Hunter S Thompson - Not actually suicide?

garthv

http://www.livejournal.com/users/fishbreeder/
ummm....

Chinafoot

stranger things have happened.

Goodshape

Interesting...

Haven't read his last book - and indeed, don't even know the name of it - but I've been informed by a friend that in it Hunter says that if he's found dead from apparent suicide - don't believe it.

Anyone read his last book / want to go rooting for the passage?

Wibbs

I seem to remember he was on the phone to his (ex?) wife at the very time he pulled the trigger and that his son was outside his house. Sorry couldn't find the link.

FX Meister

Well according to that link he was fearing he would be killed by someone preventing him publishing his proof that the trade centre was brought down by explosives. So presumably it would be the CIA yet they leave the gun without a bullet in the chamber? Doesn't sound likely. Wasn't he talking to his partner on the phone at the time? And she heard the gun and then him slump to the ground?

Goodshape

From bbc...

His widow, Anita Thompson, 32, told the Aspen Daily News she heard the "clicking of the gun".

She said: "I was on the phone with him, he set the receiver down and did it."

Mrs Thompson said her husband had asked her to come home from a health club so they could work on his weekly column, but instead of saying goodbye, he shot himself.

She added that she heard a loud, muffled noise, but did not know what had happened.

"I was waiting for him to get back on the phone," she said.

With someone like Thompson, there's always going to be a fair few conspiracy theorys. True or not, I get the feeling he wouldn't have wanted it any other way.

Shabadu

conspiracy-tastic