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Death of Marilyn Monroe 31 Death of Marilyn Monroe 31 Have you ever wondered what notified of Monroe’s death as early as Hospital, where she died. “She passed * Did Monroe try to call anyone the really happened to Marilyn 11:00 p.m., when he and his wife were away at the hospital. She did not die at night she died? When a reporter for the Monroe? You’re not alone. at a Hollywood Bowl concert. home.” And he was certain it was Los Angeles Herald Tribune tried to According to Jacob’s wife, Natalie, Monroe: “We’d hauled her before get her phone records and find out, a Well, according to the “We got the news long before it broke. because of [earlier overdoses of] phone company contact told him, “All National Insecurity Council, We left the concert at once.” barbiturates. We’d hauled her when she hell is breaking loose down here! this is what happened. * In 1982, Peter Lawford admitted in a was comatose.” Apparently you’re not the only one sworn statement that he learned of interested in Marilyn’s calls. But the Monroe’s death at 1:30 a.m., when her How Did Monroe Die? tape [of her calls] has disappeared. I’m At 4.25 a.m. on August 5, lawyer, Milton Rudin, called from the * Though Deputy Medical Examiner told it was impounded by the Secret 1962, Sergeant Jack Clemmons of the house to tell him about it. Thomas Noguchi speculated that Service... Obviously somebody high West Los Angeles Police Department * The ambulance crew summoned by Monroe had swallowed roughly 50 up ordered it.” received a call from Dr. Hyman by the police noticed that Monroe’s Nembutal pills, a common barbiturate, * In 1985, a former FBI agent claimed: Engelberg. “I am calling from the body was in “advanced rigor mortis,” he found no physical visual evidence of “The FBI did remove certain Monroe house of Marilyn Monroe,” he said. suggesting that she had been dead for pills in the stomach or the small records. I was on a visit to California “She is dead.” four to six hours. That would mean she intestine. No residue. No retractile when monroe died, and became aware When Clemmons arrived at died about midnight. crystals.” Yet, as Noguchi recounted in of the removal of the records from my 12305 Helena Drive, he found the los Angeles colleagues. I knew there body lying face down on the bed. The were some people there, Bureau coroner investigating the case ruled personnel, who normally wouldn’t that Monroe, 36, had died from “acute have been there - agents from out of barbiturate poisoning due to ingestion town. They were there on the scene of overdose...a probable suicide. immediately, as soon as she died, before anyone realized what had THE OFFICIAL STORY happened. It had to be on the * The night before, monroe instruction of somebody high up, had gone to be at about 8:00 p.m., too higher even than Hoover... either the tired to attend a dinner party at actor Attorney General or the President.” Peter Lawford’s beach house. A few hours later, monroe’s housekeeper, Monroe’s Diary Eunice Murray, knocked on the star’s * Monroe supposedly kept a detailed bedroom door when she noticed a light diary. According to Robert Slatzer, a was on inside, but got no response. longtime friend of the actress, “For Assuming that Monroe had fallen years, Marilyn kept scribbled notes of asleep, Murray turned in. conversations to help her remember * When Murray awoke at things.” What things? Slatzer said the about 3:30 a.m. and noticed the light diary included her intimate discussions still on in monroe’s room, she went with people like Robert Kennedy. outside to peek into the window. She monroe supposedly told Slatzer, saw Monroe lying nude on the bed in “Bobby liked to talk about political an “unnatural” position. Alarmed, things. He got mad at me one day Murray called Dr. Ralph Greenson, because he said I didn’t remember the Monroe’s psychiatrist, who came over things he told me.” immediately and broke into the * After Monroe’s death, Coroner’s bedroom. She also called Dr. Aide Lionel Grandison claimed that Engelberg, monroe’s personal the diary “came into my office with the physician. After Engelberg rest of Miss Monroe’s personal effects” pronounced her dead, they called the during the investigation. But by the police. Where Did Monroe Die? his book Coroner, toxicology reports of next day the diary had vanished - and, Monroe supposedly died in her Monroe’s blood confirmed his according to Grandison, someone had SUSPICIOUS FACTS bedroom. But did she? suspicions of an overdose. removed it from the list of items From the start, there were conflicting * Monroe’s body was stretched out flat * Why was there no pill residue in brought in for investigation. versions of what had happened. on the bed, with her legs straight - not monroe’s body? Noguchi said that When Did Monroe Die? typical for a person who overdosed on some “murder theorists” have The Original Police Files Although Murray told the barbiturates. According to Sgt. suggested that an injection of * In 1974, Captain Kenneth McCauley police she’d found the body after 3:30 Clemmons, barbiturate overdoses often barbiturates would have killed her of the Los Angeles Police Department a.m., there’s evidence that Monroe cause a body to go into convulsions, without leaving pill residue. Other contacted the Homicide Department died much earlier. leaving it contorted: “You never see a theorists have suggested that aabout the files. The department * Murray first told the police that she’d body with the legs straight. And I’ve suppository with a fatal does of responded that it had no crime reports called Dr. Greenson at 3:30 a.m.. Sgt. seen hundreds of suicides by drug barbiturates would also have left no pertaining to monroe’s death. Even the Clemmons claims that when he first overdose.” He speculated that she had residue in her stomach. Or, at some death report had vanished. arrived on the scene, Engelberg and been moved. point after her death, her stomach may * The files on Monroe may have Greenson agreed that Murray called * William Shaefer, president of the have been pumped. disappeared as early as 1966. That them at about midnight. But in their shaefer Ambulance Service, insists that year, Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty official police statements, the doctors “in the very early morning hours” - MISSING EVIDENCE requested a copy of the files from the said they were called at 3:30 a.m. well before 3:00 a.m. - one of his Why has so much evidence pertaining police department. The police * According to Anthony Summers in ambulances was called to Monroe’s to Marilyn Monroe’s case disappeared declined, saying that the file “isn’t his book Goddess, monroe’s press house. 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