In his final days, Vincent Foster cried at dinner with his wife and told his mother he was unhappy because work was "a grind," Whitewater prosecutors wrote in a final report that emphatically concludes the White House lawyer killed himself.
In poignant detail, the report released Friday by Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr lays out new revelations about the extent of depression by one Clinton's closest confidants leading up to his July 1993 death."The available evidence points clearly to suicide as the manner of death," Starr wrote.
His office announced two months ago that an extensive investigation - the fourth such into Foster's death - had affirmed the earlier conclusions that Foster took his own life with a shot to the head from an antique revolver.
But the underlying report was not released until Friday. In 114 pages, prosecutors laid out in meticulous detail the forensic and eyewitness detail supporting their conclusions.
While the report depicts Foster as a depressed man, prosecutors said they "cannot set forth a particular reason or set of reasons why Mr. Foster committed suicide."
It, nonetheless, directly addresses miscues at the scene of Foster's death, questions about evidence and other innuendo that prompted a cottage industry of murder conspiracy theories that thrives still today with books, videos and debate on conservative TV and radio talks shows.
Among the evidence to bolster the speculation was the failure of the original investigation to directly conclude that the gun found in Foster's hand was his own.
But Starr noted that Foster's widow, Lisa, "said she recalls two guns in a bedroom closet in Washington, one of which was missing when she looked in the closet after Mr. Foster's death."