Los Angeles Police Department Corruption

Chief William Parker

August 5, 1962, it was around midnight near the intersection of Robertson and Olympic Blvd., when  Beverly Hills Detective Lynn Franklin pulls over an intoxicated Peter Lawford in his Lincoln Continental sedan with the headlights off going 70– 80 MPH with Dr. Ralph Greenson in the front seat and Bobby Kennedy in the backseat. Not eager to give Lawford a ticket with Bobby in the backseat, Detective Franklin gives them proper directions to go to the Beverly Hilton Hotel since Peter, drunk and hysterical, was driving in the opposite direction heading toward downtown Los Angeles. At the time of the stop, Franklin said he did not correlate Bobby Kennedy with Marilyn Monroe as news of her death was still hours away.

The first LAPD officer to arrive, Sgt. Jack Clemmons strongly felt Marilyn was murdered and that the body was arranged and not in the position that you would expect a victim of poisoning to be. Of course, he was told to leave the scene by Sgt. Marvin Iannone.

Peter Lawford and Sgt. Marvin Iannone enters the guest cottage. The five eyewitnesses to Marilyn Monroe’s murder by Ralph Greenson were Schaefer Ambulance attendant James Hall, Schaefer Ambulance driver Murray Liebowitz, Peter Lawford, Pat Newcomb, and Sgt. Marvin D. Iannone. Within minutes, Marilyn dies.

When Sgt. Clemmons continued to argue that Marilyn did not commit suicide; he was fired by Chief William Parker for not remaining quiet and not agreeing with him that Marilyn committed suicide. 

When Marilyn’s body was found, there was no glass of water in the room, meaning that she would not have had any liquid to swallow that many pills. Once someone pointed this out after the search was completed, a glass was found near the bed.

The pathologist, Dr. Thomas Noguchi, could find no trace of capsules, powder, or the typical discoloration caused by Nembutal in Monroe’s stomach or intestines.  For many years this fact was seized upon by conspiracy theorists as vital evidence that the drugs that killed her had not been swallowed but injected.  There was a strange bruise on her left hip, a common location for an injection, or possibly a sign of a violent struggle.

The LAPD needs to be accountable for destroying all of the evidence that was needed to prove murder. 

Come on, let's think logically here. Medical samples, photographs, slides of those organs that were examined, and the examination form showing bruises on the body all disappeared shortly after the autopsy, making it impossible to investigate the cause of death. And, how is it that everybody's specimen, including the liver, kidney, and stomach and its contents, which would have proven definitely she did not kill herself, disappear overnight?

Two witnesses are still alive in regards to that night, Marvin Iannone and Pat Newcomb. Both Iannone and Newcomb should be questioned under oath and charged with Aiding and Abetting in the murder of Marilyn Monroe if they took any part in the murder, including protecting the people involved. However, I think they will go to their graves with this, and then God will be their judge. I personally would rather be judged here on earth. 

Some words were excerpts from The Murder of Marilyn Monroe: Case Closed / by Jay Margolis.