July 1993, a senior White House official is found dead in a park overlooking the Potomac

River, a bullet wound through his mouth. Soon, a torn-up suicide note is found in the

bottom of his briefcase. Here, wrote Deputy White House counsel Vince Foster in the last

moments of his life, ruining people is considered sport. Foster's suicide was a personal tragedy.

It soon emerged that he had been profoundly depressed for months, but it also spawned

a cottage industry of conspiracy theories about dark plots that somehow implicated Hillary

Clinton, fan principally by a little-known journalist who would later go on to become

one of Donald Trump's best friends. Those conspiracy theories gained considerable traction

for a while, a former FBI director even seemed to endorse them, until they were thoroughly

debunked in a report written by a young lawyer working for Whitewater Independent Counsel

Ken Star. That lawyer, later a judge, is now on Trump's short list for the Supreme Court.

We'll look back at the death of Vince Foster, and the key role played by a pair of characters

very much still with us on today's buried treasure.

I'm Michael Isacoff, Chief Investigative correspondent for Yahoo News, and I'm Dan Clyde,

Editor-in-Chief of Yahoo News.

You know, Dan, I was very much involved in the early reporting on the death of Vince Foster,

and I have to say, some of my reporting probably fanned a lot of these conspiracy theories. Right

after Foster's death, the park police was the lead investigative agency, because this

was Fort Marcy Park in Northern Virginia. It was park police territory, and the park police

guys on the case wanted to understand what drove Foster to his death. They pretty quickly

concluded it was suicide, but why? Why would a senior White House official take his own

life? And they wanted access to Foster's office. The documents in Foster's office was

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