US investigators have begun a new probe into the death of "gonzo journalist" Hunter S. Thompson, 20 years after he died from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Thompson penned the seminal "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," becoming a major counter-culture figure whose drug-fueled life fused with his ground-breaking literary style.

After his 2005 death near Aspen, Colorado, was ruled a suicide, Thompson's cremated remains were fired from a cannon by Johnny Depp, who played the writer in the film version of his most famous work.

"The Colorado Bureau of Investigation is currently conducting a case review into the death of renowned journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, at the suggestion of the Pitkin County Sheriff's Office following a request from his widow, Anita Thompson," sa

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