Exhume Marilyn Monroe?

[muchlove]

The Los Angeles County deputy district attorney who attended MARILYN MONROE's autopsy in 1962 is urging the authorities to dig up the screen icon's body and use modern technology to determine once and for all how she died.

Monroe's death has been wrapped up in secrecy for over 40 years amid claims she was murdered by high-ranking government agents in a bid to cover up the scandal of her romance with President JOHN F KENNEDY.

JOHN MINER has always maintained that the screen goddess was killed by a lethal injection and he thinks forensics technology will determine how and perhaps why the actress was killed.

In an exclusive interview with Playboy magazine, Miner says, "How can a woman rest in peace when there's a lie about how she met her death? Monroe was denied the basic right to which every American, dead or alive, is entitled - due process of law.

"(We need) an inquest, where people are put on the witness stand and testify under oath (and) an examination of all discrepancies and unanswered questions.

"It would require exhuming the remains to attempt to determined if there is enough identifiable colon tissue to subject to gas chromatography. If gas chromatography showed that the tissue had been exposed to the barbiturate (that killed Monroe), you have at least one answer - somebody killed her.

"I don't imagine the question of the killer's identity will ever be solved, but there will be a correct diagnosis, and Monroe will not be stigmatised as a suicide for all eternity."

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[ourmaninBusan]

I hate to tell this coroner guy his job, but
I've seen a BBC documentary that showed a body's decay
after just two years, and believe me, what you have is just
a skeleton that appears to be wrapped in burnt paper.

I can't imagine there would be enough tissue in any form
left for them to test. There are microscopic beasties in
there, and have been since 1962.

[Tenaj]

^^ I was wondering the same thing, I know they can do wonders with science but there can't be much left to investigate can there? It would be nice to know what happened to her though

[darksithbunny]

You would be suprised what forensics can do even with very little remains left. I wonder if Mr. Miner remembers that her colon was thrown away thus there might not be much left in there to tell anything. They could be pulling her up for just a tiny piece of tissue about the size of an erase head that might be too corrupt to render anything.

I do believe she DID NOT kill heself. It was accidental manslaughter on the part of her housekeeper and her head doc. She had been taken Nembutal all day and couldn't get to sleep so she took a chloral hydrate and the housekeeper gave her a laden filled Nembutal enema.

It would be nice to see the death certificate changed but I think it is really not the thing to do. Let it be.

[Pandabaire]

Alright, can someone please tell me why she (or anyone) would want a Nembutal enema? I mean, was this the thing to do back then or something? What effect would having an enema have on the body?(i.e. why would you do that?)

[FierceKiten]

I think that was something like Klonicks or watever they call it today. Instead of smell or evidence around the mouth or nose, through the rectum, she was drugged, in my opinion.

[Bellatheball]

I'm guessing a coroner might know what to expect of a body 40 years later.

If her family came forward saying this is what she'd want, that's one thing. I'd hope no one would disturb her remains just for kicks and giggles and to satisfy their curiosity.

[FierceKiten]

Im all for it, I wanna know who or what caused her death, has always puzzled me.

[limey]

Who could give permission for this? Does she have any family still living?

[muchlove]

I don't think she has any family left.

[SVZ]

actual forensic scientists can't do the stuff they show on the TV show CSI

they can't even accurately predict a time of death, they usually just don't. in court the information they provide is that they died sometime between the last time they were seen, and when they were found dead. there's ways to find out how long they've been dead, such as maggots, body temperature, etc. but it's all guesses, there's no accurate method. and your body doesn't drop 21 grams when you die either

[Hair Net]

i'd love to see more of this case, there is a lot of talk these days about something afoot in that bedroom soo many years ago...

i saw something on The Early Show about a week ago that spoke with someone close to the Dimaggio family, i belive it was his niece. Apparently she was days from her re-marriage to Joe Dimaggio, she had the dress, the ring, and the china (all which is still in the Dimaggio family). Supposedly, the funeral was on the day they where to have been married.

As you can see, this all alludes to the possibility it was a murder. According to Joe's niece, Joe's mom claimed till her dying day that shewas the last to speak to Marilyn on the phone. She claims to have heard Marilyn utter a name, then a rustle, and the rest is history...

I think the woman that was doing the interview was somehow a part of this Playboy story. I was really hoping it was a book but i've found nothing like this on the subject.

[Hair Net]

Ah...upon further investigation:

http://celebrity-news.net/marilyn_monroe_649346.html

‘Marilyn, Joe & Me’ by June DiMaggio

[ourmaninBusan]

http://www.anomalies-unlimited.com/O...es/Marilyn.jpg

A photo taken three days before she died.

[muchlove]

Here's a larger version of it, ourman: http://img491.imageshack.us/img491/6...rislast5os.jpg

I need to post the whole last Barris series in the Marilyn thread. They were great photos.