Brooke Hogan criticizes Hulk Hogan death investigation
Brooke Hogan is not satisfied with the investigation police conducted into her father’s death.
Nearly a year after Hulk Hogan’s July 2025 passing, police in Clearwater, Florida announced late last week that they have concluded their death investigation and found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Police reviewed relevant statements, medical records, and surveillance footage from Hogan’s home, along with doing a visual inspection of Hogan’s body. They found no indication that his death was anything other than natural.
But Brooke tells TMZ that she believes police “missed the mark” by not immediately launching a thorough investigation the moment her father died.
“There’s been a lot of inconsistencies from the BEGINNING,” she told TMZ. “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.”
Brooke, who was estranged from her father at the time of his death but still felt a close connection to him, has questioned why the medical examiner did not perform an autopsy after her father died. Instead, a private autopsy was done after being commissioned by others in Hogan’s family. Those results were not shared with Brooke.
TMZ notes that Brooke has multiple other issues that she feels have not been properly explained:
- Brooke points to several issues she says still don’t add up … including being told at one point there were no blood samples available, only to later hear investigators found nothing suspicious in Hulk’s blood.
- She also notes police records released to the public contain redactions related to prescriptions Hulk was taking for pain and sleep … medications she says do not appear in the toxicology findings.
- Brooke also questions why Hulk’s death certificate was signed by his personal physician rather than someone from the medical examiner’s office.
There was a point in this process where Brooke and Clearwater Police were on better terms, with her saying last August that police were being very open with her after her initial concerns. Brooke said she did not believe foul play was involved but wanted to know exactly why her father died. There were unproven rumors, denied by Hogan’s wife Sky, that Hogan was taking “street drugs” to help deal with post-surgery pain after the medication doctors were prescribing to him was not enough.
Brooke told TMZ that she was treated like an outsider throughout the process, and police thanking her for her cooperation felt like a “slap in the face.”
Hulk Hogan’s cause of death —
Hogan (Terry Bollea) died at 71 years old on July 24, 2025 following weeks of complications from neck fusion surgery. His death was caused by a heart attack (acute myocardial infarction), and a medical report said Hogan had a history of leukemia prior to his death.
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