August 5, 1962, midnight.
Brentwood, a famous wealthy district of Los Angeles, the bedroom of American popular actress Marilyn Monroe, is brightly lit.
Monroe usually went to bed very early, and when the housekeeper Mrs. Murray was about to fall asleep, she found that the light in the master's room was still on, so she knocked on the door to inquire, but she never got an answer.
She walked to the window and saw Monroe lying on the bed through the gap in the curtain, her face down against the pillow, motionless, still clutching the phone in her hand.
Mrs. Murray felt that something was wrong and immediately called two of Monroe's doctors.
At 3:40 a.m., Monroe's psychiatrist arrived and broke through the door, and the two were surprised:
Marilyn Monroe, dead.
Monroe is more like sleeping peacefully than death.
She looked very comfortable, like a sleeping child, and the only thing that was different from the living was that she had lost her breath at all.
At 4 a.m., Monroe's personal doctor, Engel Berg, also arrived at the scene. After confirmation, he officially announced that Monroe, who was only 36 years old, had died.
At 4:25, the doctors present called the police, and the police officer who received the call arrived at the scene as soon as possible.
The officer's name was Jack Clemmons.
After investigating monroe's death scene, Officer Clemmons was very confused.
This scene is simply a perfect suicide scene: there is no trace of a fight at the scene, Monroe's death is very calm, not like being killed by someone, and the sleeping pills scattered on the ground and the pill bottles placed at the head of the bed seem to tell the world that Monroe did die of suicide.
But as a policeman, Clemmons has his own intuition, and because the scene is too perfect, it makes Monroe's death exude a strange atmosphere.
A generation of superstars died, and at that time, people all over the United States and even the world were paying attention to this case.
Soon, the Los Angeles police officially released the results of the death investigation, which was "overdose of barbiturates and chloral hydrates."
But the result was decidedly unconvincing, especially in the light of her strange death, and everyone wondered what Monroe had been through before that.
But this series of doubts has not been answered, as if the death of this sexy actress is destined to become a permanent mystery.
Now a full 60 years have passed since Monroe's death, and with the passage of time and official declassifications, some clues about Monroe's death and the statements of relevant personnel have gradually been made public.
From the clues of the parties' memories, the three mysteries of Monroe's death gradually appeared in front of us more clearly.
Officer Clemmons: It's all too coincidental
At that time, Monroe was the hottest female star in Hollywood, so investigating the scene of Monroe's death, Clemmons was under tremendous pressure.
According to Clemmons, from the moment he saw Monroe's death scene, he had a bad premonition, which told himself that Monroe was not a suicide.
When he entered the scene, the scene that appeared in front of Clemmons' eyes was like this:
Monroe was completely naked, wrapped in only a white sheet, buried face down in the pillow, her right arm slightly bent, and her legs outstretched.
Clemmons, who has experienced countless suicide scenes, first reacts to the fact that Monroe was posed like this after death.
After surveying the scene, he was more convinced of his idea, at least for three reasons.
First, as a police officer, he knew that death from an overdose of sleeping pills would cause cramps and vomiting in suicidal people, and that the death process was twisted and painful, not like Monroe, but just like sleeping peacefully.
Second, Mrs. Murray's confession to Clemmons is also very flawed.
As the first witness at the scene, when Clemmons asked about the specific time of Monroe's death, Murray initially said that it was at 12:30 a.m., and when she passed Monroe's room, she saw that the lights had not been turned off, so she went up to check and found that the door was unlocked and the inside of the house was abnormal.
But then Murray changed his mind.
She said she called Monroe's psychiatrist at 3:40 a.m. because she had slept and woke up to find the lights on.
So what Murray was doing in the nearly 4 hours, and whether what she said was true or not, cannot be verified.
Third, after exploring the site, Clemmons also found other anomalies.
Although the drugs were scattered all over the place, Monroe's bedroom seemed to have been rearranged.
Because the garbage cans are emptied clean, the most messy is the sleeping pill bottles and sedative bottles placed on the bedside cabinet.
Given Monroe's extremely emotional personality and four suicides, the presence of these bottles seemed reasonable, but throughout the room, there were no cups or other water containers to help Monroe take her medication.
What's even more outrageous is that when Monroe died, she held the phone in her hand, and as long as she knew who she was talking to, she could solve the case.
But when Clemmons went to investigate, the phone records about Monroe's night were gone.
Equally anomalous was the disappearance of diaries, memos and letters from Monroe's filing cabinet.
If these doubts were just Clemmons's conjecture, then Monroe's autopsy results made him even more determined by his judgment.
Autopsies revealed that Monroe had a large amount of sedatives left in her body, at doses large enough to kill ten people.
But in Monroe's stomach, neither the drug nor the capsule residue was found, which can only mean that such a huge dose was not taken orally into the body by Monroe.
However, intravenous injection was immediately ruled out by the forensic doctor, because Monroe did not have any needle holes all over her body, and injecting such a huge amount of sedative at one time would leave a serious bruise on the body.
There are only two reasonable explanations for Monroe's drug overdose death, then.
First, the drug enters Monroe's body through an enema, which explains why Monroe's colon undergoes abnormal discoloration. This operation, Monroe herself obviously can not complete.
The second is that Monroe's two doctors have unknowingly prescribed a large dose of pentobarbital sodium and chloral hydrate to Monroe, which will greatly slow down the metabolism of the former, resulting in severe side effects.
But these are all the conjectures of the police officers, and there is no human or physical evidence, and in the end, they are not resolved.
Monroe's 723-page autopsy report, which began as long as 723 pages, was inexplicably turned into 54 pages, and no one asked why.
Second, the funeral home recalled: she did not have a good life, sloppy and messy
After investigating the scene, Monroe's body was pushed to the funeral home by the police.
The bodies of a generation of superstars were left unclaimed in the funeral home for 24 hours, and according to a mortician at the "Albert and Harst" funeral company, 24 hours later, they received a notice to tidy up Monroe's appearance.
From the scene to the funeral home, Monroe's body has been completely naked, but it has been covered by a white cloth.
When the mortician lifted the white cloth, he was not curious to see the naked body of the popular actress, but was shocked.
"I can't believe it's Marilyn Monroe," said the mortician, "that her beauty shouldn't be like this, and that her last days of life must have been unsatisfactory, otherwise how could she have become such a scruffy and messy look." ”
The mortician did not say such a thing because lying in front of him was a corpse.
To be precise, even among all the corpses, Monroe's body was more terrifying than the others'. Because the face is facing down, the blood will flow down, so Monroe's face is covered with corpse spots.
In addition, what puzzled the mortician was that such a popular actress, the state of her whole body, did not look like she had carefully taken care of herself before she was born.
Monroe's neck was so swollen that in order to make her look more beautiful, the mortician had to operate on her to drain the fluid in her neck.
Before her death, Monroe was a famous sexy girl, and half of this sexiness came from her blonde hair.
But the mortician recalled that the hair color of the dream was light brown, intertwined like a ball of thread, and the hair was very small, the hair quality was very poor, and it was obvious that it had not been groomed for a long time.
The mortician recalled: "I don't know what made such a beautiful girl give up the idea of dressing up.
Monroe's requirements for the maintenance of her skin and the management of her body are very high, even strict, but this point, the funeral director did not find.
Because Monroe's hands, feet, and armpits and other parts have not been dehaired for a long time.
Her lips were badly cracked, her nails had not been trimmed for a long time, and she was covered with dirt, as if the corpse was not a female star, but a peasant woman who worked in the fields every day.
The mortician also revealed that Monroe has no teeth, and in order to look good on the photo, Monroe pulled out all her teeth and made a mouthful of white and neat dentures.
In the interview, the mortician revealed that after completing the burial cleaning, he received a set of monroe's clothes before the funeral, and he was responsible for putting it on for Monroe before the funeral.
It was a green tight-fitting jersey, and after the makeup was finished, she returned to her usual appearance under the white veil.
The mortician also said that while collecting Monroe's personal belongings, he also found silicone prosthetic milk.
In fact, Monroe's personal makeup artist once revealed that monroe had different degrees of sagging in her chest when she was just over 30 years old.
For her own image, she accepted the advice of a cosmetic surgeon and underwent breast augmentation surgery.
All of this made the mortician firmly believe that Monroe was definitely not suicidal.
As a bright and beautiful star in front of people, but also recognized as a "sexy goddess" in the United States and even the world, according to Monroe's way of doing things, even if she wants to commit suicide, she will wear clothes, clean herself up beautifully, and then quietly wait for death to come.
Never be so lazy and laissez-faire, tossing yourself like a scruffy ghost to meet death again.
Friends Capote: Monroe's cause of death and the Kennedy brothers
The American writer Truman Capote was a good friend of Monroe's, and for a decade after Monroe's death, he investigated Monroe's cause of death.
While there is no specific investigation process, Capote recalls that he believes Monroe's death may have been related to the brothers John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy.
Monroe has married three men in her life, but has loved countless men, Kennedy, and is the most important of them.
Her first husband was James Doherty, a marriage that lasted four years.
The second husband, baseball star Joe DiMaggio, was married for only 274 days.
The third husband, named Miller, was a playwright.
Monroe admired Miller so much that everyone thought that the sexy goddess had found true love, but after a year and a half, after two miscarriages, Monroe also gave up the marriage.
After her third divorce, Monroe met John F. Kennedy, the president of the United States.
When he meets Monroe, Kennedy is fascinated by her beauty, and Monroe is fascinated by this man who stands at the peak of power.
At that time, Monroe was not aware of her crisis, and under the condition that Kennedy already had a first lady and a happy family, she began to pursue him.
In 1962, Monroe, who was filming the movie "On the Verge of Collapse" on the spot, received a birthday invitation from Kennedy, hoping that Monroe would attend her forty-fifth birthday.
This invitation, for Monroe, was a "death notice." Because not long after this birthday party, Monroe died.
Monroe attaches great importance to this banquet, she found a French designer to design an exclusive dress, this skirt is translucent, looming, studded with rhinestones, especially dazzling under the lamp, Monroe just wants to be the most dazzling woman at the banquet.
The dress cost Monroe $12,000, which was a sky-high price at the time (it was auctioned for $4.8 million in 2016).
On the day of the birthday party, Monroe ignored everyone's objections and left hundreds of staff on the set to go to the banquet alone.
She put on that dress and sang a birthday song for Kennedy with her sweetest voice, and Kennedy then exclaimed: "After listening to the song that your sweet voice sang for me, I even felt that I could retire from now on." ”
In order to confide in her heart, Monroe also customized a Rolex gold watch for Kennedy, and a short love poem is engraved on the back of the dial.
"Let me love you, otherwise, it's better to die."
That night, Kennedy did not shy away from Monroe, and humorously ridiculed.
However, the day after his birthday, Kennedy ordered the destruction of all his photos in the same frame as Monroe that day, and the gold watch was also destroyed.
Monroe didn't realize the seriousness of the problem, and she even thought about getting Kennedy to divorce the first lady and take her place.
After three failed marriages, Monroe needed a man who loved her too much, but this man was destined not to be the president of the United States with a family.
In order to dispel Monroe's thoughts, Kennedy asked robert Kennedy, then the attorney general's brother, to persuade Monroe.
But Robert did not resist Monroe's charm, and since then, the Kennedy brothers' love triangle with Monroe has also become the biggest scandal in American politics.
Monroe has a flamboyant personality, and in her dealings with presidents and high-ranking officials, it is inevitable that she will be exposed to some of the core secrets of the country. And Monroe, in front of her friends, did not shy away from talking about these secrets.
This annoyed Kennedy because of the undercurrents in American politics at the time, with political enemies and opposition parties staring at him and making mistakes.
But Monroe did not stop, and she made a wrong decision, she decided to hold a press conference to expose her emotional entanglement with the Kennedy brothers, and to tell the world about her sins.
In 2007, the F.B.I. released a dossier about Monroe's death investigation, which mentioned that Monroe had met six people before her death, including Robert F. Kennedy and her personal doctor.
According to mrs. Murray, the housekeeper, on the evening of August 2, 1962, a few days before Monroe's death, she saw that Robert Kennedy had come to see Monroe, and the two had a fierce quarrel, after which Monroe became hysterical.
Monroe's good friend also broke the news at the time, Monroe had called her mother the night before her death, and said that she had a dangerous secret, and also named someone to kill her.
But after so many years, until her death, Monroe's mother did not say this name: "I want my family to live, I can't say." 」 ”
The next thing, we all know.
With the assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, and the murder of Robert Kennedy on June 5, 1968, Monroe's death became the biggest unsolved case in the American entertainment industry, and any truth could no longer be verified.
The Kennedy assassination case is also one of the largest unsolved cases in the US political arena, within three years, 18 key witnesses died, and 115 people committed suicide or were killed in this case, which inevitably made people associate Monroe's death with this unsolved case.
We don't know the truth, but the death of Monroe, 36, is a complete tragedy.
Monroe was buried in the Pierce Brothers Hill Memorial Cemetery in The Village of Xilin, and to this day, some people will see the tomb of the global sexy goddess on special days.
She single-handedly created a "Monroe era" that belonged only to the United States, and also made this era die out with one hand.
Loneliness accompanies her life, maybe she is not for power and money, but just wants a man who loves herself.
"Men are willing to pay a lot of money for a kiss from her, but they don't want to spend 50 cents to understand her soul!"
"No one in my life has ever truly loved me, and I am alone in this terrible cage."
In Monroe's bizarrely disappearing diary, these two sentences are heartbreaking.
I hope that Monroe in heaven is no longer lonely, and I hope to have a lover and eventually become a family.
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