Update: Hastings ‘Unauthorized Cremation’ Rumor False, Family Says, Despite Previous Reports

This is good. So, how did he DIE then?

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Exclusive— Hastings ‘Unauthorized Cremation’ Mega-Rumor False, Family Says – WhoWhatWhy.

According to a member of Michael Hastings’s family, a widely circulated story that the investigative journalist’s body was cremated by authorities without the family’s permission is flat-out untrue.

The story that the cremation was unauthorized—further stoking credible suspicions aroused by Hastings’s strange death in a fiery one-car crash, complete with a dramatic explosion– has raged across the Internet for weeks.

A recent count showed 475,000 results for “Hastings cremated” and 357,000 for “Hastings cremation.” The top results all reported that the family did not want the cremation. The clear implication was that this was proof of a cover-up – that “the authorities” had rushed to dispose of the body in a way that would make further inquiries, such as an autopsy, impossible.

Here is a local television reporter for a commercial station in San Diego, Kim Dvorak:

“A close…

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