Marilyn Monroe: Murder Or Suicide

Murder or Suicide

Some Like It Hot, Gentleman Prefer Blondes, and The Seven Year Itch are just a few of the movies that the actress Marilyn Monroe is known for. However the life of the movie star was cut short when she died at age 36 from an acute barbiturate poisoning. It was suspected that Marilyn took her own life, however she could have just as easily been taken out by the Kennedy family to prevent her from spilling all the dirty secrets she knew because of her alleged affairs with John and Robert Kennedy. Monroe was murdered by the Kennedy family in order to keep her from revealing government secrets that she gained knowledge of during the affairs she has with John and Robert Kennedy, which she threatened to make public after both

brothers had ended the affairs they were having with her.
Robert Kennedy was willing to go to the extremes in order to protect his family name, which included the murder of Marilyn Monroe made to look like a suicide. According to History.com
On August 5, 1962, movie actress Marilyn Monroe is found dead in her home in Los Angeles. She was discovered lying nude on her bed, face down, with a telephone in one hand. Empty bottles of pills, prescribed to treat her depression, were littered around the room. After a brief investigation, Los Angeles police concluded that her death was caused by a self-administered overdose of sedative drugs and that the mode of death is probable suicide.
But her death was not suicide, she was murdered by the Kennedys or at least someone hired by them.

Robert Kennedy was determined to keep Monroe quiet so the information he and John revealed to her during their affairs would was not revealed, and he did not care about the consequences. According to Jay Margolis author of Marilyn Monroe: A Case for Murder, Robert was even reported to have threatened Monroe around the time of her death he stated that “If you threaten me, Marilyn, there’s more than one way to keep you quiet” (229), this proves that Robert Kennedy had motive and the means to kill her if it came down to it. The autopsy report also rules out suicide as an option for her cause of death. The report stated that there were no traces of the pills in her stomach she supposedly overdosed and there was nothing to drink in the room, with no signs of vomiting which is common during an overdose. This also eliminates the fact that she accidentally overdosed as an option because the levels of drugs found in her blood were several times over the legal limit. This suggests that she did not give herself that many pills because she would have passed out before she could have ingested that much. Monroe’s autopsy report revealed that her stomach was almost completely empty except for a small amount of fluid (“Marilyn Monroe Autopsy Report”). The report also revealed that there was no evidence of pill residue anywhere in her digestive system and the fact that there was no physical evidence in the room that any pills had been ingested, prove that Monroe did not commit suicide but she was actually

murdered.
Marilyn Monroe was well-known as a model and movie star, but that is not all she is known for. During her life time, Monroe had a long list of lovers such as Frank Sinatra, Joe DiMaggio, and Arthur Miller. However, two of her alleged lovers had more to lose than the rest if word of their affair with her came to the public eye, and those two men were John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy, and during the time that these affairs took place when John F. Kennedy was President and Robert Kennedy was the Attorney General for his brother’s administration. According to the National Geographic Channel, “The glamorous actress first caught Kennedy's eye when she made a spectacular entrance at a dinner party held in his honor at a hotel in New York in February 1962”. Marilyn and John’s affair supposedly began in late March of 1962 and they were suspected to have rendezvoused in Palm Springs. Monroe thought the affair was way more serious than it actually was, Kennedy just saw it as more of a meaningless affair (Kiger). Then when John’s birthday came around in May 1962, The National Geographic Channel states that Monroe sang a sexy rendition of “Happy Birthday” to the President in Madison Square Garden. After this event rumors fluttered around about the affair between them causing Kennedy to call the relationship that they had. This was not the only issue according to Margolis, John and Robert Kennedy had a routine, first John would have an affair with a girl then once he was tired of her, he would pass her on to Robert. Marilyn Monroe was not exclude from this routine; the Kennedy boys passed her around like a piece of meat, without any regards toward her feelings. So it was no wonder Monroe was so willing to expose the secrets that she became aware of during these affairs.
Monroe did not take the ending of the relationship well, she called the White House multiple times trying to rekindle their affair, until Kennedy sent a friend to try and dissuade her, but according to the book These Few Precious Days: The Final Year of Jack with Jackie. By Christopher Andersen: “Jackie Kennedy knew about all of her husband’s affairs but the one with Monroe concerned her the most because Marilyn was a loose cannon who could go public at any time, causing a scandal that would obliterate her husband's reputation, destroy her marriage and hold her up to public ridicule” (qtd. in Kiger) this statement gives the Kennedys just one more reason to want to make sure Monroe does not talk and the only way they could make sure she was completely silent is to kill her so she never talked again.
Others may argue that Monroe had a history of depression and suicide attempts and so she must have willingly choose to end her because she could not handle the fact that she was rejected by both John and Robert Kennedy. After this frustration and all the rejection she faced from her former lovers, she probably thought that there was no sense in going on with life. So she took a large number of pills in order to end her life. This theory however, can easily be discredited because the bottle of pills was neatly capped on the table and there was no water or alcohol which she would have needed to swallow all the pills. There was also no vomit in the room and her mouth did not smell like she had taken any pills, both of which are common symptoms of a drug overdose. The autopsy report also debunks the theory of suicide because there was no evidence of pills in her stomach or pill residue in her digestive system, which even rules out the cause of death as “probable suicide.” She would have had to ingest the pills in order for that to be the cause of death and for it to be self-administered. This is proof the Monroe did not commit suicide but that someone else intentionally ended her life for her.
The book Marilyn Monroe: A Case for Murder proves that she was murdered by Robert Kennedy along with his brother in-law Peter Lawford and a mysterious doctor Kennedy brought in her house. The book states that:
While Peter and Bobby restrained her, Bobby’s doctor, subsequently sedates Marilyn with a heavy intramuscular pentobarbital injection, the bruise later noted in her autopsy report on her “left hip.” While she is temporary stunned and immobile on the ground from the drugs, Bobby and Peter enter Marilyn’s home with the sole purpose of looking for her red diary, a potential basis for blackmail, where she documented highly sensitive political information (229).
Then it is believed that with help the two men crushed up a large amount of Monroe’s pills and put them into an enema which they put inside her giving her the drugs that caused her death. This theory corresponds to the autopsy report explaining how she over dosed on pills when there was nothing in her stomach and no evidence of drugs in her digestive system. This is proof they she did not commit suicide but was murdered.
Marilyn Monroe did not commit suicide, her life was taken from the world by the Kennedy family in order to keep her quiet and save face. Monroe was murdered and all the evidence the points to the Kennedy family. They were the only ones who had something to lose if the news of the affairs got out, it would tarnish their family name and ruin their reputation and since the red diary was never found killing her was the only option. So Robert Kennedy with help of his brother in-law Peter Lawford killed her and staged the scene to make it look like she committed suicide.