On the fifth of August 1962, less than an hour after the discovery of Marilyn Monroe's corpse in Brentwood, a flood of theories, tainted evidence and conflicting testimonies began pouring out into the public landscape. As an insight into the American experience of celebrity death, on the 50th anniversary of the demise of the Love Goddess, tantalising evidence has emerged to refute the 'official' version of suicide. According to Darwin Porter, it was cold-blooded murder that killed the 'movie star who knew too much'.