The chilling new theory that Marilyn Monroe WAS murdered: Secret files, a lost diary, a ‘deathbed confession’ and a Kennedy implicated in this week’s explosive The Crime Desk

It was the early hours of August 5, 1962, when Hollywood’s biggest star Marilyn Monroe was found dead in her Brentwood, Los Angeles, home at the age of 36.

She was naked, face down on her bed in a room littered with pill bottles. An autopsy found she died from a probable suicide caused by a barbiturates overdose.

Case closed.

Or so the story has been told for decades.

Now, retired LAPD Detective Mike Rothmiller is calling for a new investigation into her death based on his explosive belief that Monroe was murdered by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.

In this week’s The Crime Desk newsletter, Rothmiller reveals the evidence he uncovered that led him to this shocking conclusion – from the discovery of Monroe’s long-lost diary to troves of secret files, phone transcripts and surveillance images, and a stunning confession from a Kennedy confidante who claimed he watched the starlet die.

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