the four ladies saw was Bobby retrieve Case or Ahern from the white Lincoln convertible parked out front. Bobby Kennedy borrowed the car from FBI agent William Simon whenever he visited Marilyn.
From the window of Mary W. Goodykoontz’s home on 12304 Fifth Helena Drive, looking over the gates, a person could easily see cars parked up the driveway and anyone who entered or left Marilyn’s house.
Kennedy instructed Case or Ahern to give Marilyn the Nembutal shot in order to stun her, while he and Lawford searched the house for her little red diary. Goddess author Anthony Summers wrote that a confidential source heard tapes capturing the August 4 afternoon visit by Kennedy and Lawford to Marilyn’s home:
The source says both Marilyn’s and Kennedy’s voices were easily recognizable. Like Otash—and it is worth noting that the source and Otash do not know each other—the source says there was a heated argument.
According to Summers’ confidential source, the voices of Marilyn and Bobby Kennedy increased in volume as she challenged him to explain why he was reneging on his promise to marry her while Bobby several times demanded to know where “it” was located. Following the sound of a door being slammed, Kennedy could then be heard returning with Peter Lawford. “We have to know,” the highly agitated Attorney General screeched at the actress. “It’s important to the family. We can make any arrangements you want, but we must find it.” As Kennedy searched for “it,” Lawford tried to calm him down. Meanwhile, Marilyn screamed at the men to leave. Next, there were “thumping, bumping noises, then muffled, calming sounds. It sounded as though she was being put on the bed.”
“Bobby came back with Peter,” Marilyn wrote in her little red diary. “Shook me until I was dizzy and threw me on the bed. Should call the doctor.”
As noted earlier, it was Lawford who called Dr. Greenson to the home. However, Kennedy was looking for Monroe’s diary. It was the diary that Bobby could make “arrangements” for and which would be “important to the family.”
In the documentary Marilyn: The Last Word , Anthony Summers stated: “Robert Kennedy is demanding for her to give him something. He keeps demanding, ‘Where is it? Where is it, Marilyn? You’ve got to tell me where it is! We’ll come to some arrangement but the family must have it.’ Perhaps he was asking about the diary.”
This was confirmed by Marilyn herself, who wrote in that diary, “Bobby was really mad. Acted crazy and searched all my stuff. Told him it’s mine. I’ll never let him have it.” 5
Norman Jefferies, Marilyn’s handyman who also happened to be Eunice Murray’s son-in-law, gave a chilling account of that last afternoon to biographer Donald Wolfe. Murray and Jefferies both recalled that Marilyn, not dressed when Bobby and Peter arrived, was still wearing her white terry-cloth robe. “Mr. Lawford made it very clear that he wanted Eunice and I [sic] out of there” Jefferies stated. “When we came back—maybe it was an hour later—their car was gone . . . Marilyn was hysterical and looked awful . . . She was scared and at the same time she was terribly angry.”
It was in light of Joe DiMaggio recently asking her to remarry him that Marilyn wanted to bitterly remind Bobby Kennedy about his pledge to marry her. By now, Marilyn had come to terms with the fact that Bobby was not going to divorce his wife Ethel. However, infuriated by his desire to still sleep with Marilyn, she wanted to nail him about his broken promise and total disregard for toying with her emotions. Indeed, the only thing he cared about—and the only reason for him showing up—was for her red diary. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have bothered.
“Marilyn had done a turnabout,” noted one of private eye Fred Otash’s employees. “Lawford said Marilyn had called the White House, trying to reach the President, saying, ‘Get your brother away from me—he’s