Who Killed Marilyn Monroe Essay

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Hernandez, Stephanie Period 1 Who Killed Marilyn Monroe ? According to American National Biography, Marilyn Monroe was formerly known as Norma Jeane Mortenson. She was an American actress and model. Her mom, Gladys Pearl Baker was a flapper, and was unstable and was not ready for a child so she had financial problems with Marilyn Monroe. After Monroe's birth, Baker placed monroe with Ida and Albert Bolender. They raised their foster kids with a strict Christian perspective. When her mom felt stable enough and decided to take Monroe back and live in Hollywood, until she had a psychotic breakdown and was later diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. After her breakdown Baker spent the rest of her life in and out of institutions and …show more content…

The toxic substance I believed the drug used in the enema was the Nembutal she supposedly overdosed on. The other theory many people seem to believe is that she simply amassed on a great dosage of the nembutal pills. I believe the coroner just said she overdosed on the pills because it would be easier to go with, since the coroner was not interested in Monroe. If he had tried to go on with it we possibly would have figured out who was actually responsible for the death of Marilyn Monroe. If Marilyn Monroe were to commit suicide then why was there any sort of damage to her colon and according to Noguchi there were also fresh bruises on her lower back and hip. Also if she had killed herself with the Nembutal pills why was there no trace of them in her pharynx or her stomach at all? There is also evidence that can prove she could have killed herself, because essentially her whole family has suffered from a mental illness, her grandmother was suffering from depression, her granddad ended up committing suicide, and her mom was lately diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic.

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