{"id":960,"date":"2025-02-27T21:28:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T21:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/markshawbooks.com\/blog\/?p=960"},"modified":"2025-02-28T21:07:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T21:07:59","slug":"newsletter-february-28-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markshawbooks.com\/blog\/newsletter-february-28-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"NEWSLETTER &#8211; February, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-accent-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8cfdae99a88a573263b10cde413cd86d\" style=\"font-size:26px\"><\/p>\n\n\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>D.A. Alvin Bragg Must Be Held Accountable For Refusing to Investigate Dorothy Kilgallen\u2019s Death<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">If we don\u2019t hold Public Officials accountable, the Chaos Reigning Down on our Country will Continue. Standing Silent is not Acceptable for Anyone Who Cares about Justice<br><br>To that end, on February 7, 2025, this author sent a lengthy letter to New York County District Attorney Alvin Bragg with copies to Alvin Bragg\u2019s Manhattan Office, Ms. Pat Bondi. U. S. Attorney General, Ms. Lettia James, New York State Attorney General, Ms. Danielle R. Sassoon, the U. S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and the First Judicial Department New York Attorney Grievance Committee.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-normal-font-size\"><strong>The Letter reads in part:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Mr. Brag:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">In the interest of justice based on allegations of impropriety amounting to dereliction of duty, I have filed a complaint with the Department of Justice, the U. S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, the New York State Attorney General, and the New York Attorney Grievance Committee. This complaint stems from you and your office\u2019s continuing refusal to provide media Icon Dorothy Kilgallen with a thorough investigation of her death in 1965 despite knowledge of compelling evidence that she was murdered.<br \/>Referencing your disturbing conduct is a New York Post article written by <a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/mst232pt\"><strong>Sue Edelman<\/strong><\/a>, wherein your office declined to investigate Dorothy Kilgallen\u2019s death. Queens Councilman Bob Holden, who demanded an investigation by you and the NYPD based on his own belief that Kilgallen was the victim of foul play, is quoted as stating to the Post that he <strong>\u201conly got only lip service\u201d<\/strong> when he requested an investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Also included in the article were these quotes from Mr. Holden:\u202f<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cI was told there was going to be an investigation, but it turned out there wasn\u2019t. They [DA office] just looked at it on a superficial level and decided it wasn\u2019t worth doing.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The concerns that many people supporting me and I have, is whether the manner in which you and your staff have handled the request for an investigation of Dorothy\u2019s death by a respected councilman is <strong>\u201cThe fair administration of justice, without fear or favor?\u201d<\/strong> and whether your declining to investigate Kilgallen\u2019s death lives up to the motto on your website, <strong>\u201cOne standard of Justice for All?\u201d<\/strong> To the contrary, it seems that your non-action is a deliberate dereliction of duty, one involving allegations of impropriety, since, according to Councilman Holden\u2019s observation, to repeat for emphasis, your office <strong>\u201cjust looked at it [his request] on a superficial level and decided it wasn\u2019t worth doing.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Bragg, of great interest to you and your staff should be the accounts from the infamous forensics expert, Dr. Michael Baden, whose name is on the Kilgallen autopsy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\"><strong>AUTOPSY PERFORMED BY DR. JAMES LUKE, JUNIOR MEDICAL EXAMINER <br>in the presence of Dr. Sturner and Baden <br>November 8, 1965<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Without question then, he should be the first person you and your staff interview. As I pointed out in my January 22nd letter to you. Among other revelations are his stating:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Regarding the timing of Kilgallen\u2019s death, Dr. Baden admitted, <strong>\u201cYes, it was very convenient for a lot of people.\u201d<\/strong> He agreed that she could likely have been planning to expose those involved in JFK\u2019s assassination in the book she was writing [for Random House.]<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">During a February 25, 2020, phone interview with this author, Dr. Baden, who assisted Dr. James Luke with Kilgallen\u2019s autopsy, stated that in his opinion, <strong>due to Dr. Luke\u2019s admission\u2019s he did not know what the cause of death really was: \u201cWhat Luke said went beyond the bounds of what he should have told the media.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Dr. Baden stated that he and Dr. Luke expected that <strong>NYPD detectives would follow through, as would be normal in what Baden called \u201ca high-profile, VIP international case,\u201d his \u201cfirst high-profile case,\u201d with what he dubbed a \u201cfull\u201d investigation. He then agreed that the death scene was quite \u201csuspicious\u201d<\/strong> and that he recalled \u201cserious discussions\u201d with Dr. Luke and NYC chief medical examiner Dr. Milton Helpern about Kilgallen\u2019s case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[Note: no investigation by the NYPD occurred then or during present day.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Others besides Dr. Baden who were there in 1965 when Dorothy died and thus primary source witnesses must be interviewed include these eyewitnesses to what happened:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>F<strong>ormer Dutchess County Sheriff\u2019s Deputy Dennis O\u2019Keeffe:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">I knew Detective John Doyle, known as Jack \u201cPopeye\u201d Doyle who, along with Detective Mike Ward, had arrived at Kilgallen\u2019s townhouse on the day she died.<br \/><strong>Doyle was a young detective and responded to the death of Dorothy Kilgallen and filled out the death report, a DD-5 (Detective Division \u2013 5) form. He said it contained all of his interview notes.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[Demands by this author that the NYPD discover and then release the DD-5 document in Kilgallen\u2019s case through the Freedom of Information avenue have been stonewalled at every turn for years on end.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ms. Eileen Broich \u2013 (NYC Medical Examiner\u2019s Office Chemist John Broich\u2019s widow; speaks to John\u2019s work at ME office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>John admitted Mafia presence in the office.<\/strong> They were intimidating. He called one time from the city and was terrified. He was strong-willed. He couldn\u2019t be bought. There was pressure to fudge results. <strong>I said, \u201cWhy don\u2019t you go to the police?\u201d John said, \u201cThey can\u2019t help me.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>John said \u201cWe\u2019ve discovered that she was most likely bumped off. That was the terminology.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Mr. Christopher Broich (son of John Broich and currently a private investigator on the East Coast) <br \/><strong>My father telling my mother that Dorothy Kilgallen was bumped off, would be accurate in that the language and syntax that he used, that\u2019s how he would describe someone getting killed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Ms. Jill Kollmar [Kilgallen\u2019s daughter]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cMy mother was murdered\u201d to a close friend who may be interviewed. She also told another friend, \u201cMy mother was \u2018quieted\u2019\u201d<\/strong> [She must be interviewed as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Bragg, something is fishy here since with more than 50 pages of evidence from my latest book [Injustice of the First Degree] pointing to Dorothy, called by the New York Post, \u201cthe most powerful voice in America,\u201d being the victim of a homicide included with my January 22nd letter and included here as well that point to the dereliction of duty, is that neither you, your office staff nor the NYPD have apparently even considered the new evidence. The proof is that, based on my checking with the \u201cwitnesses\u201d I provided, not one interview of those whose shocking accounts regarding not only the fact that Kilgallen was murdered but denied any investigation at all when she died, has occurred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hopefully[ the authorities mentioned above], ones designed to ensure that citizens are provided the justice they deserve even though they may have passed away, will probe your actions and those of the NYPD through my complaint and discover why it appears a cover-up of Dorothy\u2019s death continues to this day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mark Shaw<br>Author\/Attorney<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.markshawbooks.com\">www.markshawbooks.com<\/a><br><a href=\"mailto:mshawin@yahoo.com\">mshawin@yahoo.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>If you wish to help this cause, please contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Alvin Bragg\u2019s Manhattan Office<br>Ms. Pat Bondi. U. S. Attorney General<br>Ms. Lettia James, New York State Attorney General<br>Ms. Danielle R. Sassoon, the U. S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York<br>First Judicial Department New York Attorney Grievance Committee<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What\u2019s My Line? now on Prime Video \u2013 80 episodes \u2013 Dorothy Shines, Especially During First One<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-normal-font-size\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.primevideo.com\/detail\/Whats-My-Line\/0LY1DUXHAG1M2WRLIGPWEKWJMB\">Watch What\u2019s My Line? Season 1 \u2013 Prime Video<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-normal-font-size\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><br>&#8211; BUY BOOKS &#8211;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-normal-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3fuEWmh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fighting for Justice<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-normal-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YOU3si\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Reporter Who Knew Too Much<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-normal-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3VvajM7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Collateral Damage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-normal-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3C95VM7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Denial of Justice<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes has-small-font-size\"><table class=\"has-white-background-color has-background\"><tbody><tr><td><em>\u201cInvestigative reporting at its best. Mark Shaw\u2019s original work into the questionable deaths of Marilyn Monroe and Dorothy Kilogallons is now focused on the many unanswered questions left by the Warren Commission\u2019s inquiry into the JFK assassination.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3fuEWmh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fighting for Justice<\/a>&nbsp;has to be read.\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;<br><br>&#8212; Nicholas Pileggi, author of Wiseguy (movie: Goodfellas) and Casino&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-regular has-small-font-size\"><table><tbody><tr><td><br><em>\u201cIf a writer is so cautious that he\/she never writes anything that cannot be criticized, he\/she will never write anything that can be read.\u201d<\/em><br>\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3UIj6L1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Thomas Merton<\/a><br>&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes has-normal-font-size\"><table><tbody><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/c5c2513295943863f07b90492\/images\/da8ad892-d53a-4195-ab5f-485757197912.jpg\" width=\"200\"><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Get Published<br><strong>LITERARY CONSULTANT |&nbsp;MARK SHAW PUBLISHING PROGRAMS<\/strong><br><br>Author of &#8220;How to Become a Published Author: Idea to Publication&#8221;, Mark Shaw\u2019s book on the writing and book publishing process includes his successful 10-Step Method as well as literary tips to assist those who dream of being published. For twenty years and counting, Mark, who can speak to writers as an accomplished author himself, has provided literary consulting to hundreds of aspiring authors.&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/markshawbooks.com\/#Mark-The-Literary-Consultant\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>D.A. Alvin Bragg Must Be Held Accountable For Refusing to Investigate Dorothy Kilgallen\u2019s Death &nbsp; If we don\u2019t hold Public Officials accountable, the Chaos Reigning Down on our Country will Continue. 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