Los Angeles Police Department Covered Up Murder of Marilyn Monroe

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. Franklin said he did not correlate Bobby Kennedy with Marilyn Monroe at the time of the stop 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.

I want to know how someone can hold onto a phone when your hand is hanging off of a bed when you die? That phone would fall out of your hand once you begin to die, yet Dr. Greenson claimed Marilyn still had the phone in her hand when she was found. This is very hard for me to believe.}

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 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, conspiracy theorists seized this fact 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.

Medical samples, photographs, slides of those organs 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.

Not long before she died, a D.A.’s report shows, Monroe discussed suicide with an actress friend, Jeanne Carmen. Was she said if she ever were to kill herself, she “would dress in a white nightgown, take an overdose of pills and go to bed? The sheets and spread would be white, and she would have her hair and makeup done. A friend would be informed of the suicide to make sure that after her death, she was neatly positioned and the bedroom was in order.”

Marilyn was not found like that, and I don’t believe she would have ever wanted anyone to find her in that manner. So, did Marilyn really kill herself? I think not. The LAPD needs to make this right, and justice needs to prevail. I will not stop until Marilyn’s death certificate is changed and Dr. Ralph Greenson is charged with Murder.  Two witnesses are still alive in regards to that night, Marvin Iannone and Pat Newcomb. Both Iannone and Newcomb should be charged with Aiding and Abetting in the murder of Marilyn Monroe.

STAY TUNED!

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