Did Hunter S. Thompson really kill himself?

  

"For decades, Owl Farm was Hunter S. Thompson’s lair, the place where he wrote, drank and drugged, entertained celebrities, shot guns at all hours, commanded his quixotic campaign for sheriff in 1970 and, finally, on a snowy Sunday evening in February 2005, died in front of his IBM Selectric typewriter from a single gunshot to the head.

The next day, a doctor conducted an autopsy and reported, “the injuries were consistent with the reported self-inflicted gunshot wound.”

“Case status is Closed/noncriminal,” the chief investigator for the county sheriff’s department wrote to close out his report.

That’s where things seemed destined to remain, until quite recently."

READ LONG REPORT BY TIM ARANGO