Carter Roy

Again, Jerry could have called Fred to protect Cheryl, but Fred's biography, The Fixer, Moguls, Mobsters, Movie Stars, and Marilyn, by Josh Young and Manfred Westphal, tells a different story, all based on Fred's private files.

Now, Fred was already well acquainted with Johnny before the murder.

Cheryl's father, Steve, actually hired Fred to keep an eye on Johnny.

Steve wanted to make sure she was safe.

One day, Fred saw Johnny helping Cheryl ride his horse.

He didn't like how Johnny's touch lingered on Cheryl's body.

Johnny was being inappropriate.

So Fred met with Lana to tell her.

Lana was defensive at first, thinking this was some kind of smear campaign, her ex-husband against her new boyfriend.

However, she began to see the truth.

This meeting supposedly prompted Lana to come clean to Cheryl about Johnny's abuse.

Fast forward to the day of the murder.

When Fred arrived and entered Lana's bedroom, he didn't see a young girl that just killed a man.

He saw a guilty Lana Turner.

But Fred took charge, told no one to move, and wiped Lana's prints off of the murder weapon.

Both he and Jerry pleaded with Lana.

Let Cheryl take the blame.

She's a kid.

They'll go easy on her.

If you don't, you'll be executed by the state.