Retired Agent Calls for Anna Nicole Smith's "Murder" to be Investigated  7/12/07

A retired FBI special agent is leading the charge to re-open the investigation into Anna Nicole Smith's death - because he's convinced she was murdered.

Ted Gunderson has been fired up by new evidence the tragic model/actress' nurse claims was left off Smith's autopsy report.

He's convinced that new information about nurse Tasma Brighthaupt located in the bed where she found Smith, and marks on the actress' body, suggest she was already dead when paramedics were called to her suite at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Florida in February (07).

As a result, Gunderson feels the corpse should have been left where it was and the room should have been sealed as a crime scene. Instead, Smith's lifeless body was rushed to a nearby hospital, where she was later pronounced dead.

The retired agent tells American publication the Globe, "Based on her (Brighthaupt) comments, there had to have been a cover-up involving Anna Nicole's death.

"From the beginning, this should have been investigated as a crime scene."

A month and a half after the tragedy, Broward County, Florida Medical Examiner Dr. Joshua Perper ruled Smith had died of an "accidental overdose" of prescription drugs and sleeping pills.