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David Steinitz
At least the coroner Thomas Noguchi had a simple answer to what happened in Marilyn Monroe’s bedroom on the night of August 4th, 1962: The actress had taken too many sleeping pills and died at the age of 36 from an overdose of barbiturates. The reason, he wrote in his autopsy report, was “probably suicide.” You could make your own film about the Japanese-born pathologist. Noguchi is still alive, he is now 95 and during his time as chief coroner for Los Angeles County he also autopsied the bodies of Robert F. Kennedy, Janis Joplin, Sharon Tate and John Belushi, among others. Half a century of American history on the autopsy table. But he does not appear as a conversation partner in “Mystery Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes”.