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Elvis: Dead or Alive? 21 21 Elvis: Dead or Alive? The Great Rock and Roll same trip to Washington, DC, Elvis Mystery of All Time: wrote a letter to J. Edgar Hoover volunteering his confidential services Elvis Presley: to the FBI. Hoover wrote back Dead or Alive? thanking Elvis for his offer, but there is no record of him ever taking it up. Still, Brewer-Giorgio and other theorists Early in the morning on August 16, 1977, Elvis Presley and his argue, the government may have been girlfriend, Ginger Alden, returned to keeping the King’s government service Graceland from a late-night dentist a secret. appointment. The two stayed up until * According to Brewer-Giorgio, Elvis about 7:00 a.m. Then Alden went to was also “a bonded deputy with the bed. But, according to one source, Memphis Police and was known to don “because he had taken some ‘uppers,’ disguises and go out on narc busts.” Elvis was still not sleepy.” * Elvis took his law enforcement role So the King retired to his seriously. More than one biography bathroom to read a book. That was the details the time that the King ran out last time anyone saw him alive. onto the runway of the Las Vegas airport, flagged down a taxiing commercial airliner, and searched it for THE OFFICIAL STORY When Alden woke up at 2:00 a man whom he believed had stolen something from him. Elvis looked in the afternoon, she noticed that Elvis his death - if the King is really dead, coffin. The coffin maker revealed that around, realized his quarry wasn’t was still in the bathroom. So she decided to check on him. why can’t his loved ones get their the casket was a “rush” order - and that aboard, and gave the pilot permission stories straight? “there was no way” the coffin could to take off. When she opened the door, she have weighed 900 pounds as the press * Some theorists believe that Elvis’s saw Elvis sprawled face forward on the UNANSWERED QUESTIONS reported - even with the King in it. So extensive work in law enforcement floor. “I thought at first he might have Elvis’s fans want the answers to the what was in the coffin with Elvis that made him a target for drug dealers and hit his head because he had fallen,” she following mysteries: made it so heavy? the Mob - and that he entered the recalls, “and his face was buried in the * According to Brewer-Giorgio, the Federal Witness Protection Program carpet. I slapped him a few times and it Did Elvis Foresee - or Fake - His discrepancy between the coffin’s actual out of fear for his life. According to was like he breathed once when I Death? weight with Elvis in it and its weight at Brewer-Giorgio, when Elvis supplied turned his head. I lifted one eyelid and * Elvis didn’t order any new jumpsuits the funeral is about 250 to 275 pounds, the information that sent a major drug it was just blood red. But I couldn’t move him.” The King was dead. - his trademark outfit - in all of 1977. “the weight of a small air-conditioner.” dealer to prison, the King and his Why not? Did he know he wasn’t Was there an air-conditioner in the family received death threats. Elvis was rushed to Baptist going to need any? coffin?” Brewer-Giorgio asks, “Wax Memorial Hospital in Memphis, but * On his last concert tour, Elvis was dummy? Something cool to keep the Could Elvis Be Hiding? doctors could not revive him. He was overheard saying, “I may not look wax from beading up?” pronounced dead at 3:00 p.m. The * Hundred of Elvis’s loyal fans think official cause of death: cardiac good tonight, but I’ll look good in my * To many witnesses, Elvis’s corpse they have spotted the King since his coffin.” appeared to be “sweating” at the “death.” He’s been sighted at a Rolling arrhythmia brought on by “straining at * Was Elvis imitating his manager, funeral. Brewer-Giorgio says she asked Stones concert, working at a Burger stool.” (The actual cause of death: most Colonel Tom Parker? As a young man, Joe Esposito, Elvis’s road manager, King in Kalamazoo, buying gas in likely a massive overdose of Parker also faked his death. An illegal about TV reports that there were “beads Tennessee, and shopping for old prescription drugs. That is what is supposed to immigrant from Holland, whose real of sweat” on Elvis’s body. “He said that Monkees records in Michigan. One have happened. Nevertheless, Elvis name was Andreas Van Kujik, Parker was true, that everyone was sweating woman even claims that Elvis gave her left Holland without telling his because the air-conditioner had broken a bologna sandwich and a bag of aficionados across the country see a relatives; they thought he was dead. down. Except dead bodies do not Cheetos during a 1987 visit to the Air host of mysterious circumstances that sweat.” But wax melts. suggest the King may still be alive. Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio. Could Was the Corpse in Elvis’s Coffin so many people be lying or mistaken? Really Elvis’s? Why Were The Mourners Acting So SUSPICIOUS FACTS * Country singer Tanya Tucker’s sister Strange at the Funeral? The medical examiner’s report LaCosta was at the King’s funeral, and * Parker wore a loud Hawaiian shirt OTHER MYSTERIES stated that Elvis’s body was found in she was shocked at the body’s and baseball cap to Elvis’s funeral and COLLECTED BY ELVIS FANS the bathroom in a rigor-mortised state. But the homicide report said that Elvis appearance: “We went right up to the never once approached the casket to - Vernon Presley never went to the casket and stood there, and God, I say farewell to the King. Elvis’s fans hospital the night Elvis “died.” If Elvis was found unconscious in the couldn’t believe it. He looked just like argue that if Elvis were really dead, were really dead, some theorists bathroom. In The Elvis Files, Gail a piece of plastic laying there. he didn’t Parker would probably shown a little speculate, he probably would have. Brewer-Giorgio notes: look like him at all...he looked more more respect. “Unconsciousness and rigor mortis are - According to some reports, within at the opposite ends of the physical like a dummy than a real person. You * Elvis’s hairdresser claims that he saw hours of Presley’s death, souvenir know a lot of people think it was a Esposito remove Elvis’s TCB (Takin’ shops near Graceland began selling spectrum: rigor mortis is a stiffening dummy. They don’t think he was Care of Business) ring from the commemorative T-shirts of his death. condition that occurs after death; dead.” corpse’s finger during the funeral How could they have made so many T- unconsciousness, a state in which a * Some observers said they thought the services. Why would he remove one of shirts in so little time - unless living body loses awareness. Bedroom and bathroom are two different places.” corpse’s nose looked too “pugged” to Elvis’s favorite pieces of jewelry - Graceland had let them know about the be the King’s. They speculated that Elvis would surely have wanted to have “death” in advance. The medical examiner’s report even if the King had fallen forward and been buried with it - unless the corpse - Elvis’s middle name, Aron, is list’s Elvis’s weight at the time of death smashed his nose at the time of his being buried wasn’t the King’s? as 170 pounds; he actually weighed death, it would have naturally returned misspelled “Aaron” on his tombstone. about 250 pounds. If he’s really dead, why don’t his Elvis’s relatives can’t agree on to its original shape, or would at least Is Elvis in the Federal Witness relatives correct the mistake? how Elvis died. His stepbrother David have been fixed by the undertaker - if Protection Program? - Elvis is not buried next to his mother the body was really Elvis’s. (The Elvis * In 1970, Presley - a law enforcement as he requested. Says Brewer-Giorgio: thinks Elvis committed suicide. His Files) buff - was made an honorary Agent-at- “ ‘Elvis loved his mother very much stepbrother Rick claims Elvis Large of the Drug Enforcement and always said he would be buried suffocated on the shag carpet. Larry Geller, Elvis’s hairdresser and spiritual Was the Corpse in Elvis’s Coffin a Administration by President Nixon beside her,’ many fans have noted. ‘So Wax Dummy? (photo above) after a visit to the White why is he buried between his father and adviser, claims that Elvis’s doctors told * Some theorists believe that Elvis’ House. According to some theorists, grandmother?’ they ask.” Vernon Presley (Elvis’s father) that the coffin weighed more than it was Presley became more than just an King had leukemia, which may have supposed to. Brewer-Giorgio reports honorary agent - he actually got contributed to his death. Some theorists receiving a letter from an Elvis fan involved in undercover narcotics work. 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