Marilyn Monroe (Part 2): The Three Deaths of an Iconic American Actress

Summary

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DISGRACELAND – Marilyn Monroe (Part 2): The Three Deaths of an Iconic American Actress

Host: Jake Brennan
Published: May 21, 2024
Podcast: DISGRACELAND – Double Elvis Productions

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Episode Overview

This gripping episode of DISGRACELAND explores the tangled, tragic, and sensationalized circumstances surrounding the death of Marilyn Monroe—a woman as mythic in her passing as she was in her life. Host Jake Brennan dissects the three dominant narratives of Monroe’s death: the official suicide report, explosive conspiracy theories of murder involving the Kennedy brothers, and a lesser-known but plausible account rooted in negligence. Through hard evidence, personal accounts, and his own trademark irreverence, Brennan reveals how Monroe was failed by Hollywood, the medical system, and ultimately, the people closest to her. This is the true crime–fueled chaos behind America’s most enduring sex symbol, told with both drama and a hunger for what really happened.

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Key Discussion Points and Storylines

Introduction & Recap of Part One

• (03:23) Brennan summarizes Monroe’s turbulent rise: party girl, superstar, complicated wife, flawed productions (“The Misfits”), and the shadow hanging over her final year.

“Most people die once. Marilyn Monroe died three times.” – Jake Brennan (04:27)

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The First Death: “The Probable Suicide”

• (04:58 – 11:05)
  • August 4, 1962: Marilyn found dead in her Brentwood home.
  • Series of phone calls from Peter Lawford to Monroe, last haunting words:

    “Say goodbye to Pat, say goodbye to Jack, and say goodbye to yourself because you’re a good guy.” – As reported (07:10)

  • Housekeeper Eunice Murray, not checking on Monroe despite warning calls.
  • Psychiatrist Dr. Greenson only alerted by lawyer late at night, arrives, breaks window, finds Monroe face down “with the phone’s receiver by her head and an array of half empty pill bottles on the nightstand…” (09:08)
  • Coroner and police call it “probable suicide” due to overdose and a history of fragility, but DiMaggio suspects foul play.

    “I always knew who killed her, but I didn’t want to start a revolution in this country.” – Joe DiMaggio, as quoted by his biographer (10:48)

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The Second Death: “Operation Mute Blonde”

• (14:40 – 21:48)
  • Conspiracy Theory #1: Kennedy brothers—John and Robert—allegedly embroiled with Monroe.
  • Claims Monroe was scorned, desperate to break up the Kennedys’ marriages, threatening scandal.
  • The “Mute Blonde” plot: Bobby Kennedy, Peter Lawford, Dr. Greenson allegedly conspire to silence her—culminating in an imagined fatal injection after an explosive confrontation.

    “She was Marilyn Monroe and she wouldn’t be treated like this, like an object used and abused and cast aside. It was the same old story her whole life…” (19:22)

  • Brennan dramatizes, then debunks: no credible evidence for this theory.

    “No, it wasn’t probable suicide, and no, she was not murdered by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. There was a third way.” (21:41)

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The Third Death: “The Eunice Scenario”

• (26:00 – 40:43)
  • A Theory of Negligence, Not Malice or Suicide
    • Monroe was not suicidal; she had new professional prospects and had rekindled her relationship with DiMaggio.
    • She was, however, “dependent on prescription drugs…to slay the insomnia and anxiety. And she was dependent…on Dr. Greenson, not just for the pills but for emotional support.” (28:13)
  • Medical Mishap:
    • Dr. Greenson tried to wean Monroe off Nembutal with chloral hydrate but wasn’t aware her physician Dr. Hyman Engelberg had still prescribed her Nembutal.
    • Day of her death: Dr. Greenson administers or orders a chloral hydrate enema via housekeeper Eunice Murray.
    • Monroe (accustomed to enemas as a Hollywood weight loss trend) receives the enema after already taking Nembutal. The deadly interaction occurs.
    • Eunice delays checking on Monroe and, upon eventually finding her, doesn’t call police for hours, possibly to allow time to stage a suicide scene and clean up—explaining her doing laundry at 4:35am (33:26).

      “Why was Eunice Murray doing laundry at 4:35am at the exact moment police were arriving to deal with the matter of her dead boss lying naked in the bedroom?” (33:30)

    • Autopsy shows no pill residue in her stomach and obvious evidence of an enema; Deputy DA John Minor and Dr. Thomas Noguchi support this as the cause.
    • Multiple conflicting accounts and amended timelines from Eunice Murray and Dr. Greenson raise powerful suspicions about a cover-up.

    “Marilyn Monroe died because of negligence. Not suicide, not murder. Negligence.” – Jake Brennan (36:53)

• The true disgrace is that the world was sold a story about suicide or murder, rather than the tragic mishandling and indifference at the heart of Monroe’s demise.

  “Plenty of time for Dr. Greenson and Eunice Murray to clean up their mess and get the suicide story right, which they did. Unfortunately, America never did get the story right — and that is a disgrace.” – Jake Brennan (40:41)

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On public appetite for conspiracy:

  “The only way to explain her death and to make a couple easy bucks is to explain it through conspiracy theory. And for some fans who can't let go, they of course accept these theories.” – Jake Brennan (05:08)

• On Norman Mailer’s confession:

  “Even renowned Pulitzer Prize winner Norman Mailer admitted that he built wild speculation about Bobby Kennedy’s role out of unverified sources in his book ... Copping later to 60 Minutes that he’d gone all in on sensationalism because, quote, ‘I needed money very badly.’” (29:23)

• On Marilyn’s drug dependency:

  “She was dependent...on Dr. Greenson, not just for the pills but for emotional support. House calls were normal...” (28:35)

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Important Timestamps

• 03:23 – Episode context and catch-up from Part 1.
• 04:27 – “Most people die once. Marilyn Monroe died three times.”
• 07:10 – Marilyn’s haunting last words to Peter Lawford.
• 09:08 – Discovery of Monroe’s body.
• 10:48 – Joe DiMaggio’s enduring suspicion.
• 14:40 – Start of conspiracy theory reenactment: Operation Mute Blonde.
• 19:22 – Dramatic confrontation; Monroe resists being silenced.
• 21:41 – Dismissal of both suicide and murder theories.
• 26:00 – The “Eunice scenario” begins; the account based on Donald Spado’s research.
• 33:26 – Discovery of Eunice Murray doing laundry at 4:35am.
• 36:53 – “Marilyn Monroe died because of negligence. Not suicide, not murder. Negligence.”
• 40:41 – Final indictment of the cover-up.

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Conclusion

DISGRACELAND’s take on Marilyn Monroe’s final hours is as riveting as it is revealing. Eschewing both sensationalist murder theories and the stale assumption of suicide, Jake Brennan accuses Monroe’s inner circle of devastating neglect and self-preservation. Using substantial research, unverifiable legend, and his own sharp narrative, Brennan reconstructs Monroe’s death as a preventable tragedy—one perpetuated by myth and an unwillingness to confront the sins of Hollywood’s past. It’s a modern American tale of fame, exploitation, and the eager fabrication of legend, all at the expense of real human consequence.

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For sources, credits, and further reading, visit: disgracelandpod.com

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Disgraceland is a production of Double Elvis, The Marilyn Monroe Story. Her background, her explosion into America's consciousness, is a sex symbol and megawatt talent. Her personal life and of course her death and the mystery surrounding it is so complex that two episodes were needed to properly tell this story. If you're just getting hip to this now, I suggest you hit pause and go back to the last episode of Disgraceland, Part one of the Marilyn Monroe Story, where we discuss Marilyn's early days on the glamorous but rough Hollywood party girls circuit, her massive stardom and her split with American hero and Yankee slugger husband Joe DiMaggio. We get into Marilyn's complex marriage with Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Arthur Miller and her disastrous turn in Miller's John Huston directed screenplay, starring opposite her hero Clark Gable, a man many believe Marilyn drove to an early grave with her behavior on the set of what would become his last film. That film, the Misfits, was also Marilyn Monroe's last film, and despite its notoriously flawed production, it's a great film. Different than anything Marilyn had done prior, but no less great than her comedic turns in Some Like It Hot, the Seven Year Itch and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. All great. And that loop I played for you at the top of the show, that wasn't from a great film. That was a preset loop from my melotron called Mystery Hour MK1. I played you that loop because I can't afford the rights to Roses Are Red My Love by Bobby Vinton. And why would I play you that specific slice of Copacabana cheese? Could I afford it? Because that was the number one song in America on August 4, 1962, and that was the day Marilyn Monroe died a day. That would kick off numerous conspiracy theories about the most famous woman in the world. A woman so famous that the world won't let her die. On this episode, party girls, sluggers, playwrights, misfits and the all time great Marilyn Monroe. I'm Jake Brennan and this is disgrace. Most people die once. Marilyn Monroe died three times. Her allure, her fame, her sexuality. It's so strong even in death that the legions of skeevy middle aged male hack journalists and bored past their prime Hollywood publicist. The only way to explain her death and to make a couple easy bucks is to explain it through conspiracy theory. And for some fans who can't let go, they of course accept these theories. And given just how iconic Marilyn Monroe has become, it's easy to see how these fantastical theories have metastasized from conjecture to accepted fact. So on August 4, 1962, Marilyn Monroe died. Then the rumors started and she died again. And now we're going to set the record straight and learn about the way Marilyn Monroe actually died. The third way but first. Death number one. The probable suicide. Peter Lawford kept calling Marilyn's place in Brentwood. He reached her earlier that evening on the phone. She was in rare form even for Marilyn. Peter was trying to get her to come by his place and they were all there. Him, his wife, Patricia Kennedy, sister of Bobby and Jack, some other famous friends. Marilyn had committed to go earlier, but then when she hadn't shown and when Peter called to check in on her, she seemed pretty well in the bag, woozy, slurring her words. Peter insisted she come by. She was missing a hell of a time and they all wanted to see her. Marilyn declined, seeming to fade further away with every word she spoke into the other end of the phone. Peter struggled to hear her over the party picking up in the background. But he did hear her final haunting words. Say goodbye to Pat, say goodbye to Jack and say goodbye to yourself because you're a good guy. But with that, the phone went dead. Peter was worried. He called back nothing. He called his manager, who advised him not to go buy Marilyn's. If something bad was going down, it was best he not get caught up in it and bring the Kennedy name into the drama. Lawford's manager tracked down Marilyn's lawyer, Milton Rudin, who got Marilyn's housekeeper, Eunice Murray, who was spending the night at Marilyn's, on the phone. Eunice insisted everything was alright without even looking in on Marilyn, who was in her room at that moment dying from an overdose of Nembertol. Having taken what would later be learned was a heavy dosage of the powerful sedative. At 3am Eunice Marie awoke in the guest room. It was then, hours after her call from Marilyn's lawyer, that she decided to check in on her. What she found was immediately distressing. Marilyn's door was locked, which it never was, and the phone's cord was stretched under the door, which was odd considering that Marilyn's nightly pre bed ritual included taking the phone into a faraway room and covering it in pillows so as to not let a late night ring disturb her. Hard to find slee. Eunice then called Marilyn's psychiatrist, Dr. Greenson, who instructed Eunice on what to do next, which was so incredibly obvious it's hard to wonder why Eunice needed to call a doctor for instructions to knock on the goddamn bedroom door. She did, and Marilyn did not answer, and Dr. Greenson decided then to head over to Maryland's himself again past three in the morning rather than call authorities or paramedics. When he arrived at 3:40am he broke the window outside Marilyn's bedroom to gain entry and found her dead, face down on her bed with the phone's receiver by her head and an array of half empty pill bottles on the nightstand next to her. At 4:25, some 45 minutes after arriving, Dr. Greenson called the police. The coroner called it based on Marilyn's past history of attempted suicide, based on the amount of nembutol and chlohydrate in her body. Probable suicide. The cops bought it. America bought it. Joe DiMaggio did not buy it. He later told his biographer, I always knew who killed her, but I didn't want to start a revolution in this country. Foreign.

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Death Number Operation Mute Blonde Marilyn Monroe kept calling the White House. She couldn't understand why the President wouldn't take her calls. His brother would, over at the Department of Justice. What was the big deal? Had he not seen her in that dress at his birthday party? Had their time in Palm Springs meant nothing? She introduced him to her doctor, for Christ's sakes. Had he no gratitude? He didn't love Jackie. Why was he still carrying on this charade? It was 1962. Times had changed. America would understand. She was Marilyn Monroe after all. She was no less desirable than Jacqueline Kennedy. They'd all see Marilyn would bring real glamour to the White House. Jack had enough. White House switchboard operators were talking to backbench press corps and DC bars. Backbenchers looking to make names for themselves by breaking the code. Going public with the salacious rumor that the President was carrying on a torrid affair with none other than Marilyn Monroe. Jack couldn't have that. He told Bobby to sort it out. And Bobby called Marilyn. And that was rich. He thought, just like an entitled rich kid to have his little brother clean up his mess. Frank Sinatra warned Marilyn Monroe about Bobby Kennedy. He wasn't like Jack. He was ruthless. He'd wink at you with one eye and stare daggers at you with the other at the same time. And he was loyal to keeping the Kennedy name clean above all else. Above God, country. Even above his beloved wife, Ethel and their seven kids. At the time, Marilyn didn't care. She took a page out of Frank's book and told Bobby to go pound sand. And she kept calling Jack, who by now had Marilyn firmly placed on the pay no mind list. Marilyn spun out of control. She wrote letters to Jack. She threatened to talk to the press herself. She took more pills, drank more champagne and made it a nightly ritual to harass the most powerful man on the planet with the only weapon she had left. Her phone. Bobby was dispatched to Hollywood. Operation Mute Blonde was in full effect. Peter Lawford arranged for for the two to meet at his place while his wife, Bobby's sister, was out of town. Bobby and Marilyn walked on the beach while the Attorney General explained gently that his brother was a busy guy running the country. And all. And how shopping for divorce lawyers wasn't high on his priority list at the moment. Marilyn was crushed. Her vulnerability was intense, as intense as her beauty. And Bobby couldn't help himself. He buried that Catholic guilt deep. And that night, they slept with each other. Now the switchboard at the Department of Justice began lighting up. And similarly, Bobby married, supposed devoted Catholic and family man made like Jack, and ignored Marilyn until he couldn't anymore. Operation Mute Blonde, the sequel. Bobby Kennedy touched down at Santa Monica Airport on August 4, 1962. He would now have to clean up both his and his brother's mess. And by now the mess was spinning. Marilyn out of control, distraught over being rejected by both Kennedy brothers, who, by her account, quote, passed her around like a football. Marilyn began sleeping with her therapist, the esteemed colleague of Anna Freud, daughter of Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysts, the very married, very concerned about his reputation in maintaining his professional code of ethics. Dr. Greenson, if it ever came out that he was sleeping with his patient, forget about his marriage. The doctor would have faced jail time for the crime of sexual exploitation by a therapist. Bobby Kennedy knew this because he had Marilyn's home bugged. And Bobby Kennedy knew an opportunity when he saw one. She's your problem too, Doc. Marilyn has to be silenced, Bobby told Dr. Greenson. And you're going to help us do it. And so the plan was hatched. Mute the blonde forever. The black unmarked cruiser slammed into the spot immediately out in front of Marilyn Monroe's home at 12305 Fifth Helena Drive in Brentwood. The Attorney General, along with his bodyguard and his brother in law, Peter Lawford, exited the car with authority and walked briskly to Marilyn's front door. She was expecting them and excited. She had laid out a spread of Mexican food for the occasion. But for Bobby Kennedy, this wasn't a social call. He got down to business straight away. No more calls, Marilyn. Not to me, not to Jack, not to our wives. You bastard. She cried, becoming immediately hysterical. Lawford chimed in, telling her to cool out. Fuck off, Peter. Fucking errand boy. What do you know about it? Lawford was used to being put in his place. Part of the gig. When you marry a Kennedy. He fell into line. Bobby did not. He told her it was over, all of it. They'd sync her career with the studio. She trumped his threat with one of her own. She was going to hold a press conference on Monday and tell the world about her relationship with both Kennedy brothers. Bobby got real serious. You will not. Marilyn screamed. Back at him. She would do whatever the hell she wanted to. She was Marilyn Monroe and she wouldn't be treated like this, like an object used and abused and cast aside. It was the same old story her whole life. Attorney general, president, studio head director, Pulitzer Prize winning author. They were all the same. She was going on and on and on and it was no use. And Bobby bounced his bouncer and his brother in law brought up the behind and they went back to Peter's place called Dr. Greenson. It was on now. Meet us at Maryland's. They got back in the car and beat a quick path back to Brentwood. This time the Attorney General was spotted by a neighbor walking from the car into the famous starlet's home. Marilyn let them in, hoping for a reprieve. She got none. The doctor arrived carrying his black doctor's bag. Marilyn went full hysteria. Him too. They were all in on it. Every last swinging dick. She screamed. She attacked Bobby. He held her down. The doctor, ready with a syringe, pounced. Lawford panicked, nearly pissed his pants. Bobby held Marilyn firm. Marilyn screamed bloody murder. The doctor stuck his needle into her armpit, delivering a fatal injection of nembutol and chlorohydrate. And Marilyn Monroe would be found dead the next morning with little explanation. But the shot to the armpit explained some things. Like how when the autopsy reported the crucial detail that there was no pill residue in Marilyn's system, the effects of the nembutol and chlorohydrate were visible in her system, but there was no indication that the drug was delivered in pill form because there was no pill residue in her stomach. So how then did Marilyn Monroe kill herself from taking all those pills from the containers on her bedside table? How did she die? Probable suicide. Operation Mute Blonde, AKA Was she murdered by the Attorney General? No and no. No, it wasn't probable suicide and no, she was not murdered by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. There was a third way.

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death number three the Eunice scenario Marilyn Monroe was a lot of things in 1962. The most famous woman in the world by most men's account, the most beautiful, the most desired in a Hollywood trailblazer. But suicidal she was not. She had reconnected with Joe DiMaggio and renegotiated her latest contract with Fox. And she had roles in the Jean Harlow Story and a black comedy with the soon to be ironic title, what a Way to Go to look forward to despite recent troubles on the set of Something's Got to Give over Marilyn's inconsistent availability, she was not, as has been salaciously reported, reported and accepted as fact, hung up on either Kennedy, at least not in any sort of dangerous or reckless way. She never slept with her therapist, Dr. Greenson, either, or with Bobby Kennedy. She did sleep with Jack once. These are facts backed up by evidence, phone records, travel records, personal journals, and firsthand corroborated accounts that are confirmed by people close to not only the Kennedys, but also to Maryland people without anything to gain by telling the truth. These aren't publicists or journalists spinning tales together to sell books or command lucrative speaking and interview fees. The temptation of making a quick buck from the what ifs surrounding Marilyn Monroe and the Kennedys is just Too much. The star power is just too high wide. Hell, even renowned Pulitzer Prize winner Norman Mailer admitted that he built wild speculation about Bobby Kennedy's role out of unverified science sources in his book about Marilyn's death, simply titled Marilyn. Copping later to 60 Minutes that he'd gone all in on sensationalism because, quote, I needed money very badly. What Marilyn Monroe was in 1962 was dependent. Dependent on prescription drugs to level her out emotionally and most important to help her sleep, to slay the insomnia and anxiety. And she was dependent, dependent on her physician, Hyman Engelberg and her therapist Dr. Greenson, to prescribe and administer her the drugs. Of the two doctors, she was more dependent on Dr. Greenson not just for the pills but for emotional support. House calls were normal and Marilyn was a frequent guest of his and his family's. Marilyn expected Dr. Greenson to be there for her as a significant part of her emotions and physical support system. She was in near constant contact with him to get her right when the anxiety and the insomnia had her out of sorts. Dr. Greenson knew what to say, what strings to tug at to get Marilyn to feel better and what drugs and how much to prescribe and how to administer them. It was a burden caring for one of the most famous but most complex and emotionally vulnerable women in the world. Tonight, on August 4, 1962, Dr. Greenson had other plans. Dinner with friends, a night away from work, and more specifically a night away from Maryland. Imagine that, an American man in 1962 not wanting to spend time with Marilyn Monroe on a Saturday night. But Marilyn did not care. She'd slept poorly the night before, hardly at all, and was overtired and extremely anxious, worried it would be another sleepless night and she couldn't have that. So she called Dr. Greenson to come by and administer one of the sedatives he'd prescribed her. So around mid afternoon, Dr. Greenson did just that. Hold up. It needs to be directly said that all of the details herein that make up the Eunice scenario come from the highly credible Marilyn Monroe, A biography by author Donald Spado. His details are derived from hard facts, irrefutable source materials, official medical documents, national, state and local government records, first hand accounts from studio heads, business partners, friends, service people like her stand in and her masseuse, her first husband and her stepsister from her young life. In short, people who stand to gain nothing from denying the conspiracies I outlined in the conspiracy theory involving Bobby Kennedy murdering Marilyn Monroe. Or in the accepted narrative I outlined, that explains Marilyn Monroe's death as a, quote unquote, probable suicide. So the question then, who did stand to gain from the public believing that Marilyn Monroe killed herself? Well, Dr. Greenson had been weaning Marilyn off Nembutol in favor of chloral hydrate to sedate her. From Marilyn's perspective, the chloral hydrate wasn't working. Not Dr. Greenston's problem. Not tonight. He had plans. Dr. Greenson claims that he was called by Eunice Murray sometime after 3am well after his night out. And then he ran over to Maryland's, found her locked in her bedroom, unresponsive, broke her bedroom window from the outside to gain entry, found her dead, and then called the cops who arrived on the scene at 4:35am There is only one actual fact in that entire paragraph that I just read you. Let's hear that again. Dr. Greenson had been weaning Marilyn off Nembertol in favor of chloral hydrate to sedate her. From Marilyn's perspective, the chlorohydrate wasn't working. Not Dr. Greenson's problem. Not tonight. He had plans. Dr. Greenson claims that he was called by Eunice Murray sometime after 3am, well after his night out. And then he ran over to Maryland's founder, locked in her bedroom, unresponsive, broke her bedroom window from the outside inside to gain entry, found her dead, and then called the cops who arrived on the scene at 4:35am There is only one actual fact in that entire paragraph that I just read you, and it is this. The first cop, Sergeant Jack Clemens, did indeed arrive on the scene at 4:35am and when he did, he found Marilyn Monroe's housekeeper, Eunice Murray, doing laundry at 4:35am why was Eunice Murray doing laundry at 4:35am at the exact moment the police were arriving to deal with the matter of her dead boss lying naked in the bedroom. Here's another fact. Sergeant Jack Clemens reported that Eunice Murray told him upon arrival that she found Marilyn dead at around midnight. Of course, Sergeant Clemens wanted to know why it took Eunice so long to call the police. It was now past 4:30 in the morning. According to the sergeant, it was at this time that Dr. Greenson interjected, Mansplaining, that Marilyn's publicist had to be notified first and the permission from the studio needed to be granted before the police could be informed. Okay. Within minutes, Detective Sergeant Robert E. Byron arrived and assumed control of the scene. Eunice Murray, and giving herself statement to the new detective in charge, amended the time she supposedly discovered Marilyn's body to say it was about 3:00 in the morning, not midnight. Detective Byron found Eunice Murray to be evasive. And some years later, a record turned up in the Attorney General's office of an ambulance being summoned and arriving at Marilyn's home at midnight. California law prohibits ambulances from retrieving dead bodies. It must be done by the coroner's office. So the ambulance split and with its departure, opportunity arrived. Opportunity for Dr. Greenson, who was very much on the scene by midnight, to clean up his mess. God damn it. Hai. Gave her a prescription. I didn't know about hi being Marilyn's other doctor, her physician, Dr. Hyman Engelberg. This was the comment Dr. Greenson reportedly made when he made the scene around midnight to Marilyn's attorney, Milton Martin Rudin, who was also on the scene, having been tipped off about Marilyn's declining state by Peter Lawford's manager, whom Peter had called frantic earlier in the night, believing something was gravely wrong with Marilyn. God damn it. I gave her a prescription I didn't know about. What was Dr. Greenson referring to? Dr. Greenson was unaware that Marilyn had in her possession Nembutol that Dr. Hyman hi Engelberg had prescribed her after all. Dr. Greenson and Dr. Engelberg were supposedly in close communication regarding Marilyn's prescriptions, due to the fact that Dr. Greenston was trying to wean Marilyn off Nembertol with chlorohydrate. When Dr. Greenson came by late that afternoon to sedate Marilyn, at her request with chlorhydrate, he wasn't aware that she already had Nembutol in her possession. Marilyn then went for a walk on the beach, and then she visited the Lawfords for a brief moment. When she returned to her home, she was in a state of anxiety again and once more called Dr. Greenson at his home, who was now readying himself for a much needed night out away from Marilyn. And Marilyn wouldn't take no for an answer. He must come by and help her. Dr. Greenson, annoyed, relented, and swung by at some point during the early evening. When he did, he tried to continue console Marilyn, but did not administer any more drugs, likely because she already had too many in her system. It needed some time to elapse before taking another dose. The problem was that when the time finally rolled around for that other dose, Dr. Greenson wouldn't be there to administer it. He would be at dinner so he enlisted Eunice Murray, the maid, to administer the chlorohydrate. When the time was right, via enema, Dr. Greenson went to dinner and Eunice Murray went to work. And Marilyn Monroe died because of negligence. Not suicide, not murder, negligence. Marilyn Monroe, like a lot of female actors at the time, was accustomed to enemas as a weight loss trend. So Eunice gave Marilyn the enema of chlorohydrate, not knowing Marilyn had already taken nembute prescribed from Dr. Engelberg. Once the drugs interacted, Marilyn almost immediately began to fade. It was during this time that Peter Lawford called, heard her voice and became so alarmed, he called his manager, who called Marilyn's lawyer, who called Eunice Murray, who did not check on Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn was likely dying at that exact moment. How do we know this? The amount of chloral hydrate in Nembutal and Marilyn's system was enough to get kill her. Yes, but not by pill. So there goes the accepted as fact suicide theory. And it wasn't enough to kill her by injection either. So there goes the conspiratorial murder theory as well. The autopsy showed that drugs were in her system, but there was no pill residue in her stomach. And there would have been had she killed herself with the pills from the many empty pill bottles that were placed on her nightstand. The autopsy also uncovered the fact that there was a discovery coloration of Marilyn's colon, which would have been the case had she been given an enema. John Minor, deputy district attorney in Los Angeles, is on record saying that Both he and Dr. Thomas Noguchi, the deputy coroner who performed the autopsy, were, quote, convinced that an enema was absolutely the route of administering the fatal drug dose. And sometime after the chlorohydrate enema, the interaction with Nembutal would have caused Marilyn's body to expel its contents during the overdose. And that would have resulted in soiled sheets. Which explains why Eunice Murray was doing laundry when the cops showed up at 4:25 in the morning. It also explains other lies from Eunice, like the fact that she stated that Marilyn's bedroom door was locked, thus necessitating breaking the outdoor window to gain entry to find her body. The door wasn't locked because the bedroom door's lock was inoperable. Also, carpeting in the home had just been installed and the pile was so high that the door wouldn't actually shut. Additionally, Eunice correctly stated to the police that she found Marilyn dead around midnight, which is the truth. She later amended the statement, but the statement didn't amend the fact that it's on record that around midnight an ambulance was called and dispatched to Maryland's and then sent away. Also there is the testimony of Marilyn's lawyer Milton Rudin, who claims he was informed of Marilyn's death around midnight as well and made the scene to see and hear Dr. Greenson on the scene claim that God damn it, Hyde gave her a prescription I didn't know about. And finally there's Peter Lawford, who claims that he was called by Milton Evans, a producer in their social circle, who had been in touch with Marilyn's lawyer, the other Milton, Milton Rudin, and told his worries were reality, that yes, Peter Lawford, your friend Marilyn was indeed in trouble. In fact she was now dead. Lawford noted the time on his clock at 1:30am he hung up and called it a night. Marilyn Monroe was found dead sometime around midnight. The cops weren't called until around 4:30. Plenty of time for Dr. Greenson and Eunice Murray to clean up their mess and get the suicide story right, which they did. Unfortunately, America never did get the story right and that is a disgrace. 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