Theories Of Marilyn Monroe

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The death of Marilyn Monroe is one of the most famous, unsolved murders of all time. Her death certificate claims that on the night of August 4th, 1962 Marilyn Monroe killed herself from a drug overdose in her home in Los Angeles, California. Although some might say that the drug overdose is the only possible reason of her passing, other might say that theories such as the CIA killed Marilyn Monroe makes more sense. For example, Marilyn Monroe was allegedly having an affair with both John F. Kennedy and Attorney General Robert Kennedy. The most common theory supports the idea that “the Kennedys killed her (or had her killed) because they feared she would make public their love affairs and other government secrets she was gathering” (History.com …show more content…

Due to Robert Kennedy being in town on the day that Marilyn died, suspicions arose that after one of Marilyn and Robert’s affair happened that night, Marilyn overdosed and was rushed to the hospital. In the ambulance ride, Marilyn passed away and Robert Kennedy took her back to her home and proceeded to cover it up as a suicide in order to hide the affair. In other words, “Summers claims Monroe accidentally OD’d, but died in an ambulance on the way to the hospital, so her body was returned to her home where Lawford, Kennedy, and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover staged her death as a suicide” …show more content…

When Dr. Greenson and Marilyn’s housekeeper broke into Marilyn’s room they both claimed it happened around midnight to one in the morning. The cops showed up to the crime scene around 4:15 the morning of August 5th. This gives both the psychiatrist and the housekeeper time to stage her whole entire death as a suicide. To continue with the small theories about Marilyn’s death, Marilyn Monroe had a significant past with drug abuse. Marilyn was prescribed Barbiturate to help with relaxation and sleeping, this later was confirmed to be her cause of death, a Barbiturate overdose. Although, no actual traces of Barbiturate was found in her stomach or her blood stream even though there was a bottle on her bed stand

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