By Steve Gorman
2026年1月24日 美国东部时间凌晨3:41 更新于8小时前
- 摘要
- 科罗拉多调查局审查发现无新证据质疑2005年自杀裁定
- 调查人员重新勘察现场，进行新访谈
- 遗孀安妮塔·汤普森曾对原裁定提出质疑
1月23日（路透社）- 科罗拉多州调查局周五表示，对作家兼记者亨特·S·汤普森2005年死亡事件的全面案件审查（包括尸检记录），已确认当局最初认定他自杀的结论。
该局称，在作家遗孀安妮塔·汤普森对官方自杀裁定提出质疑后，此次审查未发现”支持与2005年调查结论不同的新物证、事实或情况”。
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此次重新调查证实了皮克金县治安官办公室最初的判定：2005年2月，汤普森在阿斯彭附近的猫头鹰溪农场隐居地头部遭枪击自杀身亡，享年67岁。
在他去世前几天写下、数月后由其文学跳板《滚石》杂志发表的遗书（以黑色马克笔书写，标题为《足球赛季结束了》）中，汤普森哀叹衰老与身体机能下降，最后写道：”放松——这不会疼。”
当时朋友和家人称，以”gonzo”（狂野）新闻风格著称、不伪装客观性的汤普森，因髋关节置换手术、背部手术及近期腿部骨折而痛苦不堪。
他的密友还表示，这位长期枪械爱好者多年来一直有自杀念头。
科罗拉多调查局在宣布调查结果的声明中称，现年54岁的安妮塔·汤普森向皮克金县治安官迈克尔·布格利奥内提供了与丈夫死亡原始调查相关的”新疑虑和潜在信息”，促使治安官于2025年7月要求重开此案。
布格利奥内在声明中写道：”虽然我们一直认为原调查进行得当，但我们认识到独立审查对汤普森家庭的重要性。科罗拉多调查局的结论再次确认了原始调查结果，希望能让大家安心并明确真相。”
现场重查与访谈进行
科罗拉多调查局称，2005年调查中的大部分原始物证和照片已被处理。
但州调查人员审查了案件的尸检和其他执法记录，重新勘察了现场，并采访了包括安妮塔·汤普森、她已故丈夫的儿子胡安·汤普森、其前儿媳詹妮弗·汤普森在内的多人，还访谈了原首席侦探和县验尸官。
该局表示：”2025年基于完整弹孔缺陷进行的现代轨迹分析和现场重建，与皮克金县治安官办公室原始调查、尸检报告及原调查人员的观察结果一致。”
安妮塔·汤普森在其他新闻媒体的声明中表示，感谢科罗拉多调查局的”彻底”审查，称”这让所有爱亨特的人都能问心无愧地继续前行”。
亨特·汤普森因1971年底为《滚石》杂志撰写的两篇文章改编的书籍《拉斯维加斯的恐惧与厌恶》而闻名，书中记录了他在 Nevada 州以报道沙漠摩托车赛为名、实则充满药物刺激的冒险经历。
该书成为1998年好莱坞改编电影的基础，约翰尼·德普饰演汤普森的双重人格角色Raoul Duke。这位作家还被漫画《杜恩斯伯里》（Doonesbury）刻画为”杜克叔叔”，连标志性的飞行员眼镜和烟嘴都栩栩如生。
《纽约时报》本月早些时候报道称，他的遗孀在听闻一位亲戚传言其死亡是被设计成自杀后，向当局提出了对丈夫死亡的怀疑。
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Journalist Hunter S. Thompson took own life, Colorado investigators affirm
By Steve Gorman
January 24, 2026 3:41 AM UTC Updated 8 hours ago
- Summary
- CBI review finds no new evidence to dispute 2005 suicide ruling
- Investigators re-examined scene, conducted new interviews
- Widow Anita Thompson had raised questions about original ruling
Jan 23 (Reuters) – A comprehensive case review into the 2005 death of author-journalist Hunter S. Thompson, including autopsy records, has affirmed authorities’ original conclusion that he took his own life, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation said on Friday.
The review, conducted after the writer’s widow, Anita Thompson, raised questions about the official suicide ruling, found no “new physical evidence, facts, or circumstances to support a conclusion different from the 2005 investigation,” the CBI said.
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The reexamination corroborated the original determination of the Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office that Thompson died from a self-inflicted gunshot to his head at his Owl Creek farm retreat near Aspen in February 2005. He was 67.
In an apparent suicide note written days before his death but published months later by Rolling Stone magazine, his literary springboard, Thompson lamented the onset of old age and physical limitations, then concluded, “Relax — this won’t hurt.” The note, scrawled in black marker, was titled, “Football Season is Over.”
Friends and family had said at the time that Thompson, whose “gonzo” style of journalism eschewed any pretense of objectivity and established the hard-living writer as a counter-culture icon, had been in pain from a hip-replacement, back surgery and a recently broken leg.
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Those close to him also had said that Thompson, a longtime gun enthusiast, had contemplated taking his own life for years.
But Anita Thompson, now 54, contacted Pitkin County Sheriff Michael Buglione with “new concerns and potential information” related to the original investigation into her husband’s death, prompting the sheriff to request reopening the case in July 2025, the CBI said in a statement announcing its findings.
“While we have always believed the original investigation was conducted properly, we recognized the importance of an independent review for the Thompson family,” Buglione wrote in the statement. “CBI’s conclusions reaffirm the original findings and, we hope, provide reassurance and clarity.”
SCENE RE-EXAMINED, INTERVIEWS CONDUCTED
Most of the original physical evidence and photographs from the 2005 probe have been disposed of, according to the CBI.
But state investigators reviewed autopsy and other law enforcement records from the case, re-examined the scene, and interviewed a number of people, including Anita Thompson, her late husband’s son, Juan Thompson, and his ex-daughter-in-law, Jennifer Thompson. The original lead detective and the county coroner also were interviewed.
“The modern trajectory analysis and scene reconstruction conducted in 2025 – which was based on the intact bullet defect – was consistent with the original PCSO investigation, the autopsy report and the observations of original investigators,” the CBI said.
In a statement carried by other news media outlets, Anita Thompson said she was grateful to the CBI for its “thorough” review, adding, “This allows all of us who loved Hunter to move forward with a clean conscience.”
Hunter Thompson was best known for his book “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” adapted from a two-part article written for Rolling Stone in late 1971, chronicling his drug-fueled misadventures in Nevada while ostensibly covering a motorcycle race in the desert.
The book became the basis for a 1998 Hollywood adaptation, starring Johnny Depp as Thompson’s alter-ego, Raoul Duke. The writer was also caricatured as Uncle Duke in the comic strip “Doonesbury,” right down to his signature aviator glasses and cigarette holder.
The New York Times reported earlier this month that his widow went to authorities with suspicions about her husband’s demise after hearing of rumors from a relative that his death had been staged to appear as a suicide.
Reporting by Steve Gorman in Los Angeles; Editing by Kate Mayberry
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