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The decease of writer and writer Hunter S Thompson volition beryllium reviewed by Colorado officials astatine the petition of his widow, the state's bureau of probe has announced.
Thompson, champion known for his 1971 caller Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, died aged 67 connected 20 February 2005.
The archetypal probe concluded the decease was from an allegedly self-inflicted gunshot coiled and was suicide.
In a connection connected Tuesday, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said Anita Thompson had requested a lawsuit reappraisal into her husband's death, and that it is being carried retired to supply an autarkic position connected the investigation.
While Sheriff Michael Buglione said determination is nary caller grounds suggesting foul play, "we recognize the profound interaction Hunter S Thompson had connected this assemblage and beyond".
He added: "By bringing successful an extracurricular bureau for a caller look, we anticipation to supply a definitive and transparent reappraisal that whitethorn connection bid of caput to his household and the public."
The CBI added its reappraisal would instrumentality "an unspecified magnitude of time".
Born successful 1937, Thompson was regarded arsenic a pioneer successful the 1960s New Journalism movement, and wrote the 1967 publication Hell's Angels astir the notorious motorcycle pack aft spending much than a twelvemonth surviving and riding with them.
Famous for his first-person narratives, Thompson's works inspired a benignant of reporting called Gonzo journalism - a subjective and much idiosyncratic benignant of quality writing.
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Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas was adapted into a film, starring Johnny Depp - a person of Thompson's - and Benicio Del Toro, successful 1998.
Sky News has contacted The Gonzo Foundation, a non-profit radical founded by Ms Thompson to beforehand literature, journalism and governmental activism, for comment.
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