The Region - News from Nov. 1, 1985

Although he still believes that Marilyn Monroe’s death in 1962 was a probable suicide from a pill overdose, Dr. Thomas Noguchi, former Los Angeles County coroner, said he thinks authorities should update their investigation because of public interest in questions raised in recent books about the blonde actress. Noguchi, who conducted the autopsy on Monroe, said media reports suggesting that he now favors reopening the case because of evidence indicating that she did not take her own life were stronger than he intended. “I just don’t want to be close-minded,” he said.