Was Marilyn Monroe Murdered or Did She Commit Suicide?

Question

This is my topic for my research paper. Any information would be helpful. Thank you!

Answer 1

The conspiracy theories behind Marilyn's demise are many. No-one really knows the full truth simply because those directly involved won't talk about it (and anyway most have died by now). It is definitely a fact that there were people present in Marilyn's house on the day and morning of her death.

On Saturday morning August 4, 1962, Marilyn was up early for
breakfast(grapefruit) having not slept well for most of the night. Apparently she was in bad form complaining about her house guest's (her personal publicist, Pat Newcomb, who had spent the night, woke at 9 A.M.) ability to sleep well while she couldn't. "I had been able to sleep and Marilyn hadn't," said Newcomb in an interview. "When I came out looking refreshed, it made her furious."

According to Marilyn's neighbours, a man matching the description of Bobby Kennedy arrived at Marilyn's that afternoon. Hollywood detective Fred Otash claims that, "Marilyn and Bobby had a violent argument and she told him that she felt used and passed around." At the end of the argument Marilyn ordered Bobby out of her house. We only have one or two people to trust for this piece of information. It is generally accepted by researchers that he was indeed at her house the day she died. The controversy comes into play when some researchers claim he returned to the house and was actually there when Marilyn died. I don't believe this to be the truth but the facts of the night that Marilyn died are extremely shaky.

After this afternoon visit by Bobby, Marilyn's psychiatrist, Dr. Ralph Greenson, arrived for a 90 minute session - which may have involved an injection of barbiturates to calm her down.

By 5:30 P.M, Greenson left. At this stage only Marilyn and her housekeeper Eunice Murray were in the house. During the afternoon Marilyn talked to several people on the phone, including her stepson, Joe DiMaggio Jr. - none of whom believed she was depressed or on drugs.

Despite the fact that the fifth is the given date in most non-Marilyn sources, she in fact died before midnight - on the fourth. Her housekeeper, whose story has changed over the years (it's hard to keep up!), has said at various times that it was the phone cord going under the door that alarmed her to Marilyn's wellbeing, or the fact that Marilyn's light was still on (not unusual for an insomniac surely) or that some sixth sense suddenly alerted her.... What doesn't stick with any of these claims is the fact that Marilyn never locked her door (partly an after effect of her spell in a psychiatric unit two years previously) and she had also just gotten in shag carpetting - too thick for the door to be
closed. Eunice said she called Dr. Greenson and he came to smash in a window to find Marilyn dead.

Many factors in this story Eunice tells do not add up - the locked door for one. Another is the fact that the glass found smashed lay outside the window - not inside(which it should have been if broken from the outside).

Another fact is that Marilyn's publicist Arthur Jacobs, Pat Newcomb's boss, received word at around 11 P.M., four hours prior to Eunice's discovery of the body - he then rushed to Monroe's house. That brings the number of people at Marilyn's house in the early hours of Sunday morning (before the police were called at half four in the morning) to about five or so (Pat Newcomb, Eunice Murray, Dr. Greenson, Dr. Engelberg, and Arthur Jacobs)

The first call from Monroe's house to the outside world came at 4:25 A.M. What had been going on in the hours in between?

Police sergeant Jack Clemmons took the call. It was Dr. Ralph Greenson who was so agitated that Clemmons couldn't understand him. "Marilyn Monroe is dead," the psychiatrist said, "she just committed suicide."

"Marilyn was lying face down in what I call the soldier's position," said Clemmons. "Her hands were by her side and her legs were stretched out perfectly straight. It was the most obviously staged death scene I have ever seen The pill bottles on her bedside table had been arranged in neat order and the body deliberately positioned. It all looked too tidy."

Up to his death a few years back Clemmons had always suspected foul play concerning Marilyn. He never considered it a straightforward suicide.

Another obvious fact in the case is the lack of pills in Marilyn's stomach (the autopsy brought this fact to light). Her stomach was empty - aside from the grapefruit she had had that morning. The only way she could have died was by an enema.

Answer 2

She was murdered by Hoover to protect the dignity of the Kennedy White House.

Answer 3

I don't think either. I think she was depressed and self-medicating, all while consuming alcohol. She may have wanted to get some attention from Jack Kennedy in the process, but she was a sad woman who ultimately died by careless use of drugs.

Answer 4

I think it was suicide, but the murder angle makes a great story.

Answer 5

She committed suicide by overdosing.

Answer 6

wel they think she overdosed but some people think that certain people were covering up her death due to her involvement with the Kennedys

Answer 7

Part of a government conspiracy plot.

Answer 8

She was "Gettin' Busy" with all the Kennedy's!!!!

Answer 9

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