That is really odd. It looks to be done by someone who knew nothing about firearms. Doesn’t work for suicide, but doesn’t work for professional hit either.
Seems if he was murdered by a pro, scene was not staged by murderer.
The revolver found in the hand was said to have been cobbled together from two, some said three different guns of the same model, with no discernible serial number.
As a revolver fancier, I don’t get it. All that needs to be done to make it untraceable is to grind off the serial number, which is found only on the frame.
Yet, family members swore it was one of Foster’s guns, based upon the serial number. Go figure.
And the thumb inserted in the trigger guard, meaning to imply that Foster held the gun reversed in his hand in order to point it into his mouth, doesn’t pass muster either. Again, it was the easiest way to plant the gun in the dead man’s hand. Trying to close the fingers around a revolved held in the normal way - well, maybe rigor mortis (a temporary condition) had already set in.
Anyway, the circumstances around his death are as suspicious now as they were then.