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42 Murder or Conspiracy? Murder or Conspiracy? 42 distraught about her affairs and Someone had probably “sanitized” her enter the home and begin talking to committed suicide. To protect the bedroom before the police came. Most Monroe, who was extremely upset. Kennedys from scandal, someone likely person: Peter Lawford. His ex- Monroe, the authors report, “became tried to cover up the suicide and wife Deborah Gould claimed, “He agitated - hysterical in fact - and in cleaned up monroe’s house. went there and tidied up the place and response, they heard Kennedy instruct did what he could, before the police the man with him, evidently a doctor, * Monroe may have become frantic and the press arrived.” She also to give her a shot to ‘calm her down.’ when Robert Kennedy cut her off, claimed Lawford found and destroyed Shortly afterward, RFK and the doctor perhaps- as some theorists guess - a suicide note. left.” because she was pregnant. * Lawford may also have hired * Double Cross claims that the four * Fred Otash, a Hollywood private detective Fred Otash to finish the killers waited until nightfall, then detective, claimed that a “police cleanup. According to a security sneaked into monroe’s home to make source” told him weeks before her consultant who worked with Otash, the hit. Monroe resisted, but was easily death monroe had gone to Mexico to Lawford hired him on the night of the subdued because of the sedatives: have an abortion. According to Otash, death to “check her house, especially “Calmly, and with all the efficiency of an American doctor went to Tijuana to for papers or letters, that might give a team of surgeons, they taped her Our Investigation into the do it, which made Monroe safe away her affairs with the Kennedys.” mouth shut and proceeded to insert a Nembutal specially medically, and made the doctor safe “doctored” Mysterious Death of from U.S. law,” since at that time THEORY #2: The Mob killed suppository into her anus.” According Marilyn Monroe Continues abortion was illegal in the U.S. But monroe to embarrass - or even to the authors, the killers waited for the from Page 31 frame - Attorney General Robert lethal combination of barbiturates and Kennedy. chloral hydrate to take effect. Once she * The Mob certainly knew of monroe’s was totally unconscious, the men The Original Police Files affair with the Kennedys: in fact, carefully removed the tape, wiped her * What happened to the files? several reputable accounts claim that mouth clean, and placed her across the lieutenant Marion Phillips of the Los the star’s house had been bugged by bed. their job complete, they left as Angeles Police Department claimed the mob. By recording intimate quietly as they had come. that he was told in 1962 that a high- moments between Monroe and Robert * Unfortunately for the conspirators, ranking police official “had taken the Kennedy, the syndicate may have however, Kennedy’s close friends and file to show someone in Washington. hoped to blackmail the attorney the FBI so thoroughly cleaned up That was the last we heard of it.” general and thus end his prosecution of Monroe’s house and commandeered teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa and other her phone records that any proof of the MONROE AND THE KENNEDYS gangsters. romance was eliminated. The * As part of his research for Goddess, * In their book Double Cross, Chuck Giancanas say that J. Edgar Hoover the most authoritative book on Marilyn and Sam Giancana - the brothers and protected the Kennedys because, after Monroe, Anthony Summers godson of mob godfather Sam keeping their secrets, he knew they’d interviewed more than 600 people “Mooney” Giancana - allege that the never fire him. Double Cross also linked to her. He quotes friends, Mafia eventually decided to kill alleges that the CIA was also in on the acquaintances, reporters, and author Summers disagrees, noting, monroe and make it look like a suicide. hit, but it’s reasoning is not politicians who confirm what many “There was no medical evidence to convincing. Americans already suspected - that support the theory that Monroe had Monroe had had affairs with both John been pregnant.” FOOTNOTE and Robert Kennedy. * In any event, if Monroe was In 1982, after reinvestigating * Apparently, john Kennedy met her threatening to embarrass the Kennedys Marilyn monroe’s death, the Los through his brother-in-law, Peter by going public about their affairs, it Angeles District Attorney’s Office Lawford. According to Lawford’s third was cause for alarm. According to released the following statement: wife, Deborah Gould, “Peter told me several reports, Robert Kennedy - who “Marilyn monroe’s murder that Jack... had always wanted to meet was vacationing with his family near would have required a massive, in- Marilyn monroe; it was one of his San Francisco - flew to Los Angeles on place conspiracy covering all of the fantasies.” Quoting Lawford, Gould August 4 to meet with Monroe and try principals at the death scene on August says “Monroe’s affair with John to calm her down. It didn’t work. 4 and 5, 1962; the killer or killers; the Kennedy began before he became * Terribly depressed, Monroe took a Chief Medical Examiner - Coroner; president and continued for several massive dose of sleeping pills, but not the autopsy surgeon to whom the case years.” before calling Peter Lawford and was fortuitously assigned; and almost * According to Gould, JFK decided to saying, in a slurred voice, “Say all of the police officers assigned to the end his affair with Monroe early in goodbye to Pat [Lawford’s wife], say case, as well as their superiors in the 1962. He sent his brother Robert to goodbye to Jack [JFK], and say LAPD... our inquiries and examination California to give her the news. goodbye to yourself, because you’re Once the press learned of her recent uncovered no credible evidence “Marilyn took it quite badly,” says such a nice guy.” affair with RFK they figured, the supporting a murder theory. Gould, “and Bobby went away with a * The call may have frightened lawford public would decide that Monroe had feeling of wanting to get to know her so badly that he - and perhaps RFK - killed herself over him. So, the Mob better. At the beginning it was just to drove to monroe’s home. They may waited for Kennedy to visit Monroe, in help and console, but then it led into an have found her comatose and called an response to her desperate phone calls. affair between Marilyn and Bobby.” ambulance. (This would explain the * Finally, Kennedy took the * It didn’t last long. By the summer of Shaefer Ambulance claim of having bait.According to authors of Double 1962, RFK began having second taken Monroe to the hospital that Cross, when Sam Giancana learned thoughts and decided to break it off. night.) If Monroe had been taken to a that Bobby would be in California the Monroe, already severely depressed, hospital emergency room because of weekend of August 4, he arranged the began acting erratically after being an overdose, her stomach would hit on monroe. The authors allege he dumped by Bobby. She began calling almost certainly have been pumped - chose Needles Gianola, an experienced him at home; when he changed his which would account for the coroner’s killer, for the mission. Needles selected unlisted phone number to avoid her, finding no “pill residue” in her three men of his own to help him. she began calling him at the Justice stomach. When even the hospital’s best Together they traveled to California Department, the White House, and attempts could not save Monroe, “under Mooney’s” orders, to murder even at the Kennedy compound in perhaps her body was returned to her Marilyn Monroe.” Hyannisport. When Bobby still refused bedroom in an effort to avoid * According to Double Cross, the Mob to take her calls, Monroe threatened to controversy. had already bugged the Monroe home, Vising Niagara, Ontario? Visit go public with both affairs. and the hit men were waiting at their www.capri-motel.ca. The Capri The Cleanup secret listening post nearby when Motel is the Official Accommodation WAS IT A CONSPIRACY? * No suicide note was ever found, nor Kennedy arrived late Saturday night. forThe ’X’ ZONE RADIO & TV THEORY #1: Monroe was was Monroe’s personal phone book. They heard Bobby and another man SHOW while in Niagara, Canada.