Nate Thayer, journalist who interviewed Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot, dead at 62

In this file photo taken on July 16, 1997, US journalist Nate Thayer speaks at the Foreign Correspondents' Club in Bangkok, saying he has interviewed Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot. - AFP

WASHINGTON (AFP): Nate Thayer, the larger-than-life American freelance journalist who scored a massive scoop with his 1997 interview with Pol Pot, the genocidal leader of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge, has died at 62, his family said Wednesday (Jan 4).

Thayer was discovered dead by his brother Rob Thayer at his Falmouth, Massachusetts home on Tuesday.