About her death
"Marilyn Monroe: Murder - by Consent" (2007 Trafford Publishing $19.99) is a new 238-page paperbook book just released by Los Angeles clinical psychologist Dr. Jack Hattem, which is a factual account of what he describes as the real circumstances behind the Aug. 5, 1962, death of Marilyn Monroe.
This fascinating book explains why she died, how she died and how her significant others were directly responsible for her death.
The result of three decades of research, the book proves a murder conspiracy and the motive behind her murder, first examining the movie star's troubled childhood, which led to her mental frailties and how mistreatment contributed to her death.
The book also highlights examples of how others with the same mental disorder may become victims of their significant others.
"The relationships I studied during my research were exactly like those Marilyn entered into with John and Robert Kennedy, Joe DiMaggio, Arthur Miller and others," Hattem said.
"Marilyn suffered from a personality disorder that destroyed every relationship she was involved in. Unfortunately, this disorder was not recognized during Marilyn's lifetime resulting in her mistreatment. My interest in Marilyn's death began in 1962 with my involvement with the Suicide Prevention Center, which investigated her death. My experience with the center fostered a desire to understand why people choose to kill themselves and, consequently, I began to study the strange world of suicidal behavior."
Nearly half a century following her puzzling death, the circumstances surrounding her final hours are still debated.
It was just shortly after midnight when the actress' maid, Eunice Murray, noticed Monroe's bedroom light was still on. When Murray found the door locked and her employer unresponsive to her calls, she called Monroe's psychiatrist, Dr. Ralph Greenson, who then gained access to the room by breaking a window. Entering, the two found her dead, and the police were called sometime after.
An autopsy found a fatal amount of sedatives in her system, and her death was ruled "probable suicide."
However, it's still not known why the maid was found to be laundering bed linens in the middle of the night before the police arrived for their investigation and the reason why she helped the Greenson rearrange the many items found on the actress' nightstand, including prescription pill bottles, or why, despite the fact Monroe was believed to have swallowed more than 40 pills, that there was not a water glass found on the nightstand.
Two decades after the death, Murray also revealed for the first time that the Attorney General Robert Kennedy had visited Monroe on the night of her death and quarreled with her, and then, later, changed her version of the story.
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