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The sex symbol of a generation. Marilyn Monroe began life as Norma Jean Mortenson, daughter of Gladys Baker - a mentally unstable mother and Edward Mortenson - an absentee father, on June 1, 1926, in Los Angeles. She spent most of her time in foster homes, looking for love and affection.

Her  life abruptly ended on August 5th, 1962, when she was found nude in the bedroom of her Brentwood, Los Angeles.  She previously said to her housekeeper, Eunice Murray, that she is going to retire early. At eight that evening she went to her bedroom and later tried to call Ralph Roberts, her masseur.

At 4:25 A.M. the Los Angeles Police Dept. received a call from Dr. Hyman Engelberg, Marilyn’s personal physician, who reported that he had pronounced the star dead at 3:40 A.M. Since Marilyn Monroe’s death, a number of investigators have asserted that she did not commit suicide but was murdered.

There are several inconsistencies in the statements made by the people involved in the case, both people close to the actress and policemen, suggesting that this might have been a homicide case.  The causes of death is said to have been ingestion of barbiturates, but no trace of these drugs were found when examining her body.

Dr. Sidney Weinberg, a noted forensic pathologist, has stated, “There is no way Marilyn Monroe could have orally taken the drugs she allegedly took without some of them being present in her [digestive] system.” In his book Who Killed Marilyn? (1976), Tony Sciacca presents a number of murder theories. One is that Kennedy’s people in either the Justice Dept. or the CIA planned Marilyn’s murder in order to avoid a possible scandal.
A second is that Cuban agents murdered Monroe as a reprisal against the Kennedys for the CIA-initiated Mafia contract that was put out on Fidel Castro.

According to a newly released report of the FBI, “Lawford is reported as having made ’special arrangements’ with Marilyn’s psychiatrist, Dr Ralph Greenson, from Beverley Hills. The psychiatrist was treating Marilyn for emotional problems and getting her off the use of barbiturates. On her last visit to him he prescribed Seconal tablets and gave her a prescription for 60 of them, which was unusual in quantity especially since he saw her frequently. On the date of her death … her housekeeper put the bottle of pills on the night table. It is reported that the housekeeper and Marilyn’s personal secretary and press agent, Pat Newcomb, were co-operating in the plan to induce suicide.”

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