On Feb 16, 1929, a mentally unstable, Hugh Plunket,
confronted his employer (possibly lover) in one of the rooms of The Greystone
Mansion. He fired, killing Edward Doheny, Jr. Ed’s wife found them, *did not*
call the police for almost four hours. Witness statements were said to “seem
rehearsed”.
The “in depth” investigation into this politically contented
family...lasted two days.
Okay...looking into records. The two men “were very” close. But no
confirmation.
The autopsy revealed that Plunket’s wound had been fired
from 18"; Doheny’s had stippling, the gun had been less than 3' away.
It was Dohenys gun. Wiped clean.
The Doheny family, devote Catholics, had a family plot at
Calvary, Catholics only.
Ed was buried in Forest Lawn Glendale in a secular ceremony.
Catholics who commit suicide cannot be buried in a Catholic
cemetery.
Speculation is that history recorded the wrong victim.
And really...with the of size Forest Lawn, these two guys
were buried within 100' of each other.
Cool Sidebar: In
2008, I attended a play *at* The Greystone that was the playwrights
interpretation of what happened that night. Her ideas did not match these
facts.
‘All of Me’ with Steve Martin and Lilly Lilly Tomlin was
filmed here.
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