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In this April 1962 file photo, actress Marilyn Monroe is shown on the set of her last movie, "Something's Got To Give," in Los Angeles. Fifty years have not dimmed skeptics' suspicions about the death of Marilyn Monroe, but the intervening decades have seen technological leaps that could alter the investigation were it to occur today.
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In this Aug. 9, 1962 file photo, Joe DiMaggio, right, second husband of film star Marilyn Monroe, is comforted at the crypt by Mr. and Mrs. Sam Kindelcamp, former foster parents of Miss Monroe, in Los Angles, Calif. At left is DiMaggio's son Joe Jr. -
In this Aug. 5, 1962 file photo, a police officer points to an assortment of medicine bottles on the table beside the bed, right, in actress Marilyn Monroe's home in Los Angeles, Calif., where she was found dead. Monroe was 36-years-old. The 1982 District Attorney's report states that roughly 15 prescription bottles were seen at the scene, but only eight are reflected in the coroner's report. -
In this Aug. 5, 1962 file photo, police officers and newsmen stand at the driveway gate to the home of Marilyn Monroe after she was found dead in her bedroom. The Spanish-style one-story house is in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles. The first police officer on the scene later said he saw her housekeeper using the washing machine in the hours after the actress' death. -
This photo of a document provided by the Los Angeles County Coroner shows the autopsy report for actress, Marilyn Monroe, dated Aug. 5, 1962. The autopsy report describes how she was found, and includes detailed descriptions of her body, surgical scars, organs and all, and an accounting of prescription medications. -
This photo of a document provided by the Los Angeles County Coroner shows the autopsy report for actress, Marilyn Monroe, dated Aug. 5, 1962. The autopsy report describes how she was found, and includes detailed descriptions of her body, surgical scars, organs and all, and an accounting of prescription medications. -
In this Jan. 14, 1954 file photo, Joe DiMaggio baseball's famed "Yankee Clipper," and screen actress Marilyn Monroe, smile cheek to cheek as they wait patiently in Judge Charles Perry's chambers for their marriage ceremony in San Francisco. The wedding climaxed a romance of more than a year. -
In this June 2, 1955 file photo, actress Marilyn Monroe, right, in a glamorous evening gown, with Joe DiMaggio, arrives at the theater. -
In this undated publicity photo courtesy Running Press, Marilyn Monroe is shown in the first photo taken of her in the famous white dress from the "The Seven Year Itch." For a brief scene in "The Seven Year Itch," in September 1954, her character strolls on a Manhattan street on a stifling summer evening. When a subway rattles beneath her, Marilyn stands astride a sidewalk vent to catch a cool breeze that swirls her skirt up around her waist. -
In this Sept. 9, 1954 file photo, Marilyn Monroe poses over the updraft of New York subway grating while in character for the filming of "The Seven Year Itch" in Manhattan. The former Norma Jean Baker modeled and starred in 28 movies grossing $200 million. Sensual and seductive, but with an air of innocence, Monroe became one of the world's most adored sex symbols. She died alone by suicide, at age 36 in her Hollywood bungalow. -
In this late October 1956 publicity photo provided by Running Press, Marilyn Monroe, right, with husband Arthur Miller, is shown in the final weeks of filming "The Prince and the Showgirl." This goddess-like ensemble is in a burnished gold lamé. -
In this May 19, 1962 publicity photo provided by Running Press, Peter Lawford, right, tends to Marilyn Monroe's fur as she prepares to sing "Happy Birthday" to President John F. Kennedy at a Madison Square Garden gala in New York. -
In this May 19, 1962 publicity photo provided by Running Press, actress Marilyn Monroe, right, arrives at Madison Square Garden to perform at a 45th birthday gala for President John F. Kennedy, in New York. She is escorted by her former father in law, Isidore Miller. -
Marilyn Monroe appears on the set of the movie "The Misfits," in this August 1960 photo, made in Dayton, Nev. During filming in the Reno area, Monroe's frequent tardiness caused annoying delays for co-stars Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift, and director John Huston. -
In this late October 1956 photo provided by Running Press, Marilyn Monroe, right, wearing a burnished gold lamé gown meets the Queen in London. The photograph is included in a new 2012 book, "Marilyn in Fashion," published by Running Press. -
In this July 7, 1958 file photo, actress Marilyn Monroe leaves New York by air for Hollywood, to start work on "Some Like It Hot," her first film in two years. -
In this unknown year file photo, actress Marilyn Monroe smiles in a car after arriving tousled from an all-night plane flight from Hollywood to Idlewild Airport, in New York. She said she planned to rest in New York before going to England to make a new movie with Sir Laurence Olivier. Sidestepping questions as to whether she and playwright Arthur Miller plan to wed, she said: "No comment, we're really good friends." -
In this January 1, 1947 file photo, starlet Marilyn Monroe plays at the beach with her dog Ruffles. -
In this March 1953 publicity photo, Marilyn Monroe receives an award from Photoplay magazine at the Beverly Hills Hotel, in Beverly Hills, Calif. She is named “Fastest Rising Star of 1952,” and her choice of attire overshadows the event. -
April 11, 1957 - New York: Marilyn Monroe and author Arthur Miller as they attended the "April in Paris" ball at the Waldorf-Astoria. -
Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio. -
In this 1946 image taken by photographer Joseph Jasgur and released by Julien's Auctions, a photo of Norma Jean Dougherty, who eventually changed her name to Marilyn Monroe, is shown. -
In this image released by Beverly Hills Collection, actress Marilyn Monroe is seen at The Beverly Hills Hotel. -
In this undated file photo, actress Marilyn Monroe is pictured mimicking Betty Grable's famous World War II pin-up pose. -
In this May 19, 1962 publicity photo provided by Running Press, actress Marilyn Monroe, right, and celebrity promoter Earl Blackwell pose for a photo at the party following the birthday gala for President John F. Kennedy, where she sang "Happy Birthday," in New York. -
In this undated publicity photo courtesy Running Press, Marilyn Monroe is shown wearing a knife-pleated gold lamé gown made from “one complete circle of fabric.” She wore this dress in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." A half-century later, 50s bombshell Marilyn Monroe is a new generation's pop-culture phenomenon. Monroe died August 5, 1962. -
Photo gallery curator Anna Wolska presents a photo of Marylin Monroe by the late celebrity photographer Milton H. Greene, in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, July 20, 2012. Poland plans to auction off part of a photographic collection that includes hundreds of photographs of Marilyn Monroe which ended up in Poland's possession as the result of a complex embezzlement scandal that shook the country in the early 1990s. A Chicago man accused of cheating Poland of millions of dollars gave the collection to Poland in the 1990s in partial repayment for the government’s loss. -
Marilyn Monroe's marker at a mausoleum at Westwood Memorial Park in Los Angeles, California.
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