The story below, largely created by Jimmy Hoffa’s people, has been around for decades. As you may know I write about (among other things) organized crime. In my research I have found that there is not a single piece of tangible evidence to support the story that the Kennedy Brothers were involved with Monroe, who was largely taken to be a loon inside Hollywood circles.
Nor am I a Kennedy supporter. I’m
the guy who uncovered and revealed the Kennedy’s freewheeling pardon history to
a long list of mob thugs during the Kennedy presidency.
The author, Mike
Rothmiller, should make all of his research material public…meaning the actual
files he says he uncovered.
LAPD detective claims 'JFK’s brother
Bobby poisoned Marilyn Monroe'
Former
cop’s explosive new book reveals how he was shot after digging into the truth
about the bombshell’s tragic death
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An LAPD
cop who worked in a special intelligence section that collected information on
celebrities and mobsters claims former US Attorney General Bobby Kennedy
poisoned starlet Marilyn Monroe to protect the Kennedy family dynasty.
Mike
Rothmiller has broken a 40-year silence to tell the Crime World podcast how he
kept the secrets of her mysterious death to himself for years as he was afraid
of repercussions while senior officers who worked for shady organised crime
intelligence gathering units were still alive.
Rothmiller
quit his role as a detective when he survived an assassination attempt during
the period that he was investigating the details of Monroe’s death, but went on
to enjoy a hugely successful career as a documentary producer and writer. He
was once nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and is an acclaimed author and
historian.
This
week, in a special interview for the Crime World podcast, Rothmiller details
what he alleges are the facts surrounding Monroe’s death in 1962 shortly after
she famously sang ‘Happy Birthday, Mr President’ during a live television
celebration for John F Kennedy at Madison Square Garden which ignited speculation
that they were having an affair.
In
fact, Rothmiller says, it was Bobby Kennedy, the President’s brother, that
Monroe was more in love with, and he disputes an inquest ruling that she
probably killed herself, stating in a new book that she was likely poisoned to
shut her up.
Rothmiller
was 10 years a cop and assigned to the ‘Organised Crime Intelligence Division’
of LAPD which he says housed filing cabinets full of files and documents on
everyone from mafia bosses to politicians, actors and TV presenters when he
stumbled upon the ‘Kennedy’ files.
OCID
had started in the 1940s under the auspices of an anti-mafia squad but had soon
begun gathering intelligence on everyone who mattered. He was one of 60
detectives who spent their time photographing Hollywood’s leading men, judges,
and politicians as they conducted clandestine affairs, gay relationships or
unwittingly put themselves in compromising positions.
“We
were getting photos of them and other info about them. The intelligence was
coming in, but it never left the office. It was all gathered for the Chief of
Police. We worked in teams and in all the years I was in intelligence I never
made one arrest which tells you what the objective was,” he says.
Rothmiller
had access to the old files kept in the secret department known as Fort Davis —
a building with no windows.
“Everybody
has a curiosity when it comes to intelligence, so I start going through the
files and start seeing famous names. That is how I found the ‘Kennedy’ file and
saw that it was linked to one on Marilyn Monroe and Peter Lawford. I could see
that around the time of her death Lawford and Monroe’s phones were bugged and I
could see the name of the guy who did the wiretap. I got hold of him and talked
to him and after a while we developed a bit of a relationship and he told me
what he knew about the night before she died.
“At the
time I knew just what everyone else in the public knew. I suppose just that she
had died and there were some questions around her death. Bobby Kennedy had long
insisted he was not in LA at the time. When I got into the files and started
speaking with people and started to really dig, I could see that what we knew
was not what happened.”
Rothmiller
discovered a copy of Monroe’s diary amongst other things held by LAPD despite
claims that it had never been found. On a visit to the Playboy mansion, he
happened to spot Lawford and pushed his card into his jacket asking the actor
to call him some time. To his surprise Lawford did call and 20 years after her
death he spilled out a confession to the cop which detailed the tragic end of
Marilyn.
In the
interview, Rohmiller details how Lawford, married into the Kennedy family, told
him how Monroe had become increasingly volatile in the months before her death
believing she had been used by the Kennedy brothers, John, and Bobby, both of
whom she had been having an affair with. She had believed Bobby, a married
father of eight, was going to leave his wife for her but when she realised he
was not going to threatened to hold a press conference about her affairs.
According
to Rothmiller, Lawford told him how days before her death Monroe had attended a
party at Frank Sinatra’s mansion where she had been plied with drink and when
unconscious was raped and photographed in compromising positions.
Despite
this she refused to back down and insisted that she would publicise her affairs
with the Kennedys, which was sure to cost John his Presidency and Bobby his
role as Attorney General. On the night of her death, Lawford claimed, he was
with Bobby Kennedy when they visited Marilyn’s home where a row broke out. When
they returned, he said he saw Bobby Kennedy stirring a glass of water to give
her and that she died shortly after drinking it. Lawford alleged that police
then arrived to conceal the murder while he and Bobby were escorted out of town.
Using
the Monroe diary, the transcripts from the wire taps and piecing together other
evidence including a traffic stop, Rothmiller became convinced that the story
was true but as he continued to poke the details of the night in question he
was ambushed and shot.
“The
night I was shot I had to go to a meeting with an informant in the desert 100
miles away. He told me about cops dealing drugs which was nothing new. I came
home about midnight. I had been living in a quiet suburban area, and I noticed
a motorcycle following me. I saw the hand and the gun, and I just jerked the
car off the road. I saw the muzzle flash and knew I had to get out of the car.
I did not realise it, but I had been hit, and my spinal cord was damaged. It
was the start of a very frightening situation. I was later told that I was
marked for assassination because I knew too much,” he says.
While
the shooting was never solved, Rothmiller tells Crime World that he cannot rule
out the idea that it was sanctioned by the US State and as a direct result of
his investigations into Bobby Kennedy’s involvement in Monroe’s death.
The
detective had kept notes on all he learned at Fort Davis and hid them away for
decades. He went on to have a hugely successful career in the corporate arena,
including as a director of Sony Electronics. Following his retirement and with
the help of journalist Douglas Thompson he pieced together his evidence in a
new book Bombshell. The Night Bobby Kennedy Killed Marilyn Monroe.