San Diego 8-year Dorothy Kilgallen probe. Part II — Murder Investigation March 2024 Updated

Gene Bryan
2 min readMar 25, 2024

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PART II — March 2024

The second installment regarding the Cathrine Stone Interview — Edited

You may be aware, Catherine Stone (What’s my Line Guest), was interviewed in the dorothykilgalenstory.org. This interview was an edited version. Per our source, what was not included in the interview was the fact that Ron Pataky was at the Regency Hotel on November 8, 1965, and that he and Kilgallen had left together.

In early January 2016, our team sent a Fed Ex package of information to the Catherine Stone family concerning Ron Pataky. This package included information and photographs. In addition, we included a questionnaire with several questions, one being whether Pataky was in New York at the time of Kilgallen’s death. We also asked whether her family could confirm his identity from previous discussions with their mother. Our request went on answered. Our source indicated the probable reason for them not responding was due to the fact that Ron Pataky and Kilgallen left the hotel together. As you may have read, Kilgallen was very concerned about all the information coming out about her. Pataky didn’t want the public to know they had been seeing each other. Our source stated, Kilgallen didn’t want anyone to notice them together as she had a room at the Regency. Also, our source stated she brought Pataky back to her townhouse for drinks. Information regarding Pataky at the townhouse will be provided at a later date.

Our source navigated us to Lee Israel’s book, specifically page 408 regarding Kilgallen at the Regency. It stated she left the hotel at approximately 1:30 a.m. Harvey Daniels (Press Agent) is the only person who has admitted seeing Kilgallen at the hotel. However, he also stated he did not see the parties with whom she sat. Per our source, Daniels told Israel everything, yet Israel didn’t tell the reader everything. What she didn’t include was the fact that Daniels confirmed that Pataky and Kilgallen did indeed leave the hotel together. However, on page 437, Israel did tell the reader in an ambiguous almost mysterious way that this was no exotic assemblage of details but a knowledgeable “rendering” that substantiated much of what she was coming to believe about Kilgallen’s activities on the night of her death. Israel placed her with what she called the “out of towner” that evening.

Israel’s ambiguity makes one speculate that what she discovered was not only concerning but possibly dangerous.

The next segment which will be available sometime in May 2024 will include information regarding the pink fluid found in Kilgallen’s stomach at the time of her death, two homicide detectives involved and a document concerning a possible homicide. Makes you wonder, if Kilgallen’s death was not ruled a homicide, why were there two homicide detectives involved to begin with?

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