The Night Marilyn Monroe was dragged out of her house dead

Marilyn Monroe was instantly recognizable, even to people who had never seen a single one of her movies. She was married to Joe DiMaggio, a friend of Frank Sinatra and loved by fans around the world. Glamorous celebrity of hers seemed to have it all.

That is why the news of Marilyn Monroe's death on August 5, 1962, at age 36, apparently by her own hand, shook the world. And even more worrying were the rumors and theories claiming that she may even have been killed.

The cover of the newspaper "New York Mirror" said: "Marilyn Monroe committed suicide. She was found n-ked in bed, with a phone in her hand and 40 pills”

Monroe's housekeeper, Eunice Murray, was asleep at the movie star's Los Angeles home on the night of August 5, 1962. Murray was concerned when she awoke at 3 a.m. to find the light on in the bedroom. Monroe's room. After trying to open the door and finding it locked, the housekeeper started yelling Monroe's name.

The woman herself called Dr. Ralph Greenson, the Hollywood star's psychiatrist. Greenson ran to Monroe's house and managed to get through her bedroom window. When he went upstairs, he found the star n-ked under the covers and clutching the phone.

 

The room where the star, Marilyn Monroe, died.

"She looks like she's dead," she said.

Monroe's nightstand was littered with countless bottles of medication, prompting Greenson to call the actress's doctor, Dr. Hyman Engelberg, who pronounced her dead and then called the police, who arrived around 4 p.m. :30 a.m.

After Marilyn Monroe's death, her body was taken to the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office, where an autopsy was performed that same day. The toxicology report showed that the actress's blood contained a sleeping pill and her liver showed the presence of the sleeping pill Nembutal.

The Forensic Police removed Monroe's body that morning.

Because these levels were much higher than the fatal dose and because the pills had been ingested "within a short period of time" (within one minute), the coroner ruled Marilyn Monroe's death a "probable suicide."

The biggest star in Hollywood suffered from anxiety and depression. She constantly turned to drugs and alcohol for help. Monroe's close friend, James Bacon, recalled how she watched her one night abusing substances in a self-destructive way.

"She was drinking champagne and straight vodka and occasionally taking a pill... I told her, 'Marilyn, the combination of pill and alcohol will kill you.' And she said, 'She hasn't killed me yet. She then she had another drink and she took another pill.”

Given her history of depression and substance abuse, it wasn't hard to believe that Marilyn Monroe's death was actually a suicide or at least a tragic accident for a woman who had ultimately taken too many pills and drank too much.