Murder, Lies, and Cover-Ups by David Gardner

Author:David Gardner
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 2018-04-25T04:00:00+00:00

His book lay open on the floor, close to a pool of vomit. It would later be claimed that Elvis was reading the Bible or a book about the Shroud of Turin. In fact, it was titled Sex and Psychic Energy.

Ginger called for help and Elvis’s father, Vernon, came running to try to revive his son. ‘Elvis, speak to me. Oh God, he’s gone!’ he cried.

It wouldn’t be long before the whole world would learn of Elvis’s ignominious fate and go into an unprecedented wave of mourning.

But even as paramedics rushed to Graceland in a vain attempt to save Elvis, the star’s coterie could do little to protect little Lisa Marie, then just nine years old, from the truth. She ran in after hearing all the commotion.

‘I closed the bathroom door so she wouldn’t see him,’ said Ginger. ‘She said, “What’s wrong with my daddy?” and I said, “Nothing’s wrong, Lisa.” She ran around to the other bathroom door to try to get in. We had to lock it.’

After the ambulance came to take Elvis away, Vernon called Lisa Marie over and tearfully told her, ‘He’s gone … your daddy’s dead.’

‘She screamed and I reached for her, but she ran out of the room,’ recalled Ginger. ‘Later I saw her walking around, still crying.’

When paramedics Ulysses Jones and Charles Crosby arrived at 3764 Elvis Presley Blvd after receiving the 2.33pm emergency call, they found as many as a dozen people gathered around the stricken star’s body. He was still wearing his yellow pyjama top.

‘From his shoulders up, his skin was dark blue,’ said Jones in a report by the National Enquirer. ‘Around his neck, which seemed fat and bloated, was a very large gold medallion. His sideburns were grey.’

The mask of death had changed Elvis so much that the emergency crew didn’t recognise him at first.

‘I knelt down to the body, checked his pulse and shined a pin light into his eyes—to see if there was any reaction. There was nothing. No pulse, no flicker from the eyes. Elvis was cold, unusually cold,’ Jones continued.

One man said Elvis had OD’d and then another corrected him, claiming the singer ‘had swallowed something’.

Crosby said in the same interview that it ‘took five of us to lift him onto a stretcher. He must have weighed 250 pounds. The pajama top was unbuttoned all the way down and I could see the great big rolls of fat on his belly. It looked like he’d been dead for at least an hour.’

Just as the ambulance was about to leave, Elvis’s personal physician, Dr George Nichopoulos, arrived and jumped into the back with the body and Elvis’s road manager, Joe Esposito.

The nearest hospital was the Methodist Hospital South but Elvis’s doctor insisted they went seven miles further, to the Memphis Baptist Hospital. He had two reasons for this. First, Elvis had been a regular at the Baptist Hospital and the staff had always been very co-operative in keeping his health problems private. Second, the hospital had

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