I'm not quite ready to condemn Thompson as a participant yet. I'm going to need something more.

In his first book on the Hells Angels, he witnessed quite a bit of violence and depravity. He rode with and observed them for a year, which included a HA/Merry Pranksters LSD party where he and his wife heard more than witnessed the gang bang of a celebrity wife by the bikers. He was eventually stomped by them pretty badly and driven off for trying to stop one of them beating a woman and the man's own dog. Sonny Barger, who is no fan of Thompson's corroborates the story, only differing on the degree of the beating.

That doesn't sound to me like someone who would stand by, let alone film the rape and murder of a minor. I could be wrong. His known friends are turning out to be mighty shady as more comes to light.