reported. >> he claimed to have been forced to sign the autopsy report. >> death was with her all the >> previously -- 900 pills in a 90-day period. >> have you heard -- >> marilyn reportedly moved with the most of powerful men in the political field.

>> there are as many versions of how, when and where marilyn died as there are witnesses. >> i can't talk about him. >> the brentwood section of los angeles buzzed with activity the morning of august 5, 1962. the normally tranquil neighborhood slowly filled with police officers and members of the media as word trickled out hours earlier actress marilyn monroe was found dead. >> i was shown the night stand by her bed it was 8 or 10 empty

bottles that contained medicine. all bar by thd all barbiturates. >> it's my conclusion the mode of death is probable suicide. >> as with most of major news events that shocked the world, that explanation would not satisfy anyone. >> any time you have a controversial figure in life and they have an untimely death, you have conspiracies about that death. marilyn is no different. >> conspiracy theories have become oh intertwined with the fabric of our country at times many impossible to say what is fact and what is fiction. even events that happened before our very eyes can become muddies. >> the conspiracies about the moon landing are patently absurd but people believe them. >> this is particularly true

when examining the death of an icon. >> conspiracy theories have entertainment value. marilyn monroe is the subject. she is beautiful, she is targeted by powerful men, and these themes of violence and sex appeal to our most of primal drives. >> the conspiracy theory about marilyn's death, they grew exponentially to where we are now. >> each conspiracy theory has a genesis and the death of marilyn monroe is no exception. while the rest of the world attempted to put this senseless tragedy behind them. three men held a meeting in los angeles. among them was frank capell. >> he was an extreme writer/journalist who put out his own paper and own pamphlets. >> what he did was put out does

yers and feed them who to the fire. he would go after you if you weren't far enough to the right side. >> he met to los angeles to meet with officer jack clemmons who was the first to arrive at the scene of marilyn monroe's death. >> he was caught up in the anti-communism scene of the time. >> the alleged rampant communist takeover of hollywood. >> maurice accused the writers guild of compiling. dossiers. >> hose to lurked in the far

right fringe needed a new ploy to further their cause. >> that's when they got the story from reese about the kennedy-marilyn involvement. >> reese told cap hell about rumors of an affair between the deceased actress and the to be general of the united states. the three surmised without evidence that marilyn monroe did not commit suicide but was killed by bobby kennedy to keep her quite and protect his political career. >> that's where it all began, right there. upon his return to new york capell turned to his friend walter winchell to disseminate the information. >> winchell was a powerful columnist and radio personality. he wrote a gossip column for the daily mirror. he was a rabid anti-communist,

he was friend with j. edgar hoofer and joe dimaggio. >> winchell started to publish did bits of information. >> he theorized that bobby and jack kennedy had an affair with marilyn. i don't know that he said that but it's insinuated. >> in 1964 he published a pamphlet entitled the strange death of marilyn monroe. inside the genesis of a conspiracy theory is laid out. he asserts bobby kennedy and marilyn monroe were having an affair. when she learned he had know

intention of leaving his wife, bobby had her murdered. capel's pamphlet was published the year bobby kennedy was going to run for the senate seat in new york. it was a political hitpiece. >> the pamphlet alleges that virtually everyone in marilyn's life was a communist. >> it was murder dressed up to look like suicide. it's how the communists worked. when they got tired of you they bumped you off and disguised it as a suicide. suspiciously many believe the origin was maurice reese work in concert with capell. it stated that robert kennedy was deeply involved with marilyn

and promised to leave his wife to march marry marilyn. >> the document was given to the fbi by the governor's office of california. they could not verify how it was from. they brought it to the fbi's attention because of the connection with the ken does. >> the accounts of rfk's whereabouts have been refuted by official record of the department of justice and personal accounts. bobby kennedy was visiting his friend john because it on a ranch outside of san francisco. >> the fbi didn't put any weight tonight. there were no investigations based on the conspiracies in the letter. >> the fbi did send kennedy a heads up about frank capell's publication. letter states that it will

indicate kennedy and monroe were intimate and kennedy was in monroe's apartment at the time of her death. at the time the fbi didn't take much stock in capell. it's not believed any action should be taken. that same year they collaborated on another pamphlet attacking senator thomas cudgel. >> even though was on the right of the political spectrum. he was not extreme enough. they viewed his support of the civil rights act a betrayal. >> in february 1965 capell and clemmons were indicted for conspiracy to commit libel. clem oppositlibel.

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mayor rinse absence was to be short-lived. 1972 marked the tenth anniversary of marilyn's death. photographers who had shot marilyn over the years collaborated on an art exhibit. >> the day it opened they were liernd up four blocks long. >> what started as a fine art book transformed into something else. >> we had to redesign the entire book it was a full biography. >> the result was 1973's marilyn, a biography. mailer's assertions in the final chapter made an assertion that brought her death back into

question. >> he raised the 11-year-old question, was marilyn monroe murder. he speculate she was murder by right-wingers who wanted to get at robert kennedy. >> not hands of the cia or the fbi. but the right-wing groups. the enclaves who generated huge hatred for the ken does. >> he uses frank capell's theory with a novelist twist to it. what if people who wanted to manipulate the ken does could make it look like romance gone bad. they could bring forces against the kennedys to control them. >> this accusation did not go unnoticed in the halls of the fbi. the fbi notes that suggestions that right-wing fbi and cia acts

had huge reason to murder marilyn monroe. >> the bureau actually end up commenting that in another context mailer said i don't have any evidence about this. >> the fbi with reports that mailer coined a new word. factoid. >> norman mailer uses a common rhetorical device where he goes through a long explanation and detail which plants in the mind of the reader that this is exactly what happened. then at the very end he discounts it. but that's not what the reader remembers. what the reader remembers is all the detail. he's speculating on the whole matter. the fbi said we are going to ignore this. >> under intense scrutiny his

story began to change. >> i think there is a motive to be murdered. it's not based oafned. it's my opinion. >> but the backtracking did little to quell the storm he helped perpetuate. >> you have to think about the culture at the time. you have watergate and a lot of distrust in the government. these types of stories could have been plausible. >> marilyn is no different than the assassination of bobby kennedy. even if it's caught on camera. who motivated it. >> people who believe in conspiracy theories feel like they don't control their own circumstances and conspiracy theories are a kinddddd

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thing. >> it gets printed over and over again around the world. people want to believe the goes up. it's interesting. >> everything that comes out about marilyn and the kennedys sells. >> the one thing when you are doing a book is ask what are you going to say about marilyn monroe that hasn't been said before. so ambitious authors will come up with something com. >> robber slatzer offered and the liegs additions. >> he claimed he and marilyn drove to tijuana in 1952 and got

married. spent the weekend in tijuana, came back to the united states on sunday. apparently marilyn had second thoughts about marrying him. they go back and find the attorney who married them and he burned the marriage certificate cat. so the marriage never really legally occurred. >> his book add another component. >> his book created a little red diary, a book in which she kept allegedly all the kennedy secrets they revealed to her. >> i saw the diary. she had information about the plot to kill castro. reporter: according to robert slatzer robert kennedy had marilyn killed because of the little red diary. >> prior to slatzer the diary

didn't exist. >> slatzer had a photograph taken. that photograph was used by slatzer to prove he was involved with marilyn. >> when you do the research and investigate you find that he actually only went on the set of niagara and that's how he knew her. >> marilyn often posed with fans. she was very agreeable, and ever approachable. everything he claims about his relationship with marilyn is one big fabrication. the main piece of evidence is a chak dated october 4, 1952. marilyn wasn't in tijuana that day. she was shopping in hollywood. she described. 2393 castilian drive which is the house she was sharing what

joe dimaggio. robert slatzer and frank capell signed a contract to produce the book. the agreement of says bob slatzer would be credited with writing the book and capell would remain secret. >> with capell on board slat descrer also -- slatzer. he reintroduced clemmons from the l.a.p.d. >> the scene seemed staged. >> marilyn was stretched out face down on the bed. obviously she had been placed in that position. i was shown the night stand by her bed it was 8 or 10 empty bottles that contained medicine. i looked in the bathroom for a

glass that had been used, there was none. >> he reported there was no drinking vessel in marilyn's bedroom and he questioned how she was able to swallow the medication. you can see a drinking vessel. one of a series of 12 vessels she purchased in mexico. it iches believed that might have been the vessel taken into police evidence. >> clemmons said when he arrived, eunice murray was washing something in the washing machine and twhawts suspicious. soot implication was she was destroying evidence. as the first responding officer he did not investigate what she was washing or issue reports regarding the suspicion. a full inventory was completed at the time of her death.

a washer and dryer is not indicated in that inventory. >> jack clemmons had every motive in the world to try to discredit the lapd. he lost his career. >> regardless of his questionable credibility. claims made by clemmons would be used for years to come.

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>> as a new decade dawned in america different types of stories were make headlines. >> police are calling it a mob rubout. >> they are accused of being in a crime network. >> the mafia captured the attention of the public. before long there was new twist on the story of marilyn monroe.

in 1972 a book was published building on the idea that the mafia was involved in marilyn's death. his claim was the mafia was work with the cia to protect bobby kennedy and on her last night alive she was paid a visit by some you be invited guests. hired gunmen from chicago, they were ordered to kill marilyn by the head of the chicago mafia. we believe she died by injection and did not swallow the capsules. >> the injection theory seemed to be supported by the injection because autopsy showed she had no pills in her stomach. >> she could not -- the theory

was she could not have overdosed if there were no pills in the her stomach. so this disproven by the evidence of the autopsy. there was a higher concentration of drugs in the liver than her bloodstream. that indicates the body absorbed and metabolized the drugs in the liver. >> when you are give and shot the drugs go through the bloodstream before they get to the liver. >> marilyn died over several hours. if someone had given her an injection it would have been too fast acting. >> spug lirks o's source worked

at the medical examiner's office. >> he claims to have seen the little red diary at the morgue. but conveniently it mysteriously disappeared afterward. he also said he saw extensive bruising on marilyn's body. the autopsy showed light bruises on her lower back. >> he was a clerk at the coroner's office. so him signing the document would have just been him signing the form that it came through. it had nothing to do with her are autopsy. >> many people say the autopsy report was fake. if you knew the autopsy report was the main instrument for obscuring what you did, wouldn't

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>> 20 years have passed since

marilyn monroe was found dead. over those two decade she had been elevated to full-blown cultural icons with a generation of fans born after her death. the whisper of conspiracy theories gave birth to an industry. they petitions the l.a. board of supervisors to reexamine the circumstances surrounding marilyn monroe's death. in august of 1982 critical mass had been reached. >> there was so much pressure brought to bear on the l.a. district attorney, they opened a fresh hold investigation to find out if there was enough credible evidence to treat the death as a homicide. >> 20 years have gone by, a lot of people have written about her. how many of the reports were romantic expectation without substance of fact.

we thought it was a good time to find out what is there, accumulate it. and report back. >> over the next 3 1/2 months they poured over all the medical records, case files and interviews. reexamined the crime scene and conducted additional interviews in an attempt to address the blooming cottage industry of insinuations. finally that december, a 29-page summary report titled the death of marilyn monroe report to the district attorney was published. within its pages was a thorough re pew takes of any negligence by the lapd or coroner's office. the report called unto question the credibility of people who had long since been fired from the coroner's office. >> what we do know is several

weeks after marilyn's death he was caught stealing from dead people. >> the fact we could establish independent of this, of these new things coming to light, to prove there was no credible evidence to support a murder investigation at that time. >> in the word of the report, the cumulative evidence available to us failed to support any theory of criminal conduct. based on the information available no further investigation appears to be required. the case was closed. for a star whose shined brighter in death, it would not be the end. nearly two years passed when anthony summers was assigned to cover the district's 1982 report.

"goddess" contained all the same players with the same theories. >> it was a calculated attempt by criminals, not only to set up robert kennedy in terms of his affair with marilyn monroe which would ruin his profession. but even perhaps to try to set him up with murdering her. >> it introduces a lot of second and third-hand testimony of people who allegedly know the facts. but none of it can be corroborated. >> summers made no bones about marilyn's condition the last months of her life. he surmised the illusive red diary may have made her a liability. >> anything he they said on that subject would have been by the

soviets or the cubans and her contact with the kennedy brothers is that she was a security risk. >> he alleged marilyn became angry and vindictive toward robert kennedy. >> summers added a surprising twist. marilyn was not murdered. >> i think it's possible there was some kind of accident in which monroe had taken the number of bar by th --the numbe. >> anthony summers alleged marilyn was found comatose and an ambulance was called to her home. the ambulance brought her to santa monica hospital and she died on the way and the

ambulance brought her back to the house. this was based on the owner of schaeffer ambulance company who claimed marilyn was alife live when they were called to the house. >> they reported they found marilyn dead and the coroner's office wouldn't let them take her. >> an ambulance attendant was summoned to the residence and he removed her from the bed and ban cpr. in the process of doing that she started to come around. does that sound familiar at all? >> summers' critics say his biggest season is use the testimony of dubious witnesses to further his own.

>> a lot of how marilyn was described was she was a train wreck. yes she had an addiction. but part of that addiction was fueled by the fact she had a mental illness that wasn't treated properly.

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>> it would seem marilyn would

have to live out her own groundhog day. as time hard on so did the seemingly never-ending in 1993, he wrote a book marilyn monroe the biography. the book did not rely on sensationalism. it's theory does not include the kennedys. >> a smack in the face to every other theory that came before, he put forth the notion that rumors of marilyn and the kennedys relationship had been severely over loan. she was anything but suicidal citing a new deal struck with 2h

century fox and plans to remarry joe dimaggio. he focuses his attention on her doctor. >> his theory is on his obsession with marilyn. >> he might've been seduced and being a healthy professional, helping professional to marilyn monroe and there was a codependency between the provider and marilyn so we begin to wonder was marilyn's therapeutics needs being met or was the doctor satisfying his own needs. >> the doctors came together to make sure they gave poo her the types of medicine they wanted. they didn't want her to doctor shop. in their mind they were going to wean her off these heavy barbiturates. >> it stated that doctor green's and had prescribed an enema of oral hydrates to be administered by eunice murray.

the doctor wasn't aware she had bent taking it drought the day and prescribed this enema to help her achieve sleep. >> that mixture is what killed her. - i haven't feeling the doctors were in of panic. when you look at the amount of medication she was actually administered, no doctor in their right mind would say that's okay. >> upon realizing they had accidentally caused the death of the world's most famous actress, murray, greene's and engelbert were in a panic covering up their malpractice and staging the scene is a suicide. >> this flies in the face of medical evidence. the autopsy revealed there was fully formed fecal matter in the bowel nor is no way the bowel would've been

evacuated. regardless of the validity, the book is unique in that it tries to put some reason around marilyn's death. he basically debunked it. coming on the heels of all the books written. [inaudible] in the past 20 years, several new books and theories have been put forth each claiming to be the definitive account but there is no reason to expect that it will end soon. >> i think they have just perpetuated which is obviously my people want to keep her alive. they want to read more about her, learn more about her and conspiracy theories offer a wealth of material. >> we have spoken on the sensationalism which means

it's about the kennedys, about the mob, about all these conspiracies were the actual real story is about a human being. >> this was with her all the time. in her book she talks about dying a lot and the thing she was not capable of killing herself is not accepting realit reality. >> it's only death when people begin to understand her and that she was a very vulnerable, nervous, shy person underneath all that glamour. >> the purse, she created, people actually believed norma jean was marilyn monroe, but she was not. >> the world has changed a great deal since the days of marilyn monroe but as the decades past, some things have

felt very familiar. the list of those who left the earth to soon continues to grow. the public's hunger for all things for liberty and insatiable media has only intensified. even in today's social media driven world images of marilyn monroe continue to capture. she represents the struggles and dreams of generations born long after her death and sadly in-depth. [inaudible] no matter what happened in the final fateful hours, she will never truly rest in peace. ♪ ♪ ♪

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