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Hastings' widow: 'My gut here is...a really tragic accident'

Screen Shot 2013-08-06 at 1.21.38 PM.jpgElise Jordan, who was the wife of the journalist Michael Hastings, spoke for the first time about his death in a car crash on on Highland Avenue in Hollywood. She was on Piers Morgan's show on CNN. Jordan confirmed that Hastings was working on one or more hot stories at the time he died, but she seemed to be shooting down the conspiracy theories about why he was speeding down Highland in the early morning hours of June 18.

Right now the LAPD still has an active investigation ... my gut here is that it was just a really tragic accident and I'm unlucky in the world, the world was very unlucky.

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