Thompson 'shot himself on phone'
His widow, Anita Thompson, 32, told the Aspen Daily News she heard the "clicking of the gun".
She said: "I was on the phone with him, he set the receiver down and did it."
Mrs Thompson said her husband had asked her to come home from a health club so they could work on his weekly column, but instead of saying goodbye, he shot himself.
She added that she heard a loud, muffled noise, but did not know what had happened.
"I was waiting for him to get back on the phone," she said.
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