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This series presents information based in part on theory and conjecture.

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The producer's purpose is to suggest some possible explanations, but not necessarily

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the only ones to the mysteries we will examine.

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On August 5, 1962, screen star Marilyn Monroe was found dead of barbiturate poisoning.

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Was it really a suicide, as her millions of fans were led to believe?

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We came to the conclusion that it was unquestionably a murder.

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I very strongly believe that Marilyn's death was an accident.

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It was our opinion that this case should most accurately be certified as suicide, or probable

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suicide.

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I know based upon my particular involvement in it that there was a cover-up of some of

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the information to the public.

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Marilyn Monroe did not commit suicide.

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She was politically assassinated.

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She was at the height of her career.

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She had everything to live for.

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Could this woman have taken her own life?

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Was it an accident?

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Or was Marilyn Monroe the victim of murder?

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Who was this product of Hollywood?

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Raised in an orphanage and foster homes, Norma Jean Baker grew up in the Hollywood of the

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30s.

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A fantasy land where anything could happen.

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Its glitter and magic filled the dreams of a troubled little girl who wanted desperately

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to be a part of it all.

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At 16, Norma Jean went off to the photographers and on to become Marilyn Monroe, one of America's

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biggest stars.

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Her life can be summed up in a series of headlines.

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The ultimate sex goddess.

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Adored by millions.

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Married to one of America's greatest athletes.

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Married to one of America's most gifted playwrights.

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Just from them both.

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The troubled little girl became a confused and often desolate woman.

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On August 5th, 1962, Marilyn Monroe died of barbiturate poisoning.

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This product of Hollywood had become its victim.

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The story of her death has been carefully pieced together.

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The information about Marilyn Monroe came from personal friends, members of her household

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staff and the first officer to arrive at the scene.

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Further information came from doctors, coroner's office personnel and others who might give

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insight into the case.

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The purpose of this investigation is not to accuse, but to examine some of the inconsistencies

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that seem to exist.

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These inconsistencies become apparent when we examine the evening of her death.

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Mrs. Eunice Murray, Marilyn's housekeeper, states that Marilyn retired early, closing

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the door to her bedroom after receiving a phone call from a friend.

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Her spirits were high.

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She had made plans for the following day.

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In this recreation, Mrs. Murray explains what happened later that night.

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About midnight, I stepped out of my bedroom door and noticed immediately the telephone

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cord on the floor leading to Marilyn's room, and this was an alarm.

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There was a telephone that originated in another bedroom that Marilyn took to her room, but

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when she went to bed at night, she would take the telephone itself, the instrument, back

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into the room and cover it with pillows so she wouldn't hear it ring.

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She had that telephone cord that went under her door, and that was an alarm signal, the

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only one that I had.

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So I rushed to another telephone in the other bedroom and called the doctor, told him what

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I had observed.

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He said, try the door, which I did.

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And I went back and told him that I couldn't open the door, but I would rush outside and

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see if I could separate the curtains at the window.

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And I had to come back in the house and get a poker to separate the draperies.

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I saw Marilyn lying with her face down.

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Almost immediately, it seemed to be, the doctors appeared.

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Dr. Pineson lived very near, within, what, less than two miles.

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And then Dr. Greenson tried the door, of course, then went outside and took the poker from

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my hand and broke the glass of the window that he could get into.

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One of the windows didn't have the iron grill.

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And I ran around the house and into the house and stood at the door waiting.

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And by the time he came to the door and opened it, he said we've lost her.

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My name is Jack Clemens.

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On the night Marilyn Maraud died, I was a sergeant on the Los Angeles Police Department.

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I was a watch commander of West LA Division.

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When I arrived at the house, Mrs. Murray, who was Marilyn's housekeeper, showed me in.

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I met her psychiatrist who had called me Dr. Greenson.

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I was shown the scene, shown the body, and I was shown a table alongside the bed that

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contained a considerable number of bottles.

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I was shown one empty bottle that I was told had contained approximately 45 nebgital.

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I put out a call over the police radio for two more units to meet me at the scene.

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And another sergeant to take charge of the scene and a field unit to protect the scene

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because when the press, etc., began to arrive, this would be necessary.

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There were two things at the scene that disturbed me.

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One was a time element between the discovery of the body and the cause of the police station.

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As I was told, the housekeeper had discovered Marilyn's body at approximately 11.30 or

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midnight, but they had not phoned the police until about 4.30 a.m.

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I was told by Dr. Greenson that this was because I had checked with the publicity department

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at the studio.

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That didn't make much sense.

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The other thing that would have obviously occurred had the situation been as it had represented

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to me was that there would have been vomit from her because you simply cannot swallow

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that much barbiturates without throwing some of it up later on.

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It has a very violent reaction in the stomach.

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Experts throughout the country became intrigued with the case.

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Dr. Sidney Weinberg, coroner of Suffolk County, New York, questioned the finding of the suicide

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investigation team.

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People who have died as a result of excessive ingestion by mouth of barbiturates is that

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in their agonal stages as they're dying, they throw up, they have regurgitation and this

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regurgitated material comes out onto the pillowcase or whatever they're resting on.

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A member of the suicide investigation team was psychiatrist Robert Littman.

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No, people don't go through contortions.

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They seldom vomit.

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It depends on how much water they need to take down the pills.

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The absence of agreement between expert opinions and the facts he observed led Jack Clemens

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to begin an investigation of his own.

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Part of an unofficial investigation you might see, an association with several civilians.

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No one on the police department was involved in this except myself.

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We came to the conclusion that it was unquestionably a murder.

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The reason being quite simply the fact that the coroner's report did not show a trace of

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barbiturates any place in her digestive tract.

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At the autopsy her stomach was empty.

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What that means is that a considerable period of time, several hours had elapsed between

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the time she ingested the fatal pills and the time she died.

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But that is quite common.

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Now this is the perplexing thing.

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It's inconceivable that a person could take that amount of pentobarbital by mouth and

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not have any trace of it chemically in the stomach.

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There would have been some residue in the digestive tract and there was none.

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Therefore, she could only have gotten it through another method.

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Specifically, there are two ways she could have gotten it.

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One was a hypodermic needle.

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The other was a suppository.

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There is a very high rate of absorption from a suppository.

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She had a lethal dose in her blood that she did not swallow.

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Therefore it had to be given to her by somebody else.

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That person she had to know and she had to trust.

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Now if the death was caused by injection and she did it herself, then where is the syringe?

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It was not present at the scene.

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And if she didn't do it, then someone else had to do it.

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So I do not hesitate at all to call this what it simply is.

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It is a murder.

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And I do not hesitate at all to further go and say that a conspiracy existed between

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the police department, between the coroner's office and between the L.A. County District

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Attorney's Office to conceal this murder and pass it off as a suicide.

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My name is Lionel Grandison and I was in Deputy's Corner's Aid at the time of Marilyn

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Monroe's death.

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I believe that there was a cover-up of Marilyn Monroe's death.

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It is not really clear to me if she was murdered or if in fact it was suicide.

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But I know based upon my particular involvement that there was a cover-up of some of the information

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to the public.

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And I signed her death certificate.

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The person who signed the death certificate is their responsibility to look through the

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file, be sure that all the information pertaining to the death is in the file and that if it

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is not you go and seek it out.

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But supposedly when it gets to that death all the information is there.

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But in Marilyn's case it was not there.

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So looking to do my job again, I went through the various suicide teams report, the medical

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examiners report, the toxicologists report, all the various reporters are supposed to

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be a part of a folder.

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Okay, I went to seek them out.

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And everywhere I went I found that there was no information on it.

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Why should I sign the death certificate without the information?

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But when I went to Dr. Curfee to ask him about this file he told me that it was not my responsibility

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to ask questions about it, to sign the death certificate.

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We made our report to Dr. Theodore Curfee who was the medical examiner at that time.

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Immediately upon receiving our report he did call a press conference and we announced

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our findings to the press.

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No one in the office ever saw this report from the suicide team.

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At the time when Dr. Curfee told me to sign the death certificate that was one of the

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specific questions I asked him.

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What about the report from the suicide team?

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Okay?

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He said that we recovered by the fact that we stated probable suicide.

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And that he had both an oral and a written report from the suicide team that would come

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into the report at a later date.

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Some experts feel the conclusion of probable suicide should be questioned.

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I'm not saying that Marilyn Monroe was murdered but I offer the possibility in view of the

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evidence that that possibility does exist.

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And unless further information can be supplied, the findings of a complete investigation until

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I would see those personally, I'm very unsatisfied with the certification.

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I believe that Marilyn did not commit suicide purposely.

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I think it was an accident.

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It's the only reasonable logical conclusion that I would have.

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And I have good reason to believe that because she had told me that if ever there came a

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time when I knew that she had taken some sedation, I should watch very carefully unless she went

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to sleep that she wouldn't take another dose of sedation.

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Her own housekeeper cannot accept the suicide charge but thinks it was an accident.

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Robert Littman reports on the findings of the psychological autopsy.

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Our main problem in this case was to distinguish between suicide and accident.

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It is quite possible for someone who is chronically or habitually using large amounts of sleeping

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pills and Ms. Monroe had a chronic difficult sleep problem.

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Such people sometimes will overdose accidentally without deliberately meaning to take the overdose.

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When people do that, usually there are signs of disarray and confusion in the room because

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they've been toxic, intoxicated.

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And there are often pills scattered around because they've lost track of them.

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And usually there are still our pills left on the scene because people who are abusing

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drugs using large amounts, the thing they dread most is to run out.

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So they always maintain a supply.

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We think of suicide then when we have someone who has made special provision to get extra

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pills which was true in this case and someone who has used up all their pills which was

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that true in this case.

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Suicide, accident or was Marilyn Monroe as some believe the victim of murder.

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A tale of intrigue has been suggested.

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A tale woven around not only the inconsistencies in the case but around wiretaps, blackmail

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and the alleged existence of the mysterious diary of Marilyn Monroe.

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Milo Spariglio, a private investigator with the Nick Harris detective agency.

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In 1975 a noted investigative reporter by the name of Alice Stump brought to us a gentleman

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by the name of Bob Slateser, an investigative reporter and an author.

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He had an incredible story to tell us.

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He believed that Marilyn Monroe was murdered and did not commit suicide.

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It's not very often we would investigate a client.

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In this particular case we found it necessary.

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Mr. Slateser's story was so incredible about the death of Marilyn Monroe, the possibility

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of a homicide, probability of a famous person or persons involved.

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We checked Mr. Slateser's story out.

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At that point we were convinced Mr. Slateser had a story to tell and we had an investigation

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to do.

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Hollywood writer producer Robert Slateser wrote a book on the death of Marilyn Monroe.

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Shortly before Marilyn was found dead possibly a little bit over two weeks before she had

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called me quite alarmed one afternoon and asked me if I could pick her up and drive out to

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the beach north of Malibu.

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There were some things she wanted to show me and tell me about which included the diary.

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The entries in her diary are quite interesting and involve national security which startled

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me quite frankly.

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Lionel Grandison saw Marilyn's personal effects in the county coroner's office.

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I had an occasion to look through the diary again looking and it had some pretty bizarre

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information in there that no one had spoke about at that time.

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But I do know that these notations were in that book and I know that that book only lasted

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around the coroner's office for about one day.

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I was especially concerned with Marilyn keeping that diary and I asked her if she didn't think

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if I told her I thought it was a piece of dynamite she was carrying around with her

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quite frankly and she said well don't worry about it because she said I carried my purse

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during the daytime when I'm away and so forth when I'm home it's in my file cabinet.

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Somebody else must have gotten this information too because her file cabinet had been broken

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into on two different occasions within ten days before she was found dead and it happened

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to be that many mysterious things began to happen about this time and including her fear

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of the telephone lines being tapped which were eventually proven.

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Marilyn Monroe always had a fear that her phones were tapped.

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Little did she know that her rooms were also bugged and Marilyn Monroe had a very good

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cause to believe that her phones were tapped because of her involvement with some political

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people.

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In 1977 on the old Marilyn Monroe house there was a leak on the roof and they called in

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a repairment of a repairman.

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This particular gentleman worked with the signal corps of the United States government prior

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to his construction type of business and was very well familiar with wire taps and room

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bugs and he discovered a tremendous amount of wire inside the house.

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Now this is not common household wire.

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The type of wire he found was which is known as direct room bugs which is capable of keeping

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the entire house bugged for any length of time and it was believed that the wires were

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in the house way back in the 1960s.

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The barriglio told us that an article to this effect appeared in a newspaper but we were

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unable to substantiate this claim.

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After her mysterious death the attorney general of the United States ordered a raid on the

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house of a person by the name of Bernard Spender.

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He was a noted wire tapper working directly for Jimmy Hoffa.

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The raid took 12 hours and to our knowledge it was the only raid that was ever bugged.

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The first five and a half hours of it was taped by the wire tapper unbeknownst to the

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United States government.

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In those tapes they found according to very reliable sources the tapes of the actual murder

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of Marilyn Monroe.

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It was on sound, the rooms were bugged as well as the telephones.

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The New York Times reported that a raid was made on the home of Bernard Spindel.

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He claimed that the tapes of Marilyn Monroe's murder were among tapes confiscated in that

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raid.

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After Spindel was arrested for electronic eavesdropping he died in prison eliminating

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any possibility of substantiating his claim.

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In the controversy surrounding Marilyn Monroe's death both sides have made statements that

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remain unsupportable.

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Their investigation attempted to separate fact from rumored innuendo.

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But questions still remain.

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Why did so many hours elapsed between the discovery of her body and the arrival of the police?

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Question did someone take the intimate details of Marilyn Monroe's private life?

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Question if a diary did exist where is it now?

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Do we ever know what really happened on the night of August 5th, 1962?

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Once upon a time in the magic land of Hollywood a troubled little girl dreamt of fame and

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stardom.

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Her dream came true.

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Marilyn Monroe was at the height of her career when her Hollywood fantasy ended in tragedy.

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A tragedy shrouded in mystery.