# Los Angeles authorities rule Monroe’s 1962 death a probable suicide by barbiturate overdose Date: 1962 ## The fact On 5 August 1962 [Monroe](/people/marilyn-monroe) was found dead in her Brentwood house; the Los Angeles County coroner classified the death as probable suicide from acute barbiturate poisoning. This Fact stores that official medical-legal instrument. It does not store a murder plot, a presidential order, or a later podcast as an additional act. It is one event. ## Context Evidentiary language is mandatory: probable suicide per authorities. A health-system-capacity path concerns prescribing and a public medical death, not a shrine and not a conspiracy brief. Marilyn Monroe’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death. Chief medical examiner Theodore Curphey’s office issued a probable-suicide finding after the 5 August 1962 discovery in Brentwood. Later conspiracy literature is reception, not a Fact in this catalog. She did not author a later inquest website. Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers are the surviving public file. ## Evidence and sources History.com’s dated public file of the finding and Britannica independently report the coroner’s probable-suicide ruling. Official or archival record: History.com — Marilyn Monroe is found dead, 5 August 1962 (https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/august-5/marilyn-monroe-is-found-dead; History Channel / A&E Television Networks). ## Significance A public probable-suicide ruling is a health-capacity caution. Confidence high on the official classification, low on later alternative manners of death. ## What is established and what is not Established: 1962 death and probable-suicide ruling as issued. Not established: homicide, accident as a substituted official finding, or any named second gunman. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Marilyn Monroe. They are not a public rating. The driver `health-system-capacity` is attached because the mechanism named in Significance follows from this instrument, not because a standing list of welfare headings needed another tick. Marilyn Monroe did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. Keep the coroner’s word ‘probable’ visible. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of Marilyn Monroe. ## People - Marilyn Monroe: https://factrail.ai/people/marilyn-monroe ## Drivers - Health-System Capacity: https://factrail.ai/drivers/health-system-capacity ## Sources - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/august-5/marilyn-monroe-is-found-dead - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marilyn-Monroe ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/mm-death-probable-suicide-1962