UMVA has learned that the mysterious death of Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe continues to unravel, with renowned cold-case detective Paul Holes casting doubt on the official narrative.
Monroe, a blonde bombshell who exuded sensuality and starred in a slew of popular movies, died on August 4, 1962, in a shocking event that unleashed a torrent of conspiracy theories that persist to this day. Her high-profile marriages to playwright Arthur Miller and legendary New York Yankees star Joe DiMaggio, as well as rumored affairs with the Kennedy brothers, only added to the intrigue surrounding her life and death.
According to information obtained by UMVA, Holes, who played a crucial role in identifying the "Golden State Killer" Joseph DeAngelo Jr., has discovered a tractor-trailer load of inconsistencies in the investigation into Monroe's death. He is lending his skills to a new project, premiering on Fox, which aims to shed new light on the circumstances surrounding her death.
Holes has revealed that he was initially aware of Monroe's death by drug overdose, ruled a probable suicide, but knew very few details about it until he started digging into the case. He believes that many questions about her death remain unanswered due to the poor documentation and processing of the death scene by investigating authorities back in 1962.
The night of her death, Monroe had locked herself in her bedroom, alarming her housekeeper Eunice Murray, who frantically called Monroe's doctor. He broke into her room and found the star naked and dead, with a telephone receiver dangling from her hand and an empty pill bottle on the nightstand. However, there was no suicide note, raising suspicions about the circumstances of her death.
Holes points out several red flags, including the lack of documentation and photos of the death scene. Even with the one existing photograph, he noticed inconsistencies, such as the clean and perfectly arranged sheets, and the pill bottles on the nightstand being "perfectly arranged" with labels all facing out. He calls these an "inconsistency," suggesting that the scene may have been staged.
Monroe's mental-health issues and struggles with insomnia were no secret, but Holes' review has led him to cast doubt on the suicide theory. He notes that it's unusual for someone to stage a suicide to make it look more deliberate, and points out that 50 capsules of a fast-acting drug, Nembutal, were picked up two days prior to her death, with all of them gone and an empty pill bottle on the nightstand.
The district attorney's office ruled that the drugs had time to be absorbed into her system, but Holes questions whether Monroe was receiving appropriate care, given the multiple prescriptions she was getting from her doctor and psychiatrist. The delay in calling the police, exceeding an hour, also raises questions about the handling of the case.
UMVA can exclusively reveal that, deep in the bowels of the FBI, there may be answers as to what killed Monroe. She was pegged as a communist and there are heavily redacted files about her relationships with powerful men. The feds feared pillow talk between Monroe and Jack Kennedy and his brother Robert F. Kennedy, the attorney general.
To Holes, the biggest question remains why the LAPD seemed to drop the ball, potentially due to outside influence. "It seems like there's possibly some influence to cause them to look the other way and just write this thing off and make the assumption it's suicide," he said.
