20, 1993, around 1:00 p.m.,he told Linda Tripp that he would be right back, and left the office. Around 6:00 thatsame day, he was found dead in Fort Marcy Park, with a gunshot wound in the back of hismouth. In August of 1997, Kenneth Starr shut the books on the case, even though therewas a mountain of evidence that shows Foster didn’t die in that park, and that shows hedidn’t commit suicide. The bullet was never found. There was no motive, and even the27-piece “suicide note” that turned up weeks later was not really a suicide note at all. Foster’s body was covered with fibers, as if he had been rolled up in a piece of carpeting. There was no soil from the dusty footpath on his shoes. Investigators gave conflictingversions of what happened and of almost every aspect of the evidence, including whetheror not the bullet produced an exit wound, whether the wound was located in the head orneck, and even whether Foster was found on the ground or in his car. Then there’s the “suicide” gun. Foster was found with a .38 revolver made byColt Arms, built from parts taken from two other guns, and having two serial numbers. There are contradictions between a blue/black gun and a silver colored gun separatelyidentified, “absence of Foster’s fingerprints and blood, DNA inconclusive results and alack of matching gunpowder and bullet fragment evidence.” (Ruddy). If he had pressedthe .38 against the back of his mouth and pulled the trigger, there should have been burnsand gunpowder deposits around the wound, as well as broken teeth and blood on the gunbarrel - but there was none. Investigator M. Clarke is quoted as saying, “Foster couldn’thave fired the weapon with the gunshot residue the way it was left on his hands.” (Foster). He also said that Foster held his hands with his palms facing the revolver’scylinder--”consistent with his hands being in a...
