In the aftermath of Marilyn Monroe’s untimely and abrupt death, the Los Angeles Police Department (hereafter LAPD) con­ducted an investigation, even though the scene of her death indicated suicide as its cause. Sgt Robert Byron, an LAPD homicide detective, marshaled the investigation. As far as I have been able to determine, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office (hereafter LACDA) was not involved in the original investiga­tion; and the Chief Medical Examiner (hereafter CME), Dr. Theodore Curphey, did not convene a coroner’s inquest. Instead of an inquest, Dr. Curphey ordered the preparation of a psychological au­topsy to examine Marilyn’s general mental health, specifically her mental health during the time immediately prior to her death. On Friday, August the 18th in 1962, a throng of tel­evision technicians and cameramen, and approximately fifty reporters, crowded themselves into the Coroner’s Inquest Room. Seated between psychologist Dr. Norman Farberow and psychiatrist Dr. Robert Litman, members of the team who performed Marilyn’s psychological autopsy, CME Curphey read the following statement:

Now that the final toxicological report and that of the psychiatric consultants have been received and considered, it is my conclusion that the death of Marilyn Monroe was caused by a self-administered overdose of sedative drugs and that the mode of death is probable suicide (Vitacco-Robles ICON: What Killed Mari­lyn Monroe [hereafter WKMM], v1:149).

With Dr. Curphey’s edict, the case of and the investigation into the untimely death of the beloved and inordinately famous actress reached its official termination. One of the report­ers present asked Dr. Curphey: Does this report, today’s report, does this conclude the case?  Accompanied by a smattering of subdued laughter and smiles, Dr. Curphey responded: I sincerely hope so (Vitacco-Robles ICON:WKMM, v1:149). Regrettably, as you must certainly know, such would not be the case.

Gary Vitacco-Robles reported, in the first volume of ICON: WKMM, that four official investi­gations into the circumstances revolving around Marilyn’s death have been conducted by various agencies of Los Angeles County (WKMM, v1:259). Subsequent to the initial investi­gation performed by the LAPD and the CME’s Office in 1962, thirteen years later in 1975, due to accusations of incompetence and malfeasance leveled by some journalists, but espe­cially and particularly by Anthony Scaduto, the LAPD conducted a second investigation. By that time, the LAPD’s records pertaining to the original investigation had been purged, destroyed, standard operating procedure. Seven years later, in 1982, due to the provocative and sensationalized press conferences held by Robert Slatzer and Milo Sper­iglio, a private detective hired by Slatzer to investigate Marilyn’s death, the LACDA ordered a threshold re-investigation to determine if the original 1962 in­vestigation contained misleading or false evidence or if new evidence uncovered during the two decades that had elapsed since Marilyn’s death indicated that she was a homicide victim. Such a monumental finding would have automatically triggered a new exami­nation of her death.

As the Friday press conference neared its end, obviously seeking a clarification for the at­tachment of the word probable to Marilyn Monroe’s evident suicide, a reporter asked Dr. Curphey: Why wasn’t the verdict simply suicide? Dr. Curphey answered: Because she didn’t leave a note (WKMM, v1:148).1According to Robert Slatzer: Any detective will tell you that a person contemplating suicide invariably leaves a note of instruction, often stating the reasons for his suicide, even though such notes are not generally made public (Slatzer 328). Of course, and as usual, Slatzer was, and is, wrong: sta­tistically, only thirty-five present of suicides leave notes.It must be noted here that not one of the official investiga­tions resulted in a formal alteration of Dr. Curphey’s original 1962 edict or Marilyn’s official death certificate: the mode of Marilyn Monroe’s death has remained probable suicide.

How many independent, unofficial investigations into Marilyn’s death have been conducted during the past six decades plus four years? Establishing that quantity just might be an im­possibility. Did each investigation result in a video documentary, a docudrama or a book promising the final word on the mystery of Marilyn’s death, promising finally, once and for all, to close her case? Quite possibly. Yes. Notably, during my many years researching Mar­ilyn’s life and death, I have read one-hundred and twenty-seven books and watched, I con­servatively speculate, at least one-hundred documentaries that claimed to be the result of a new examination of her death. Recently, over the course of a few hours, I searched Al Gore’s Amazing Internet for Marilyn Monroe documentary videos: I stopped searching after I had book marked one-hundred and two. Also, during that impromptu search, I encountered a video that I had never seen before, one video with three similar but different names: 1) Marilyn: A Counter Investigation Into a Suspicious Death; 2) Marilyn: The  Ultimate Investigation Into a Suspicious Death; and 3) Marilyn: The Final Investigation Into a Suspicious Death. The pro­ducers of the video clearly chose title number three and the word final to induce the per­ception that their investigation, and the resultant documentary, was meant to be and would be the manifest final word regarding the circumstances and the facts related to the suspicious death of Marilyn Monroe.

A co-creation for television by two French film production companies, France 2 and Sunset Presse, with the participation of the Centre National de la Cinématographie, according to IMDb, the final investigation into Marilyn’s suspicious death aired on French TV sometime in 1999. Two years later, according to the Rotten Tomatoes website, the production sailed the Atlantic Ocean or crossed by rail the vast land mass to the east of Paris; and on August the 7th in 2001, thirty-nine years and three days following the date of Marilyn’s death, materialized on American TV. It is worth noting here, that Donald Spoto’s Marilyn biography had been in print for six years with the arrival of 1999 and eight years with the arrival of August 2001: Spoto’s biography was the first in Marilyn’s cañon to logically question, without sensational­ism, her murder at the hands of the dastardly middle Kennedy brothers. Unfortu­nately, Sarah Churchwell’s perceptive excavation of Marilyn’s many biographical lives, and the many falsities contained therein, would not appear in print for three years.

A photographer and Marilyn’s friend, George Barris, was the French producer’s choice to be first in their line-up of on-camera testifiers. She was murdered, the photographer asserted three seconds into the video, and then he asked seriously, while staring into the camera lense: What else could it have been? The logical and scientifically correct answer to George’s query would have been: she committed suicide. But then George admitted: I don’t think she ever killed herself. He failed to admit that no amount of evidence proving suicide would change his opinion, a fine example of belief per­se­verance; and as Lee Ross and Craig Anderson have shown by experiments and research, deeply held beliefs or convictions, despite contraindicative evidence and testimony, can and often will remain entrenched and unshaken. According to the researchers, such beliefs can sur­vive potent and logical or empirical challenges. Experiments and research also indicated that: 1) falsehoods are particularly difficult to discredit once implanted and a person or a group develops a rationale for accepting the falsehoods; and 2) beliefs can survive and even be bolstered by evidence that most uncommitted observers would agree logically demands some weakening of such beliefs. They can even survive the total destruction of their original eviden­tial bases.2Ross, Lee and Craig Anderson. “Shortcomings in the attribution process: On the origins and maintenance of erroneous social assessments”, pp. 129-152. Judgement under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases. D. Kahneman, P. Slovic, and A. Tversky, Editors: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 1982.

Following the entrenched declarations by George Barris, Michael Rothmiller, a former undercover detective in the LAPD’s Organized Crime Intelligence Division (hereafter OCID),3The OCID was a division of the LAPD formed in 1946 by then Police Chief Clemence Horrall. The squad’s original purpose was to keep the East Coast Mafia and elements of organized crime from gaining a stronghold in LA. Locally, the intelligence unit became known by the name “Gangster Squad.” Evidently the squad morphed into an illegal aggregation of thugs that often broke more than a few laws “in the name of law and order.”reported this: It was a murder designed to look like a suicide; but despite that pronouncement, twenty-two years later, in 2021, Rothmiller would publish a book entitled Bombshell: The Night Bobby Kennedy Killed Marilyn Monroe. According to the author, he obtained the following confession from Peter Lawford in 1982: the British actor had watched as America’s attorney general heartlessly poisoned the world famous movie star on Saturday night, August the 4th in 1962. So, Roth­miller allegedly knew the ugly secrets in 1999; but he never said a word to anyone, not to anyone, for thirty-nine long years, essentially four decades, about what he purportedly had learned from Peter Lawford’s 1982 confession. Here’s the centrally important question. Why? Fear, of course, that he might be murdered by the criminal middle Kennedy brothers?

Like George Barris, Lawrence Schiller was a photographer. He snapped several nude shots of Marilyn as she filmed the swimming pool scene during her final but never completed film, Something’s Got to Give. Also known as Larry, he often spoke about Marilyn as if they were the best of friends; but such was not the case. In fact, the video’s narrator noted that Schiller considered Marilyn a partner—exactly what type of partner the narrator did not explain—but Schiller did not, however, consider Marilyn to be his friend. On camera, Schiller proffered the following opinion, the following hypothesis: I can see her getting more and more depressed, losing track of time—one pill, two pills, three pills. Thusly, Marilyn’s death was an accidental suicide according to Schiller’s belief; and yet, during the 1962 Au­gust 18th press conference with doctors Curphey, Far­berow and Litman, a reporter asked a question directly related to Schiller’s hypothesis, that Marilyn’s suicide was an accident caused by drugged forgetfulness:

I want to know. Is there any shadow of possibility that she may have taken the drugs in a drugged state? Is there any history of this sort of thing?

Dr. Litman stated that he wanted to answer the reporter’s question.

There was not a case in the medical records where it could be authenticated that someone had died of barbiturate poisoning under the circumstances that you suggest—that is that they became so drugged that they didn’t know what they were doing and they took a lethal dose (Vitacco-Robles, WKMM, v1:146).

Jeanne Laverne Carmen, Marilyn’s purported best gal pal and one-time roommate, appeared on camera next. Marilyn was happier than she’s ever been, Jeanne announced, and then she qualified her announcement: outside those little things like Bobby, an insinuation that Marilyn’s little and niggling romantic affair with the Attorney General of the United States generated some unhappiness. Still and puta­tively, Marilyn’s deep, deep suicidal depression was allegedly the manifestation of Bobby’s heartless rejection; but despite what Jeanne announced, there is not any evidence whatsoever that Marilyn and Robert Kennedy were ever involved romantically or sexually. In fact, both had been apprised of the rumors regarding their nuclear love affair and each offered their firm deni­als. Marilyn told Susan Strasberg, Ralph Roberts and Norman Rosten, her poet friend, that she did not find Robert Kennedy physically appealing; and even though she liked the attorney general, liked his sense of humor and his civil rights agenda, Robert Kennedy was not her romantic type: Marilyn preferred tall, older and bespectacled men. Besides, there is not a shred of evidence which proves that Jeanne Carmen even knew Marilyn, that they were friends and that Jeanne was Marilyn’s confidant, not even one photograph, letter, birthday card or girlfriend note.

Regarding Robert Ken­nedy’s reaction to gossip, he was aware of other rumors about his personal life. Once, J. Ed­gar Hoover, director of the FBI, notified the attorney general of a recorded, eavesdropped conversation between the mobster Meyer Lansky and Lansky’s wife. During that recorded conversation, the mob­ster putatively stated that Robert Kennedy had once been involved sexually with a woman in El Paso, Texas. According to John Seigenthaler, Robert Kennedy’s administrative assistant, Hoover received a guardedly terse response from the attorney general, who noted that he had never visited El Paso and had never known a woman from that city; it follows, then, that the allegation was obviously baseless. He then stated a fact of which Hoover was most certainly aware, since the FBI director was one himself:4It is probably more accurate to call J. Edgar Hoover a quidnunc, a person who endeavors to learn and use all the latest gossip to achieve defamatory or negative ends.gossip-mongers just have to talk. Robert men­tioned the rumor that he was currently or had once been involved with the actress Marilyn Monroe. At least I have met Marilyn Monroe, the attorney general informed Hoover, a good friend of my sister, Pat Lawford.“5“Fiction, Falsehood’ about the Kennedys.” John Seigenthaler. The Courier-Journal, Louisville, KY. Sunday. 8 Aug 1993

Yet another photographer, William Woodfield, appeared to testify next. Bobby Kennedy was supposedly in town, Woodfield proclaimed; and then, as if he was completing the sentence started by Woodfield, the attorney, John Miner, appeared and additionally proclaimed: and that would lead to the conclusion that Miss Monroe was murdered. With John Miner’s procla­mation, what appeared to be the entire premise of the Final Investigation into the death of Marilyn Monroe had been established, a mere thirty-one seconds into the production. Marilyn did not commit suicide: ergo, the movie star was murdered due to her affair with the Attorney General of the United States, a myth as large as Turing’s Apple. Woodfield’s use of the word supposedly implied doubt and also that the photographer did not actually observe Robert Kennedy in Los Angeles. Woodfield merely repeated what he had been told. According to the Cambridge Dictionary, the word supposedly is normally used by a person to indicate that he or she does not actually accept as the truth something that they have been told.

But Wait! By the time we arrive at the end of this Final Investigation, the producers will do a vaguely ungraceful pirouette and tiptoe in another conspiratorial direction before deciding on a relatively prosaic reason, the actual reason, in their estimation, for Marilyn Monroe’s suspicious, untimely death.

Each time I have written a critique, or an analysis or an evaluation of a production by the media, whether literary or cinematic, appertaining to Marilyn Monroe’s life or her death, I have been confronted with the same fundamental dilemma: since I have written many thousands of words about the blonde actress, just how much repetition should I allow myself? Or more to the point, perhaps, since most of what has been written and filmed about Marilyn’s death is itself weedy repetition, and as evidence that she was murdered, as gossamer and as flimsy as cobwebs, just how far should I traipse into the repetitious and gossamer weeds? Well, as far as the French’s Final Investigation is concerned, I am going to denote a few falsehoods the producers advance as facts and then end this mild rant with a general summation of the video.

At 4 minutes and 12 seconds, the narrator asserted:

Marilyn’s death triggered a shockwave of emotion around the world but it was not an actress that was mourned but a myth. Her fans believed it was suicide. Nobody thought she had been murdered. The investigation was reopened in 1982 but not for long. 30 days later the judges closed the case without a word.

The preceding assertion contains both fact and fiction. Marilyn’s death did cause an eruption of emotion worldwide; however, not all of her fans readily accepted Dr. Curphey’s press conference edict that she probably committed suicide. In fact, a majority of her fans never believed, and still do not believe, that Marilyn committed suicide; she must have been murdered. Also, it is a fact that the LACDA’s office re-opened and re-investigated Marilyn’s case in 1982; however, the re-investigation spanned five months, not just thirty days; and the case was not closed without a word. The Assistant DA at the time, Ronald H. Carroll, and a lead investigator, Alan B. Tomich, along with several other investigators, reviewed the case files between the months of August and December, conducted additional interviews and addressed all the questions raised by various conspiracist writers. The LACDA’s office then published, in December of that year, a twenty-nine page summary report (hereafter SR), The Death of Marilyn Monroe: Report to the District Attorney, a copy of which I obtained in 2014 directly from the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. And by the way. As far as I know, judges, meaning a governing judicial body, did not get involved in any way.

The producer’s reference to the re-investigation of 1982 led to a testimonial appearance by Anthony Summers, an Irish investigative journalist involved with the British Broadcasting Corporation. He wrote Goddess, a Marilyn pathography that Summers published in 1985. Regarding Marilyn’s death, Summers has been a proponent of the theory that Marilyn was murdered, that the middle Kennedy brothers were involved; and thereafter they orchestrated a massive cover-up. Only recently Summers altered his stance on Marilyn’s death, asserting that she died from an accidental overdose; however, the author has, as the years since Marilyn’s death accumulated, regularly vilified and ridiculed the SR, as have most, possibly even all, of the con­spir­acist writers. That group of journalists have cynically classified the re-investigation, and the resultant documentation there­of, as a self-serving deceitful miscellany, an orchestrated and a monumental hoax, just like her original autopsy.

In our French video, Summers is presented as an expert in American politics, an expert who possessed little or no interest in Hollywood or Marilyn Monroe for that matter; but he was, we are told, an experienced investigative journalist who sensed a massive scandal and an unsolved crime. Summers recalled:

Marilyn Monroe came into my life in the most curious way. I was in London and was talking to a colleague of mine who was the senior editor of a major London newspaper and we were discussing the fact that in Los Angeles the local authorities the district attorney’s office had reopened the probe into the death of Marilyn Monroe 20 years after the fact and this was a bizarre and one of the first things that I found to my astonishment was that nobody who knew what they were doing knew how to marshal facts and really delve into-into the matter had looked properly into her death. No wonder there was a mystery about her death. It had never been properly reported.

Anthony Summers rapidly realized that the heart of the mystery was the time of night at which [Marilyn] had been found apparently dead. While the official or accepted version was that she’d been found at 3:40 AM in the morning, Summers found himself talking to Natalie Trun­dy Jacobs, a very credible witness, according to Summers, who had been interrupted during a concert with her hus­band at the Hollywood Bowl on August the 4th in 1962. At that time, Natalie, an actress, was Arthur Jacobs6Arthur P. Jacobs, through his production company, APJAC, produced the five original Planet of the Apes movies. Natalie appeared as various characters in the final four movies produced by her husband.fiancé; and Jacobs owned the press agency that represented Marilyn. According to Natalie’s videotaped recollections:

This day I was at a concert at the Hollywood Bowl with Mr. and Mrs. Mervyn LeRoy and my husband Arthur Jacobs and in the middle of the concert they received through somehow situation that an emergency had arisen and he got up and left. It was not even half way through the concert so I would assume it was about 9 or half, half past, you know, half 9 in the evening.

The message had been received by the Hollywood Bowl and had been delivered due to some mysterious and unknown mechanism?—they received through somehow. Not exactly what I would call exacting or meticulous testimony; and according to Donald Spoto’s Marilyn biography, Natalie testified to him that an usher delivered the message to her then fiancé around 10 or 10:30 PM, just before the concert ended at 11:00 PM (Spoto 573). Marilyn biographer, Gary Vitacco-Robles, offered an astute appraisal of Natalie’s recollections and called into question the circumstances surrounding the delivery of the concussive message to Jacobs. Gary noted:

Unless Jacobs had regularly reserved a specific box, how would an usher locate him among the audience during a concert at the Hollywood Bowl to deliver the message? And who did the caller contact at the venue to relay the message?

Gary correctly noted, of course, that cell phones did not exist in 1962; and according to information published in the LA Times, the Hollywood Bowl’s box office would have closed at 9:00 PM. Gary then surmised, using the times Natalie attested to Donald Spoto, that the Hollywood Bowl’s box office would have been closed for ninety minutes when Trundy reported the message had been delivered7I have not been able to determine if the Hollywood Bowl had a published number that could be called in the case of an emergency.(Vitacco-Robles WKMM, v1:65).

Arthur left almost immediately, according to Natalie, and drove to Fifth Helena Drive, arriving there around 11:30 PM or 12:00 AM, where he conferred with some persons who were already at the hacienda. Arthur, she stated, left the hacienda only after a few minutes of conversation. A few days later, he told Natalie that the situation at Fifth Helena Drive was horrid. Natalie admitted to Spoto that Jacobs never provided any details: he commented only that the situation was too dreadful to discuss (Spoto 588). Since Natalie never asked Jacobs for any details, and he never volunteered any, then her knowledge of what transpired that tragic morning was, therefore, limited, certainly an inarguable fact. Additionally, Natalie Trundy’s testimony has never been corroborated. As far as I know, and have been able to determine, neither Mer­vyn LeRoy nor his wife, Kitty,8Mervyn LeRoy was born in 1900 in San Francisco, experienced the great Frisco earthquake and fire of 1906 and survived. He died on September the 13th in 1987. I have not been able to determine the fate of Kitty.ever commented regarding that Saturday evening. Also, I would be remiss if I failed to note that Natalie Trundy’s testimony regarding Arthur Jacobs’ movements that August night clearly qualified as hearsay that could not be corroborated by interviewing Arthur Jacobs: he had died from sudden heart failure in 1973.

Speaking only for me, of course, I am relieved that a London Newspaper dispatched Anthony Summers, political expert, consummate and crackerjack investigative journalist to Los Angeles in order to actually marshal facts and really delve into the matter and solve the mystery of Marilyn Monroe’s untimely death. The producers of the Final Investigation insinuated that Anthony Summers arrival in Los Angeles was somehow ceremonious, even heaven sent, somehow necessary for the resolution of the cause of Marilyn’s death; but was that actually the case? The summary report had already been released, absent any input from the consummate investigative expert; and the LACDA had concluded that, even though factual discrepancies exist and unanswered questions surfaced in our probe, the cumulative evidence available to us fails to support any theory of criminal conduct relating to her death (SR 2). The summary report ended with the following succinct statement: Based on the information available, no further criminal investigation appears required into Miss Monroe’s death (SR 29). The district attorney closed Marilyn’s case again. Still, accusations of misconduct and collusion by the LACDA, the LAPD, and all the other BIG letter acronyms that were allegedly involved in Marilyn’s death, persisted, even after the 1982 threshold re-investigation; and those accusations persist to this day.

Various biographers have asserted that Pat Newcomb discussed with Natalie Jacobs the events leading to Marilyn’s death: at the time, the two women were next door neighbors. However, Pat Newcomb has seldom discussed Marilyn Monroe, granted very few interviews or even mentioned Natalie Jacobs as far as I know or have been able to determine. Also, Natalie’s anecdote varied over the passing years, not only regarding the time the vital message was delivered to Arthur, but the person who actually placed the call to the Hollywood Bowl. She testified that Milton Rudin, Marilyn’s attorney, had placed the call from Peter Lawford’s beachside mansion; but she also testified: 1) that Milton Rudin had placed the call from Fifth Helena; 2) that Dr. Greenson, Marilyn’s psychiatrist, had placed the call, also from Fifth Helena; 3) that Patricia Newcomb had placed the call from an unknown location; and 4) Natalie even suggested, on one occasion, that the caller who reported Marilyn’s overdose could have been Peter Lawford, who called, yet again, from Fifth Helena Drive. Natalie also provided two accounts regarding how she returned home after Arthur received the message about Marilyn. In one account, the LeRoys drove her home, after the concert ended; in another account, she alleged that both she and Arthur left immediately after he received the message: Arthur drove her home on his way to Fifth Helena. At any rate, and more significantly perhaps, Natalie Jacobs is the only source for the Hollywood Bowl anecdote.

Twelve seconds past the two minute mark, the video’s narrator informs his listeners that Sgt Jack Clemmons, the first LAPD officer to arrive at Marilyn’s hacienda during the morning of August the 5th, did not agree with the offi­cial version of what happened to the movie star, meaning she did not commit suicide, meaning she was mur­dered. According to the narrator: Sgt Clemmons did not agree [with the suicide edict] and protested. Nobody listened and he was fired from the [police] force. The preceding declaration regarding the employment fate of Jack Clemmons was, and is, factually incorrect. Factually, the sergeant’s fourteen year career as a member of the LAPD came to an unethical and dishonorable end, his forced retirement his only punishment for participating in the Senator Thomas Kuchel defamation conspiracy that transpired in 1964. 

According to the FBI’s files9Both the LAPD and the FBI investigated the defamation conspiracy at the request of Senator Kuchel.and memoranda on the conspiracy, Sgt Clemmons, along with anti-Robert-Kennedy cru­sader, Frank Capell, and two other men, former LAPD motorcycle COP, Norman Krause, and an industrialist, John Fergus, accused Senator Kuchel of driving under the influence, public drunkenness and pub­licly engaging in a homosexual act, all false and politically motivated, of course. Each of the four men filed false affidavits accusing Senator Kuchel, and Norman Krause swore that he had arrested the senator in 1959 for the said offenses. The conspiracy ended ignominiously. After three weeks of testimony from a host of cred­ible witnesses, during February of 1965, a Grand Jury indicted the four men involved and charged each with conspiracy to commit criminal libel and wrongfully at­tempting to smear Senator Kuchel in order to affect his moral reputation. However, the four men agreed to plead either guilty or no contest to reduced misdemeanor charges; and they also agreed to publicly apologize to the senator. As part of the plea deal, the LACDA dropped the charges against Sgt Clemmons, who had been encouraged to resign from the LAPD prior to the issuance of the grand jury’s indictment. Sgt Jack Clemmons had axes to grind; and he did not appear as a testifier during the Final Investigation into Marilyn’s suspicious death: he had relocated his residence into eternity during early April of 1998.

Near the end of the video, John Miner appears on camera to assert: It is known and admitted that her housekeeper Eunice Murray was operating a washing machine at midnight after the death of her mistress. Why? To begin with, not one person, as far as I know, has ever admitted that Mrs. Murray was washing Marilyn’s bed clothes at midnight. Also, John Miner became the most vocal proponent of death by enema. Dr. Noguchi’s autopsy report noted that Marilyn’s colon was congested and discolored. This fact was a central gear in the machinery of Donald Spoto’s alternate theory regarding the movie star’s accidental death. According to Spoto, Dr. Greenson ordered Mrs. Murray to administer a sedative enema which irritated Marilyn’s sigmoid colon and ultimately caused her death. Well … it seems reasonable, Miner continued,

that some fluid and perhaps fecal matter had escaped during the administration of the barbiturate enema. And there is a reasonably good chance then that the discolored colon and the congestion were the product of the way in which the barbiturate came into Miss Monroe’s body.

Earlier in the video at the seven minute mark, John Miner testified: If by means of the barbiturate coming through the use of an enema the medical facts would be satisfied and that would lead to the conclusion that Miss Monroe was murdered. Therefore, whereas John Miner all but accused Dr. Greenson and Eunice Murray of murdering Marilyn Monroe, Donald Spoto relegated the star’s death to the status of accidental.

There are many problems with John Miner’s assessments and pronouncements—as many problems as Carter’s got little liver pills; and likewise, Donald Spoto’s alternate accidental death theory is afflicted with the same liver pill problems. That Eunice Murray happened to be operating an automatic washer and dryer did not appear in any of the three filed, official police reports; and not one person present that morning in August ever mentioned the discovery of Mrs. Murray doing the laundry after Marilyn Monroe had been pronounced dead.

In fact, the accusation and implication that Eunice got caught in the act of destroying evidence began in the 1980s with none other than Sgt Jack Clemmons: he never mentioned that detail contemporaneously. Twenty years after the fact, Mrs. Murray’s domestic activity was a creation provided by a man, a disgraced policeman who was not very trustworthy and who did not flinch at twisting the truth or creating false evidence that he presented as facts. Additionally, since Sgt Clemmons did not arrive at Marilyn’s hacienda until 4:25 AM, John Miner’s stipulated time of midnight, or 12:00 AM, certainly represents a chronological impossibility: would Eunice have needed nearly four and one-half hours to wash and dry a load of sheets?

Additionally, many of the conspiracists have asserted that the water supply to Marilyn’s hacienda had been disabled due to her on-going remodeling project. If we accept that dubious assertion to be fact, which I do not believe we should,10Disabling the water supply and leaving it disabled overnight would have created a very unsanitary situation.how could Eunice have been operating a washer? There are other indelicate issues pertaining to Marilyn’s colon and her autopsy that I will forego mentioning. Clearly, that Eunice Murray was doing the laundry during the early morning hours of August the 5th should be classified as fable. All that’s missing is the inclusion of dancing lambs and fairies!

Furthermore, it is clear from extant receipts, that Marilyn used “Cleaners A A Laundry,” a service located in Brentwood Heights; and as the receipts, pictured below, clearly indicate, Eunice Murray interceded with the laundry service for Marilyn. The movie star did not own a washer or a dryer, and her hacienda was not equipped with washer connections or a thru-wall dryer vent.