Book Spotlight: The Murder of Marilyn Monroe: Case Closed by Jay Margolis and Richard Buskin
The Murder of Marilyn Monroe: Case Closed is a 2014 book by Jay Margolis and Richard Buskin. Like Margolis' Marilyn Monroe: A Case for Murder , which I read a few years ago, this book examines the suspicious circumstances of Marilyn Monroe's death. Marilyn died on August 4, 1962, at her house on Fifth Helena Drive, and though her death was ruled a probable suicide, many people believe that she was murdered and that Bobby Kennedy was involved. Author C. David Heymann claimed that when he was interviewing Peter Lawford, Kennedy's brother-in-law, for his Jackie Kennedy biography in 1983, Lawford confessed that he worked with Bobby Kennedy and Ralph Greenson (Marilyn's psychiatrist) to murder Marilyn. The day of her death, Marilyn had threatened to hold a press conference and tell the world about her relationships with both John F. Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy, so Bobby convinced Ralph Greenson that Marilyn was also going to tell about her affair with the psychiatrist and t...