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Vincent Foster Suicide

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The Death of Vincent Foster
What is the popular or governmental accepted version of the event? Vincent Foster’s death was ruled suicide preceding the shady evidence that was presented by the FBI. I do not believe this to to be the correct verdict, the reason being that the crime scene evidence points towards homicide. What also stands out is that “the death was immediately labeled suicide precluding a homicide investigation. Standard procedure in violent death cases is to assume, investigate, and exhaust all possibilities of homicide.”(Belzer R. and Wayne D.)(2012) (pg 222).The scene of the death is teeming with inconsistencies, all of which point toward the possibility of a murder cover up. Any investigator looking into a supposed suicide, …show more content…

and Wayne D.)(2012) (pg 222), “the person who first found the body swore under oath that no gun was present at the scene and that the FBI pressured him to to change the his testimony”. (Belzer R. and Wayne D.)(2012) (pg 222), “also stated that eyewitness testimony indicates two cars in the parking lot at the time of the discovery, neither of which were Foster’s, yet Foster’s car later appeared the the parking lot and the two others were gone”. (Belzer R. and Wayne D.)(2012) (pg 222) “It was also known that the seat in Foster’s car was ran forward to the point it would be extremely difficult for him to drive it. Foster was a tall man, nearly six foot and five inches and his seat was ran forward to where it would be comfortable for a person who is four foot and eight inches. Another issue being there was no exit wound in Foster’s head, when there should have been. The supposed murder weapon was a .38 caliber, and the wound resembled that of a .22 caliber”. On top of that, there is a lot of shadiness involving Foster’s suicide note. (Belzer R. and Wayne D.)(2012) (pg 222) “stated that the note was found ripped into twenty eight pieces without a single one of Foster’s fingerprints on it. Two prints were found, but they did not match those of Foster’s”. According to (York B.)(1997)( pg 1), three different experts found the the note to be

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