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The Billy Miller/EIN Interview Commentary and Analysis, Part III
EIN: You connected with Elvis?
BM: Elvis and I initially had one thing in common. We had both been abused as a child. I was lucky that Elvis came to my rescue. It it wasn't for Elvis talking to my father about my stepmom's abuse, I believe I would have been dead before I was 12 years old. Elvis would see me and I had stitches in my head and fresh bleeding from a beating by my stepmom.
PL: Think about the sequence of events that Miller describes here. Going by Miller’s claim, he met Elvis at a friend’s house in 1957 when he (Miller) was 10 years old. Elvis then would have left the house, and gone about his life. Miller does not mention any contacts with Elvis until the 1969 meeting he mentioned in the 1999 E! Entertainment special, “The Last Days of Elvis.” When would Elvis have seen Miller between 1957 and 1969, and where would he have seen Miller? And under what circumstances would Elvis have seen Miller with fresh, bleeding wounds from the beatings he claims to have received at the hands of his stepmother? Miller states that Elvis’s intervention occurred before Miller turned 12 years old, which would have been before early 1959. So, when did Elvis step in and talk about this alleged abuse with Miller’s father? Elvis reported to the draft board on March 24, 1958, was in Memphis for only a few days over the next six months, and left for Germany on September 22, 1958.
Miller’s implication here is that when he was 12 years old, Elvis intervened and talked to Miller’s father about this alleged abuse. Miller was 12 years old for most of 1959 and early 1960, a timeframe during which Elvis was in Germany.
Further, Elvis’s childhood has been examined quite extensively, and there has never been any mention of physical abuse at the hands of Gladys Presley, and Miller’s claim on its own runs counter to every claim and observation offered by eyewitnesses as to Gladys’s care of, and concern for, Elvis and his well-being. To say that Gladys Presley physically abused Elvis is to ignore volumes of evidence and statements to the contrary.
BM (continued): Elvis had been abused by both Vernon and Gladys. Gladys had a serious drinking problem which was destroying her mind and her body. Elvis told me that when the alcohol kicked in she became very violent and would beat up on him. She was very strict with Elvis as a kid and would pull on his ear and make him do things he didn't want to. And after Vernon got out of jail he could become very vicious and violent. Despite her problems, Gladys loved Elvis and was the one person to keep him on the straight and narrow up until her death. As I got older Elvis and I had another thing in common, We loved under cover police work. I look back on my friendship with Elvis and I see him as the older brother I never had, and as a best friend.
PL: Again, there is no evidence that Gladys physically abused Elvis.
EIN: Elvis had a special nickname for you can you tell us about it?
BM: I was a young kid going to Graceland. I was the kid that had to stay in the truck while my dad drank with Vernon. I used to sneak out of the truck and watch all the guy's at Graceland playing football. I wanted to play with them but Elvis said I was a kid, and his friends would hurt me. They played for real.
PL: There is no evidence offered by Miller that proves he was at Graceland at any time, ever. If he were at Graceland “as a young kid,” what does he mean by that? In early 1957, by his own admission, he was 10 years old, meaning he was born in early 1947 (or later in 1946, but let’s keep the math simple). Elvis was not at Graceland very much from 1958 to 1960. By early 1960, Miller would have been 13, and Miller makes no mention of the timeframe that he was “a young kid going to Graceland.” So, even if Miller were at Graceland after Elvis returned from Germany, Miller would have been at least 13 years old, hardly “a young kid.”
Also, Miller’s father drives to Graceland with his son, goes inside the house to drink with Vernon (and maybe do some welding), and yet his son must stay alone in the truck? Why?
BM (continued): I used to follow Elvis around hiding from tree to tree. Elvis used to call me “Kid'' and when I turned 18 it became "Billy The Kid".
PL: Miller would like us to believe that Elvis wandered around the grounds at Graceland, and Miller (who was supposed to be waiting in the truck while his dad knocked back drinks with Vernon) would sneak around behind the trees? Does any of this sound even remotely plausible?
Also, Miller would have turned 18 in early 1965, and yet we hear no mention of Miller being around Elvis and Graceland during this time period. By stating that Elvis gave him the nickname “Billy The Kid” when he (Miller) turned 18, Miller is implying that he was around Elvis when his 18th birthday arrived. So, Miller places himself with Elvis in 1965. Or, did this new nickname arrive in the mail or by phone?
BM (continued): Even then I was still not able to play with the guys. My dad said the guys were too tough, and they also didn't like outsiders.
There was another name Elvis called me...Elvis's spy. This came about when I was younger. When I went to Graceland Elvis would tell me to go spy on the guys and then report back to him. Because I was just a kid, I guess was just in the way. So this was Elvis's nice way of saying "get lost kid".
PL: By saying that Elvis told him to “get lost,” Miller is telling us that there were times when he was actually with Elvis and Elvis’s friends. So, why can’t anyone recall seeing Miller? And again, what does Miller mean by the term “younger,” since he would have been 13 years or older (depending on the year) after Elvis returned from Germany in early 1960?
BM (continued): For me it was a case of either stay in the truck or go hide from tree to tree and watch what was going on. I thought this was so neat, hiding from the guys watching what was going on and then reporting it back to Elvis. Boy do I have some stories to tell....and they will all be in my book.
PL: First, Miller hid behind the trees to follow Elvis around, and now he says he hid behind the trees to spy on Elvis’s friends. What on earth would anyone have been doing out on the grounds of Graceland that was worthy of being spied on, and then reported back to Elvis?
BM (continued): One time I spied on Elvis and Priscilla in the swimming pool. They were giggling and making out, and Elvis' hands were going everywhere. When I told him about it later he laughed and said while I was his spy, he didn't have me there to spy on him.
One of the good things about being Elvis' spy was I got to get out of the van. I also got to play with Lisa Marie.
PL: In the 1999 E! TV special, Miller says he was asked to start working for Elvis in 1969. If he were on the property after 1960, and before early 1968, he would have been at least 13, possibly as old as 21; Lisa Marie Presley would not have been born yet. If he played with Lisa after he was allegedly hired by Elvis in 1969, he would have been 23 years old, and would not have been out in the yard playing with Lisa (nor sitting in the truck waiting for his father). And, Miller implies that he was able to get out of the van and play with Lisa Marie, meaning that Lisa Marie was playing outside. Lisa Marie was born in February, 1968, and would not have been outside playing for at least several years after that. So when does Miller claim to have played with Lisa Marie?
With this claim, and the other claims, Miller is asking us to believe that he went to Graceland in his father’s truck (or van), was told to wait in the truck while his father drank with Vernon, but when Elvis was walking around the grounds, Miller would leave the truck and hide behind the trees to follow Elvis. Or, Elvis would ask Miller to leave the confines of the truck and go spy on Elvis’s friends (or he’d spy on Elvis himself). Or, Miller left the truck and played with Lisa Marie, even though Lisa Marie had not been born yet when Miller was “a young kid.” The only time Miller could have played with Lisa Marie would have been well after February, 1968, and at that time (February 1968) he was either 20 or 21 years old. Would a man this age have been ordered to sit in the truck by his father?
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