Even Moscow Radio made mention of it.įriends of the actress were stunned, unbelieving and saddened. News of Miss Monroe’s tragic death quickly circulated to much of the world. Gladys Baker Eley, 59, is a patient in the Rockhaven Sanitarium in Verdugo City. 81128 and the body was placed in Crypt 33.įuneral services are tentatively scheduled Wednesday afternoon at Westwood Village Mortuary chapel. The body later was transferred to the County Morgue where the nation’s No. Miss Monroe’s body was loaded into the back of a station wagon and transported to the Westwood Village Mortuary, just yard away from the gravesites of her grandmother and one of her guardians in early life. “Any person breaking into or entering these premises will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”Ī special guard was hired to watch the home. Seals were placed on entrances to the home with the notice: Miss Monroe’s body was wrapped in a pale blue blanket and strapped to a stretcher as it was removed from the home. Miss Monroe only recently bought the $75,000 house and it was only partially furnished.īy dawn reporters and photographers were milling around its lawns and swimming pool, silent in the morning quiet as officials closed out the life of one of filmland’s most glamorous stars.

He reported there were between 12 to 15 medicine bottles on Miss Monroe’s bedside stand, some with prescription labels. to the beach or something like that.”īyron said he went through the rambling Spanish style home at 12305 5th Helena Dr. He quoted the psychiatrist as saying: “I was under the impression she was going to take a ride. Greenson Saturday night and talked with him for about an hour. Byron at 5 a.m.īryon said he learned that Miss Monroe had called Dr.

and two officers arrived in five minutes, followed by Sgt. Engelberg, who had prescribed the sleeping pills for the actress, who pronounced her dead on his arrival at the house a short time later. Greenson took the telephone receiver from her hand and told Mrs. Byron that Miss Monroe was under a sheet and champagne-colored blanket which were tucked up around her shoulders.ĭr. Greenson took a poker from the fireplace, smashed in a window and climbed into the room. She was unable to arouse Miss Monroe by shouts and rapping on the door, and immediately telephoned Dr. and saw a light still burning in the actress’ room. Miss Monroe’s body was discovered after her housekeeper and companion, Mrs. Robert Litman, a psychiatrist serving on the suicide team, said notes are left by less than 40% of those who take their own lives. The coroner’s office listed the death on its records as possible suicide while the police report said death was possibly accidental.ĭr.

Gladys baker at rockhaven