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Is it true: Vince Foster Death?

Debunked97% confidence

No — this has been debunked.

Foster's body was found in Fort Marcy Park, Virginia on July 20, 1993, with a gunshot wound to the head from his own revolver. Five formal investigations have concluded suicide: (1) US Park Police initial investigation (1993); (2) FBI/Fiske initial Senate Banking inquiry (1994); (3) Independent Counsel Robert Fiske report (1994); (4) Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's three-volume report (1997) — conducted with political incentive to find otherwise had evidence supported it; (5) Senate Whitewater Committee investigation. Medical evidence — gun in hand, gunshot residue on hand, trajectory consistent with self-infliction, depression noted by colleagues in prior weeks — converges. The lack of physical evidence of a struggle, the medication found (low-dose antidepressant), and the location (which Foster had visited previously) are all consistent with suicide.

The claim

The July 20, 1993 death of Deputy White House Counsel Vincent Foster in Fort Marcy Park, Virginia, officially ruled suicide by five separate investigations. Conspiracy claims allege murder by the Clin

Key evidence

Travel aide Christopher Ruddy and Wall Street Journal editorials

Five separate investigations concluded suicide

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