Jodie, L.A.

The Thelma Todd Mystery with Hollywood reseacher Sylvia Stoddard. What really happened there on Pacific Coast Highway? Will we ever really know the truth?
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[RocketAgeMagician]

@windstorm1000 No blood in pics - check again. Not "moot" - you claimed she had broken nose & injuries, morgue photos on "find a death" (not "death") dot com shows that's not true. Article in Feb 1987 LA Magazine used first hand sources Hal Roach and Zasu Pitts' son - explained how she got in car to leave, West, drunk, followed, shut garage door after she started car. She was overcome. No murder. Just sad accident. West confessed on deathbed, but close friends knew the truth anyway.

[windstorm1000]

@RocketAgeMagician You didn't see the picture of her in the car w blood trickling from her mouth? I tried finding her photo in death.com, but all I got were local funeral parlors and ads for caskets--creepy. Her facial injuries maybe a moot point--why would she be in the car and died from carbon monoxide? Whether it was the mob or West, she was murdered & a grave injustice was done. This case is somewhat similar to the Natalie Wood one--the possesive lover/husband??

[windstorm1000]

@bette1908 I totally agree--read my post at the front. You'd think someone would step forward after all these years. There shouldn't be any fear left--all the principals are long dead.

[windstorm1000]

@glawsny I agree. Those cowards striking a defenseless woman. But she had more courage than they would ever knonw.

[RocketAgeMagician]

@windstorm1000 I've seen the pictures, of course, and there are none of those injuries evident. In fact, the pictures of Thelma in the morgue are easily available (find a death.com) and her face is flawless - still has her make-up on. There's a post-autopsy picture, too - she had none of those injuries. The coroner's report lists nothing like that, either - those are all myths that were part of the coverup for Roland West.

[windstorm1000]

@RocketAgeMagician The proof was in the dete.'s observations and/or coroner's report--broken nose, blood coming out of T.'s mouth, possible chipped tooth--in other words--these r not injuries 1 gets by turning on an engine to keep warm (didn't u see the photo?). Its so apparent TT got roughed up by the mob before they turned on the engine & she died of aphixiation--all very suspicious--& Thelma's spirit wants it all cleared up very apparently. A bright life unfairly smothered.

[RocketAgeMagician]

@windstorm1000 But where is the proof that she had those injuries? They didn't occur. Just more obfuscation for what really happened.

[RocketAgeMagician]

@mpjrdldn The book Hot Toddy is not a good resource at all. Very unreliable.

[4thekidsTV]

Actually..Ms.Todd only did two films with The Marx' "Monkey Business" &"Horsefeathers"..she did a few films with L&H and her film series with

Zasu Pitts and Patsy Kelly.

[windstorm1000]

Neither the interviewer nor the researcher are very good. Ms. Stoddard says that Thelma died of carbon monoxide poisoning-- then later says its murder. A good reviewer would have caught her on this, but the blonde looks like she should be making cupcakes instead. She also is wrong about the injuries--says that the only injury to Thelma was a spot of blood---how does one explain her cracked tooth, ribs, etc? You don't get that falling against a steering wheel. 1 and 1 do not equal 2 here.