Brooke Hogan Challenges Police Conclusion in Hulk Hogan Death Investigation

CelebrityBrooke Hogan Challenges Police Conclusion in Hulk Hogan Death Investigation

The Hulk Hogan death investigation may be officially over, but Brooke Hogan is not treating the Clearwater Police Department’s conclusion as the final word. Speaking to TMZ after police said they found no evidence that her father’s death was anything other than natural, Brooke said she believes investigators failed to take the case seriously enough from the start.

The department had publicly thanked her for her cooperation after wrapping its review. Brooke said she felt shut out during the process, not included in it.

Why Brooke Hogan says the investigation felt flawed

Brooke told media she was surprised by the police department’s public statement and described it as “a slap in the face.” Clearwater police declined to comment on her criticism.

Her main complaint is that investigators, in her view, did not move quickly or widely enough in the early days after Hulk Hogan’s death.

She said: “There’s been a lot of inconsistencies from the BEGINNING. I think CWPD missed the mark by not IMMEDIATELY making this a big investigation and not questioning everything and everybody out the gate. This should have been treated as a taped off, locked down, thorough investigation from day one.”

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That is a strong charge, especially after police said they reviewed medical records, witness interviews, surveillance footage, and other evidence before finding no signs of foul play or criminal wrongdoing. Officially, the department’s review points one way. Brooke’s reaction makes clear that her experience, or at least her side of the family’s experience, feels far less settled.

The questions she says still have not been answered

Brooke pointed to several details she says do not line up. Among them, she said she was told at one stage that no blood samples were available. Later, she said, investigators reported finding nothing suspicious in Hulk Hogan’s blood.

She also raised concerns about police records released to the public. According to Brooke, those records included redactions connected to prescriptions her father was taking for pain and sleep. She said those medications do not appear in the toxicology findings.

For a family member trying to understand the final days of a parent’s life, those kinds of gaps can feel less like paperwork and more like doors closing. Bureaucracy is rarely comforting, which is not exactly breaking news.

Autopsy questions remain central for Brooke

TMZ previously reported that Brooke contacted police within days of Hulk Hogan’s death to ask whether an autopsy would be performed. She now says a private autopsy was ultimately conducted for the family, but that she was never allowed to see the results. She also says those results were never publicly released.

Brooke is also questioning why Hulk Hogan’s death certificate was signed by his personal physician rather than someone from the medical examiner’s office.

The Clearwater Police Department has said its nearly yearlong review is complete and that the evidence does not support suspicion of a crime. Brooke, however, says the report has not resolved the inconsistencies she sees.

For the public, the official finding may be enough. For Brooke Hogan, the issue appears more personal and more unresolved: not just how her father died, but whether the people responsible for answering that question asked enough at the beginning.

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