Brittany Murphy's Death Cause Could Be Revisited: 'Clueless' Actress Murdered?

It's been over 6 years since Brittany Murphy's sudden death in late 2009, an event that shocked Hollywood as the actress, 32, had led a fairly quiet life and was taken much too soon in the strangest circumstances, as theories claim she died of poisoning from toxic mold. Now, it appears there may be more to how Clueless' Tai died: the Los Angeles coroner is considering reopening the case as a murder.

Ed Winter, L.A. County's Assistant Chief Coroner, recently spoke to E! News regarding Murphy's death, and it seems there's a slim possibility for the case to be reopened -- only this time as a murder instead of an unfortunate accident.

"We would have to have direct evidence. In all honesty, it would take something like a confession. Something connecting somebody with it," said Winter about what would be needed to reopen the case of Murphy's sudden death, adding the reexamination would only occur "if law enforcement contacted us. Or we can reopen the case if there is substantial evidence."

As Bustle reports, there have been numerous conspiracy theories regarding the Uptown Girls actress' death, particularly after her widower, Simon Monjack, died only a few months after Murphy. Much like it had happened with his actress wife, the coroner's report found his death cause to be pneumonia and anemia, though on her case, high amounts of painkillers and over-the-counter flu drugs were also found in her body.

A few years after Murphy's death, the actress' father, Angelo Bertolotti, ordered a private toxicology report of her body that said she'd been poisoned by heavy metals. Winter later declared that the levels of metal in the actress' body were too low for them to be dangerous and could probably just be written off as part of hair dye, which Murphy used during her lifetime.

E! News looked into Murphy's death recently, stirring the pot of years-old conspiracy theories.