Marilyn Monroe Murder

MYSTERY OF BOX 39 

Mysterious box of Marilyn Monroe documents sealed until 2039 could prove iconic star was murdered, investigator claims

EXCLUSIVE

·        Emma Parry, Digital US Correspondent

·       Jan 8 2020, 8:13AM

·       Updated: Jan 8 2020, 13:56PM

A MYSTERIOUS box of Marilyn Monroe documents sealed until 2039 could prove an iconic star was murdered, an investigator has revealed.

Private detective Becky Altringer told Sun Online how she discovered the box of papers "restricted until 2039" which she believes may contain the answers as to how and why the screen legend died back in 1962 - in a university library in Los Angeles.  

A mysterious box of sealed documents relating to 

Marilyn Monroe has been found at UCLA library

The strange box belongs to Marilyn’s personal psychiatrist Dr. Ralph Greenson, who found Marilyn dead at her home, and is suspected by some of killing her by injecting her with a fatal dose of pentobarbital.

"Box 39" is stored in the special collections section of the UCLA library but sealed to the public until 2039 - although the list of contents - which is public - shows it contains various documents and letters relating to Marilyn.

“I'm 100 percent positive Marilyn Monroe did not commit suicide - not if you go by all the facts of the case,” Becky revealed. 

“There are so many unanswered questions and there shouldn't be. 

“Marilyn Monroe was the only person whose organs and tests and everything that had been with her death disappeared. How does this happen unless it's a cover-up?

Marilyn's last photoshoot taken three 
weeks before her tragic death

“And now we discover Box 39, which contains a bunch of sealed files from her personal doctor, who I believe is responsible for her death.

“I firmly believe that the answers to what happened may be hidden in these files.”

Marilyn Monroe’s death on Sunday, August 5, 1962, has long been a source of speculation and conspiracy theories - with some suggesting she may have been murdered due to her alleged affairs with the powerful Kennedy brothers John F Kennedy, who was then president, and his brother Bobby.

One theory, published in the book The Murder of Marilyn Monroe: Case Closed, suggests that Greenson killed Marilyn with a lethal injection - at the request of the Kennedy's after she threatened to go public about their affairs.

Private investigator Becky came across the sealed box after she began to research Dr. Greenson, who died in 1979, and discovered that as he worked at UCLA and had left behind boxes of documents in their library. 

Expecting to find psychiatric research papers and other academic medical material, Becky was shocked when she found that  much of Greenson's documents were related to Marilyn.

And she was even more stunned when staff at the library told her she was not allowed to view the contents of Box 39 - as it had been sealed until 2039.

"I spent hours looking at everything I was allowed to - I couldn't make copies or take pictures so I just took notes," she explained.

"I discovered he was obsessed with Marilyn Monroe because he had every book, every magazine, every newspaper that was ever written about Marilyn Monroe, everything.

"Then there were letters that were written to him, people telling him to kill himself because they thought it was his fault, she was dead. I remember thinking 'Why did you save this?'

"So when I got to Box 39 they told me it was sealed until 2039. I did everything in my power to try and look at those files, but they wouldn't let me.

Becky Altringer shares some of the evidence she believes proves Marilyn was murdered with Sun Online:

·       There was no suicide letter found even though Marilyn had left letters during previous attempts

·       There was a bruise on her left hip, a common location for an injection

·       There was no vomit found which is common in overdose victims

·       The toxicology report found the actress has 4.5 mg percentage Pentobarbital and 8 mg percent chloral hydrate, which means she would have had to swallow 30 to 40 pentobarbital pills. Becky claims that she has spoken to medical professionals who told that no was has ever died with such high blood concentrations as a result of orally ingesting these drugs

·       There was no evidence of these drugs in her stomach, kidneys, urine, or intestines - only her blood.

·       There was no water glass in the first inspection of the bedroom, which would have been necessary for Marilyn to swallow so many pills. Also, the water in the house had been turned off. However, later pictures showed a glass on the actress’s bedside table

·       Neighbors claim they saw an ambulance outside the house late in the evening of August 4th, however Dr. Greenson said he didn’t find her dead until around 3:40AM the next day

·       The pathologist who performed the initial autopsy wanted to do additional testing but was told Marilyn's organs and photos of the unusual bruising had “disappeared”

·       Many witnesses claim to have seen a diary belonging to Marilyn which mentioned the Kennedy brothers and Cuba among other topics - that later disappeared from the coroner’s office

"I know that inside there is a manuscript written by Greenson's daughter Joan about her ties with Marilyn Monroe and what happened that night.

"Apparently she claims in that manuscript that her father got the call at midnight - not 3am - which would make more sense giving that the neighbors say they saw an ambulance at 11:30.

"There is also letters in there to Marilyn Monroe from other people - and letters she wrote to other people - why does he even have those? There are also some of his confidential medical files and another file that doesn't say what it is.

"I still don't even know if Greenson sealed them, or his daughter Joan - or somebody else.

"And I don't know why 2039 - is it because by then Joan Greenson will be dead too? I've tried to reach out to her but had no response.

"I believe the answer to what happened to Marilyn Monroe can be found in Box 39 or at the very least I think there might be more information that people need to see."

Becky, who runs the Ariel Investigations agency in California and New Mexico began looking into Marilyn’s death some years ago and says she was shocked at the huge numbers of discrepancies she found in witness testimony - as well as other suspicious circumstances - such as a lack of a suicide note.

“Marilyn Monroe did try to commit suicide before. - we all know that. But in those attempts, she always left a suicide letter and it is mysterious in this case there was none left," she explained.

"There was also no vomit which is found in overdose victims, plus she had the strange bruises in her hips which is a commonplace where injections could have been put or it could have been caused by a violent struggle.

Becky Altringer would like to see 
Marilyn's death certificate changed

The house where screen goddess 
Marilyn Monroe died in 1962

"Another thing is her housekeeper Eunice Murray said she was concerned because Marilyn was awake and the light was on. Why would she be concerned? Marilyn was an adult - if I saw someone's light underneath the door, I sure wouldn't be concerned.

"Also my understanding is that when Marilyn Monroe first moved into that house, she had new carpet put in that room and it was so thick and high, but it was impossible to see under the door so how could she see the light?

"Plus she then rang Marilyn's psychiatrist, Dr Greenson. Why would she ring him first if she is so concerned - surely you would call the police?

"They claim they had to break into Marilyn's window but Murray had a skeleton key to every door - and the glass was found outside the property not inside even though it was supposedly broken from the outside.

"And there's the diary which many people said they saw, in which she apparently mentioned the Kennedys.

"Even Marilyn's friend and publicist Pat Newcomb told me there was a diary. But where is that diary? It just disappeared.

"There are so many things that just don't add up."

 Marilyn was rumored to be having an 
affair with President John F Kennedy 

 

She was also rumored to have been 
having an affair with his brother Bobby

Becky also investigated witness statements from Marilyn's neighbors and tried to track down any who were still living or their children.

"Neighbours say they saw the ambulance there the night before on the 4th at around 10 or 11pm. There were also neighbors who said they saw Bobby Kennedy there," she said.
"Many of the neighbors are now deceased but I tried to find their children who was living in the house at the time.

"I spoke to one neighbor's daughter who said that on the night that Marilyn Monroe died, that her dog was outside barking continually for hours and that Marilyn Monroe never left that dog outside alone.

"And she said they were always very suspicious of that. And she said that they heard a lot of yelling going on at her house.

"No one has ever talked to them as they lived in the row behind Marilyn's house - only those in the little cul-de-sac she lived in.

"Everyone says how much Marilyn loved that dog so the fact he is outside barking makes me believe that a bad situation is occurring - it's natural for the dog to want to protect its owner."

Marilyn Monroe's death certificate

Becky's theory is that Marilyn was killed after she threatened to go public about her affair with the Kennedy brothers - and reveal sensitive information she had learned during those affairs.

"I think Marilyn Monroe killed herself when she made a threat against the Kennedy's," she said.

"I think Marilyn Monroe was hurt and angry and felt used by them and I think she made a threat saying, 'I'm going to go to the news' or whatever and when she did that she killed herself because they were not going to allow that to happen.

"Who knows maybe they had no intentions of killing her, maybe they went there to get the diary because she was making all of these threats.

"And I believe that's why it involved Dr. Greenson because apparently when the ambulance arrived, Marilyn Monroe was still alive and they were trying to take her to the hospital.

"And of course Greenson comes and says, 'I'm a doctor leave her here'. And I think that's when he injected her and she died."

Becky is now campaigning to have Marilyn's death certificate changed from "probable suicide" and has launched a petition campaigning for this to happen.

"I would like to get some certificate to be changed to homicide or murder because I believe that's what happened," Becky said.

"I think Marilyn Monroe deserves that. There's more evidence proving to murder than there is to suicide."

UCLA confirmed to Sun Online the box was sealed but did not state why.