When Ricky Jones appeared on “Goodnight Marilyn Radio”, on April the 4th in 2015, during a program entitled “The MOB, Murder and Marilyn”, Nina Boski, the program’s host, introduced Jones as a MOB expert. In that capacity, Jones had acted as a consultant to many law firms and law enforcement agencies, the federal government and the film industry on MOB related topics, not to mention just about every other aspect of law enforcement. He had also assisted with officer training for various police departments and the FBI. After briefly discussing its history, Jones stated that the MOB had no problem killing competitors or one of their own that crossed the line or any informant; and Italian organized crime, murdered many persons, Jones admitted, in New York, Chicago, Ohio and other areas where they had their strongholds; but murder was not the MOB’s primary purpose. Jones asserted that organized crime was and remains an enterprise concerned with money and power; and despite the criminality of their activities, the MOB had a Code of Ethics.

Jones continued by noting that while the average person might consider the attitude of criminals to be contradictory, even deranged, they were usually very devoutly religious men, usually Italian Catholics who read the Bible and attended Mass: they were just criminals and murderers. The Italian organized crime Code of Ethics, for the most part, gleaned from the Bible according to Jones, mandated that they could not mistreat or murder women, children, Priests or Nuns; and then he added: There’s the strong code that they lived by. Certainly, over the years, circumstances occurred during which the MOB harmed women and children; but in response to questions regarding the MOB’s possible involvement in Marilyn’s death, Jones responded:

Marilyn Monroe was not a threat to the MOB by any means. There’s no history of documentation; there’s no facts during any investigation that she was a threat to them. […] I just don’t believe the MOB had anything to do with this. […] Just looking at the evidence, looking at everything, all the documentation we’ve read, all the witness statements and everything like that, I just don’t believe that the MOB had anything to do with it. They are all about money. […] When we look at the evidence, there’s no ties to the MOB, that would warrant such an event, that they would want her life taken and make it … If the MOB does a hit, they do it publicly. They make no bones. They might hide the body, you know, they might do it publicly. Even to this day, they send out messages. There would be no reason―and to make it look like a suicide? If they were sending out the message to Hollywood, to the Kennedys, believe me, it would have been a MOB hit. That’s how they work. They wouldn’t make it look like a suicide. There’d be nothing, no reason for them to do that. They had nothing to hide if there was any relationship with any of them and her. You know, if anything else it would be bragging rights for anybody that had an intimate relationship with her from the MOB. […] Believe me, if one of those guys had slept with her and had an intimate relationship, they would have said so and it probably would have hit the papers because of their ego. A lot of these guys in the MOB have egos. They really do. […] At this point there is nothing other than people writing books to sell them, nothing that proves that Marilyn Monroe had any reason for the MOB to take her life and make it look like a suicide. That’s just not their MO.

Does the preceding testimony offered by Ricky Jones, acknowledged MOB expert, provide clear evidence leading to a definite proof that mobster assassins did not murder Marilyn Monroe? I must answer honestly. I must admit that his statements are not a proof in and of themselves: his statements are, in fact, a weighted opinion based not only on his expertise and experience with the MOB and mobsters, but also on the evidence and documentation provided to him regarding Marilyn’s death, documentation which included her autopsy report and certain intelligence files. When his statements are considered alongside other witness statements, the fact that Marilyn was never seen with any mobster and apparently never associated with them, statements reinforced by the lack of any photographic evidence or media generated stories, the probability that the MOB murdered her must be considered between extremely low and zero Kelvin. Also, the incredibly illogical and contradictory nature of the MOB orthodoxies must be considered.

If Sam Giancana wanted to destroy John and Robert Kennedy, which assuredly was the case, and if Marilyn was going to hold a press conference to reveal the brother’s affairs with her, an event which the conspiracists allege would have destroyed them, then why would Sam Giancana intervene on behalf of his enemies, the middle Kennedy brothers? Why act to stop the Press Conference of the 20th Century? Most certainly, Giancana would have acted to keep Marilyn alive and well; he would have acted to ensure that her press conference transpired. Any other response by him would have been preposterous and illogical, just like the orthodoxies in which the MOB conspired with the middle Kennedy brothers in a plot to commit the senseless murder of Marilyn Monroe.

Alex D’Arcy, an actor who co-starred alongside Marilyn in How to Marry a Millionaire, was a close friend of Handsome Johnny Roselli’s. Alex contradicted the lurid tales of affairs and sexual encounters with mobsters; and during an interview, he told Donald Spoto that Marilyn was never involved with the MOB or any of the mobsters with whom she was allegedly connected. There was absolutely never any affair between Marilyn and any of these men, D’Arcy asserted. In fact there was no connection between Marilyn and the mob at all! (Spoto 548-549). Therefore, it is only reasonable to conclude that the tales and legends of Marilyn’s involvement with Roselli and Giancana and Accardo, among others, are simply that. Tales and legends.