LOS ANGELES INQUIRY ON MARILYN MONROE RULES OUT A MURDER

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• Document Release Date: July 16, 2010
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• Publication Date: December 29, 1982
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NEW YORK TIMES
29 DECEMBER 1982
Los Angeles Inquiry
On Marilyn Monroe
Rules Out a Murder
The flurry of speculation that she was
murdered eoncided with the 20th anni-
versary of the death. A private investi-
V or, Milo Speriglio, and Robert Slaty-
who says be secretly married the ac-
tress on Oct. 4, 1951, in Tijuana, Mexico,
said that miss Monroe was killed
? shortly after the end of a romance with
.Robert F. Kennedy, then the Attorney
General.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 28 (AP) -
Marilyn Monroe either killed herself or
accidentally took an overdose of barbit-
urates, the District Attorney said today
after a review of the actress's death in
1962.
The review was ordered after a Los
Angeles private detective argued she
was murdered by "a dissident faction"
of the Central Intelligence Agency-or
similar group.
"Based on the evidence available to
us," District Attorney John Van de
Kamp said, "it appears that her death
could have been a suicide or a result of
an accidentaldrug overdose.
"It is possible that while her ingestion
of a lethal quantity of barbiturates was
voluntary, she may have been in such a
state of emotional confusion that she.
lacked a clearly formed purpose."
He Plans No Further Inquiry
Mr. Van de Kamp said no further
criminal investigation into Miss Mon-
roe's death was planned.
The District Attorney's office decided
on the review because there was no dis-
trict attorney's investigation at the
time, and because of recent reports con-
tending Miss Monroe was murdered,
supposedly because she knew of a plot
against Fidel Castro, the Cuban leader.
The report said that a murder "would
have required a massive, in-place con-_
spiracy covering all the principals at
the death scene, including "the actual
killer or killers; the chief ipedical ex-
aminer-coroner; the autops}'surgeon to.
whom the case was fortuitously as-
signed; and most all of the police offi
cers assigned to the case as well as their
"Our inquiries and document exami-
nation uncovered no credible evidence
supporting a murder theory," the re-
portsaid.
Miss Monroe's body was found
sprawled an the bed of her home in
Brentwood on Aug. 5, IM. The county
coroner ruled her death a suicide by
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