"All I can be sure of is that, since the day Kurt died,
somebody has wanted the Cobain case closed tight,
somebody bigger than Courtney."

We know, for an absolute fact, that junkies rarely use a gun to kill themselves. Kurt was either the biggest bionic dope man alive, or he died of an overdose.
Okay, now let's say there was no shotgun at all. What would we be looking for? We would be looking for a belt, rubber tie or a necktie, still intact and hanging around the arm. We would be looking for a needle hanging from the arm. We would be looking for a syringe with residue in it, stuff we could put under a microscope, a syringe with a bulb or plunger, something we could fingerprint. If we couldn't find any of these things we would be looking for whoever pulled the needle out and tidied up. Why? Because even if the person had nothing to do with the actual death they would still be guilty of a felony called tampering with a crime scene... We would expect to find a blackened spoon or can lid with residue in it, which would give us more residue for testing in a crime lab. This would let us know how strong the heroin was, what it was cut with, possibly even where it came from, was it China White, Mexican Tar, and so forth? Testing would be mandatory if we were any normal medical examiner.

We would expect to find a sweaty body and a smelly load of feces in his/her underwear, accompanied by tousled hair and a limp, probably fetal, body position. These are all common traits to an overdose scene, especially an overdose of the proportions found in Kurt's blood stream. We would also be looking for advanced rigor mortis, livor [mortis] and other signs of tissue degeneration and it would not be a pretty picture. Instead we found a well groomed, neatly positioned, albeit waxy looking, body...

Now let's say we were the first cop or firefighter to enter the room and we saw this dead body just laying there without any of the junkie symbolism, just a nice neat tidy man, laid out face up, with his arms out, in a cross shaped pattern, flat, with his tennis shoes tied, no horrible smell, neatly combed hair, a small amount of blood, no skull fragments, no feces, no nasal discharge, no lachrymal discharge or urine, no bitten tongue, no vomit, no needle, no dirty spoon or bottle cap, no tie-off strap...Let's further assume that we did not see a needle falling out, and we did not see any sign of struggle or protest. What would we think? You would say, "What's wrong with this picture?" You don't need to be a Mensa member to figure this out. Something fishy is here. The guy who found the body, Gary Smith of Veca Electronics, even sensed something was surreal about the whole scene. To him Kurt looked like a wax mannequin.
 
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  Before any official statement could be made the medical examiner would need to do a full autopsy. Alerted to certain mysteries tampering flags, he or she would be compelled by his own training and the law, to closely inspect the stomach contents, drug samples and blood samples, even ordering extra tests. Not just routinely examine the evidence at hand, but very closely scrutinizing every detail. Because a note was found the official diagnosis would have to wait for weeks until handwriting examiners had a chance to check the note.

This level of scrutiny did not take place in the Cobain case; the assistant medical examiner told the press it was suicide even as he was sliding Kurt's body into the van. Everything was a foregone conclusion...



In the meantime the detectives assigned to the case, assuming they were diligent and had some modicum of sympathy for the victim, (not a valid assumption in the Cobain case) would be focusing in on motives and the possibility of known threats, spousal abuse, criminal associates, spouses whereabouts, life insurance policies, prenuptial agreements and the entire skein of evidence leading to possible motives for "homicide" would be coming into play, not the least of which would be any tampering with the handwriting of a note.

It would also be discovered, with a simple peek into a desk drawer or file cabinet, that the recording contracts between Nirvana and DGC records were expired and that he was refusing to re-sign the new ones. The victim was a free man, something Kurt desperately wanted. A call or subpoena to the victim's attorney would reveal that he was about to make a will change and even divorce his spouse. None of that was taken into consideration at the time of Cobain's death. He wanted the divorce. His spouse did not. People rarely kill themselves when they are the acting party in a divorce proceeding.

Now let's take a look at the shotgun forensics, because they too are highly suspect.

A .20 Gauge shotgun, (even a .410) although small in comparison to a .12 gauge, even with low base loads, will still blow a hole in your head at close range. A .22 short will kill you as fast as a car wreck if you happen to get hit in the eye at close range. Now you can't get any closer to the back of your head than by sticking a gun barrel into your mouth and yet Kurt's body showed very few signs of cranial damage, no exit wound per se. Any blood found was coming out his ear and mouth. The shells were wrong, the fingerprints were laughably missing and the whole episode talks on the trappings of a charade party - so how did whoever did it get away with it? How and why was this done?

By shot gunning the victim we immediately create a credible media scenario giving the hungry press a story within minutes instead of days. Whoever planned Kurt's murder had help and knew how to manipulate the media. - In other words, just giving Kurt an overdose would draw too much suspicion to a possible murder and, in a murder investigation, the spouse is always looked at closely. Leaving a note, however dumb and meaningless, and using a shotgun, however superficial, was sufficient to fool the public and deflect the heat away from the real methodology. [Important: The origin of the narcotics was never investigated.]

To achieve a bloodless and cosmetic shot to the boney palette, we need to lower the base load by removing the wadding and dumping out some of the bb's from an already low powered .20 gauge Remington Model 11. We would next try to assimilate an appropriate angle, then we pull the trigger, but the sound is very muffled. Then we wipe the gun off and place it on the victims chest on the wrong angle, then we tidy up and lock the door behind us...

Remember something else too. The cops in Seattle and the media in general hated grunge and its leaders. Punk was already assimilated, but this grunge movement posed a real threat; it was a "bore from within," philosophy not a dropout strategy, but an alternative world concept. Cobain, all by himself, had the Seattle establishment by the balls and got a kick out of watching his neighbors jaws drop when he moved into the swank lakeside neighborhood. That kind of radicalism really scares the establishment, always has and always will...

But Kurt was already a target for the police. He was well known for saying, "Vandalism: Beautiful as a rock in a cop's face." So the local police had [contempt] for him or for what they perceived as his "pseudo poverty." Look what Todd Rungren and Andy Rooney said about Cobain. Look at all the Deadheads who said good riddance. Here we have this fallen king, and nobody is looking at the real evidence because everybody wants to believe he blew his face off.
Whoever killed him was counting on that.


Courtesy of Hank Harrison, taken from the now defunct arkives.net (1999)

"Someone wanted to shut him up. He was just too damned outspoken and, more importantly, he was teaching his fans to think for themselves. How dare he send subliminal messages out over a media controlled by corporate capital. Cobain had to be stopped because he was leading the brainwashed away from their cereal bowls and brand name identities."..."Kurt would not kiss the corporate ass...Kurt was fast becoming personae non-grata at Geffen and Gold Mountain." - Beyond Nirvana, p. 298 - "I think denying the corporate ogre is kind of a waste of time, you should use them, rape them the way they rape you." - Kurt Cobain

"But whoever killed him also envied him because they immediately set about to disgrace his good name at every possible juncture."
"It wasn't a well-planned murder. It was just done in little pieces but they were relying on the fact that they could cover everything up." - Hank Harrison

 
 
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