Katharina Buczek
“Miss Monroe’s physician had prescribed sleeping pills for her for three days. Ordinarily, the bottle would have contained forty to fifty pills,” the Times added.
This environmental finding, coupled with doctoral analysis later performed in Monroe’s autopsy, seemingly pointed toward an overdose.
“I ascribe the death to ‘acute barbiturate poisoning,'” reported Dr. Thomas T. Noguchi, who conducted the autopsy.
Dr. Theodore Curphey, Monroe’s medical examiner, underscored Noguchi’s report.
“It is my conclusion that the death of Marilyn Monroe was caused by a self-administered overdose of sedative drugs and that the mode of death is probable suicide,” Dr. Curphey said.
A toxicology report did reveal that Monroe had very high levels of choral hydrate and Nembutal. This, coupled with psychological autopsy reports from three separate mental health professionals, caused Monroe’s case to appear “open and shut.”
“Miss Monroe had suffered from psychiatric disturbance for a long time,” the report even stated.
Still, as time passed, more information entered the public eye and caused the masses to question the story of her death.
Death Discrepancies
Decades after Monroe passed, two people who played key roles in Monroe’s autopsy admitted to an allegedly flawed conclusion.
One man, named John Miner, was Los Angeles County’s Deputy District Attorney. He was also a liaison for the County’s Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner.
