Far easier ways to assassinate someone than fiddling with their car.
Knife in the throat's fuckup proof. No bullet casing to trace. Could trace the knife's shape like I suppose so if concerned about that make an 'ice dagger' that melts but not before making a really good stiletto type weapon. Entirely hypothetical of course...Saw it in a movie once.
It was all just a coincidence, or not.
He was paranoid about his car being tampered with only four hours before he blew up in it, or was he really in it at all?
Michael Hastings Dangerous Mind Journalistic Star Was Loved Feared and Haunted L.A. Weekly
His behavior grew increasingly erratic. Helicopters often circle over the hills, but Hastings believed there were more of them around whenever he was at home, keeping an eye on him.
He came to believe his Mercedes was being tampered with. "Nothing I could say could console him," Thigpen says.
One night in June,
he came to Thigpen's apartment after midnight and urgently asked to borrow her Volvo. He said he was afraid to drive his own car. She declined, telling him her car was having mechanical problems.
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He was scared, and he wanted to leave town," she says.
The next day, around 11:15 a.m., she got a call from her landlord, who told her Hastings had died early that morning. His car had crashed into a palm tree at 75 mph and exploded in a ball of fire.
"I burst into tears," Thigpen says. "I couldn't believe it had happened again."