My journey ends here...
NOGUCHI Thomas
Date of birth
: January 4, 1927, in Japan.
Portrait
Pratcise : coroner
of the Los Angeles County from 1962 to 1982.
Story
He was the forensic scientist on duty at the morgue of Los Angeles, on Sunday, August 5th 1962, in the morning, when Marilyn's body was brought.
He thought that the most probable cause of Marilyn's death was a suicide : 
.
For the partisans of the murder thesis, the explanation given for the Nembutal concentration, more important in the liver, isn't satisfying. This fact would indicate that those products had been ingested much earlier, and that they were about to be metabolized.
An injection would have left a mark or a bruise,
would have led a quick death and would have left more important
barbiturate traces in the blood.
So it was supposed that the lethal dose had been given by an enema. Indeed, the autopsy has revealed that "the colon shows marked congestion and purplish discoloration".
In his biography, Anthony Summers
claims having asked to the toxicologist R.J.Abernethy to do those
analysis. This last one answered that the samples had been
destroyed.
In 1985
Noguchi told about a bruise that Marilyn had down below her back
and which presence, according his own words, "hasn't really been
clarified".
He led the autopsy of many personalities, among them Robert
Kennedy, Sharon Tate, Natalie Wood, James Belushi, Janis Joplin,
William Holden.
Several years later, he was degraded from his duties of chief forensic
scientist, for malpractices, and because he had made some
sensationalist around the celebrities death. In the wave of indignation
which followed, his colleagues have elected him as president of the
Forensic Scientists National Association council.
Bibliography
"Coroner". 1983. New York :
Simon and Schuster.
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