Marilyn Monroe - Monroe Death Investigator: `Dig Up Marilyn For The Truth'

The Los Angeles County deputy district attorney who attended MARILYN MONROE's autopsy in 1962 is urging the authorities to dig up the screen icon's body and use modern technology to determine once and for all how she died.

Monroe's death has been wrapped up in secrecy for over 40 years amid claims she was murdered by high-ranking government agents in a bid to cover up the scandal of her romance with President JOHN F KENNEDY.

JOHN MINER has always maintained that the screen goddess was killed by a lethal injection and he thinks forensics technology will determine how and perhaps why the actress was killed.

In an exclusive interview with Playboy magazine, Miner says, "How can a woman rest in peace when there's a lie about how she met her death? Monroe was denied the basic right to which every American, dead or alive, is entitled - due process of law.

"(We need) an inquest, where people are put on the witness stand and testify under oath (and) an examination of all discrepancies and unanswered questions.

"It would require exhuming the remains to attempt to determined if there is enough identifiable colon tissue to subject to gas chromatography. If gas chromatography showed that the tissue had been exposed to the barbiturate (that killed Monroe), you have at least one answer - somebody killed her.

"I don't imagine the question of the killer's identity will ever be solved, but there will be a correct diagnosis, and Monroe will not be stigmatised as a suicide for all eternity."