{"id":583,"date":"2021-07-28T16:01:07","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T16:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markshawbooks.com\/blog\/?p=583"},"modified":"2021-07-28T16:01:14","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T16:01:14","slug":"shaw-letter-to-la-district-attorney-george-gascon-demanding-re-investigation-of-marilyn-monroe-death-as-anniversary-nears-august-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markshawbooks.com\/blog\/shaw-letter-to-la-district-attorney-george-gascon-demanding-re-investigation-of-marilyn-monroe-death-as-anniversary-nears-august-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaw Letter to LA District Attorney George Gascon Demanding Re-Investigation of Marilyn Monroe Death as Anniversary Nears (August 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Mark Shaw<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Author\/Attorney<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1085 Santa Clara Street, #7<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Santa Clara, CA 95050<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.markshawbooks.com\"><strong>www.markshawbooks.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"mailto:mshawin@yahoo.com\"><strong>mshawin@yahoo.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>415.940.0827<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>July 27, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Personal and Confidential<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. George Gasc\u00f3n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Los Angeles County District Attorney<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>211 West Temple Street<br>Suite 1200<br>Los Angeles, CA 90012<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dear Mr. Gasc\u00f3n,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having not received the courtesy of a response to the June 1<sup>st<\/sup> letter I sent to you, the very date that would have been Marilyn Monroe\u2019s 95<sup>th<\/sup> birthday (June 1), I once again am strongly requesting that your office re-open the investigation into her tragic death on August 4, 1962, the anniversary of which occurs in a few days. My demand is based on compelling new primary source evidence compiled based on fifteen years of research for my latest book, \u201cCollateral Damage: The Mysterious Deaths of Marilyn Monroe, Dorothy Kilgallen and the Ties That Bind them to Robert Kennedy and the JFK Assassination\u201d which was published on June 1 and sent to you along with a lengthy \u201cEvidence Report\u201d and a list of the many witness still alive who may be interviewed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before repeating the substance of the first letter I sent long in June, here are some important updates regarding what has occurred since the book\u2019s release indicating widespread interest in a re-investigation. For your interest are two YouTube videos, the first one of a lengthy Zoom interview I gave at the prestigious Commonwealth Club of San Francisco on June 10. It was projected onto a large screen and to date, both the non-edited and edited versions (some new slides were included), have garnered nearly <strong>200,000<\/strong> YT views, a record for the club, in less than 50 days. Here is the link to the video and if you look closed at the more than 3000 Comments, most deal with the need to re-investigate Marilyn\u2019s death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mark Shaw: Collateral Damage, Connecting the Deaths of Marilyn Monroe, JFK and Dorothy Kilgallen\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lc2jGQFjVFs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The second video captures a presentation I provided at the Allen Public Library near Dallas on July 8. In just seven days since it was posted on YT, there are more than 40,000 views and a considerable amount of Comments. Here is the link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hkjiFJrC_mg\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hkjiFJrC_mg<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By having you or one of your staff watch the videos, or any one of a number of podcast, radio and television interviews available on YT, you will get a sense of the outrage existing due to the injustice involved with Marilyn\u2019s death when the Medical Examiner\u2019s office concluded she killed herself. Regarding the cause of death, nothing could be further from the truth as I wrote in my letter of June 1<sup>st<\/sup>. Here is the body of that letter:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the book is lengthy (600+ pages), and the text chronicles not only the life and times and deaths of Marilyn but connects them for the first time with the deaths JFK and revered journalist Kilgallen, I am including an \u201cEvidence Report\u201d that I believe you convince you that the film star did not commit \u201cprobable suicide\u201d but was murdered. And that the man responsible was then attorney general Robert F. Kennedy who also covered up the truth in an abuse of power that included \u201cpersuading\u201d his friend, LA Police Chief William Parker, to conduct no real investigation into her death even after Deputy Medical Examiner Thomas Noguchi bungled Marilyn\u2019s autopsy to the tune of never even examining vital organs he misplaced, accidentally or more likely, on purpose, that could have exposed how she died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of vital importance here is your office conducting a re-investigation sooner than later since many of those who knew Marilyn, or may shed light on her death are up in age including Dr. Noguchi and revered forensic scientist Dr. Cyril Wecht with the latter having been this author\u2019s expert regarding Marilyn\u2019s demise but also the deaths of JFK and Dorothy Kilgallen. As this book, and two I have written about her before, the bestseller, \u201cThe Reporter Who Knew Too Much,\u201d and \u201cDenial of Justice,\u201d prove, she did not die of an accidental overdose of barbiturates combined with alcohol, \u201cCircumstances Undermined,\u201d in November 1965, but was silenced based on her threats to expose those who orchestrated the JFK assassination and those who cover-up the truth in a book she was writing for Random House shortly before she died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My research has indicated more than 50 similarities between these two remarkable and inspiring women\u2019s life and times and especially their deaths. They were friends and by employing a unique research method, investigating JFK\u2019s death (1963), then Kilgallen\u2019s (1965) and finally Marilyn\u2019s (1962) in reverse order, I believe I have provided the trail for you and your investigators to follow so as to clear Marilyn\u2019s reputation by proving she did not commit suicide but was the victim of a homicide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With this in mind, I trust your credo will parallel mine based on a quote from acclaimed novelist Lois McMaster Bujold, who wrote, \u201cThe dead cannot cry out for justice. It is the duty of the living to do so for them.\u201d Thus I have had the duty, and now you do as well, to sort out justice for Marilyn who may not defend herself but relies on you and a private citizen like me to do for her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since, as you will read, LA police malfeasance ran rampant regarding Marilyn\u2019s death, I am contacting you instead of LAPD or the Sheriff\u2019s Department as I fear a cover up if either of these agencies handle the re-investigation involving inept police conduct regarding this cold case. Instead, I am counting on you to assign it to your Bureau of Investigation (BOI), so no conflict of interest may be evident. Marilyn deserves a fresh, independent probe of her death unlike the one undertaken in 1982, nearly 40 years ago, that was based on speculation, questionable witnesses, and did not at all include the fresh, primary source evidence presented in \u201cCollateral Damage\u201d pointing to complicity by Robert F. Kennedy when her demise is considered in the context of both the deaths of JFK and Dorothy Kilgallen, with the result an historical one of enormous consequences:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That the JFK assassination could have been prevented in 1963 if Robert Kennedy was prosecuted for complicity in Marilyn Monroe\u2019s murder with the result that Bobby\u2019s abuse of power as attorney general would have been neutralized and his enemies would not have killed the president in 1963 changing the course of history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Such a statement, as you will read, makes good sense in lieu of the evidence presented based on my research as not only an historian of note but a bestselling author, a former criminal defense lawyer, and a legal analyst for the Mike Tyson, O. J. Simpson and Kobe Bryant cases for USA Today, CNN, ABC, and ESPN. Most recently, I have been quite honored that my alma mater, Purdue University, requested to be the archival repository of my body of work, my nearly 30 published books, research books, articles, and so forth with more than 1000 items to be preserved alongside those of Amelia Earhart and Neil Armstrong. Here is a link to the October 2020 press release which validates my credibility. (<a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/yyth7afp\">https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/yyth7afp<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As you proceed with your office\u2019s investigation, please keep in mind that if Marilyn\u2019s last name had been \u201cDoe,\u201d and she hadn\u2019t been a movie star known around the world, the chances are that she would have been treated to a full investigation of her death based on all of the obvious evidence pointing to her homicide. When you read the portion of the book focused on humanizing this amazing woman, please keep in mind that she was a kind and gentle soul, one who overcame gender discrimination from the days when she grew up basically motherless to when she became a star all while being labeled a \u201cdumb blonde,\u201d a characterization that evidence indicates was totally uncalled for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Gasc\u00f3n, at the very least, the ME \u201cverdict\u201d must be altered since there is no evidence that Marilyn committed suicide based on all of the factors you will read about in the \u201cEvidence Report.\u201d This said, attached is the pertinent, confidential material from \u201cCollateral Damage\u201d for your review. I trust you and your colleagues will do what has never been done before, provide Marilyn with justice as a victim, one whose life was terminated by a powerful man who then used that power to cover up the truth based on the following conclusions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Marilyn Monroe, whose love affair with attorney general Bobby Kennedy is little known to this day, did not commit \u201cprobable suicide\u201d in 1962 <\/strong>and might have celebrated her 95<sup>th<\/sup> birthday on June 1<sup>st<\/sup> if she had not been the victim of verbal abuse&nbsp; and then set up for the kill on August 4, 1962 by Bobby following Marilyn\u2019s brief sexual affair with JFK. (CD pages 277-281, 502, 503, and throughout book);<\/li><li><strong>RFK\u2019s motive to silence Marilyn <\/strong>was based on her threatening him with a \u201ctell-all\u201d disclosure to the mediaof matters of national security leaked to her by the Kennedy brothers and Bobby treating her like \u201ca piece of meat, facts&nbsp; never fully explored before. (CD pages 496-503);<\/li><li><strong>Marilyn\u2019s murder by RFK\u2019s operatives was covered up by <\/strong>LA Police Chief William Parker, a close friend of the attorney general who never considered the forensic evidence but instead took the word of three psychiatrists who misreported&nbsp; Marilyn\u2019s mental state. (CD page 539);<\/li><li><strong>The truth about Marilyn\u2019s death has never been fully investigated <\/strong>triggering this author\u2019s demand for your office to re-investigate;<\/li><li><strong>More than 50 similarities exist between the life and times and deaths of Marilyn Monroe and her friend, Dorothy Kilgallen including each being victims of gender discrimination and denied justice when they died;<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Three clues heretofore ignored regarding Marilyn\u2019s cause of death point to murder: Her<\/strong> housekeeper doing \u201cdirty sheets\u201d laundry when police arrived, a \u201cfresh\u201d bruise on her hip mentioned in the bogus autopsy report but dismissed as unimportant by researchers, and a mixture of Chloral Hydrate and Nembutal discovered in Marilyn\u2019s blood stream prove the&nbsp; that barbiturates were&nbsp; ingested but inserted rectally. (CD pages 544-546);<\/li><li><strong>A damaging mid-1962 letter from Jean Kennedy Smith to Marilyn <\/strong>(\u201cunderstand that you and Bobby are the new item!\u201d) proves Marilyn\/RFK tryst, and \u201cThe Rothberg Report,\u201d a secret government document, connects Marilyn, JFK, and revered journalist Dorothy Kilgallen with RFK the common denominator. (CD pages 438 and 497).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Your investigation will, I believe, cement these conclusion, permitting you to be part of destroying distortions of history perpetuated for six decades and counting. Since you have a reputation as a man of the truth, I am confident in your ability to discover that truth and let the world know that Marilyn, a victim of gender discrimination and viscous rumors during her entire life, was a woman to be respected, one who may be an inspiration to young folks looking for a hero.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you for the consideration. A list of the available witnesses as noted in the Evidence Report is included at the end of the text.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Based on the substance of that letter and your reputation as a man of the truth who deeply cares about crime victims, I am asking, along with thousands of others who deeply care about Marilyn, to immediately announce to the media your intention to provide a thorough re-investigation of her death, perhaps on August 4, the anniversary of that death. On my end, I promise to cooperate fully by assisting your investigators with witness contact including one who recently provided a chilling account as to the means by which Marilyn died confirming my analysis in the book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I look forward to hearing from you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Best wishes,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mark Shaw<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>cc: Ms. Celia Zavala, Executive Director, Los Angeles Board of County&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Supervisors<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Shaw Author\/Attorney 1085 Santa Clara Street, #7 Santa Clara, CA 95050 www.markshawbooks.com mshawin@yahoo.com 415.940.0827 July 27, 2021 Personal and Confidential Mr. George Gasc\u00f3n Los Angeles County District Attorney 211 West Temple StreetSuite 1200Los Angeles, CA 90012 Dear Mr. Gasc\u00f3n, &#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/markshawbooks.com\/blog\/shaw-letter-to-la-district-attorney-george-gascon-demanding-re-investigation-of-marilyn-monroe-death-as-anniversary-nears-august-4\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markshawbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markshawbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markshawbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markshawbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markshawbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/markshawbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":584,"href":"https:\/\/markshawbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions\/584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markshawbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markshawbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markshawbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}