Marilyn Monroe, death case reopened Options

[iheartjohn]

http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/movies/article....805205109990012

The Times said it obtained a written record of the tapes from the only person still alive who claims to have heard them -- former prosecutor John Miner, 86, who says the recordings support his belief Monroe was a victim of foul play.

Miner took ''extensive'' and ''nearly verbatim'' notes from the tapes when they were played for him by Monroe's therapist, Dr. Ralph Greenson, now deceased, while Miner was investigating her death.

Monroe's nude body was found on Aug. 5, 1962, in her Los Angeles home. An autopsy concluded she died of barbiturate poisoning, and the death was ruled a probable suicide.

Conspiracy theories abounded for decades suggesting Monroe was murdered. Prosecutors reexamined the case in 1982 but decided there was insufficient evidence to warrant a new criminal investigation.

The Times story was published as dozens of fans gathered, as they have for decades, near Monroe's burial site to mark the anniversary of her death and the unanswered questions surrounding it.

''She was enormously desirable and enormously vulnerable,'' said Stanley Rubin, who produced the 1954 film ''River of No Return,'' starring Monroe and Robert Mitchum.

Miner told the Times he examined the tapes in a bid to determine Monroe's state of mind and came away believing the recordings showed the actress was anything but suicidal.

According to excerpts, Monroe started off the recording -- a kind of self-analysis through free association -- by thanking her doctor for helping her regain ''control of myself, control of my life.''

This was a surprise to me, being a huge Marilyn fan , that her case would be reopened. Personally, I never thought she had committed suicide, but then again, I thought that I was in denial.


Anyway, just some news for you. Discuss.

[maia_dc]

I <33 Marilyn Monroe. She's incredibly pretty.

But uhh I don't know. I never really got into her death, so this is news to me.