teflcat wrote:
It's so much more fun to deal in conspiracy theories.
What conspiracy theory? I always thought Lepper was a crook and liable to be drawn into crooked dealings. He might well have killed himself (though hanging seems a little out of line with what is known about his character) or he pissed off a bigger, more dangerous crook.
There's also the possibility that it was yet another case of auto-erotic asphixiation gone wrong* (sorry for that mental image, really, I am).
Finally, one of the reasons that people believe in conspiracy's is because the powers that be have a pretty bad record of not telling the truth. Lie often enough consistently enough (like most governments most of the time) and people will seek out alternate explanations.
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