2005-03-09 - 1:57 a.m.

According to the police report, which has been posted in the archives at thesmokinggun.com, these are the facts of the scene: Thomson was found in his kitchen/office, on a stool, facing his typewriter, with a gunshot wound through his mouth by his own handgun, which was on the floor. There was no suicide note. On the typewriter in front of him, there was a page with the date typed (Feb 22, 2005) and one word: "counselor"

Here's what is strange:
1) A WRITER didn't even write a note for his family?
2) Hunter loved drugs. If he really were going to kill himself, don't you think he'd OD on heroin or something? I mean, c'mon, it's not that hard to OD, and the man loved drugs. Wouldn't he want to go out painlessly? Or go out partying?

Also, I just found this on a bulletin board about Hunter's death:

"I just talked to a good friend of Hunter and his girlfriend. She insists that he wouldn't kill himself since he about to publish an expose on Hillary Clinton. He had everything on her from childhood to her affair with a guy in Europe and her part in the murder of Vince Foster.

She (my friend) has already transfered the data of what's in the piece he was working on. She's terrified the spooks will go after her next so the wide distribution of the data is her primary concern."

And Paul William Roberts wrote in his Globe and Mail (Canada's major national newspaper) article of Saturday, February 26, 2005:

"Hunter telephoned me on Feb. 19, the night before his death. He sounded scared. It wasn't always easy to understand what he said, particularly over the phone, he mumbled, yet when there was something he really wanted you to understand, you did. He'd been working on a story about the World Trade Center attacks and had stumbled across what he felt was hard evidence showing the towers had been brought down not by the airplanes that flew into them but by explosive charges set off in their foundations. Now he thought someone was out to stop him publishing it: "They're gonna make it look like suicide," he said. "I know how these bastards think . . ."

So there it is. From the horse's mouth. The family may know it's not a suicide - but my guess is that they aren't coming forward about it because they just don't want the publicity. Nothing can bring him back now, God bless his soul.