June 25, 2026

Marilyn Monroe Died in the Most Watched House in America — and No One Secured the Scene (Part 1 of 2)

Marilyn Monroe Died in the Most Watched House in America — and No One Secured the Scene (Part 1 of 2)

Part one of a two-part centennial investigation. Marilyn Monroe — born Norma Jeane Mortenson 100 years ago this month — was found dead in her Brentwood home on August 4, 1962, and within hours the most famous woman in the world was ruled a "probable suicide" by barbiturate overdose. Garret Fisher walks through the night: the housekeeper, the hours that vanished before police were called at 4:30 a.m., the first officer who thought the body looked too composed, and Thomas Noguchi's autopsy. Then to 2026, where a new Fox/TMZ special, Celebrity Crime Scene: Marilyn Monroe, uses AI to rebuild the barely-photographed death scene — and retired cold-case investigator Paul Holes, who helped identify the Golden State Killer, lays out his red flags: pristine sheets, a neatly arranged empty Nembutal bottle, no water glass, and a broken window with the glass on the wrong side. The argument that holds up isn't a murder conspiracy — it's that the 1962 investigation was a shambles that left every question open.

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Caalaroga Shark Media. Good morning. I'm Garrett Fisher and this

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is Daily Crime Injustice. It's Thursday, June twenty fifth, twenty

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twenty six. Tonight we're stepping back, way back, because this

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weekend marks a centennial. Norma Jean Mortensen was born on

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June first, nineteen twenty six. The world came to know

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her as Marilyn Monroe. And if one hundred years sounds

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impossible for someone who still feels that present, that modern,

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that alive on a screen, well that's part of the

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problem we're going to talk about. She never got old,

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she got famous, and then she got gone at thirty

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six in a small house at the end of a

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cul de sac in Brentwood, August fourth, nineteen sixty two late.

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The house is at one two three five fifth Helena Drive,

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the only home Marylyn ever bought on her own. Her housekeeper,

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Eunice Murray, is there overnight. Sometime in the small hours,

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she notices something that troubles her. A light, a phone

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cord under the bedroom door. Accounts have differed for sixty

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years on exactly what, and she can't get a response.

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She calls Maryland's psychiatrist, doctor Ralph Greenson. Greenson comes He

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can't get in either, so he goes around the outside

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of the house and breaks a bedroom window to reach her. Inside,

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Marilyn is on the bed. She's gone. A second doctor,

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her physician, Jyman Engelberg, arrives and confirms it. And here

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is the first thing I want you to sit with,

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because it's going to matter all night. By the time

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the Los Angeles Police Department is actually called to the scene,

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hours have passed, not minutes. Hours, The most photographed woman

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in the world is dead in her own bed, and

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the clock that should have started the second she was

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found instead just ran the corner. Ruled it a probable

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suicide overdose of barbiturates. That ruling has stood for sixty

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four years, and this year her hundred. The man who

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helped identify the Golden State Killer went on television and

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said in so many words that the scene he was

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looking at was staged. Nobody, he said, stages a suicide

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to look like a better suicide. I'm Garrett Fisher. This

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is part one of two tonight, who Marilyn actually was

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the night she died, the autopsy that named it, and

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the brand new investigation, reopening all of it tomorrow. The Kennedy's,

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the doctors, and the one question in this whole saga

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we can actually answer. Let's get into it. The woman,

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not the poster. Before she's a theory, before she's a

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crime scene, before she's one hundred candles, she never got

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to blow out. She was a person. And I want

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to start there because the entire reason this case curdled

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into sixty years of suspicion is that very few of

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the people standing closest to Marilyn Monroe were actually paying

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attention to her. She was born into nothing, a mother

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who couldn't care for her, a childhood handed between foster

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homes and an orphanage, a stretch of real instability before

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she ever saw a camera. She built Marilyn Monroe out

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of that. The name, the voice, the walk, all of

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it constructed deliberately by a woman who understood exactly what

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the studio system wanted and gave it to them while

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quietly fighting to be taken seriously. She started her own

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production company in the nineteen fifties when actresses simply did

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not do that. She wanted better roles. She studied, She

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read the dumb blonde was a character she played, and

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she knew it was a character, and it followed her

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out of every room she ever tried to be smart in.

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By the summer of nineteen sixty two, she was thirty

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six and, depending on whose account you trust, either on

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the verge of a comeback or coming apart at the seams.

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She just been fired off a film and rehired. She

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was doing major magazine interviews. She was also, by every

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honest account, exhausted, isolated, dependent on prescription sedatives, and surrounded

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by men, doctors, studio executives, hangers on who each needed

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something different from her. Hold that picture a vulnerable woman,

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heavily medicated, managed by people with agendas. There's a playbook

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for this, and it almost never ends. Well. That's the

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woman who died on August fourth. Not a symbol, not

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a punchline, a thirty six year old human being who

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on her hundredth birthday, deserves to have her death looked

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at as carefully as her face was. The night and

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the hours that when missing, let me walk you through

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the scene as it was reported, and let me be

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honest with you up front. The timeline of that night

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is a mess, and it has been a mess from

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the very first telephone call. Different participants gave different times.

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Eunice Murray, the housekeeper changed her account more than once

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over the years. So when I lay this out, understand

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these are the reported sequences, not stone tablets. What's consistent

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is this Murray is in the house overnight, in the

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early morning hours, she becomes alarmed. She summons doctor Greenson.

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Greenson breaks the bedroom window from outside and gets in.

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Engelberg comes and confirms the death, and the Los Angeles

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Police Department does not get the call until roughly four

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thirty in the morning. The first officer through the door

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is a sergeant named Jack Clemens. And Clemens, this is

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the part that has fueled six decades of doubt, said

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almost immediately that something felt wrong. The body, in his telling,

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looked too composed to arranged. He found the housekeeper doing laundry,

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running a washing machine in the middle of the night,

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in a house where the most famous woman in America

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had just died. To a working cop. That does and

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read like grief. It reads like cleanup. Now that is

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Clemens's impression, his interpretation, and he was one man with

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one view. But he's the first train set of eyes

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on that scene, and his gut said this was staged

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before anyone had ever heard of AI reconstructions. Here's why

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those missing hours matter so much, and it's not conspiracy,

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it's just police work. A death scene is a perishable thing.

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The first hours are when you photograph everything, bag everything, time, everything,

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before a single object moves in Brentwood that night. By

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the time the police owned the scene, an unknown number

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of people had been in and out of that bedroom

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for hours, doctors, a housekeeper, a washing machine running. Whatever

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the truth of what happened to Marilyn Monroe, the chance

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to document it cleanly was already gone. That's not a mistake.

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When you're dealing with the death of the most famous

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person in the country and you let the scene sit

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for hours, that's a choice, or at minimum, are so

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large it might as well be won. The body went

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downtown to the Los Angeles County Coroner's office and the

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autopsy was performed by a deputy medical examiner named Thomas Nogucci,

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a name that would later become famous in its own

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right as the coroner to the Stars. Nogucci found a

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lethal level of barbiturates, the drug at the center of

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it was nembaal pentobarbital, a powerful sleeping medication, along with

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chloral hydrate, a sedative. The coroner's conclusion acute barbiturate poisoning

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the manner of death probable suicide. To support that finding,

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Los Angeles did something fairly novel for the time. They

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convened a panel from the Suicide Prevention Center to perform

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what's called a psychological autopsy, essentially reconstructing marylyn state of

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mind from her history, her prescriptions, her mood, the testimony

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of people around her. The panel looked at a woman

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with documented depression, mood swings, a long reliance on sedatives,

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and a large quantity of pills in the house, and

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concluded the probable suicide ruling fit. The official Corners report

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leaned on that same picture, her history, her medications, the

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sheer amounts of medicine within reach, and look, I'm going

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to be honest with you, that is a coherent, defensible conclusion,

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and I'm not here to wave it away. A grieving, medicated,

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isolated person dies of an overdose of her own prescribed

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sleeping pills. On its face, it's the simplest reading and

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the simplest reading is usually the right one. But there

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were details even in nineteen sixty two that nagged at

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the people who looked closely. And these are the things

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that critics of the ruling have pointed to ever since,

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the question of how that much barbiturate got into her

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system the way it did, Questions about what was and

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wasn't found in her stomach, the thinness of the physical documentation.

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None of those questions by themselves prove anything sinister. Reasonable

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forensic people have argued both sides for sixty years, but

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every one of those questions exists because the scene was

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handled the way it was handled. A clean investigation answers questions.

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A sloppy one manufactures them. Brentwood manufactured them by the dozen,

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and they've been compounding interest ever since. Enter the Golden

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State Killer Investigator, which brings us to right now, to

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twenty twenty six, to the centennial. Because television networks do

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not let one hundredth birthday pass without a reason to

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put a face back on the screen, and Fox and

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TMZ found theirs. The special is called Celebrity Crime Scene

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Marilyn Monroe. It premiered on Fox on June twenty first,

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and streamed the next day on Hulu TMZ's Harvey Levin

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is behind and he said flatly that what his team

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found challenges the suicide ruling and points to something his

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word far more sinister. The hook is the technology. They

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used artificial intelligence to rebuild the interior of Maryland's home,

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the bedroom, the nightstand, the window, so investigators could walk

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a virtual version of a scene that in the real

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world was barely photographed at all. And the lead investigator

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is not a tabloid talking head. It's Paul Holes, the

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retired cold case detective who spent more than two decades

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in California law enforcement and played a central role in

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finally identifying the Golden State Killer. He's joined by senior

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crime scene analyst Alena Burrows and true crime journalist Kiki Monique. Now,

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I want to be precise here because this is exactly

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the kind of thing that gets twisted in the retelling.

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Holes is not standing up and saying he has solved

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the murder of Marilyn Monroe. He's saying this scene as

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documented doesn't sit with him. So let me give you

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his actual red flags and you can weigh them yourself.

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One the lack of documentation, there are Hole says, very

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few photographs of the death scene at all, and from

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the one image showing her in the bed, he says,

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his eye immediately caught in consistencies. The sheets, in his description,

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were clean and perfect. The body, he says, was arranged

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Overdose scenes, he points out, are typically not tidy. The

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body purges, things get messy. This one was pristine. Two

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the pill bottles on the small nightstand by her head,

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Hole says. The bottles were lined up with all the

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labels facing the same direction, including the most important one,

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the empty nembutal bottle. That prescription had been filled two

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days earlier for fifty capsules, empty, lid back on, set

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neatly in place. His point, a person about to take

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that many pills does not typically tidy up the nightstand first,

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and cap the empty bottle. Three the water. This one

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is almost absurd in its simplicity. If you've just swallowed

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dozens of capsules, you needed something to swallow them with,

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and reportedly there was no glass of water found in

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that bedroom. None. Four And this is the one that

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stopped me. The window. The window doctor greenson supposedly broke

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from outside to get in. Holes points out that the

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broken glass was on the outside of the house. Think

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about that for one second. If you break a window

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from the outside to reach in, the glass falls inward,

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it falls into the room. Glass on the outside suggests

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the window was broken from the inside out. As Holes

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put it, nobody stages a suicide to look like a

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better suicide. And the analyst on his team made the

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plane observation that if you're already inside a house trying

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to make a scene look a certain way, you don't

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run around to the yard to break a window in.

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You just break the glass. That's the case the special

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makes about the scene itself, and I'll give you my

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honest read. As a murder accusation, it proves nothing, and

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we are going to be very careful tomorrow about the

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much wilder claims this special also makes. But as an

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indictment of the nineteen sixty two investigation, it's devastating because

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every single one of those red flags is really the

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same red flag wearing a different hat. They all come

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back to a death scene that was never properly secured,

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never properly photographed, never properly worked. A scene that was

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contaminated before the police even arrived. What we actually know tonight.

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So let me tell you where we honestly stand at

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the end of part one. Because I refuse to send

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you to bed thinking I just proved a murder. I didn't.

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Here's what's true. It's true that the official ruling, the

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only legal conclusion ever reached, is probable suicide by barbiturate overdose.

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It's true that in the sixty four years since the

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case has been reopened and re examined more than once,

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and that no official body has ever publicly produced evidence

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of foul play that matters. I'm not going to let

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as slick ai reconstruction overrule six decades of that just

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because it makes better television. But it is also true,

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undeniably on the record, agreed upon by skeptics and believers alike,

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that the investigation into the death of the most famous

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woman in the world was a shambles, hours lost, a

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scene walked through and possibly cleaned, barely any photographs, a

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housekeeper running laundry while a sergeant stood there with his

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stomach turning. That's the real crime I can prove tonight,

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not who did what to Marilyn Monroe, But the simple

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infuriating fact that when she died, nobody, not the people

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in that house, not the system that showed up at

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four thirty in the morning, nobody was paying attention to

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her with the care she was owed. Tomorrow we go

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where this story always goes, the Kennedys, the FBI files,

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Paul Holes wants unsealed, the mob the claim in this

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very special that she may not have even died at home,

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and the thread I find most credible and most damning

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of all the doctors, the two physicians who had this

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woman on a cocktail that could kill, and the question

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of whether anyone was ever held to account for it.

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That's part two. Before you go. If this one got

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under your skin, share it. Tell a friend who loves

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a real mystery. That word of mouth is the whole

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ballgame for a show like this. And if you're listening

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on Spotify, drop a comment and tell me where you

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land botched investigation or something worse. I read them. I'm

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Garrett Fisher. This was part one. Come back tomorrow and

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until then, do better. A few important things before we close.

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Marilyn Monroe's death was officially ruled a probable suicide from

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acute barbiturate poisoning by the Los Angeles County Coroner in

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nineteen sixty two, and that remains the only official conclusion

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ever reached. The case has been reviewed since, and to date,

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no law enforcement agency has publicly identified evidence of foul

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play or homicide. The claims that the scene was staged

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and any suggestion of murder come from the Fox and

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TMZ special Celebrity Crime Scene Marilyn Monroe and the opinions

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of its investigators, including Paul Holes. They are interpretations and theories,

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not legal findings, and no one has been charged in

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connection with her death. Reporting on this case, including the

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timeline of who found her and when police were notified,

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has been inconsistent for more than sixty years. Where accounts conflict,

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we've flagged them as reported rather than settled. This episode

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discusses suicide. If you or someone you know is struggling,

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you can call or text nine eight eight in the

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United States to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. Sourcing

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for Tonight includes Box News, Digital, The Mirror, AOL, Yahoo,

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and TMZ.