Journalist Anthony McCartney considers how differently Marilyn’s death might be investigated with today’s new technologies.
“DNA, more sophisticated electronic record-keeping, drug databases and other advances would give investigators more information than they were able to glean after Monroe’s Aug. 5, 1962, death — 50 years ago this Sunday.
Whether any of the tools would lead to a different conclusion — that Monroe’s death from acute barbiturate poisoning was a probable suicide — remains a historical ‘What If?’
‘The good news is we’re very advanced from 50 years ago,’ said Max Houck, a forensic consultant and co-author of The Science of Crime Scenes. ‘The bad news is, we’re still trying to put it in context,’ he said.”
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