Celebrity Crime Scene: Marilyn Monroe

Matt Roush says...

Of all the remembrances of screen sex symbol Marilyn Monroe on the 100-year anniversary of her birth, this special focusing on her death (at 36 in 1962) is among the most macabre. In what the network touts as a “groundbreaking television event,” the scene of Monroe’s untimely death — her bed in a Brentwood bungalow, with the actress found naked and clutching a telephone — is recreated virtually, allowing crime-scene and cold-case investigators to take a fresh look at the circumstances of the long-contested tragedy. Her associations with mob figures and with the Kennedy brothers (then-president JFK and attorney general RFK) have led to decades of speculation that her death, officially classified as a probable suicide, may have had more sinister implications. No doubt this special will add fuel to the fire.

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