Clearwater police said Friday they have closed the nearly 11-month investigation into Hulk Hogan’s death, concluding that the wrestling icon died of natural causes and that investigators found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Rob Shaw said the case was being classified as an attended natural death.
The final word came in a 70-page case master report released on Friday, ending a probe that had kept Hogan’s death in public view since July 24, 2025, when he died at his Clearwater home. For readers who had been following the case, the release answered the basic question that lingered for months: investigators said there was no evidence that Terry Bollea’s death was anything other than natural.
Police said investigators spent much of the year interviewing witnesses and reviewing recordings. They also said several people close to Hogan told them he had been in rough shape after multiple recent surgeries. On the day he died, Hogan was in his recliner with his wife, Sky, and two healthcare workers when he stopped breathing. Sky called 911 while one of the medical professionals began CPR, and he was later taken to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead.
A private autopsy reported during the investigation reached the same broad conclusion, saying Hogan died exclusively from compelling natural disease, with no reasonable traumatic or terminal toxicologic contributions. That medical finding lined up with what Clearwater police later said publicly: there was no evidence to indicate any criminal wrongdoing related to his death, and the case would be closed as solved and non-criminal.
The police conclusion also sits against a quieter but real strain in the aftermath. Brooke Bollea had publicly raised significant questions about her father’s death after he died, even as investigators said they did not suspect foul play at the time and later found nothing to support a criminal case. Shaw thanked the family — Sky, Nick and Brooke Bollea — and their attorney, Kevin Hayslett, for cooperating and allowing access to sensitive information during a difficult period.
For now, the official record is plain: Hogan’s death has been ruled natural, the criminal inquiry is over, and police say there is nothing left to prosecute. What remains unresolved is the medical detail that drove the loss itself, which the released findings did not spell out.
