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DEATH

Brentwood :

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departure of the body

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Westwood Village : 

arrival of the body

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departure of the body to the Los Angeles County Morgue

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return of the body at Westwood Village after the autopsy

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Los Angeles Morgue : 

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On the official police report, Marilyn was declared dead by her physician Dr Hyman Engelberg at 3.50 AM, on August 5th 1962.

Though the rigor mortis at thuis time tended to proce that her death happened during the evening of August 4th, i.e about 8 hours before the official time.

In his biography,Anthony Summers relates the following incident : on August 4th 1962, between 10.00 PM and 11.00 PM, a message mentionning Marilyn's death would have reached the press agent Arthur Jacobs, while he attended a concert at the Hollywood Bowl.

The first policeman on the scene was Jack Clemmons.

Detective Robert E.Byron arrived after him and recorded the statements of Dr Ralph Greenson, Dr Hyman Engelberg and Mrs Eunice Murray.

Then Officer Don Marshall appeared, rummaged the house, searching a message attesting the suicide. He also questionned Marilyn's nearer neigbors, Mr and Mrs Abe Landau, who declared having heard nothing suspicious during the night.

The allegations implying that, during the morning following Marilyn's death, her personal papers would have been falsified and destroyed, have been denied by the police officers who were there during the whole day.

However, in the notes going with his biography, Donald Spoto alluded to some papers he had get in Inez Melson succession, which some documents that Marilyn's businesswoman would have subtracted the day after Marilyn's death.

 

Marilyn's death was offically declared "probable suicide", diagnosis established by the medical examiner Theodore J.Curphey (,) and toxicologist W.J.Abernethy, which corroborates the testimonies of Greenson and Eunice Murray. Despite the lack of intestinal materials analysis, which would have permitted to know how the fatal dose had been administrated, and also the omission of the presence  of important bruises on the sub-lumbar area, fueled the controversy (Chemical analysis).

The lack of coherence of the death witnesses reports and the doubt persisting about the part played backstage by other people, gave a basis to the conspiracy theories.

Almost all the biogaphers agree about the existence of dissimulations, independently of the fact that Marilyn's death was criminal or not.

The murder partisans based their reasoning on the discordance between the lethal products ratio in the blood and those found in Marilyn's liver, and also on the lack of residues in her stomach. But some explanations have been provided.

In 1976, Thomas Noguchi, the doctor who practised the autopsy, declared to Oui magazine, that Marilyn's body was so used to the drugs consumption, and more particularly to Nembutal, that it's not surprising that she had assimilated 30 or 40 tablets.

However it has been insinuated that the barbiturates fatal dose hadn't been taken by Marilyn on her own free will; but that it would have been administrated by an injection or more probably with an enema, which would explain the change of her colon.

However, if an attempt to resuscitate Marilyn had been proceeded, as some ambulancemen from the Shaefer Company had suggested it (Ambulance), by using a stomachal pump, no trace of drugs had been found.

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