Jake Brennan (Disgraceland Host) (26:00)
death number three the Eunice scenario Marilyn Monroe was a lot of things in 1962. The most famous woman in the world by most men's account, the most beautiful, the most desired in a Hollywood trailblazer. But suicidal she was not. She had reconnected with Joe DiMaggio and renegotiated her latest contract with Fox. And she had roles in the Jean Harlow Story and a black comedy with the soon to be ironic title, what a Way to Go to look forward to despite recent troubles on the set of Something's Got to Give over Marilyn's inconsistent availability, she was not, as has been salaciously reported, reported and accepted as fact, hung up on either Kennedy, at least not in any sort of dangerous or reckless way. She never slept with her therapist, Dr. Greenson, either, or with Bobby Kennedy. She did sleep with Jack once. These are facts backed up by evidence, phone records, travel records, personal journals, and firsthand corroborated accounts that are confirmed by people close to not only the Kennedys, but also to Maryland people without anything to gain by telling the truth. These aren't publicists or journalists spinning tales together to sell books or command lucrative speaking and interview fees. The temptation of making a quick buck from the what ifs surrounding Marilyn Monroe and the Kennedys is just Too much. The star power is just too high wide. Hell, even renowned Pulitzer Prize winner Norman Mailer admitted that he built wild speculation about Bobby Kennedy's role out of unverified science sources in his book about Marilyn's death, simply titled Marilyn. Copping later to 60 Minutes that he'd gone all in on sensationalism because, quote, I needed money very badly. What Marilyn Monroe was in 1962 was dependent. Dependent on prescription drugs to level her out emotionally and most important to help her sleep, to slay the insomnia and anxiety. And she was dependent, dependent on her physician, Hyman Engelberg and her therapist Dr. Greenson, to prescribe and administer her the drugs. Of the two doctors, she was more dependent on Dr. Greenson not just for the pills but for emotional support. House calls were normal and Marilyn was a frequent guest of his and his family's. Marilyn expected Dr. Greenson to be there for her as a significant part of her emotions and physical support system. She was in near constant contact with him to get her right when the anxiety and the insomnia had her out of sorts. Dr. Greenson knew what to say, what strings to tug at to get Marilyn to feel better and what drugs and how much to prescribe and how to administer them. It was a burden caring for one of the most famous but most complex and emotionally vulnerable women in the world. Tonight, on August 4, 1962, Dr. Greenson had other plans. Dinner with friends, a night away from work, and more specifically a night away from Maryland. Imagine that, an American man in 1962 not wanting to spend time with Marilyn Monroe on a Saturday night. But Marilyn did not care. She'd slept poorly the night before, hardly at all, and was overtired and extremely anxious, worried it would be another sleepless night and she couldn't have that. So she called Dr. Greenson to come by and administer one of the sedatives he'd prescribed her. So around mid afternoon, Dr. Greenson did just that. Hold up. It needs to be directly said that all of the details herein that make up the Eunice scenario come from the highly credible Marilyn Monroe, A biography by author Donald Spado. His details are derived from hard facts, irrefutable source materials, official medical documents, national, state and local government records, first hand accounts from studio heads, business partners, friends, service people like her stand in and her masseuse, her first husband and her stepsister from her young life. In short, people who stand to gain nothing from denying the conspiracies I outlined in the conspiracy theory involving Bobby Kennedy murdering Marilyn Monroe. Or in the accepted narrative I outlined, that explains Marilyn Monroe's death as a, quote unquote, probable suicide. So the question then, who did stand to gain from the public believing that Marilyn Monroe killed herself? Well, Dr. Greenson had been weaning Marilyn off Nembutol in favor of chloral hydrate to sedate her. From Marilyn's perspective, the chloral hydrate wasn't working. Not Dr. Greenston's problem. Not tonight. He had plans. Dr. Greenson claims that he was called by Eunice Murray sometime after 3am well after his night out. And then he ran over to Maryland's, found her locked in her bedroom, unresponsive, broke her bedroom window from the outside to gain entry, found her dead, and then called the cops who arrived on the scene at 4:35am There is only one actual fact in that entire paragraph that I just read you. Let's hear that again. Dr. Greenson had been weaning Marilyn off Nembertol in favor of chloral hydrate to sedate her. From Marilyn's perspective, the chlorohydrate wasn't working. Not Dr. Greenson's problem. Not tonight. He had plans. Dr. Greenson claims that he was called by Eunice Murray sometime after 3am, well after his night out. And then he ran over to Maryland's founder, locked in her bedroom, unresponsive, broke her bedroom window from the outside inside to gain entry, found her dead, and then called the cops who arrived on the scene at 4:35am There is only one actual fact in that entire paragraph that I just read you, and it is this. The first cop, Sergeant Jack Clemens, did indeed arrive on the scene at 4:35am and when he did, he found Marilyn Monroe's housekeeper, Eunice Murray, doing laundry at 4:35am why was Eunice Murray doing laundry at 4:35am at the exact moment the police were arriving to deal with the matter of her dead boss lying naked in the bedroom. Here's another fact. Sergeant Jack Clemens reported that Eunice Murray told him upon arrival that she found Marilyn dead at around midnight. Of course, Sergeant Clemens wanted to know why it took Eunice so long to call the police. It was now past 4:30 in the morning. According to the sergeant, it was at this time that Dr. Greenson interjected, Mansplaining, that Marilyn's publicist had to be notified first and the permission from the studio needed to be granted before the police could be informed. Okay. Within minutes, Detective Sergeant Robert E. Byron arrived and assumed control of the scene. Eunice Murray, and giving herself statement to the new detective in charge, amended the time she supposedly discovered Marilyn's body to say it was about 3:00 in the morning, not midnight. Detective Byron found Eunice Murray to be evasive. And some years later, a record turned up in the Attorney General's office of an ambulance being summoned and arriving at Marilyn's home at midnight. California law prohibits ambulances from retrieving dead bodies. It must be done by the coroner's office. So the ambulance split and with its departure, opportunity arrived. Opportunity for Dr. Greenson, who was very much on the scene by midnight, to clean up his mess. God damn it. Hai. Gave her a prescription. I didn't know about hi being Marilyn's other doctor, her physician, Dr. Hyman Engelberg. This was the comment Dr. Greenson reportedly made when he made the scene around midnight to Marilyn's attorney, Milton Martin Rudin, who was also on the scene, having been tipped off about Marilyn's declining state by Peter Lawford's manager, whom Peter had called frantic earlier in the night, believing something was gravely wrong with Marilyn. God damn it. I gave her a prescription I didn't know about. What was Dr. Greenson referring to? Dr. Greenson was unaware that Marilyn had in her possession Nembutol that Dr. Hyman hi Engelberg had prescribed her after all. Dr. Greenson and Dr. Engelberg were supposedly in close communication regarding Marilyn's prescriptions, due to the fact that Dr. Greenston was trying to wean Marilyn off Nembertol with chlorohydrate. When Dr. Greenson came by late that afternoon to sedate Marilyn, at her request with chlorhydrate, he wasn't aware that she already had Nembutol in her possession. Marilyn then went for a walk on the beach, and then she visited the Lawfords for a brief moment. When she returned to her home, she was in a state of anxiety again and once more called Dr. Greenson at his home, who was now readying himself for a much needed night out away from Marilyn. And Marilyn wouldn't take no for an answer. He must come by and help her. Dr. Greenson, annoyed, relented, and swung by at some point during the early evening. When he did, he tried to continue console Marilyn, but did not administer any more drugs, likely because she already had too many in her system. It needed some time to elapse before taking another dose. The problem was that when the time finally rolled around for that other dose, Dr. Greenson wouldn't be there to administer it. He would be at dinner so he enlisted Eunice Murray, the maid, to administer the chlorohydrate. When the time was right, via enema, Dr. Greenson went to dinner and Eunice Murray went to work. And Marilyn Monroe died because of negligence. Not suicide, not murder, negligence. Marilyn Monroe, like a lot of female actors at the time, was accustomed to enemas as a weight loss trend. So Eunice gave Marilyn the enema of chlorohydrate, not knowing Marilyn had already taken nembute prescribed from Dr. Engelberg. Once the drugs interacted, Marilyn almost immediately began to fade. It was during this time that Peter Lawford called, heard her voice and became so alarmed, he called his manager, who called Marilyn's lawyer, who called Eunice Murray, who did not check on Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn was likely dying at that exact moment. How do we know this? The amount of chloral hydrate in Nembutal and Marilyn's system was enough to get kill her. Yes, but not by pill. So there goes the accepted as fact suicide theory. And it wasn't enough to kill her by injection either. So there goes the conspiratorial murder theory as well. The autopsy showed that drugs were in her system, but there was no pill residue in her stomach. And there would have been had she killed herself with the pills from the many empty pill bottles that were placed on her nightstand. The autopsy also uncovered the fact that there was a discovery coloration of Marilyn's colon, which would have been the case had she been given an enema. John Minor, deputy district attorney in Los Angeles, is on record saying that Both he and Dr. Thomas Noguchi, the deputy coroner who performed the autopsy, were, quote, convinced that an enema was absolutely the route of administering the fatal drug dose. And sometime after the chlorohydrate enema, the interaction with Nembutal would have caused Marilyn's body to expel its contents during the overdose. And that would have resulted in soiled sheets. Which explains why Eunice Murray was doing laundry when the cops showed up at 4:25 in the morning. It also explains other lies from Eunice, like the fact that she stated that Marilyn's bedroom door was locked, thus necessitating breaking the outdoor window to gain entry to find her body. The door wasn't locked because the bedroom door's lock was inoperable. Also, carpeting in the home had just been installed and the pile was so high that the door wouldn't actually shut. Additionally, Eunice correctly stated to the police that she found Marilyn dead around midnight, which is the truth. She later amended the statement, but the statement didn't amend the fact that it's on record that around midnight an ambulance was called and dispatched to Maryland's and then sent away. Also there is the testimony of Marilyn's lawyer Milton Rudin, who claims he was informed of Marilyn's death around midnight as well and made the scene to see and hear Dr. Greenson on the scene claim that God damn it, Hyde gave her a prescription I didn't know about. And finally there's Peter Lawford, who claims that he was called by Milton Evans, a producer in their social circle, who had been in touch with Marilyn's lawyer, the other Milton, Milton Rudin, and told his worries were reality, that yes, Peter Lawford, your friend Marilyn was indeed in trouble. In fact she was now dead. Lawford noted the time on his clock at 1:30am he hung up and called it a night. Marilyn Monroe was found dead sometime around midnight. The cops weren't called until around 4:30. Plenty of time for Dr. Greenson and Eunice Murray to clean up their mess and get the suicide story right, which they did. Unfortunately, America never did get the story right and that is a disgrace. 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