Who Done It?
The Murder of Marilyn Monroe!
It was 53 years ago last week that Marilyn Monroe died, at age 36, one of the brightest stars of post-World War II America. Ever since her shocking death, with the death certificate listing suicide as the probable cause of death, controversy has swirled over what really happened.
It was 53 years ago last week that Marilyn Monroe died, at age 36, one of the brightest stars of post-World War II America. Ever since her shocking death, with the death certificate listing suicide as the probable cause of death, controversy has swirled over what really happened.
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You help solve the mystery
of who killed the most famous Hollywood icon
of the 20th Century. When the world
awakened on August 5, 1962, the most celebrated actress in Hollywood ,
Marilyn Monroe, was found dead in her home in California at the young age of 36.
It was the end of a
tumultuous and meteoric rise from rags to riches for America 's sweetheart and Hollywood
icon whose name crossed paths with the rich, the powerful, the revered and the
most sinister characters in the world.
The medical examiner
quickly concluded she died of an overdose of prescription medicine but forensic
evidence was insufficient to declare it a suicide so her death was labeled as
"probable suicide".
The mishandling of the
crime scene, the manipulation of evidence, the inconsistency or her actions
prior to the death and the onslaught of media hype pushing the suicide theory
by powerful forces triggered a firestorm of suspicion and doubt.
But a series of national
and international events the next 15 months would bury her story in the
avalanche of media coverage of the Cold War with the Soviets, the Kennedy
administration war with the La Casa Nostra, the evolving Vietnam war
and the Kennedy assassination.
For the past 52 years the
American public has been brainwashed with stories of the addictions and
depression of film legend Marilyn Monroe that led to her death by suicide. She has been pictured as an insecure and
fragile girl whose mother was sent to an insane asylum as Marilyn was bounced
from foster home to foster home to orphanage.
In fact according to
Marilyn she was sent to ten total places, foster homes and the orphanage,
before she married a merchant marine when she turned 16 to avoid being sent
back to the orphanage. Because of her
shuffling between homes she attended 6 different elementary schools in seven
years.
But the vast majority of
her experiences were good, she got along well with other children and often
created games for her friends to play.
It was during this period she developed her desire to be a star and
began to create the persona she believed she needed to be successful.
Her first marriage lasted
about 4 years, 1942-1946, although her husband was away during most of World War II. She was working in an armament factory toward
the end of the war when she was discovered at an assembly line by a
photographer searching for the next pin up queen for the soldiers.
By 1946 Norma Jean first
began using the name Marilyn Monroe when her popularity as a pin up queen got
the notice of movie studios. Marilyn had
already begun singing and dancing lessons and had developed exceptional fitness
and diet routines on her own, routines that would result in her being known as
the most beautiful woman in the world.
Marilyn seemed to know what
was expected of Hollywood stars in the golden
age of film and she gave the studio what it wanted. She quickly grew from a $125.00 a week extra
to singing and then acting roles as she became more popular but as did most
studios at the time, she was treated as a commodity.
In 1952 and 1953 her film
roles pushed her to the top of the list in popularity but her studio handlers
still insisted she play the dumb blond in comedies and though her films made
more money than those of Elizabeth Taylor, Monroe was paid $100,000 per film
compared to Taylor at $1 million per film.
Our next installment will review
the actions the supposedly dumb blond pulled that turned the movie industry
upside down and eventually would force the studios to give her challenging
dramatic roles like she wanted along with a salary equal to Elizabeth Taylor.
While she would be known as
Marilyn Monroe from the late 1940's on she did not have her name legally
changed from Norma Jean Mortensen to Marilyn Monroe until 1956.
Probable Suspects, Collaborators and Contributors
Frank
Costello, Joseph Kennedy partner & New
York mobster
Sam
Giancana, Chicago , Miami
& Los Angeles
mob boss
Joseph
Kennedy, patriarch of Kennedy family
John
F. Kennedy, former president
Robert
Kennedy, former attorney general
Peter
Lawford, Kennedy in law
Arthur
Miller, former husband to Marilyn
Santo
Trafficante, Jr., Florida
mob boss
Ralph
Greenson, Marilyn psychiatrist
Eunice
Murray, Marilyn housekeeper
Who do you think did it?
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