Reporter Michael Hastings: Body cremated without family consent, LAPD denies FOIA requests.

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**KalashnikovMarine**

http://www.sandiego6.com/story/hastings-investigation-20130714

Details uncovered by this reporter shed new light into the June 18 death of journalist Michael Hastings.

Hastings’ friend and confidant SSgt. Joe Biggs disclosed a macabre twist in the award-winning journalist’s death in a suspicious single-car accident. According to SSgt. Biggs, “Michael Hastings’ body was returned to Vermont in an urn.” He further alleged, “Family members did not want Michael’s body cremated.”

This revelation provides another wrinkle in the Los Angeles Police Department’s (LAPD) handling of a case they labeled “no foul play” only hours after the writer’s death.

Nevertheless LA County assistant corner, Ed Winter, said it took two days to identify the burned-beyond recognition body of Hastings. Officials also confirmed that an autopsy has been performed, but the cause of death is still pending. Unfortunately the family will have to wait for cause of death answers as LAPD media spokesperson Lieutenant Andrew Neiman indicated, “It will take several weeks to get the toxicology results.”

SSgt. Biggs also emphatically stated that liquor was not a factor in the accident, as Hastings hadn’t consumed alcoholic beverages in five years.

So why is the LAPD delaying the reports?

.................

Despite the LAPD's categorization of the Hasting fatal accident as a "no (evidence of) foul play,” LAPD continues to ignore FOIA (CPRA in Calif.) requests made by San Diego 6 News for the police report, 9/11 call, autopsy, bomb squad and toxicology reports, or make the Mercedes available for inspection which only fuels conjecture.

Whelp I wrote this off originally but I am now paying attention...

**Dreadclaw69**

Because everyone knows that the best way to make a conspiracy theory go away is to act shady

**Ouze**

Yeah I'm not a conspiracy theorist but this whole thing seems super off.

**Jihadin**

He didn't pick up the can and threaten to write about it.....

**Dreadclaw69**

Jihadin wrote:
He didn't pick up the can and threaten to write about it.....

So now he's cremated, and buried in the can

**Jihadin**

It was a good condition can.....why let it go to waste....

**whembly**

Dreadclaw69 wrote:
Jihadin wrote:
He didn't pick up the can and threaten to write about it.....

So now he's cremated, and buried in the can

O.o

Evidently cremated AGAINST his family's wishes...

You know, at a certain point, sequential coincidences get so incredible as to strain mathematical explanation...and this story... man... things just don't pass the smell test here.

**Jihadin**

said it took two days to identify the burned-beyond recognition body of Hastings

I'm really hoping that they were not planning a open casket......

oh well....
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