Murderous Musings on Marilyn Monroe – E025

Cold Case Murder Mysteries

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3.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2018

⏱️ 81 minutes

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On August 5, 1962, the world learned of the death of Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe, who succumbed to an overdose of barbiturates at age 36. Decades later, however, many still speculate the actress was the victim of murder. Join host Ryan Kraus for a psychological profile of the life and death of a legend.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody welcome back to cold case murder mysteries.
0:10.4	I'm your host Ryan Krauss and it's great to be with you once again as we delve into the mysterious death of legendary actress Marilyn Monroe who was found dead at her Brentwood California home on August 5th 1962 from what seemed to be an overdose of prescription pills.
0:24.0	But whether you believe it was a suicide, an accident, or murder, there's one thing everybody can agree
0:30.5	upon.
0:31.5	Maryland's life ended far too soon.
0:34.0	A Hollywood icon struck down in the heart of the golden age of film.
0:38.0	She had it all.
0:39.0	Good looks, fame, and the attention of some of the world's most recognizable and powerful men.
0:45.0	John F. Kennedy, Arthur Miller, Joe DiMaggio, Bobby Kennedy, Sam Gienkana, Frank Sinatra, Yule Brenner, Marlin Brando, Robert Mitcham, Howard Hughes, and so on.
0:59.2	And that's where I think her ship sunk.
1:01.7	That's where the root of the pain is revealed. What we're going to
1:04.5	document is the sad life of a woman emotionally and physically engaging in
1:08.7	self-condemnation for the purpose of pleasing men who couldn't offer the love she truly needed,
1:13.8	and that's the love of a father.
1:15.8	Accordingly, what's most prevalent among the endless list of men with whom Maryland
1:20.2	had relationships is that they were significantly older.
1:24.0	Now, that's not exclusively true, but when you examine the men who were closer to her age,
1:29.0	what you often find is that they represent some type of authority figure that could be influential in her life,
1:34.6	either in the form of a film director or a politician.
1:38.0	Yet the issue with this is that Marilyn, who grew up being sexually abused, would be perpetually seeking the love of a father
1:45.5	in older men who simply wanted sex from a younger woman in a relationship that wasn't intended
1:50.1	to last.
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