker 1: of sorts. Doctor Greenson knew what to say, what strings 279 00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:50,119 Speaker 1: to tug at to get Marilyn to feel better, and 280 00:17:50,200 --> 00:17:53,760 Speaker 1: what drugs and how much to prescribe and how to 281 00:17:53,840 --> 00:17:56,960 Speaker 1: administer them. It was a burden caring for one of 282 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:00,560 Speaker 1: the most famous but most complex and emotionally vulnerable women 283 00:18:00,600 --> 00:18:05,600 Speaker 1: in the world. Tonight, on August fourth, nineteen sixty two, 284 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:10,520 Speaker 1: doctor Greenson had other plans. Dinner with friends, a night 285 00:18:10,560 --> 00:18:14,200 Speaker 1: away from work, and more specifically, a night away from Maryland. 286 00:18:14,920 --> 00:18:18,480 Speaker 1: Imagine that an American man in nineteen sixty two not 287 00:18:18,760 --> 00:18:21,920 Speaker 1: wanting to spend time with Marilyn Monroe on a Saturday night. 288 00:18:22,600 --> 00:18:25,480 Speaker 1: But Marilyn did not care. She had slept poorly the 289 00:18:25,560 --> 00:18:29,560 Speaker 1: night before, hardly at all. It was overtired and extremely anxious, 290 00:18:29,960 --> 00:18:32,399 Speaker 1: worried it would be another sleepless night, and she couldn't 291 00:18:32,440 --> 00:18:35,120 Speaker 1: have that, so she called doctor Greenson to come by 292 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:38,240 Speaker 1: and administer one of the sedatives he'd prescribed her. So 293 00:18:38,320 --> 00:18:43,280 Speaker 1: around mid afternoon, doctor Greenson did just that. Hold up, 294 00:18:43,480 --> 00:18:46,080 Speaker 1: it needs to be directly said that all the details 295 00:18:46,080 --> 00:18:48,639 Speaker 1: herein that make up the unis scenario come from the 296 00:18:48,720 --> 00:18:53,080 Speaker 1: highly credible Marilyn Monroe of biography by author Donald Spotto. 297 00:18:53,920 --> 00:18:57,560 Speaker 1: His details are derived from hard facts, irrefutable source materials, 298 00:18:57,560 --> 00:19:01,480 Speaker 1: official medical documents, national state and local government records, first 299 00:19:01,480 --> 00:19:05,200 Speaker 1: hand accounts from studio heads, business partners, friends, service people 300 00:19:05,240 --> 00:19:08,040 Speaker 1: like her stand in in her masseuse, her first husband, 301 00:19:08,040 --> 00:19:11,280 Speaker 1: and her stepsister from her young life. In short, people 302 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:14,639 Speaker 1: who stand to gain nothing from denying the conspiracies I 303 00:19:14,680 --> 00:19:19,160 Speaker 1: outlined in the conspiracy theory involving Bobby Kennedy murdering Marilyn Monroe, 304 00:19:19,480 --> 00:19:22,280 Speaker 1: or in the accepted narrative I outlined that explains Marilyn 305 00:19:22,280 --> 00:19:26,119 Speaker 1: Monroe's death as a quote unquote probable suicide. So the 306 00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:29,320 Speaker 1: question then remains, who did stand to gain from the 307 00:19:29,359 --> 00:19:35,280 Speaker 1: public believing that Marilyn Monroe killed herself? Well, doctor Greenson 308 00:19:35,359 --> 00:19:38,639 Speaker 1: had been weaning Marilyn off nembutal in favor of chlorohydre 309 00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:43,000 Speaker 1: to sedate her. From Marylynd's perspective, the chlorohydre wasn't working. 310 00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:47,879 Speaker 1: Not doctor Greenson's problem, not tonight he had plans. Doctor 311 00:19:47,880 --> 00:19:50,640 Speaker 1: Greenson claims that he was called by Eunice Mari sometime 312 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:53,800 Speaker 1: after three am, well after his night out, and then 313 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:57,080 Speaker 1: he ran over to Marylynd's founder locked in her bedroom unresponsive, 314 00:19:57,160 --> 00:19:59,840 Speaker 1: broke her bedroom window from the outside to gain entry, 315 00:20:00,119 --> 00:20:02,600 Speaker 1: found her dead, and then called the cops. Who arrived 316 00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:05,800 Speaker 1: on the scene at four thirty five am. There was 317 00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:09,399 Speaker 1: only one actual fact in that entire paragraph that I 318 00:20:09,560 --> 00:20:32,159 Speaker 1: just read you. Let's hear that again. Doctor Greenson had 319 00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:35,600 Speaker 1: been weaning Marilyn off nembutah in favor of chlorohydrate to 320 00:20:35,640 --> 00:20:40,359 Speaker 1: sedate her. From Maryland's perspective, the chlorohydrate wasn't working. Not 321 00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:45,080 Speaker 1: doctor Greenson's problem, not tonight he had plans. Doctor Greenson 322 00:20:45,119 --> 00:20:47,720 Speaker 1: claims that he was called by Eunice Mari sometime after 323 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:50,600 Speaker 1: three am, well after his night out, and then he 324 00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:53,840 Speaker 1: ran over to Marylynd's, found her locked in her bedroom unresponsive, 325 00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:56,600 Speaker 1: broke her bedroom window from the outside to gain entry, 326 00:20:56,840 --> 00:20:59,320 Speaker 1: found her dead, and then called the cops, who arrived 327 00:20:59,320 --> 00:21:02,840 Speaker 1: on the scene four thirty five am. There was only 328 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:06,359 Speaker 1: one actual fact in that entire paragraph that I just 329 00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:13,120 Speaker 1: read you, and it is this. The first cop, Sergeant 330 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:16,160 Speaker 1: Jack Clemens, did indeed arrive on the scene at four 331 00:21:16,280 --> 00:21:19,560 Speaker 1: thirty five am, and when he did, he found Marilyn 332 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:27,000 Speaker 1: Monroe's housekeeper, Eunice Murray, doing laundry at four thirty five am. 333 00:21:27,280 --> 00:21:30,200 Speaker 1: Why was Unis Murray doing laundry at four thirty five 334 00:21:30,359 --> 00:21:33,679 Speaker 1: am at the exact moment the police were arriving to 335 00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:36,280 Speaker 1: deal with the matter of her dead boss lying naked 336 00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:40,679 Speaker 1: in the bedroom. Here's another fact. Sergeant Jack Clemens reported 337 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:43,119 Speaker 1: that Eunice Murray told him upon arrival that she found 338 00:21:43,119 --> 00:21:47,400 Speaker 1: Marilyn dead at around midnight. Of course, Sergeant Clemens wanted 339 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:49,600 Speaker 1: to know why it took Unis so long to call 340 00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:52,639 Speaker 1: the police. It was now past four thirty in the morning, 341 00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:55,960 Speaker 1: according to the sergeant. It was at this time that 342 00:21:56,040 --> 00:21:59,920 Speaker 1: doctor Greenson interjected man, explaining that Marilyn's publicist had to 343 00:21:59,920 --> 00:22:02,639 Speaker 1: be notified first and the permission from the studio needed 344 00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:06,280 Speaker 1: to be granted before the police could be informed. Okay. 345 00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:10,480 Speaker 1: Within minutes, Detective Sergeant Robert E. Byron arrived and assumed 346 00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:14,000 Speaker 1: control of the scene. Eunis Murray, and giving her statement 347 00:22:14,040 --> 00:22:16,760 Speaker 1: to the new detective in charge, amended the time she 348 00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:20,440 Speaker 1: supposedly discovered Marilyn's body to say it was about three 349 00:22:20,480 --> 00:22:24,800 Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning, not midnight. Detective Byron found Unus 350 00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:27,240 Speaker 1: Murray to be evasive, and some years later her record 351 00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:30,040 Speaker 1: turned up in the Attorney General's Office of an ambulance 352 00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:34,679 Speaker 1: being summoned and arriving at Marylynd's home at midnight. California 353 00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:38,239 Speaker 1: law prohibits ambulances from retrieving dead bodies. It must be 354 00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:41,920 Speaker 1: done by the coroner's office, So the ambulance split and 355 00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:47,360 Speaker 1: with its departure, opportunity arrived. Opportunity for doctor Greenson, who 356 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:50,040 Speaker 1: was very much on the scene by midnight, to clean 357 00:22:50,119 --> 00:22:51,160 Speaker 1: up his mess. 358 00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:54,320 Speaker 2: God damn it Hi gave her a prescription. I didn't 359 00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:56,360 Speaker 2: know about. 360 00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:59,960 Speaker 1: Hi being Marilyn's other doctor, her physician, doctor Himen Engelberg. 361 00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:03,679 Speaker 1: This was the comment doctor Greenson reportedly made when he 362 00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:07,080 Speaker 1: made the scene around midnight to Marilyn's attorney, Milton Ruden, 363 00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:09,879 Speaker 1: who was also on the scene, having been tipped off 364 00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:14,080 Speaker 1: about Marilyn's declining state by Peter Lawford's manager, whom Peter 365 00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:17,159 Speaker 1: had called frantic earlier in the night, believing something was 366 00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:18,760 Speaker 1: gravely wrong with Marilyn. 367 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:22,480 Speaker 2: God damn it Hi gave her a prescription. 368 00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:26,240 Speaker 1: I didn't know about what was doctor Greenson, referring to 369 00:23:27,119 --> 00:23:30,080 Speaker 1: Doctor Greenson was unaware that Marilyn had in her possession 370 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:36,160 Speaker 1: nembutal that doctor Hyman Hi Engelberg had prescribed her. After all, 371 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:39,640 Speaker 1: doctor Greenson and doctor Engelberg were supposedly in close communication 372 00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:43,560 Speaker 1: regarding Marilyn's prescriptions due to the fact that doctor Greenson 373 00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:46,720 Speaker 1: was trying to wean Marilyn off nembutah with chloral hydra. 374 00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:51,040 Speaker 1: When doctor Greenson came by late that afternoon to sedate 375 00:23:51,119 --> 00:23:54,800 Speaker 1: Marilyn at her request with chloral hydra, he wasn't aware 376 00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:59,000 Speaker 1: that she already had nembutal in her possession. Marilyn then 377 00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:01,359 Speaker 1: went for a walk on the and then she visited 378 00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:04,160 Speaker 1: the law Ferds for a brief moment. When she returned 379 00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:06,200 Speaker 1: to her home, she was in a state of anxiety 380 00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:09,200 Speaker 1: again and once more called doctor Greenson at his home, 381 00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:12,120 Speaker 1: who was now readying himself for a much needed night 382 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:15,399 Speaker 1: out away from Maryland, and Marilyn wouldn't take no for 383 00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:18,240 Speaker 1: an answer. He must come by and help her. Doctor 384 00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:21,240 Speaker 1: Greenson annoyed, relented, and swung by at some point during 385 00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:24,560 Speaker 1: the early evening. When he did, he tried to console Maryland, 386 00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:27,879 Speaker 1: but did not administer any more drugs, likely because she 387 00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:30,399 Speaker 1: already had too many in her system It needed some 388 00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:34,560 Speaker 1: time to elapse before taking another dose. The problem was 389 00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:37,440 Speaker 1: that when the time finally rolled around for that other dose, 390 00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:40,840 Speaker 1: doctor Greenson wouldn't be there to administer it. He would 391 00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:45,359 Speaker 1: be at dinner, so he enlisted Eunice Murray, the maid, 392 00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:49,879 Speaker 1: to administer the chlorohydrate when the time was right via enema. 393 00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:53,639 Speaker 1: Doctor Greenson went to dinner, and Eunice Murray went to work, 394 00:24:53,680 --> 00:25:00,920 Speaker 1: and Marilyn Monroe died because of negligence, not suicide, not murder, negligence. 395 00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:06,160 Speaker 1: Marilyn Monroe, like a lot of female actors at the time, 396 00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:09,320 Speaker 1: was accustomed to enemas as a weight loss trend. So 397 00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:13,680 Speaker 1: Eunice gave Marilyn the enema of chlorohydrate, not knowing Marilyn 398 00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:18,119 Speaker 1: had already taken nembutal prescribed from doctor Engelberg. Once the 399 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:22,959 Speaker 1: drugs interacted, Marilyn almost immediately began to fade. It was 400 00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:26,159 Speaker 1: during this time that Peter Lawford called heard her voice 401 00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:29,160 Speaker 1: and became so alarmed he called his manager, who called 402 00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:31,800 Speaker 1: Marilyn's lawyer, who called Eunice Mari, who did not check 403 00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:36,480 Speaker 1: on Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn was likely dying at that exact moment. 404 00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:39,840 Speaker 1: How do we know this? The amount of chlorohydrate in 405 00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:42,320 Speaker 1: nembutal and Marilyn's system was enough to kill her. Yes, 406 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:45,480 Speaker 1: but not by pill, so there goes the accepted as 407 00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:48,240 Speaker 1: fact suicide theory, and it wasn't enough to kill her 408 00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:51,960 Speaker 1: by injection either, so there goes the conspiratorial murder theory 409 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:55,760 Speaker 1: as well. The autopsy showed that drugs were in her system, 410 00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:58,320 Speaker 1: but there was no pill residue in her stomach, and 411 00:25:58,359 --> 00:26:00,359 Speaker 1: there would have been had she killed herself with the 412 00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:02,840 Speaker 1: pills from the many empty pill bottles that were placed 413 00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:06,840 Speaker 1: on her nightstand. The autopsy also uncovered the fact that 414 00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:10,159 Speaker 1: there was a discoloration of Marilynd's colon, which would have 415 00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:15,359 Speaker 1: been the case had she been given an enema. John Minor, 416 00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:18,720 Speaker 1: Deputy District Attorney in Los Angeles, is on record saying 417 00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:22,480 Speaker 1: that both he and doctor Thomas Negucci, the deputy coroner 418 00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:26,600 Speaker 1: who performed the odutopsy, were quote convinced that an enema 419 00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:30,600 Speaker 1: was absolutely the route of administering the fatal drug dose, 420 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:36,000 Speaker 1: and sometime after the chlorohydrate enema, the interaction with nembutah 421 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:39,200 Speaker 1: would have caused Marilyn's body to expel its contents during 422 00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:42,880 Speaker 1: the overdose, and that would have resulted in the soiled sheets, 423 00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:46,720 Speaker 1: which explains why Eunice Murray was doing laundry when the 424 00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:49,600 Speaker 1: cops showed up at four twenty five in the morning. 425 00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:53,640 Speaker 1: It also explains other lies from Unice, like the fact 426 00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:56,840 Speaker 1: that she stated that Marilyn's bedroom door was locked, thus 427 00:26:56,920 --> 00:27:00,400 Speaker 1: necessitating breaking the outdoor window to gain entry to find 428 00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:03,800 Speaker 1: her body. The door wasn't locked because the bedroom door's 429 00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:07,679 Speaker 1: lock was inoperable. Also, carpeting in the home had just 430 00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:10,359 Speaker 1: been installed and the pile was so high that the 431 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:14,960 Speaker 1: door wouldn't actually shut. Additionally, Eunis correctly stated to the 432 00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:18,240 Speaker 1: police that she found Marilynd dead around midnight, which is 433 00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:21,480 Speaker 1: the truth. She later amended the statement, but the statement 434 00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:23,680 Speaker 1: didn't amend the fact that it's on record that around 435 00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:27,000 Speaker 1: midnight an ambulance was called and dispatched to Marilyn's and 436 00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:32,080 Speaker 1: then sent away. Also, there is the testimony of Marilyn's lawyer, 437 00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:35,560 Speaker 1: Milton Ruden, who claims he was informed of Marilyn's death 438 00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:38,720 Speaker 1: around midnight as well and made the scene to see 439 00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:40,639 Speaker 1: and hear doctor Greenson on the scene. 440 00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:44,000 Speaker 2: Claimed that God damn it, Hi gave her a prescription I. 441 00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:48,879 Speaker 1: Didn't know about. And finally there's Peter Lawford who claims 442 00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:51,119 Speaker 1: that he was called by Milton Evans a producer in 443 00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:53,920 Speaker 1: their social circle who had been in touch with Marilyn's lawyer, 444 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:57,200 Speaker 1: the other Milton Milton Ruden, and told his worries were 445 00:27:57,320 --> 00:28:00,639 Speaker 1: reality that, yes, Peter Lawford, your friend Mary Carolyn was 446 00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:04,960 Speaker 1: indeed in trouble. In fact, she was now dead. Lawford 447 00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:07,639 Speaker 1: noted the time on his clock at one thirty am. 448 00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:13,040 Speaker 1: He hung up and called it a night. Marilyn Monroe 449 00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:16,400 Speaker 1: was found dead sometime around midnight. The cops weren't called 450 00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:20,080 Speaker 1: until around four thirty, plenty of time for doctor Greenson 451 00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:22,360 Speaker 1: and Unice Murray to clean up their mess and get 452 00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:30,320 Speaker 1: the suicide story right, which they did. Unfortunately, America never 453 00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:34,119 Speaker 1: did get the story right. It's a story so wild 454 00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:38,920 Speaker 1: that it ought to be in pictures. I'm Jake Brennan 455 00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:55,600 Speaker 1: and this is hollywood Land. 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