Coroner for Marilyn Monroe's autopsy makes explosive claim 60 years after her death.

Recently, in the book, LA Coroner by Anne Soon Choi, Marilyn Monroe's coroner spoke out about her death and autopsy. Thomas Noguchi was a deputy coroner tasked with carrying out the autopsy of Marilyn 64 years ago. In LA Coroner, he said he feels uncertain about Marilyn's death being a suicide, noting there was a moment alarm bells rang for him.

Mr. Noguchi further alleged that the report said Marilyn had received a prescription of Nembutal two days before her death and that she had spoken to her psychiatrist recently.

"It was straightforward," Mr Noguchi said. "But an autopsy would need to be done to confirm the death."

He added that he examined the body, including her scalp and back, for injection marks but found none.

After this, the now-retired coroner collected samples of her blood, urine, kidney,  liver, stomach and its contents, as well as her intestines for a toxicology report to be conducted. However, he said the results deeply shocked him, claiming "alarm bells went off in his head."

The test results found fatal levels of pentobarbital and chloral hydrate in her system, so the head toxicoloigst said there was no need to run more tests on her organs.

Writing about this decision, Ms Choi penned, "A wave of anxiety washed over [Mr Noguchi]. He knew that not running the additional tests would become a problem for him."It left too many questions unanswered, and ultimately, as the pathologist who conducted the physical autopsy, he would be held responsible." 

Mr. Noguchi felt there were many questions unanswered from the autopsy and requested her organs be further tested. "But the toxicologist disposed of them once the coroner's report was issued," Ms Choi said. This is when Mr Noguchi said he did not know whether the results were accurate or part of a "cover up."

This information should allow more evidence to change death certificate. Please send the letter below to the following people. 

Rob Bonta
California Attorney General
Email: Rob.Bonta@doj.ca.gov 

Chief of Police Michael R. Moore
Los Angeles Police Department
Email: contact.lapdonline@gmail.com
 
Dr. Odey C. Ukpo 
Department of Medical Examiner - Coroner
Email: info@coroner.lacounty.gov
 

District Attorney Geroge Gascon
Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office
Email: info@da.lacounty.gov
 
Xochitl Hinojosa
Director Department of Justice
Email: xhinojosa@gmail.com
 
US Attorney General Merrick B. Garland
US Department of Justice
Email: AskDOJ@usdoj.gov

I am writing to respectfully request a review of the official cause of death listed on Marilyn Monroe’s death certificate. While the certificate states suicide, I believe there is compelling evidence that warrants reconsideration. The circumstances surrounding her passing—including inconsistencies in reports, unanswered questions in the investigation, and credible testimony from those close to her—suggest that her death may not have been self-inflicted.

Given her cultural significance and the historical importance of accuracy in such matters, I urge your office to re-examine the case with the goal of establishing the truth. Correcting the record would not only honor Marilyn Monroe’s memory but also provide long overdue clarity for history. Thank you for your attention to this matter. I appreciate your commitment to ensuring accuracy in such an important case.

Sincerely,

[Your Full Name] 

WhatsApp deletes over 6.8m accounts linked to scams, Meta says

 WhatsApp has taken down 6.8 million accounts linked to scammers targeting people around the world in the first half of this year, its parent company Meta says.

Many were tied to scam centres run by organised criminals in South East Asia, who often used forced labour in their operations, according to the social media giant.

Meta made the announcement as WhatsApp rolled out new anti-scam measures to alert users to potential fraudulent activity, such as a user being added to a group chat by someone not in their contacts list.

The crackdown targets an increasingly common tactic in which criminals hijack WhatsApp accounts or add users to group chats promoting fake investment schemes and other scams.

Meta said WhatsApp "proactively detected and took down accounts before scam centres were able to operationalise them."

In one case, WhatsApp worked with Meta and ChatGPT-developer OpenAI to disrupt scams linked to a Cambodian criminal group that offered cash for likes on social media posts to promote a fake rent-a-scooter pyramid scheme.

It said scammers had used ChatGPT to create the instructions issued to potential victims.

Typically, fraudsters would first contact potential targets with a text message before moving the conversation to social media or private messaging apps, said Meta.

These scams were usually completed on payment or cryptocurrency platforms, it added.

"There is always a catch and it should be a red flag for everyone: you have to pay upfront to get promised returns or earnings."

UK consumer rights organisation Which? welcomed the announcement, but said: "Meta must do much more to stop these criminals across all its platforms."

Consumer law expert Lisa Webb added: "Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp users are being inundated with fraudulent ads for everything from fake investment opportunities to dodgy products and non-existent job offers.

"Meta needs to ensure that scams are prevented from ever appearing on its platforms in the first place."

"Meta needs to ensure that scams are prevented from ever appearing on its platforms in the first place. Ofcom must now take action to enforce the parts of the Online Safety Act already in effect, and to issue robust rules governing fraudulent paid-for ads, so that tech firms are forced to take full responsibility for the content on their sites."

Scam centres that cheat people out of billions of dollars are known to operate from South East Asian countries like Myanmar, Cambodia and Thailand.

These centres are also known to recruit people who are then forced to carry out the scams.

Authorities in the region have urged people to be wary of potential fraud and use anti-scam measures such as WhatsApp's two-step verification feature to help protect their accounts from being hijacked.

In Singapore, for example, users have also been told by police to be wary of any unusual requests they receive on messaging apps.

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August 6, 2025

Marilyn Monroe is found dead.

 On August 5, 1962, movie actress Marilyn Monroe is found dead in her home in Los Angeles. She was discovered lying nude on her bed, face down, with a telephone in one hand. Empty bottles of pills, prescribed to treat her depression, were littered around the room. After a brief investigation, Los Angeles police concluded that her death was “caused by a self-administered overdose of sedative drugs and that the mode of death is probable suicide.”

Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jeane Mortenson in Los Angeles on June 1, 1926. Her mother was emotionally unstable and frequently confined to an asylum, so Norma Jeane was reared by a succession of foster parents and in an orphanage. At the age of 16, she married a fellow worker in an aircraft factory, but they divorced a few years later. She took up modeling in 1944 and in 1946 signed a short-term contract with 20th Century Fox, taking as her screen name Marilyn Monroe. She had a few bit parts and then returned to modeling, famously posing nude for a calendar in 1949.

She began to attract attention as an actress in 1950 after appearing in minor roles in the The Asphalt Jungle and All About Eve. Although she was onscreen only briefly playing a mistress in both films, audiences took note of the blonde bombshell, and she won a new contract from Fox. Her acting career took off in the early 1950s with performances in Love Nest (1951), Monkey Business (1952), and Niagara (1953).

Celebrated for her voluptuousness and wide-eyed charm, she won international fame for her sex-symbol roles in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) and There’s No Business Like Show Business(1954). The Seven-Year Itch (1955) showcased her comedic talents and features the classic scene where she stands over a subway grating and has her white skirt billowed up by the wind from a passing train. In 1954, she married baseball great Joe DiMaggio, attracting further publicity, but they divorced eight months later.

In 1955, she studied with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio in New York City and subsequently gave a strong performance as a hapless entertainer in Bus Stop (1956). In 1956, she married playwright Arthur Miller. She made The Prince and the Showgirl—a critical and commercial failure—with Laurence Olivier in 1957 but in 1959 gave an acclaimed performance in the hit comedy Some Like It Hot. Her last role, in The Misfits (1961), was directed by John Huston and written by Miller, whom she divorced just one week before the film’s opening.

By 1961, Monroe, beset by depression, was under the constant care of a psychiatrist. Increasingly erratic in the last months of her life, she lived as a virtual recluse in her Brentwood, Los Angeles, home. After midnight on August 5, 1962, her maid, Eunice Murray, noticed Monroe’s bedroom light on. When Murray found the door locked and Marilyn unresponsive to her calls, she called Monroe’s psychiatrist, Dr. Ralph Greenson, who gained access to the room by breaking a window. Entering, he found Marilyn 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.

In recent decades, there have been a number of conspiracy theories about her death, most of which contend that she was murdered by John and/or Robert Kennedy, with whom she allegedly had love affairs. These theories claim that the Kennedys killed her (or had her killed) because they feared she would make public their love affairs and other government secrets she was gathering. On August 4, 1962, Robert Kennedy, then attorney general in his older brother’s cabinet, was in fact in Los Angeles. Two decades after the fact, Monroe’s housekeeper, Eunice Murray, announced for the first time that the attorney general had visited Marilyn on the night of her death and quarreled with her, but the reliability of these and other statements made by Murray are questionable. Decades after her death, Marilyn Monroe remains a major cultural icon.