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[ Crowd shouting, camera shutters clicking ]

In the late '90s and early 2000s,

Brittany Murphy was kind of everywhere,

doing all of the perfect roles.

She was in "Sin City," "Girl, Interrupted,"

"8 Mile."

Then she fell out of the spotlight.

And then she died.

I was shocked.

Most people in their 30s don't just drop dead.

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When I heard the news that Brittany had passed,

I just fell to my knees and started sobbing.

- Immediately it was like, "Okay. - What's going on here?"

What's being said on social media?

What are the allegations being made online

about what really happened?

"Her death was so bizarre,

and there are so many twists and turns."

But it's so mysterious.

Of course people want to know what happened.

- Who wanted her dead? - Who benefited from her dying?

Well, that's where things start to get really confusing,

and there's a lot of conflicting reports online.

So from a sleuthing perspective,

this case is really difficult.

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Brittany Murphy's father concluded

that it was the Department of Homeland Security

that had her assassinated.

Brittany's original autopsy

did show the presence of lead in her blood.

The lead level in her hair was 1,000 times that amount.

Brittany Murphy's father concluded

that she was likely poisoned.

I do believe he "killed her"...

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...but not on purpose.

911 emergency.

The official narrative doesn't tell the whole story.

You really have to look at everything.

You still have to go down that rabbit hole.

You still have to go down that path.

When a celebrity dies, the search for answers moves online,

and the truth may be one click away.

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Fire Department 917.

What was the address of the emergency?

1895 Rising Glen Road.

- Tell me exactly what happened. - My daughter's passed out!

- Please get here quick! Please! - Okay. Okay.

All right. We're going to.

[ Siren wailing ]

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Can you feel or hear any breathing?

Can you hear anything, Simon?

- Yes or no? - Yes or no?

- No?! - Okay.

- [ Sobbing ] - Oh, my God.

Brittany, please come back! [ Sobbing ]

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- [ Static crackles ] - Ma'am?

At 8:00 a.m., December 20, 2009,

actress Brittany Murphy collapses

in her Hollywood Hills home.

She is rushed to Cedars-Sinai Hospital.

An hour later, she is pronounced dead.

[ Monitor flatlining ]

Actress Brittany Murphy,

who began her career in the early 1990s

and became well known for her roles in "Girl, Interrupted,"

""Clueless,"" and "8 Mile, has died at the age of 32.

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The news of actress Brittany Murphy's death

shocks Hollywood and her fans.

I'm Sara Hammel,

and at the time that Brittany Murphy died,

I was a reporter in People magazine's Los Angeles bureau.

I will never forget where I was

when I heard Brittany Murphy died.

Someone called and said, "Get to the office.

Make some phone calls."

No one really knew what was going on,

but they were all crowding to get to her house,

and everyone was like, "This is too young for someone to die."

Brittany Murphy's tragic passing

captures everyone's imagination,

just like she did when she took Hollywood by storm

at a very young age.

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Brittany Murphy was a lifelong performer.

She... It was almost like she was born to perform.

In the spring of 1991,

Brittany moved to Hollywood with her mother, Sharon.

It was just Sharon and Brittany.

I mean, her father was out of the picture.

It was a single mother and her daughter,

just them against the world.

But it is her role in the 1995 blockbuster "Clueless"

that catapults Brittany into official celebrity status.

I am Trista Jordan.

I am a celebrity makeup artist

for feature films and television.

I remember Brittany Murphy from "Girl, Interrupted"

and "Clueless."

Just perky and at the start of her career

and she's gonna win awards.

You know, that's how good she is.

After "Clueless," Brittany Murphy becomes

the quintessential millennium movie star,

in films like "8 Mile" and "Don't Say a Word."

Brittany Murphy was chosen to star in a movie

with Michael Douglas called "Don't Say a Word."

And this was a movie where she really got people's attention.

But it is her love life that catches everyone's attention.

She dated an eclectic array of heartthrobs,

like Ashton Kutcher and Eminem.

But in 2006,

she marries the relatively unknown Simon Monjack,

a match that catches many people off guard.

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When Brittany started getting together with Simon Monjack

for the first time,

alarm bells went off very quickly

with those around her.

He moved into her house very quickly,

and her friends and those who cared about her in Hollywood

were immediately alarmed.

Once married, Brittany fades from the tabloids

and things seem to settle down, until her tragic death.

She had a very bright career ahead of her.

She just died too soon.

Los Angeles police have opened an investigation into her death.

Detectives and coroner's officials were at the home

Sunday afternoon.

We're conducting an investigation

into the death of Brittany Murphy.

It appears to be natural at this time.

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In a report issued February 2010,

the official cause of Brittany Murphy's death is pneumonia,

complicated with anemia and multiple drug intoxication.

It is ruled an accidental death.

But some family and friends

aren't buying the official report.

The fact that Brittany Murphy died so young

and died with people in the house

who were supposed to be looking out for her,

it really got people wondering...

"How could this have happened?"

And people just were never satisfied

with any of the answers that came out officially

because it made no sense.

I think there's so many conspiracies

around Brittany Murphy's death because it is a mystery.

Here's a woman that we watched rise to stardom,

and she was in her 30s,

and she's an incredibly talented actress.

Crazy.

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As Brittany's death captures headlines,

the Internet explodes

with posts picking apart the official story.

Many loud voices speculate

that Murphy did not die of natural causes.

Even now, each passing day seems to bring

more online conspiracy theorists out of the woodwork,

from allegations of elaborate murder plots on Reddit

to online crowdsourcing sites

dedicated to disproving the coroner's findings.

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I do feel like this passing of Brittany Murphy...

I don't feel good about it.

I don't think that the autopsy does it for me.

I think there's more to the story.

So, right before she died, she didn't go to the hospital

because her husband was scared of the paparazzi.

So they didn't go.

What?

I don't understand Sharon Murphy, and I...

There are so many unanswered questions that I have

that you probably can't answer.

Nobody can answer, right?

Actually, her father went onto an interview

and claims that he believes that she was poisoned.

Oddly enough, it turns out that Brittany Murphy

and Simon Monjack were on the Homeland Security's watch list.

The cyber world can't shake off the sense

that Brittany Murphy died in some nefarious way.

And they are in disbelief

that it is actually possible that Homeland Security

had something to do with Brittany Murphy's death.

My name is Deanna Thompson.

I have a Bachelor of Science degree

in information technology.

I have been in the tech industry for almost 30 years.

On the weekends and at nights,

I basically Web-sleuth for crimes

and try to find the perpetrators behind those crimes.

Known as Baudi Moovan,

Deanna Thompson is one of the most famous

and passionate Internet sleuths there is.

My Web-sleuthing work was turned into a documentary

called "Don't F With Cats" at the end of 2019.

Deanna helped catch serial killer Luka Magnotta

by watching his YouTube videos

and tracking his digital movements.

I don't like people getting away with things.

This thirst for justice can make me sick physically.

I can stay up all night looking into things.

Deanna's success as an armchair detective

has since made her the most sought-after cybersleuth.

Sleuthing involves thinking critically

and asking critical questions.

So when it comes to Brittany Murphy,

the questions I ask myself are...

Did she have any enemies? Who wanted her dead?

Who benefited from her dying? And then how did she die?

The investigation treats her death as a tragic accident.

But as online investigators start poring over the details,

more conspiracy theories counter this conclusion.

My name is Justin Ling, and I am an investigative journalist.

Investigative journalism, at the end of the day,

is really just about diving deeper,

you know, spending more time with the story,

talking to more sources, trying to find information.

When it comes to Brittany Murphy,

there's a lot of big claims being made here,

and I want to see if any of them hold up.

But there is certainly a lot of bullshit noise

that went with it, too.

One particularly outlandish claim that popped up

alleges that disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein

hired former Israeli military operatives

to kill Brittany Murphy.

So in trying to put together a picture of what happened

and what the Internet alleges happened,

we've assigned professional investigators

to take on the case.

I'm currently a criminal investigator

with my sheriff's department,

and I've attended countless death scenes,

and I am always just intrigued

with the ones that are less than obvious.

We just don't have all the answers to the questions

of exactly what happened minute to minute

leading up to her death.

So I did a lot of research on Reddit

and watched a bunch of YouTube videos,

and I pieced together her last 24 hours.

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I made a Freedom of Information request for the police report

and the autopsy report.

That's how I found out what happened to Brittany Murphy

the day she died.

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Cybersleuths hope the answers are somewhere in the details

of her last moments.

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So, Brittany went into the bathroom

at approximately 7:30 a.m.

And about 30 minutes later, Sharon went looking for her

and found her in the master bathroom

on the floor next to her dog bed, and she was passed out.

Brittany's mom apparently lets out a scream.

Brittany's husband hears the scream,

and he goes running to the bathroom

and also observes Brittany laying on the floor.

At this point, Brittany's mother calls 911,

reports that her daughter's unresponsive.

- All right. - Listen to me carefully.

I'm gonna tell you how to do compressions, okay?

- Until help can take over. - [ Sobbing ]

During the 911 call,

the dispatcher is giving Sharon instructions,

and Simon can be heard in the background giving Brittany CPR.

Count out loud so I can... I can count with you, okay?

- Count out loud. - I want to hear it.

It's got to be at this rate... like one, two, three,

four, five, six, seven, eight, nine.

Keep going at that rate.

- ...eight, nine... - That's too slow.

So it's kind of surreal listening to the 911 call

because you can hear Simon trying to save Brittany's life.

But the dispatcher's like, "It's too slow,"

and you get the real sense that Simon has no sense of urgency.

And then Sharon cries out, "Brittany, wake up!

Wake up! Please come back!"

And it's heartbreaking.

It's heartbreaking to listen to this 911 call.

- [ Sobbing ] - Oh, my God.

Brittany, please come back! [ Sobbing ]

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- [ Static crackles ] - Ma'am?

[ Siren wailing ]

The paramedics are on the scene by 8:08,

and by 8:11, she is flatlining.

And so the paramedics worked on her for a good nine minutes.

So once they got her sort of stabilized,

they rushed her to Cedars-Sinai Medical Hospital.

But, unfortunately, was pronounced dead by 10:05 a.m.

Hollywood is left haunted by her sudden death,

and crime chat rooms light up, trying to dissect

what may have really happened to Brittany Murphy.

There's a whole bunch of things in Brittany Murphy's death

that individually might not mean all that much,

but taken together do kind of paint a picture

of something being amiss.

It was hard for all of us covering it

and watching this unfold

to understand how a 32-year-old woman could die of pneumonia

when she lives how far

from one of the best hospitals on the planet.

So immediately it was like, "Okay. What's going on here?"

Who dies of pneumonia in L.A. in the 21st century?

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I don't think Sharon or Simon can be ruled out

as a suspect in Brittany's death.

The mom literally shared a bed

with her dead daughter's husband.

Something's up here.

And my immediate gut reaction was, like, cringe,

like, "Ooh.

Ooh. This is not good for them."

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[ Crowd shouting, camera shutters clicking ]

Brittany Murphy was sort of that quintessential

late-'90s/millennium era film star.

The role that would absolutely catapult Brittany Murphy

into being a bona fide celebrity

was opposite Alicia Silverstone in 1995's "Clueless."

I loved that movie,

and she played kind of, like, a dorky character,

so I, like, immediately related.

It was like the perfect role for her.

When Brittany Murphy suddenly dies

in her Hollywood Hills home,

the Internet kicks into overdrive to make sense of it.

Right away, Brittany's erratic behavior

in the weeks and months before her death

spark immediate speculation.

So, I met Brittany just a few months before she passed,

on the set of "Something Wicked."

When I met her, I was shocked.

She was sickly thin.

The first thing that went through my head was,

"What was the cause of her demise?"

What was it that was making her sick

on the set of "Something Wicked"?

Was Brittany anorexic? Did she have an illness?

Headlines about an eating disorder and cocaine abuse

become widespread fodder for gossip rags and online bullies.

The fact remained

that Brittany Murphy did sometimes act a little bit off.

That drew attention to her and made you wonder...

Was she taking illicit drugs?

You know, all of Molly's ideos...

you know, all of her little idiosyncraties...

or idiosyncrasies are... [ Laughs ]

Idiosyncra-ta-bees. [ Laughs ]

When they run the toxicology report,

they find no illegal or illicit drugs

in Brittany Murphy's system.

With the overdose rumors put to bed,

a leading theory online is about her husband.

There's no doubt in my mind

that her husband, Simon, is involved in some way.

As Internet investigators take a deep dive

into Brittany Murphy and Simon Monjack's relationship,

they notice a pattern of a controlling husband.

And even after she dies,

he is seen trying to control the narrative.

So when a 32-year-old, relatively healthy woman dies,

there's going to be an autopsy performed

because, you know, the coroner has to rule out foul play.

And I don't think it was completely proved

that Brittany did not die from homicide.

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A short time after his wife's passing, Simon Monjack

and Brittany Murphy's mom, Sharon, are interviewed on TV.

During the Larry King interview that I watched,

Simon mentioned that when the police told him

there was going to be an autopsy performed, he protested.

So Simon did not want the autopsy done.

And then Simon says, "I don't want them cutting into her..."

you know, "my beautiful, curvy-bodied wife

with this very, you know, silky skin."

It was very odd.

Simon is objectifying her dead body,

and, like, he needs to give the police permission to touch it.

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It did get a lot of people talking,

because that's when you start to wonder...

"Well, why doesn't he want an autopsy?"

In my opinion, it felt much more to me

like he didn't want certain things exposed.

Sleuths analyze the behavior between mother and son-in-law,

searching for clues of a cover-up.

I'm hearing Simon call his mother-in-law "baby."

And she replies with, "Oh, sweetheart, you're right."

And my immediate gut reaction was, like, cringe,

like, "Ooh.

Ooh. This is not good for them."

I found their interview very educational

because I am skilled at studying behavior

and analyzing language, and it made me wonder,

"What's actually going on between these two?"

It's... strange, and it's suspicious.

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So after she died,

these are the pictures of her mother and her husband.

Mind you, they all lived in the house together.

You can't tell me that's not weird.

He's literally holding her.

Why is she laying on his h... Like, what?

And they looked like grieving parents.

They didn't look like mother-in-law and son-in-law.

The mom literally shared a bed with her dead daughter's husband

in the house that her daughter owned.

Something's up here.

And there's a big rumor on the Internet,

specifically on Reddit and YouTube...

Simon married Brittany

although he was really dating Sharon.

So it does make you ask questions like,

"What is their relationship?"

And it takes you back to the question

of who would have benefited from Brittany's death.

[ Birds chirping ]

Then Simon gives Radar Online an exclusive tour of the house.

He's, like, kind of showing things off a little bit.

A little bit braggadocious.

You're the first people to ever see the infamous bathroom.

You know, "This is the bathroom where everything happened."

And he seemed like...

"Nobody has seen this before."

Like, "I'm granting you exclusive access

to where Brittany died."

And just you can see my wife had a penchant for cosmetics.

- It was very strange. - It was very macabre.

The autopsy calls Brittany Murphy's death an accident,

but for many watching, despite his denials,

it just doesn't add up.

I don't think Simon can be ruled out

as a suspect in Brittany's death.

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The top motive probably would have been money.

According to my research and investigation,

Brittany did have a will upon her death

and that will designated $10 million go to her mother

and the rest go to her husband, Simon.

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As journalists and Internet detectives

dig into Simon's story,

they discover that he's been hiding some things.

Simon Monjack invented large aspects of his biography,

including having cancer

and being fabulously wealthy on top of dating Madonna.

It wasn't really till after Brittany Murphy died

that we started to get a full picture

of who Simon Monjack really was,

and it's not a terribly flattering picture.

It really reveals a guy who doesn't have a lot of scruples.

Her husband, Simon, was a pathological liar.

They found several instances

where he blatantly lied to not only Brittany but the public

about certain things that he had done.

Simon Monjack wasn't just telling white lies.

He was siphoning

millions of dollars from Brittany's accounts.

He had debt racked up all across the country

under a series of pseudonyms,

and he had fathered multiple children with another woman

that Brittany Murphy didn't know anything about.

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So Simon Monjack, by the time he met Brittany Murphy,

he had a long history of conning people...

women, men, businesspeople, you name it.

So if this guy is willing to lie about these major things

that can actually be easily debunked,

what else has he lied about?

Is he lying about something surrounding Brittany's death?

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Cybersleuths hunt for more clues into Simon Monjack

and think they figured him out when a major twist occurs.

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Immediately you go to the mother,

because who benefited from Brittany's death?

There were 10 different heavy metals

that were way above the normal range.

The lab report concludes that she was deliberately poisoned.

Simon Monjack became a household name

when he married young actress Brittany Murphy.

After his wife's death,

he was infamously deemed suspect number one

by online detectives...

until Sharon Murphy is heard on the other end

of yet another 911 call.

My son-in-law... He stopped breathing!

[ Sobbing ]

On May 23, 2010,

paramedics arrive at Simon Monjack's Hollywood Hills home

and pronounce him dead on arrival.

To some online sleuths and fans,

this twist raises sinister suspicions.

They wonder... Could it be that Sharon Murphy

may have been hiding the truth all along?

Immediately you go to the mother,

because who benefited from Brittany's death?

The mother, because she was the only one who was in the will.

Five months after Brittany Murphy died,

Simon became ill,

and he was experiencing the same symptoms as Brittany Murphy.

And he died... of the same thing that Brittany Murphy died of.

He died from pneumonia.

And when that happened, it was like, "Whoa."

The uncanny similarities of their deaths raise suspicion.

No one believes that they both died of the same natural causes.

I've never seen a case where a young wife dies

and five months later a youngish husband dies,

basically from the same underlying factors.

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Not only the same underlying factors,

but even the couple's final hours alive are eerily similar.

The night Brittany died, she passed out twice.

Eventually it got to the point

where she had told her mother, Sharon,

"Mommy, I'm dying. I'm going to die."

To me, that is alarming

that a mother would ignore those requests for help,

those cries for help from her own daughter.

Then Simon's mother, Linda Monjack, comes forward

and reveals a shocking coincidence.

That leads to more social-media speculation.

Simon had a phone.

Mm-hmm.

And he called her for help.

And that clearly stated, "Help me, Sharon. Help me."

And she didn't.

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In the court of public opinion,

Sharon Murphy isn't looking too good right now.

And Brittany Murphy's father, Angelo Bertolotti,

also comes forward with his own allegations.

In an interview with The Examiner,

Brittany Murphy's father is asked,

"Do you think there's a person of interest?"

And he responded and said that Sharon Murphy

should be interviewed and investigated first and foremost.

And he sues the Los Angeles coroner's office

for failure to properly investigate

his daughter's death,

which he believes was a result of poisoning.

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So Murphy's father submits her hair, saliva, and blood

for a second toxicology report.

And it comes back with some pretty out-there findings.

My name's Lisa Scheinin.

I am a retired deputy medical examiner,

formerly from the Los Angeles County coroner's office.

I have read several articles about the results,

and they reportedly said

that there were 10 different heavy metals

that were way above the normal range.

Levels of certain rodenticide and insecticides

that are somewhere between two and nine times

over the safe limit.

The lab report concludes that the only plausible explanation

for this level of these poisons

is a third party with criminal intent.

In other words, she was deliberately poisoned.

Her father claims it's incredibly suspicious,

and he feels that she was poisoned.

There is no question about it.

I'm not really sure how Brittany's father made the leap

from Sharon being suspect number one

to the U.S. government.

But Simon and Brittany both believed

that they were being followed, so I think her dad concluded

that whoever was following them around had them both killed.

And that's when the ultimate villain

of every great conspiracy theory

enters chat rooms and discussion boards online.

I came across an hour-long YouTube video

that posited the question "Murdered by the deep state?"

So naturally, that piqued my interest.

Now, the father, Angelo, comes back into the picture

in order to insert themselves

with some wild, QAnon-like theories

as to what happened with Brittany and her husband, Simon.

He said also that there was, like,

the U.S. government might have taken them out too.

In the years after Brittany Murphy's father concluded

that she was likely poisoned,

probably with heavy metals or arsenic,

he turned to the idea

that it was the Department of Homeland Security

that had her assassinated.

Suddenly, Angelo is making media appearances

with a former employee

of the United States Department of Homeland Security.

Together, Brittany Murphy's father

and this whistleblower, Julia Davis,

went to the media to point the finger at the U.S. government

as being the culprit for Brittany Murphy's murder.

When total outsider Julia Davis,

a former Customs and Border Protections officer,

enters the Brittany Murphy death saga,

the Internet uncovers a bizarre allegation.

In my research, I came across a name

of a woman named Julia Davis,

who appears to have some sort of loose connection

to Brittany Murphy and possibly her father.

So there is an allegation out there

that Brittany Murphy was tied up

with a Department of Homeland Security whistleblower

who blew the lid off of government inaction

in fighting an al-Qaeda terror plot.

Reportedly, somehow Julia and Brittany Murphy

came to know each other

and Brittany at least verbally supported Julia's efforts

to be a whistleblower.

According to this whistleblower,

she was targeted by the Department of Homeland Security,

including a raid on her house

that included a Black Hawk helicopter.

And because Brittany Murphy came to her defense,

the government had her and her husband killed.

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The theories swirling around Brittany Murphy's death

seem to get stranger and stranger,

with rumors about a potential poisoning and the deep state,

words you would never associate with Brittany Murphy.

But then the rumors turned to a seemingly deadly killer

inside the Hollywood Hills home.

So Britney Spears sold Brittany Murphy

this $3.5 million house in West Hollywood,

fully furnished, in 2003.

One of the things that I found really remarkable

was the fact that both of these women

intuitively just didn't want to be in this house.

It could be evidence for something else.

[ Birds chirping ]

As online investigators sift through

all the potential death theories and gather clues and research,

yet another red flag is raised...

a belief that the Murphy-Monjack home

was infested with deadly mold.

It's so sketchy that they both passed in such a similar way

and everyone's so unsure of what really happened.

Investigators found that the home was suffering

from a pack-rat and hoarding situation.

There was also a ton of mold and dust supposedly in the home.

As sleuths look into the house,

they discover an interesting history behind its walls.

So Britney Spears sold Brittany Murphy

this $3.5 million house in West Hollywood,

fully furnished, in 2003,

according to her former makeup artist.

Supposedly, though, Britney Spears hated this place,

and part of the explanation for why she despised it so much

is because apparently she had been seeing spirits.

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There were some bad spirits

trying to push Britney Spears down the stairs,

so Britney left immediately.

Sold the house to Brittany Murphy.

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My name is Michael Rubino, founder of HomeCleanse.

So, I have a certification called

council-certified microbial remediation supervisor,

which is the highest certification in my field

that you can get

and requires at least 10 years of experience in the field.

One of the things that I found really remarkable

was the fact that both of these women

intuitively just didn't want to be in this house.

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Certain species of mold are known as to be toxigenic.

But an interesting toxic effect that one can have

is hallucinations.

Skin-crawling hallucinations in the fungus world

is not uncommon.

Just ask anyone who's ever taken magic mushrooms.

It is very plausible

that they were having hallucination effects

from the levels of mold that were inside the home.

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In Brittany's case, she moved into the home in 2003,

passed away in 2009.

That's a potential six years of exposure

to whatever water damage, bacteria, mold,

et cetera that was going on in her environment.

They call mold the silent killer,

mainly because we don't have X-ray vision

and oftentimes we can't see the mold

that's actually growing behind our walls.

So it's silent, but it can be deadly.

Initially, Sharon Murphy calls the toxic-mold theory absurd,

only to recant that statement years later,

when she says she discovered evidence of it inside the walls.

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But here's the problem with that,

and it boils down to this... Why is she okay?

If you look at where Brittany Murphy

and Monjack and Sharon were located inside this home,

one person's upstairs, right?

That's Sharon.

Brittany and Monjack are downstairs.

They're obviously far apart.

They're not breathing the exact same air.

When the Los Angeles County Department of Health

go into the house to check for mold,

cybersleuths go into overdrive,

cross-referencing the signs and symptoms of deadly mold

against the finding in Brittany Murphy's coroner's report.

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Well, some of the most common symptoms that people experience

are things like brain fog and chronic fatigue.

But it also can cause hormonal disruption,

which can obviously cause disruption to your thyroid,

create things like irregular menstrual cycles.

One of the primary contributing factors

in Brittany Murphy's death was iron deficiency anemia.

I found it very, very interesting

that the two of them both had iron deficiency anemia.

The most common cause of iron deficiency anemia in women

is especially heavy periods.

She had that history.

What's really interesting about all of this, too,

is we're talking about mold,

but we're not talking about what mold creates,

and that could be mycotoxins.

It has the ability to cause something like anemia,

which then could, you know, create a weakened immune system

and where you can die

from even something as simple as the common cold.

So if this theory holds true, it means this black mold

was hiding in the bones of the house,

that Brittany and Simon were inhaling it every day.

If this is the case,

it could have contributed to their respiratory health,

it could have led to their pneumonia,

and it could have ultimately caused their deaths.

Two seemingly healthy people dying inside the same house,

having the same underlying symptoms,

only five months apart.

It's no wonder that justice-seekers

can't just blindly accept the official reports.

It's their role to question and find truth and closure.

I don't know if her husband didn't believe in doctors

or he convinced her not to go.

Brittany Murphy would be here today if she hadn't met Simon.

I would characterize the relationship as abusive.

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The speculation over Brittany Murphy's death

stems from one feeling...

the disbelief that a vibrant, 32-year-old, beloved actress

would die from pneumonia.

And it left a lot of people

seeking a different explanation online,

including her family,

wanting to be sure no stone was left unturned.

I think there was a feeling that Brittany Murphy

was really screwed over at every step of her career, right?

By studio executives who didn't think she had the right look,

by the media, by paparazzi, maybe even by her own partner.

So while the cause of death was called an accident

and the official prognosis was pneumonia,

the question still remains... why and how?

Cybersleuths do their digging,

their gathering, and their analysis

and believe the answer can be found in the events

that precede that fatal morning on December 20, 2009.

[ Birds chirping ]

Anybody alive at this time can tell you that Hollywood

was probably at its most toxic in that era.

[ Crowd shouting ]

It was absolutely brutal.

There's even this one story of an agent

who remarked that she was "huggable but not..."

[ Crowd shouting, camera shutters clicking ]

And it appears that that comment

led Brittany to try to completely change her image.

She went from being a dark brunette to blond,

and she dropped a significant amount of weight.

And yet the coroner's examination reports

that Brittany Murphy was of normal body weight.

Although there was never any medical diagnosis

that I uncovered that indicated Brittany had an eating disorder,

I do think there are some indicators

that she may have suffered from one.

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Losing all that weight does make you vulnerable,

and that's the important part of Brittany Murphy's death.

When you're vulnerable, you're going to be vulnerable

to outside suggestion, right?

And it is during this vulnerable time in her life

when she falls for Simon Monjack.

When she married Simon, he became everything to her.

He was her talent manager, her makeup artist.

He took over her entire career, and he isolated her.

And in order to access her, you got to go through Simon.

And that changes a person.

My name is Cheryl Arutt.

I am a clinical and forensic psychologist.

When we look at someone like Simon Monjack,

the personality disorder that we think of most often

is generally antisocial personality disorders

and something that's referred to as Machiavellianism,

where you just, by any means, want to achieve

what you want to achieve.

So everything that Simon did to isolate

and keep her away from friends and family

was a way for him to assert control.

Until the end, he had that control.

There are online rumors that he controlled her.

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I don't know if her husband didn't believe in doctors

or he convinced her not to go.

When I reviewed the medical records,

she had at least three years in a row of normal blood tests

without evidence of anemia,

and then these tests just stopped.

So something happened in that interval

between the last time she got the blood test

and everything was normal and the time she died.

But why?

The only thing I could think of is she got married.

We know she booked an appointment

to go see a doctor not long before her death,

so clearly she knew something was up.

The one thing that's been really clear

by a number of experts who have looked at her file

is that if she had sought medical help earlier,

she could have survived.

This death really was preventable.

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So of all the theories and speculation

surrounding the case of Brittany Murphy,

the one that takes hold the most online

and in some sleuths' opinions is maybe the most confounding.

Although there is no evidence of physical violence

by Simon Monjack toward Brittany Murphy,

I would characterize the relationship as abusive.

I think Brittany Murphy would be here today

if she hadn't met Simon.

I don't think that he killed her,

but I can guarantee you he didn't save her.

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I do believe he "killed her," but not on purpose.

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Brittany Murphy should be remembered

as a super-talented actress,

and everyone liked to be around her.

She had a great spirit about her.

And my last time I saw her,

she was holding her dog above her head

and kissing everyone goodbye.

And it's just... surreal that that wasn't an award

and that she is getting the accolades that she deserved

as a very talented soul.

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Brittany Murphy left an imprint,

and sleuths who spend their career investigating deaths

that don't quite sit well

can't let this one lie either until every road

has been thoroughly traveled and assessed.

Once a conspiracy theory does gain that traction,

people won't let it go.

It's really easy to start grabbing pieces of information

and wedging it to fit into the explanation.

[ Group shouting, voices echoing ]

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After a deep dive into every rabbit hole,

the investigation re-examines the online conspiracy theories.

As for a government assassination hit

on Brittany Murphy...

There is a Department of Homeland Security whistleblower

named Julia Davis.

There's really no evidence that Julia Davis uncovered

an al-Qaeda terror plot.

There's just nothing to back it up.

She never actually proves that she knew Brittany Murphy.

Julia and Angelo's campaign

became so insufferable to Sharon Murphy

that she eventually spoke out against it.

In an open letter, she writes, "Let me be clear.

I am confident Brittany never signed any statement

in support of her, never met with her,

and barely knew she existed."

As for heavy metals in her hair suggesting poisoning...

There's a very easy explanation... hair dye.

And if you look at pictures of Brittany Murphy,

her hair color constantly changed.

[ Crowd shouting, camera shutters clicking ]

Online rumors still persist to this day

that Brittany's mother, Sharon Murphy,

had something to do with it.

On the set of "Something Wicked,"

Sharon never showed up on set,

which was shocking to me as well,

because if it was my daughter and she wasn't feeling good,

I would just be this little mother hen

and just be right there, holding her hand.

I don't believe for one moment that Sharon Murphy

had anything to do with her daughter's death.

The death of Brittany Murphy was shocking enough,

but when her husband, Simon Monjack,

died five months later,

there was no end to media speculation

that something nefarious was behind it.

As human beings, we're trained to believe

that there's no such thing as coincidences.

So when two people die in the same house

less than six months apart,

I think we're naturally predisposed to assume

that maybe the house had something to do with it.

This theory is certainly plausible, but maybe not likely.

In both these cases, they had something

that explained their death... pneumonia.

There's really no reason

to keep searching for an alternate explanation,

because that is almost certainly what killed them.

Nevertheless, that doesn't mean that it's impossible

there's another explanation for what killed them.

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Brittany Murphy's dream of making it big in Hollywood

came true, only to be taken way too soon.

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Brittany Murphy lit up a room.

She wasn't like the typical Hollywood starlet.

She was genuine and down to earth.

And she worked so hard for years in Hollywood to make it.

And we can't forget her breakout role in "Clueless,"

20 years later,

is still watched and beloved by a lot of people.

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I mean, she was a beautiful, talented,

outwardly healthy young woman who dies of pneumonia.

You don't die, like, laying on a dog bed in your bathroom

when you have money and resources.

What is this, like, the '40s?

You know, her death changed me.

It changed me because I predicted her death.

I didn't want my premonition to come true.

I didn't want my thoughts of... the ending for her to be true.

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