HUNTER: Cold-case detective casts doubt on Marilyn Monroe death narrative
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Screen goddess Marilyn Monroe was the most famous and recognizable woman of her time.
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She had been married to playwright Arthur Miller and legendary New York Yankees star Joe DiMaggio and starred in a slew of popular movies. Reportedly had affairs with the Kennedy brothers.
A blond bombshell who exuded sensuality, Monroe’s shocking death on Aug. 4, 1962, unleashed a torrent of conspiracy theories that persist to this day. The Mafia had her clipped. The Kennedys had her clipped. She knew too much, talked too much, was unstable.
Questions persist over Monroe’s death
Now, famed cold-case detective Paul Holes is casting doubt on the official narrative. Holes played a crucial role in identifying the “ Golden State Killer” Joseph DeAngelo Jr.
He is lending his skills to TMZ’s Celebrity Crime Scene: Marilyn Monroe , premiering on Fox. Holes has discovered a tractor-trailer load of inconsistencies in the investigation.
“I was aware of how she died — a drug overdose ruled a probable suicide, but I knew very few details about it until I started digging into this case,” Holes told Fox News.
“I think a lot of the questions about her death really come down to how poorly her death scene was documented and processed by investigating authorities back in 1962, leaving questions unanswered that could have been answered if they had done things properly.”
Waited hour to call cops
On the night of her death, the Some Like it Hot star had locked herself in her bedroom, alarming her housekeeper Eunice Murray, who frantically called Monroe’s doctor. He broke into her room and found the star naked and dead.
A telephone receiver dangled from Monroe’s hand, an empty pill bottle on the nightstand. There was no suicide note.
“The first red flag, of course, was the lack of documentation,” said Holes. “There are very few photos of the death scene. However, even with the one photograph that exists, showing her dead in her own bed, my eyes, based on my experience and expertise, immediately picked out inconsistencies, such as the sheets being (clean and) perfect. She’s arranged on the bed in such a way that it doesn’t look like an overdose (to me).”
He added that the pill bottles on the nightstand were “perfectly arranged” with labels all facing out. Holes calls the orderly pills an “inconsistency.”
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‘Something more going on here?’
“Anytime you see an inconsistency, you have to stop and start questioning, ‘Am I seeing things the right way or is there something more going on here?’” he added.
Monroe’s mental-health issues were no secret and she also struggled with insomnia. But Holes’ review has caused him to cast doubt on the suicide theory.
“Nobody stages a suicide to look like a better suicide,” he said. “And one of the contradictions that I think is very notable is that two days before she is found dead, a prescription for Nembutal is used. This is a fast-acting drug. It’s used in euthanasia to this day. Fifty capsules were picked up two days prior. All of those are gone, empty pill bottle on the nightstand, yet she doesn’t have these capsules or evidence of these capsules in her stomach.”
The district attorney’s office ruled the drugs had time to be absorbed into her system.
Monroe was also receiving prescriptions from her doctor and psychiatrist. Holes casts doubt on whether the big-screen legend was receiving the appropriate care.
And they waited for more than an hour before calling cops.
But this isn’t the first time Monroe’s death has been reinvestigated. In 1982, the DA’s office determined there was insufficient evidence to support the idea that foul play was afoot.
Did cops drop the ball?
Yet deep in the bowels of the FBI there may be answers as to what killed Monroe. She was pegged as a commie (she wasn’t) and there are heavily redacted files about her flings.
The feds feared pillow talk between Monroe and Jack Kennedy and his brother Robert F. Kennedy, the attorney general.
Still, to Holes, the biggest question is why did the LAPD drop the ball?
“It seems like there’s possibly some influence to cause them to look the other way and just write this thing off and make the assumption it’s suicide,” Holes said.
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