Marilyn Monroe

               Norma Jean Baker was born on June 1^st, 1926 in Los Angeles California. She grew up as an orphan due to the fact that her mother was mentally unstable and her father was unknown. Norma Jean was a lonely child searching for only one thing; love. She would spend her life searching for love, more specifically searching for a husband. Norma Jean connected love with men because that was the one thing missing throughout her life. But the world does not know her as Norma Jean. To the world she is known as, Marilyn Monroe.  

              Marilyn was, without a doubt, Hollywood’s most unforgettable starlit. She was put on the earth to act, but tragically, she was taken from the earth too soon. Marilyn died on Sunday August 5^th, 1962 at twelve o’clock in the morning. She was only thirty six years old. Her death brought on enormous amounts of speculation. Whether the speculation came from the uncertain details about her death, or the simple fact that she was so famous that she couldn’t possibly have committed suicide. She was a depressed movie star, sex symbol and lived a rather scandalous life however, that isn’t reason to believe suicide was her answer to get out.

              Sargent Jack Clemmons was the first officer to report to the scene of the crime in the early hours of August 5^th. When he arrived to Monroe’s home, at four thirty in the morning, three people were waiting for him, Marilyn’s internist Dr. Hymen Ingleberg, Dr. Ralph Greenist her psychiatrist and her housekeeper Unis Murry. When Clemmons originally interviewed the trio all three claimed that Unis Murry found Monroe just past twelve o’clock in the morning. He then responded with the question of why the three did not call police right away, instead they waited over three hours later. Clemmons claimed that not one of the three witnesses could answer him. 

He also was put off by the way Monroe’s body was found. She was found lying flat on her stomach in what officers call a soldiers position. Clemmons had, in his career, witnessed several overdose crime scenes. He said that individuals who overdose will end up in a crippled up position because usually with overdosing people expericnce convulsions or seizers. Monroe’s body appeared, to Officer Clemmons, to be staged. Soon after Officer Clemmons arrived, he was replaced by state troopers. When Monroe was examined by medical officials they found a large amount of sleeping pills in her system. Her death was ruled a probable suicide. Mainly because her suicide had probability. She had tried to commit suicide in the past and most of those attempts involved barbiturates. The unanswered questions were gaining speed; however, no corners inquest was ever conducted, no grand jury was forced to investigate and no eye witnesses were ever put under oath.

 The truth behind Marilyn Monroe’s death is long gone and buried. Her life was so grand and extraordinary, that people did not want to believe suicide was the cause of her tragic. The only truth we really know is the fact that Marilyn was hurting. She had been depressed and lonely for years. Her failed attempts of suicide were cries for help, the help she so longed to receive, came a little too late.