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| THE INVESTIGATION |
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| Testimonies |
| Autopsy
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| "Dr. Nick"
Nichopoulos |
| The Meds |
| August 16, 1977 |
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| LINKS UNDER CONSTRUCTION |
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| THE CURTAIN RISES
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We
offer the theories based on seven years of investigative
research and report at the behest of Geraldo Rivera and
two investigative researchers, Charles Thompson, II, and
James P. Cole.
DRUGS AND THE DEATH OF ELVIS
The trial
of Dr. George Nichopoulos in the 1980's reopened the wounds
of Elvis' death, and Dr. Nick was aquitted of any wrongdoings,
though he did lose his license to practice medicine. Dr.
Nick was not innocent in all of this; he was an enabler.
The book, "The Death of Elvis, What Really
Happened," is the closest to an accounting
of what happened on August 16, 1977 and was based on investigations
by authors Charles Thompson II a reported for 20/20 and
James P. Cole, former editor of the Memphis Scimitar, at
the behest of Geraldo Rivera to follow the lead of the court
hearing. Their findings. combined together with other investigative
sources, is quite accurate by most witness-based accounts.
A newer book, "Elvis Decoded,"
by Patrick Lacy, is also the result of a ten-year investigative
report to clear of myths and misconceptions involving Elvis'
death.
At this
time, and according to one autopsy report, at least
ten medications were found in Elvis' system, but one
actually proved most toxic and is said to have killed
him. Codeine. On the morning of his death Elvis had
gone to the dentist. For the pain, the dentist gave
him codeine pills which Elvis knew he had an allergic
reaction to. Trish Henley, a nurse living on the Graceland
property and hired by Dr. Nick, was absent the day Elvis
died and the question lies of who exactly prepared Elvis'
medications on that day. Three times that day meds were
delivered to Elvis in his room, once by his Aunt Delta
and twice by Rick Stanley, his stepbrother. Had the
mixer of these meds mistaken the codeine pills for Dilaudid
which Elvis had just received a new prescription for?
Elvis usually took four Dilaudid for the pain of a twisted
and affected colon and some other issues. For whatever
reason, ten times the normal amount of codeine appeared
in Elvis' blood and urine samples. When all was needed
would be one pill to incite the dreadful reaction. Elvis
stayed away from Codeine because he knew of the reaction/rash
he would receive from it. We stand convinced that codeine
in such abnormal and toxic percentages, itself a reaction-causing
medication, and when combined together with other meds,
would have brought about sudden death by forcing the
breathing to became labored and the heart to either
stop or become erratic. At first it might have seemed
to some that Elvis committed suicide. Investigative
research clearly proved that this was not the case.
Then who gave and why was Elvis' given codeine? More
answers are needed. The medicine was always brought
to Elvis in pre-arranged dosages. For the longest time,
between the years of 1970 and 1977, Dr. Nick and other
physicians, namely, two, forced Elvis into what appeared
to be a daily regimen of medicating during tours. This
listed regimen was found by investigators in Dr. Nick's
black bag. Elvis had become a party to control mainly
during his Las Vegas years, and this investigation should
by no means be over.
But where is the family? Where are the friends? Who
defended Elvis? There were no friends. Those he had
who were loyal, outside of the late Charlie Hodge, were
not at Graceland living off of Elvis when all of this
was coming down. Everyone involved with guarding Elvis
told a different story about what happened that day.
And the stories have changed and changed over the years.
Ginger Alden amazingly took a shower and put on her
makeup in the very bathroom where Elvis lie dead on
the floor. This is way out of line and unbelievable
and unacceptable inhuman behavior.
Rick
Stanley had a serious drug problem of which he blamed
Elvis, but of which Elvis was aware and tried to persuade
his younger step sibling from continuing. After Elvis'
death, Rick was so shattered that he later turned to
preaching the gospel. Back in 1978, Stanley became an
evangelical minister with the Moody Adams Evangelical
Assoc. of Baton Rouge, Louisisana. It was in 1978, a
year after Elvis' death, that Rick Stanley said this:
"Elvis
death made me realize that I better straighten up, that
I needed to grow up, that my days are numbered, and
that you never know when it can happen to you."
Rick Stanley was 23 years old at the time of Elvis'
death. In the words of Rick Stanley,
"I was pretty cocky.
I thought I had the world at my fingertips. During that
time I smoked pot and fooled around with drugs, cocaine
and heroin. But Elvis didn't know it. He was against
me doing anything like that."
The Stanley brothers' stories
have changed over the years, and continue to appear
different with each telling.
Elvis
despised reports about his alleged drug abuse, mainly
because the stories were built up to be more involved
than they were. Beginning with his death in 1977, a steady
stream of publications has openly blamed Elvis' downhill
climb and death on drug abuse. These accusations actually
began while Elvis was alive, and during one of his concerts,
he lashed out at the nameless person responsible for inciting
rumors that Elvis Presley was strung out on heroin. Elvis'
reaction to this accusation was shocking when it was delivered
to his fans but addressed to one nameless individual.
It was an anxious and confused crowd who had never before
heard him speak this way, but Elvis was angry, and with
every right to be. The gnarling moment occurred at the
Desert Storm concert in September, 1974, when Elvis publicly
denounced the reports. When Elvis was alive and able to
defend himself, no one could match him. We intend to carry
on where he left off.
FACT: ELVIS
DID NOT TAKE HIS OWN DRUGS, they were prescribed to him
and divied out to him in packets. Three physicians
were found responsible for supplying Elvis with prescription
drugs, this including the infamous Dr. Nick whom, as a
result of the court hearing lost his license to practice
medicine. Justice was not served in that Dr. Nick and
the others should have received full responsibility and
punishment for prescribing unnecessary medications in
overexposed dosages. Dr. Nick was an "enabler"
as were many others who knew of and condoned prescription
drugs to support Elvis' way of living. What do Elvis'
fans think about this? Write us with your opinion.
Elvis at one of his last
concerts, looking pale and bloated. Photo submitted by cousin,
Scott Barron Presley.
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How Did Elvis Die? Did
An Allergic Reaction to Codeine Kill Elvis?
Elvis did not take codeine because it had an adverse effect
on him. He was prescribed Dilaudid instead for pain. Yet autopsy
reports show ten times the normal amount of codeine in Elvis'
system and no Dilaudid.
The continuous and ongoing accusations
that Elvis was a hopeless drug addict and that both his "downfall"
and demise were contributed solely to his self- induced and
excessive use of drugs is completely and without question unfair
to publicize when, in fact, Elvis was not here to defend his
own causes. . Many choose to ignore the facts surrounding Elvis'
death and his most unfortunate introduction to a series of little
pills that have been known to both the military and to the Hollywood
and Las Vegas industries since their inception into our American
psyche over a century ago--hard to believe as it is.
Stories have been written and interviews given by family members
and "friends" regarding Elvis' "drug habit."
Sonny and Red West in their damaging account, "Elvis,
What Happened?" goes so far as to publicize
an account of Elvis giving drugs to a teenaged girl who was
brought up to the house by Sonny West to visit with Elvis. Though
the lady in question was living out of a car while traveling
en route to see Elvis in Las Vegas and at Graceland®, when
she met Elvis she said he talked mostly about God to her. When
she complained she had a headache, Elvis said he would get something
for her to take. It is our honest belief that Elvis was not
deliberately "drugging" this young girl as insinuated
by the accounts in both this book and in an interview given
by Red West to Steve Dunleavy.
The story is not that Elvis used, misused, or
even tried different drugs, for the entire population, it may
be safe to say, has used or tried at least once nearly every
drug known to human-kind. Why, then, is it deemed a national
disgrace because Elvis may have tried marijuana, hashish and
cocaine when a known majority of famous entertainers, including
singers have tried the same and more? Elvis didn't like the
hard-core drugs. He seems to have had a "medical addiction"
to prescription drugs and had been the victim of a cultural
demon that has gotten way out of hand over the years. Prescription
drugs were literally enforced upon Elvis in the beginning until
they became a regimen. Specific doctors and pharmacists who
would be included in some type of drug ring, it would appear,
should be held entirely responsible for what was done to Elvis
and other performers. And while Elvis' was sinking into a den
of unreality through the prescription med scene, an age-old
occurance in the Hollywood/Vegas scene not only beginning or
ending with Elvis, the enablers were there to enhance the control
and the ordeal and to further it. Because Elvis is a hero and
heroes aren't supposed to do drugs, his story never was told
until certain "friends" decided to expose their flavoring
of it. The most unfortunate decline and death of the precious
Judy Garland was wrought from dependency on those little "Hollywood"
pills. Judy's dependency was also created for her, thank you
Hollywood fast life, big whigs, and maintaining the "image."
We have people like Sonny West saying that Elvis smoked marijuana
on the movie sets. Back in the day, a star would be suspended
from the lot had they done this. Two of Elvis' co-stars that
we spoke with deny such a rumor, both stating that Elvis never
did such a thing and was never "stoned" in their presence
or on the set.
The true story is that Elvis hated, deplored,
and detested drugs only because he had the experience of being
subjected to their destruction, a dependency that went along
with the controlling factor. He fought to protect family members
from the threats and dangers of drug use, and visited with then
President Richard M. Nixon to fulfill a request to become an
honorary FBI Drug Enforcer, which he became and afterward would
proudly display the badge given to him by President Nixon. Elvis
knew the hard stuff was bad. He knew that experimenting with
narcotics was as natural a curiosity to some as was reading
a good book. He knew the ramifications of habitual drug use
and how it could effect one's mind and health because he had
tasted it and it was slowly killing him while others watch it
happen to him.
A point came when Elvis had wanted to steer clear of continued,
prolonged use of any of the prescribed drugs he had taken over
the years for anxiety, depression, and erratic scheduling that
reinforced, if not warranted, prescription use. Investigative
sources had discovered that Elvis would have had sufficient
enough pain to warrant the use of certain prescription drugs.
Elvis did not use narcotics of his own volition.
He did not do drugs for a lark. Many were the times a few of
the "loyal" friends in the Memphis Mafia would stuff
themselves into hotel rooms paid for by Elvis and party until
the wee hours, and what is meant by "party" includes
doing some of the stuff these same "loyal" friends
have accused Elvis of doing. And while these few were partying
the nights away, quite often Elvis would take up a book and
sit out in the hall and read quietly by himself, wanting none
of it, and never once feeling compromised should a fan sneak
successfully up to the floor. Elvis wanted no part of the hype
that he was endlessly paying for, in one way or another.
Elvis wanted out but not through death. He wanted
to straighten out his life and live quietly somewhere in peace
with, hopefully, the family he had long dreamed of. Peace would
come to Elvis but not as he anticipated. His life had been taken
just before it was to begin--again.
 The
actual story of how Elvis'
began with prescription drugs began--once upon a time when Elvis
was drafted into Uncle Sam's Army, committed to serving nobly
for the cause of our country. Elvis was a proud, humble, and
honorable soldier, but what he would experience in the fields
of training he never expected. The irony of it all is "Colonel"
Tom Parker. Not a Colonel by military rank, but by self-acclaim.
He was there, in the shadows, while Elvis was getting his first
military haircut. He was there while Elvis was donning his first
stateside fatigues. The "Colonel" seemed to be always
around. But why was he there, occupying space in private military
posts where only military personnel gained entrance? During
Elvis' service to his country, in the years between 1953 and
1961, the Cold War years, our military was experimenting with
drugs. Take the time to read up on the various programs, including
MKUltra, the testing of narcotics use on our soldiers both witting
and unwitting, i. e. knowing and unknowing. The unwitting soldier
was given pills or injections into his food or drink. Soldiers
were openly given anphetamines in the field, that little pill
that would keep you awake and alert the day long. By the time
Elvis finished his service to our country, he had become completely
aware of anphetamines. Through his Hollywood days, through his
concert years, through sleepless nights and sleepful days a
regimen of sleeping and waking pills would serve to keep the
body either adamantly awake or successfully sleeping in sync
to the timing of shows and events. A very usual procedure in
Hollywood. A very normal procedure for in-demand performers.
But what about the person giving Elvis the medication? Through
certain spans in his life there were certain individuals who
were there to give out the meds, whether Elvis wanted them,
needed them, or not. Pills to keep you awake, put you to sleep,
and for impromptu dieting. The givers? First there was the military.
Then Col. Tom Parker. It is said that Col. Parker gave Elvis
tranquilizers to help calm him down, especially if there was
something the Colonel didn't want Elvis to have any input with
such as a new offer that he knew Elvis would want but he did
not want Elvis to take. The Colonel had said he knew nothing
of Elvis' drug use until he was told about it by Elvis. We do
not believe Col. Tom Parker for he let nothing slip by him,
nor was Elvis able to do anything without his consent or approval.
Then came Dr. Nick, the famous doctor in Elvis' entourage who
supplied Elvis with assortments of prescribed drugs beyond acceptable
and legal dosages and was doing so up until Elvis' death. Elvis'
personal nurse, Marian Cocke, was loyal in her approval and
disapproval of certain meds and correct to wonder with great
concern about all of it. A nurse named Trish Henley and her
husband lived and worked out of a trailer on the Graceland®
grounds. She divied out Elvis' meds in acceptable amounts and
placed them in packets and brought them to Elvis. On the day
Elvis died, Trish Henley was not at Graceland® Her reported
remark when told by Elvis' Aunt Nash that Elvis was dead was:
"Oh, God, I hope he died of a
heart attack."
There are many individuals who need to be looked at for contributing
in some way to the death of Elvis Presley, and we will not rest,
nor will Elvis for that matter, until the entire story is out
and justice is served.
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The truth about Elvis and drugs is
that too many people had a hand in his taking them, whether he wanted
to or not, whether he knew it or not. In between the waking, sleeping,
and dieting were actual bouts of illness that also required medication.
Pain was constant with Elvis. He had had a deformed colon since
birth. An aching back attributed from a couple of different ailments.
Migraine headaches. His heart became a problem since his first heart
attack and he had possibly had three all together. There are those
who insist that Elvis had developed cancer. He had told a rare few
that this was his fate, but these appear to be nothing more than
rumors. There is no evidence to confirm this fact. A bloated Elvis
appeared during the late seventies but it was not an overweight
bloating, it was a bloating from illness, no doubt the heart and
kidneys. We do know that Elvis was taking the medication Dilaudid,
a derivative of morphine, which is given to terminally ill cancer
patients. Some family members have understood that the pain of a
twisted colon was very disturbing to Elvis and his profession.
 We
have recently heard of a story that a weak and pained Elvis, before
going on stage to perform, was brought into a room where he was
subdued and his bloated face shoved into a sink full of supposedly
icy water to quell the swelling. This was said to have happened
on several occasions. It has been alluded to that the icy water
was diluted with astringent. A cruel and wreckless act by those
assigned to protect Elvis. Who was responsible for this cruel and
wreckless action and are these allegations true? We are working
to validate this source.
Who was responsible for ordering such excessive
amounts of prescribed medications using Elvis' name and credit card
from a local pharmacy, so excessive that the pharmacist cut-off
the supply after awhile. Want a hint? It was not Elvis. (This information
came from a source at the pharmacy through a report based out of
the Memphis police department)
The photo at
left is one of the last concert photos ever taken of Elvis. The
photo was beautifully enhanced by Joe of
www.freewebs.com.
Family members and fans do not prefer to see the
last photos of Elvis .
Near the end, Elvis could barely walk out to the stage on his own
and had to be helped. Wracked with pain, it was not drugs that made
him appear listless and spacy. This was attributed to a series of
illnesses that had ravaged his body. For his fans, Elvis continued
to perform for as long as he was able. He did not want to let them
down., Though Elvis knew, himself, that his time here on earth was
limited, he did not want his fans to know or expect that he might
die at any given moment as he performed for them.
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