Donald Spoto's 2001 biography makes the case for accidental death; the LA County coroner decided it was "probably suicide" - but the officer who found her asserted murder, as did her second husband, Joe DiMaggio, who believed the Kennedys were responsible.
Over the course of a 20-year investigation he undertook on his own beginning in 1972, Mr. Speriglio wrote three books about Marilyn Monroe, whom he asserted was murdered in 1962 by the Mafia, at the behest of President John F. Kennedy and his father, Joseph Kennedy Sr. His accusations led to the opening of police files on her death and calls for a grand jury investigation.
Mr. Mellon said in an interview in July that Ford was trying to intimidate Dr. Thomas into dropping his civil suit by asserting that he murdered his wife and blamed the air bag.
A senior Palestinian security official, Muhammad Dahlan, also using the word barbaric, asserted that Israel had murdered four unarmed civilians and, before the bombing, warned of a revenge attack.
The San Francisco Police Department is still investigating the case and will not comment on the cause of death, while his parents have repeatedly asserted that he was murdered.
His case is noteworthy not only because of the large number of his victims but because efforts by Soviet police to issue warnings to the public during their investigation were hampered by the country's official ideology, which asserted that serial murder was impossible in a communist society.
Leigh asserted, "no other murder mystery in the history of the movies has inspired such merchandising".
In 1810 Ernest Augustus was severely injured by an assailant, probably his valet Sellis, who was found dead; subsequently two men were imprisoned for asserting that the duke had murdered his valet.
It is most frequently asserted in connection with murder cases requiring proof of a particular mental state on the part of the accused.
Her alcoholism and medical problems, and his discovery that she had been married five times before, drove him to murder, prosecutors asserted.
