On April 8 1994 at 8.40 AM, an electrician who
came to check the electrical network of a luxury villa in Seattle found the
lifeless body of Kurt Cobain. A bullet to the head killed him. Near the body
was a box of drugs, burnt spoons, and syringes. A rifle was found on his chest,
along with a goodbye note in the room. Is this a clear case of suicide?
According to local law enforcement, it is. However, conspiracy theorists were
hardly satisfied with the superficial investigations of the Seattle Police, and
the media frenzy that followed after the announcement of the premature death of
Cobain continues to sizzle even today.
At 27, lead singer and musician of the band ‘Nirvana’,
Kurt Cobain, was an internationally acclaimed rock star. He was an icon, a
leader, a revolutionary of the music world. Cobain died when he was on top of
success. His music excited and inspired millions of people worldwide. This
incredible success brought him the unwanted status of being the spokesman for
the grunge rock movement and a whole generation. His funeral turned Seattle
into a transit city and sympathetic suicides were recorded all over the world.
For Kurt Cobain, punk-rock and drugs provided a
way to escape. Cobain, who had great self-constrain, didn’t seem like the
person to see death as the solution for the pain and the depression that
haunted his youth. Although it was widely known that Cobain was a man with
problems, many people find it hard to believe that he would kill himself.
The divorce from rock star Courtney Love and the
battle for custody of their daughter was not exactly easy. But Cobain was not a
coward by any means. Many of those who studied his case believe that
sinister forces in Seattle lead him to his premature end. These beliefs have
given birth to some disturbing questions related to the alleged suicide and the
death of Kurt Cobain.
The following are excerpts of an audio recording
by Tom Grant, the private
investigator hired by Courtney Love after Cobain was reported missing;
“On April 3, 1994, I was hired by Courtney Love,
(who was in Los Angeles at the time), to locate her husband after he left a
drug rehab center in Marina Del Rey, California. Ms. Love stayed in Los Angeles
while I flew to Seattle to search for Cobain with his best friend Dylan
Carlson. In fact, Carlson and I had been in the Cobain residence the night
before Kurt's body was discovered in the room above the garage.”
“After several months of intensive
investigation, including dozens of taped interviews with Cobain's closest
friends and family members, I reached the conclusion that Courtney Love and
Michael Dewitt, (the male nanny who lived at the Cobain residence), were
involved in a conspiracy that resulted in the murder of Kurt Cobain.”
Tom Grant, the one that Love had paid for seven months to investigate Kurt
Cobain’s death, is one of the many who think Cobain was killed by someone close
to him. Many theorists believe that it was a family member, a close friend, or
an employee.
Evidence at the crime scene suggested the
possibility that Kurt Cobain didn’t commit suicide. One of his credit cards was
missing. Someone had tried to use it before his body was discovered and also
after the autopsy investigations were published. There weren’t any fingerprints, nor were there any gun powder on
the gun, which suggests that it had been wiped clean. Cobain’s body was also
found with an extremely high level of
heroin, which means that it would be pretty hard for him to pull the
trigger. The “suicidal” note explained why he left the music industry. Many
handwriting and typographical experts think that someone else, and not Cobain,
had added the last four rows in the
letter about his wife and his daughter.
Here are some lesser known facts surrounding the
suicide (if you still choose to think so);
1. COURTNEY LOVE WAS FACING A
DIVORCE
Kurt
was in the process of leaving Seattle and his wife Courtney, when he was found
dead.
Courtney
knew Kurt wanted out of the marriage. Just weeks prior to his death, she asked
one of her attorneys to get the "meanest, most vicious divorce
lawyer" she could find.
2. SOMEONE WAS USING KURT'S CREDIT
CARD
One
of Kurt's credit cards was missing when his body was discovered.
Someone
was attempting to use the missing credit card after Cobain died, but the
attempts stopped when his body was discovered.
3. COBAIN WAS IN FEAR OF HIS LIFE
The
shotgun found at the scene was purchased before Cobain left for rehab in
Los Angeles, NOT after he fled the rehab as reported by misinformed
media sources.
The
shotgun was fully loaded with three shells. It was purchased and loaded
for protection, not suicide.
The
police claim there were no legible fingerprints on this shotgun! The
truth is, the shotgun wasn't even checked for fingerprints until May 6th,
nearly one month after Cobain's body was found.
4. THERE WAS NO
"SUICIDE" NOTE!!
Courtney
was in possession of a second note after Kurt's body was found! She didn’t
tell anyone about this second note until several months later when
information about it slipped out during an interview with Rolling Stone
Magazine.
The
second note, the one that Courtney kept in secret, clearly defines the first
note which was found at the scene of Cobain's death. The "second
note" from Kurt plainly states he was leaving Courtney and he was leaving
Seattle. He was not leaving the planet!
5. COBAIN WAS INJECTED WITH 3
TIMES A LETHAL DOSE OF HEROIN!!
Cobain's
heroin, (morphine), blood level was 1.52 mgs per liter. This would require a
minimum injection of 225 mgs of heroin, three times a lethal dose, even for a
hardcore heroin addict! The drug Diazepam, was also found in Cobain's blood
system.
After
reading this, the obvious questions any person would ask would be;
1. If Cobain injected
three times a lethal dose of heroin, COULD he then pick up a shotgun and shoot
himself? Wouldn't he have been immediately incapacitated?
Based on the heroin, (morphine), blood levels found in
Cobain's body, preliminary research indicates Kurt Cobain would have been
almost immediately incapacitated. He could not have picked up that shotgun. He
could not have pulled that trigger!
2. If Cobain injected
himself with a deliberate heroin overdose, why would he also shoot
himself in the head with a shotgun, leaving his baby daughter - the love of his
life - with horrific visual images to remember him by? Why not just "go to
sleep" on the overdose and never wake up?
In addition to all this, a few more obvious facts eventually
came out regarding the controversy. Cobain wasn’t locked inside his room as
informed by media sources. The stool which was supposedly
wedged" against the door was actually just sitting in front of the two
unlocked doors that only led out to a balcony. Cobain did not leave his
Driver's License out for identification as reported by misinformed media
sources. The first police officer on the scene found Cobain's closed wallet,
opened it to remove Kurt's driver's license, and displayed it in order to take
a photograph.
Think what you may want to about the death of Kurt Cobain,
but suicide is one thing that you may not want to call this incident. Below is
a copy of the ‘apparent’ suicide note written by Kurt Cobain. After all, he was
‘The Man Who Sold The World’.
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