"A Question of Murder."

J.I Backer, K.C Baker, and Elizabeth McNeil argue that Marilyn Monroe was murdered. They claim that the night Monroe died, she got a phone call from Joe DiMaggio Jr. DiMaggio stated she sounded like her usual self. Monroe’s housekeeper, Eunice Murray, saw light coming from underneath Monroe’s door around 12 a.m. Murray knocked on the door and called for Monroe but got no response. Murray called Monroe’s psychiatrist, Ralph Greenson, who took 30 minutes to get to the Los Angeles home. Greenson looked through Monroe’s window and saw naked on the bed. Greenson broke the window and found Monroe unresponsive. Bizarrely, the police were not contacted until 4:25 a.m. Backer first develops this claim by questioning the evidence. Murray said she saw light coming from underneath Monroe’s bedroom door, but the carpet in Monroe’s room comes up too high for light to come through. There was also a more than 4 hour timespan from when Greenson was called and when the police were contacted. Backer outlines more faults in the evidence by stating Monroe supposedly swallowed 50 pills, but there was not any pill residue in her stomach and there was not a glass of water in her room for her to swallow the pills. Lastly, the author states the samples from Monroe’s stomach and small intestines mystifyingly all the samples disappeared from the lab. Backer’s purpose was to inform the readers about all the errors in the evidence in order to persuade readers into believing Monroe was murdered. This work is significant because it give a lot of information on Monroe’s case.