Talk:Strickland

Howard Strickland

Guy involved in murders and deaths of Paul Bern, info missin on him, MGM executive with Eddie Mannix.

Paul Bern Murder

- In the 1980s, Marx investigated the case, and for the first time, scrutinized the remaining available evidence. He concluded that Bern was murdered by his former common law wife Dorothy Millette, who then committed suicide. Two days after Bern's death, Millette jumped from the ferryboat Delta King, traveling from San Francisco to Sacramento. Her body was found a few days later by men fishing on the Sacramento River. Her shoes and her jacket were found on the boat, she had taken them off before jumping into the water, raising additional cloud of suspicion over Paul Bern's alleged suicide. The "suicide note" was in fact attributed to Bern, it was allegedly written some weeks prior to his death, to apologize for a minor quarrel with Harlow about the secluded location of their home -- Harlow wanted to live in a livelier place. Bern had bought a bunch of roses and presented them to Jean with the note that became a "suicide note" in the eyes of Los Angeles district attorney Buron Fitts who was bribed by MGM executives to keep the lid on the case.