The Death of Kurt Cobain

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’.