One Stubborn Woman Might Finally Have Proof Marilyn Was Murdered
Except it’s locked. Who locked the box? And why 2039?
Except it’s locked. Who locked the box? And why 2039?
Kneeling on the floor of the storage room, she’s trying to wrap her head around what she’s seeing. It makes no sense.
Her name is Becky Altringer and she’s a private investigator. A reputable one, with testimonials from Linda Blair, Stan Lee and Stan Lee Media, Kaiser Permanente, and more.
When Academy Award nominated director Kirby Dick was making the documentary This Film Is Not Yet Rated, he hired her to investigate the MPAA film rating system.
She’s good at what she does. Very good.
And she’s always believed Marilyn Monroe was murdered.
Now she might have proof.
“Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.” — Marilyn Monroe
He was obsessed…
For years, Altringer has been digging around, hoping she’d stumble across something to prove Marilyn was murdered.
Two years ago, she stumbled on a gold mine.
She discovered that Dr. Ralph Greenson had worked at UCLA so she checked to see if he’d stashed files in the storage rooms there. Bingo.
Greenson was Marilyn’s psychiatrist. When she found out he’d stored files at UCLA, she was expecting psychiatric research, medical files and academic material. Looking at the stuff in front of her, it hit her like a truck.
He was obsessed. Utterly obsessed.
Every book, magazine, and newspaper article ever written about Monroe was in there. He’d saved it all. Every. Single. Thing.
He had letters written to Marilyn by other people, too. Those were her personal belongings. “Why does he even have those?” she whispered.
He kept letters telling him to kill himself. Accusing him of being a murderer. She remembers thinking ‘Why did you save this?’
The beginning of the end…
In May, 1962, Marilyn Monroe stepped on stage, dropped her fur stole and sang Happy Birthday Mr. President in the sexy, breathy voice that suppressed the stutter she’d had ever since she was raped at age ten.
Later, people said they weren’t very discreet.
They say one event can change an entire trajectory. That’s what happened to Norma Jeane Baker that night. It was like death pointed a boney finger at her.
77 days later, she’d be found dead.
They had to pry the phone from her cold dead hand…
On August 5, 1962, Marilyn was found dead in her bed by her psychiatrist, Dr. Ralph Greenson. 60 years ago today.
Altringer knew the pieces didn’t fit.
The housekeeper woke at 3 AM and saw Marilyn’s bedroom light on. So she knocked on the door. When Marilyn didn’t answer, she freaked out and called the psychiatrist.
The psychiatrist said he’d be right over. Stopped to pick up Marilyn’s personal physician, and brought him along, too.
At 4 am. Because a grown woman’s bedroom light was on.
They supposedly broke in through her bedroom window.
She was face down on her bed, clutching the phone receiver so tightly they literally had to pry it out of her cold, dead hand.
Except, the housekeeper had a key to every room. And the broken glass was on the outside of the house. Weird, right?
She was crazy, they said…
It was easy to convince the public. She’d attempted suicide before. She’d even been locked in a padded cell once.
Here’s the part they left out. Three miscarriages. Watching her husband fall in love with someone else on the set of her movie. Worse, he told her she was a total disappointment.
Crying to her psychiatrist only to find herself locked up.
Was she crazy? Or did her life get crazy?
“What really has me scared is all the strange clicks I’ve been hearing on my phone…”
In late July, Marilyn called her friend Bob Slatzer from a public phone. He’d worked in the film industry and they became close friends.
She met him in a park. Told him everything had gone crazy. She’d had an affair with the President. Some say she slept with Bobby, too. Whether she did or not, who knows. Corpses tell no tales.
She told Slatzer she needs to talk to Bobby Kennedy and he’s not returning her calls. He said forget about the Kennedys.
Then she paused and told him why she really called. She was hearing strange clicks and noises on her phone. She was scared.
With good reason.
“The mob is after you…”
3 days before she was found dead, Marilyn met Gianni Russo at a resort. He has a photo. Says it was taken by Chicago crime boss Sam Giancana.
Seems to me maybe Russo never stopped loving that girl. They’d dated, three years previous. She broke it off, but he cared enough to warn her.
He said the mob was after her. They knew about her and the Kennedys. They were going to use her to blackmail the President.
She said she’d go to the media, but she never got the chance.
24 hours to live…
Friday, August 3, Marilyn invited her friend Pat to spend the night. Patricia Newcomb was her press agent and friend. They were like sisters.
She had so much good news!
She was rekindling her romance with DiMaggio. He quit drinking for her. She’d been rehired to finish a movie that had been cancelled. Plus — on August 1, she’d just signed a million dollar two-movie deal with Fox.
They drank wine to celebrate. After Pat crashed, she left one more voicemail for Bobby Kennedy and went to bed. But she got no sleep that night.
In the morning, she told Pat she got weird calls all night on her personal phone. A voice would say “Leave Bobby alone, you tramp” and then hang up. Over and over until 5:30 am. She was exhausted.
That was Saturday, August 4. The last day of her life.
She never left that doggie alone…
When Marilyn’s death hit the news, people who knew her were in shock.
Pat Newcomb said no way, she was not depressed. She’d just spent the night there. They’d made plans to see a movie Sunday.
Her attorney said she’d called Saturday and asked to see him Monday. Said she couldn’t discuss details on the phone. She didn’t make it.
The one that got me was the neighbor.
She said Marilyn’s little doggie was barking outside for hours. Marilyn never left that doggie alone, she said. Plus, she’d heard yelling. Between the doggie and the yelling, she knew something terribly wrong had happened.
Even the coroner was not convinced it was suicide. He gave a statement saying he’d signed the death certificate “under duress.”
Her body was claimed by Joe DiMaggio. He arranged the funeral and sent red roses to her grave three times a week for twenty years.
“She told me someone would do her in, but I kept quiet.”
— Joe DiMaggio
20/20 documentary gets shut down…
Facts started leaking out. A security company confirmed her house and phone were bugged by the government and the mob. They said Marilyn had even planted a listening device in case she needed to protect herself.
The neighbor who heard yelling? That was Bobby Kennedy.
He showed up at her house the night before she died. There’s a tape of him yelling ‘Where is it? Where the fuck is it? We have to know.’ Marilyn was screaming “get out of my house, get out of my house.”
Neighbors saw people carrying things out of the house. Which explains her personal letters being in Greenson’s files.
Twenty years later, the district attorney finally agreed to look at the case again. And then? Nothing. The DA took a look at the case files and said according to the autopsy, she died of overdose. Case closed. Sorry.
That’s when ABC’s 20/20 decided to make a documentary.
Spent a quarter of a million on research. It was canned at the last minute. Literally at 6 pm, when it was due to air. Sorry folks, the documentary has been cancelled.
Who locked the box?
Know what haunts Becky Altringer?
Pentobarbital was only found in Marilyn’s blood. Not her stomach. That’s injection, not overdose, she says.
She thought she was finally going to crack the case when she found the boxes stashed at UCLA. But when she got to the last box, it was locked.
“Box 39” is sealed until 2039.
It’s stored in “special collections.” They wouldn’t even let her see it. They showed her a list of the contents, though. It contains files pertaining to Monroe and an un-named file. But she can’t see them until 2039.
She’s gone to the media and the District Attorney. She’s even contacted Dr. Greenson’s daughter, who is still alive. She wants to know who locked that box. And why 2039? No one will tell her.
When the box is opened, she’ll be 76 years old.
References;
— Mysterious box of Monroe documents found at UCLA
— Monroe documents sealed until 2039
— Marilyn Monroe’s Final Hours
— Kennedy killed Monroe claims “Godfather” actor
— How Did Marilyn Monroe Die?