TMZ is using a new FOX true-crime special to revisit Marilyn Monroe’s death with an AI-assisted reconstruction of the room where she was found in 1962. Celebrity Crime Scene: Marilyn Monroe airs Sunday, June 21, and the program rebuilds Monroe’s death scene virtually while investigators review details that TMZ says challenge the official finding of probable suicide.
FOX Baltimore reported that the program uses what it calls a “revolutionary virtual recreation” to place investigators back inside the scene with more detail than a traditional reenactment.
Monroe died at 36 in her Los Angeles home in August 1962, and Britannica notes that her death was ruled a “probable suicide” after an overdose of sleeping pills.
The new special is a television investigation using modern recreation tools, commentary from investigators and a long-running set of questions about how Monroe’s final hours were examined.
The Special Recreates Monroe’s Death Scene
TMZ promoted the special as a new look at Monroe’s death house using AI, saying its investigators raise questions about the official version of events and alternative scenarios surrounding her final hours. FOX Baltimore reported that executive producer Harvey Levin said the team’s review challenges the probable-suicide finding and raises the possibility that Monroe’s death “could be far more sinister.”
These are claims and theories presented in a television investigation, not new findings from law enforcement, a coroner’s office or a reopened criminal case.
Paul Holes Questions How the Scene Was Handled
Investigator Paul Holes appears in the program and discussed the case on TMZ Live ahead of the premiere. TMZ reported that Holes believes Monroe’s death should have been treated as a possible homicide until investigators could rule that out, and that he questions whether the original handling of the case was only a matter of poor police work.
TMZ also reported that Holes believes “other forces” may have shaped what happened after Monroe died. The special connects those questions to Monroe’s final hours and her reported relationships with President John F. Kennedy and Attorney General Robert Kennedy, but those claims remain part of the program’s theory-driven framing rather than an official conclusion.
The FOX Special Is Not an Official Reopening
The special is the AI recreation, but the legal status of Monroe’s death has not changed. TMZ says the program examines possible investigative failures, staging questions and theories about whether Monroe died at home, so the article should keep those claims attributed to the program and to the investigators who appear in it.
Celebrity Crime Scene: Marilyn Monroe premieres June 21 on FOX and will stream the next day on Hulu, according to TMZ.