@leased under the John F. Kennedy AgBassinatioh | Records C ollection. “Act of 19 7” DATE ve ve bore 92 (44 Use ae March 18, 1964 oe a — ne ee ee | MARK LANG = PILLIS. DaIISE COLD - (onscmts) pox Let A confidential source. having knowledge of the Queen's District Attorney's _ office furnished the above named. investigators with a copy of an affidavit for review only, made by one Phyllis: Denise Golden, on January 30, 1962. _ Which affidavit was taken in. question and answer form by Bernard Patten, © Assistant District Attorney. for Queens County, New Yorke Golden resides . at 104-20 Queens Boulevard, ‘Forest Hills, New York. — The circumstances leading to the taking of this affidavit involved a bad - check complaint against Mrs. Golden. This complaint was made by Alexander's Department Store in Forest Hills on December. 22, 1961. After the complaint _ was made, Investigator: Sidney Goldstein of the Queens District Attorneys © office was assigned to servée-a “supboena | upon Mrs. Golden requiring her ~ appearance on sanuary 305, 1962, in the District Attorney's Office. _ The check involved was for Ahh 7. After ‘the supboena was "served on Mrs. Golden she made statements to the effect that she knew Vark Lane, the Assembly~ - min and that he would take up the check for here When Golden beceic un- _ sucessful in having Lane pick up the check, she became bitter and said she ©. had something to hold over him for the rest of his life, and that the 8e0eb. ‘was responsible for her financial predicament, because he had | never paid” her fot some office work she had performed for him. | re On January 29, 1962. Golden 1 was questioned by Assistant District Attorn ey Patten and on the following day the affidavit from Golden was taken. Extracts from this affidavit, are quoted or, quoted in part as follows: © " a t. Statement taken .< on. -danuaey- 30, 1962, an: District. Attorney's: office by District Attorney Patten, from. Phyllis’ Denis. Golden Apt. 15 Xm a oe Name: Phyllis Denise Golden - - ~ 201-20 Queens, poulevards Forest nina. FO ee es Qe “ow Hrs _ Golden, do youl know | one. » Mark Jane? , ; Ae “Yess Q. How long have you known hind A. Two years and. three months. ae Q. where did you meet: him for, the first ‘tine? - A. In an address. “ Q. Yes? F . oo, a Ae 339 Hast 77th Ste ‘(Purpose of the necting was to ‘discuss | ‘legal problems; | wo several legal. problems of a. personal nature. Mrs. Golden is an heiress, mo, | ’ and receives: money monthly, from her father's. estates) | | | “ies. Golden said she subsequently saw ‘lane at his. office; at his home; at : = aces soe eee ag Se . aren : . we ; | DocId: 32312113 Page 5
DATE; 11-14- 2017 ; Co re ap - O 7 an : rn Geers: a eee " . re . ' : po, re ae 'Q. “What is it? os oe Ba. oe: by A. That was the test that Mark harided to. me in. a sealed envelope on oo January 18, 1962. jo. . Qe At your apartment? Qe Are you fanidiar with Vairk lanets hander tbing and printing? yes a AL Yes. | ne _ Q. I ask you in whose handwriting or printing this As? . A. In Mr. Lanes printing. 'Q. Now tell’ us what tests, so called tests. were - conducted in ;your apart ment on January 18, 1962. In complete detail, and just what you did and* What Les did, and what Mark dads - A. “The first thing was. Mire Tane- had his. temperature - taken. . First he un= dressed himself as far‘as the shorts were concerned. Then he laid face ‘down on the bed, and I said‘ 'tyou will have to remove your jockey shorts too.'t And he took them down, and’ in that I-assisted him. After that I 7 inserted a candle into Mark annaly. After that I tweezed some pubic hair “and then Lee beat Mark with his own belt on the buttocks, then pins were - inserted around the annal area and into the testicles. Then he got an ‘enema, both of us-gave him the;enema, I believe I held the-boy and then I “put it in, and then he started to masterbate after the enema.was completely co dn him, and he wasntt supposed to relieve himself until after he masterbated. - But he claimed he had to relieve himself.and he did.e And then when Mark : | tame back into the room the next thing on the instruction sheet was for | ‘him. to masterbate himself, and at which point he got embarrassed and he. =. ~ @ecided he couldn't do it, and a comment was made by either Miss Stephens | ‘Or myself that the tests. cantt continue unless he does it, so then Lée . Pee inserted a candle into.his anus, and then I believe she beat him again, I. am not positive. Then Lee, having read the instruction sheet with me - suggested the obscene pictures. - Before the pictures, the first set of pins ~ and needles were just regular, so "Lee lit the needles and I put them in, ("for him to masterbate, ‘or something like that, and Lee asked him" if it "would be easier if, she did ate. And with that “she proceeded to masterbate pe Aime ere . ee ce =. - ~ os A Qe Did he. reach a Liman? Ao “Yes he ‘did, it was at this point that Lee suggested taking the picture . ,and I got the camera. ‘One-of the pictures showed Mark lying face dowm on Ys the bed with the candle inserted rectally. Another was taken of Lee beating “". him. Another was taken of Mr. Lane on his. stomach not only with a candle inserted rectally, but also with two. stems of artificial flowers. A fourth was taken of. Lee singing his hair around the. testicles with a Lighted matche ' After a few pictures were: taken, his: hands - were tied behind his ‘back and nnn SONS > we both did ite" About this point Golden said Lane said it was too embarrassing ~ . ON Oe ee | i Docld:32312113 Page 6
eleased under the. John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of. 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hofer TE : 11-14-2017 - CO . | | FS a ee eae Page b/ ; . ; ee ; ALL : ey | oa ' ' Miss”Lee gave him another enema. She left: the room about 6:00 PM and told Lee she could continue the tests. At,one point I heard from another room what sounded to me like someone being beaten with a belt. At this point, © _ Patten asked Golden when she came back into the room and did she see Jee a Stephens. . re Dp ae QQ. Was: she dressed or ‘undressed? 4 AL She was wearing a two piece suit.! She still had her jacket on and skirt on, but her skirt was pulled uP to her waist and under that she “was nude. (Didn?; see - Lane) She said Lee told her what happened. . Q. What did Lee tell you happened? ., A. She told me that after I left, that she and Mark had been looking at -° the pictures that had been taken, and that she inserted the Martini stirrer into him with the alcohol on it: and that she had beaten him again and that Mr. Lane made advances toward her, and that because she had been aroused ' by what happened, she told me | she had . intercourse with him. ~Q ZT show you a. Photograph and ask you ar that As. one, of the pictures, that. * you took? ., bake am A. Yess Q. Who's picture is ‘that? A. Mark lane. Q. “And is. there another 5 poreono hand in the ploturet o (A. Yes. : : |. Qs Who is that? Ae lee Stephens. . co \ ina pi ~ Elizabeth Lee Stephenson, also known as Lee Stephens gave a statement _ to Bernard Patten of the District Attorneys Office on January 30, 1962. Which was also reviewed by the reporting investigators... In this statement iiss Stephens said that she resided at 11 5th avenue, New York City, New . . York. That she was 24 years of age and single. That she was employed by | ” Pacific Enterprises of los Angeles, and that she was the firms New York = = °  j. ° representative selling advertising specialties. She also said that she | oo had known Phyllis Golden since August or September 1961. That she knew - Golden lived at’ LO4-20 Queens Boulevards: Parxer Towere Apartment. That : © phe visited Golden" on. January 18, 1962 at 2:30 or 3:00 P.M.e- That. a man. < Docld: 323127113 Page 7
Released under the John F. Kennedy. Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 HpPerp™ DATE: 11-14-2017 on Ly poe O : _ Page 5/: later came to the apartment and that she knew he was Mark Lane. That he asked Phyllis to:ask her if’ she wanted to be a witness to one of his tests. That lane said they were tests a psychiatrists was running with taking the pulse for the electric chair... That she consented to be a witness, that ; the tests began at 3:30.or.4:00, and that the tests started when Lane un- © dressed and Phyllis started by sticking a candle into his rectum... That ~~. ° - lane had given Phyllis a list of instructions before the tests started. |. That she didn't see Lane hand over the list to Phyllis, but Phyllis had - told her that Lane had given the list to her. That Phyllis did show her — the instruction sheet. (Patten during this investigation received affirm— ation that the sheet which he showed her on yellow paper was the same one . . Phyllis had shown her.) . _ - That the first thing Phyllis did was to stick a big candle into Lanets . " rectum, and then took a small one with vaseline and shoved it into Lanets rectum; that Phyllis then plucked hair from his testicles with tweezers, and then put a cocktail stirrer in the hole of his penis; that Phyllis then put alcohol on the cocktail stirrer and stuck it in the hole of his penis; and then put alcohol on his penis; that they gave Lane an enema, - . and had him hold the water while he masterbated, but that he couldntt hold. ~ the water and had to go and relieve himself; that: they beat Lane with a .- _ belt (Lane's) until welts appéared ori his buttocks; that they took humil-'. dating pictures of him so that evidence would be there if needed; that they repeated the candle, and tweezer bit, and the enema; then heated candles | over a cigarette lighter and then poked them into his testicles and his rectum,’ and beat him with his belt; that Lane wanted to keep on but Phyllis had to feed her daughter, so she Lee continued to beat him. That she used the cocktail stirrer and the alcohol; that Lane wanted her to masterbate him which she started to do; that she tried and Lane started to take off ~ her clothes; that finally she said "the hell]. with it" and stie removed the balance of her clothes; that later Phyllis came to the door, and at Lanets— ae “request she told Lee not to come in for a while; that Lane made love to meg Cher; that he was sadistic and trying to hurt her, that he tried to repeat. ~ OY tne act of intercourse, but she put on her clothes and told him she was ~ ashamed and never wanted to see him again. That she showed him the pictures they had taken and some other pictures, such as Phyllis ad a vase with « . long stemmed flowers which flowers they stuck in his rectum and took pictures... of that. That Lane had asked them to use their immagination, so Lee used matches and set fire to’ the hair around Lane's rectum and testicles. Lee . identified a photo which she said Phyllis took with a-poloroid camera. '..: Concerning this picture, Patten asked the following of Lee Stephens: Qe I direct your attention to a hand in tthe lower part of. the picture, “,. and I ask you whots hand that is? ee ee Ae’ It must be my hand. at Qe And what were you doing at the time? ‘T-dmagine i was sticking needles in his testicles, hot teedles. a i Docld:323127113 Page 6