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April
8th 1994, music fans worldwide were horrified to learn of the tragic
death of reluctant
rock star Kurt Cobain. Cobain’s
body was found in a room above the garage of his Seattle Washington
home. He had apparently taken a large dose of heroin and killed
himself with a shotgun. Even as the morning commenced, rumours
began to circulate. What if Kurt Cobain did not kill himself? What
if Kurt Cobain was murdered? One Private Investigator, who’s
been in the case from the very beginning, believes the official
ruling is wrong. |
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Tom
Grant – Private
Investigator
I
don’t believe Kurt Cobain committed suicide.
I believe there was someone with him in that room. I believe it was
someone that
he knew. They were doing heroin together. I believe at a certain
point, more heroin was injected into Kurt Cobain than what he wanted
injected into himself. And after that point he was shot with a shotgun
once he had become totally incapacitated. |
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Sean O’ Donnell – Media Relations Officer for the
Seattle Police Department
Our
detectives actually went into this investigation on the premise that this was
a homicide. That’s the way they conducted this investigation,
so that there was a very thorough, comprehensive investigation done from the
very beginning, and everything that the detectives encountered indicated to them
that this was a suicide. We actually found nothing to indicate that this was
anything but a suicide. |
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Kurt Cobain was the lead singer and creative
force for Nirvana, the widely popular grunge rock band. But Cobain
also made headlines for his drug addicted lifestyle. This photograph
was taken on March 4th 1994, as Cobain was rushed to a hospital in
Rome, Italy. He had overdosed on sedatives and alcohol and nearly died.
Three weeks later on March 30th, family and friends persuaded Cobain
to check into the Exodus Recovery Centre in Marina Del Ray, California.
But, in less than 48 hours Cobain walked out and took a late night
flight back to Seattle. A limo driver dropped Cobain off at his home,
where his daughters male nanny saw him on the morning of April 2nd.
The next day, Cobain’s wife, fellow rocker Courtney Love is said
to have contacted Tom Grant, a Los Angeles Private Investigator and
former LA County Sheriff’s Deputy. Grant claims he met with Love
at a Beverley Hills hotel. He also says she did not mention that Cobain
had been seen at their Seattle home the day before.
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Tom Grant
We set up a surveillance in Seattle on a couple of locations and
we were attempting to locate Kurt, and try to determine what
he was doing, where he was, where he was going.. Courtney asked
us of course not to contact him, not to make contact with him,
just to report back where he was and what was going on.
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When
the surveillance failed, Grant himself flew to Seattle. He claims
he and one of Cobain’s friends began searching.
They checked Cobain’s usual hang outs. Then about 2am on April
7th, Grant says they went to Cobain’s house. |
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Tom Grant
We searched the entire interior of the house – the basement,
the living room, the upstairs, the attic. We looked all through the
house for Kurt.
His friend when he went in the house made the comment that he had
never seen
the house this clean before, apparently it’s never been that straightened
up.
We didn’t locate Kurt, we didn’t see any indication that he had been
at the house.
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Some twenty
hours later, Tom Grant says he and Cobain’s friend
searched the house again. This time Grant claims they found a note
left for Cobain by the male nanny. |
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Tom Grant
The first line of the note started off – “Kurt I can’t
believe you managed to be in this house without me knowing.” We
searched the entire interior of the residence once again for any
evidence that Kurt might have been there the night before, or since
we had left the location the first time. And we found no evidence
that he had been there.
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The next
day, an electrician discovered Cobain’s body in a
room above the garage, known as the Greenhouse. The only place Grant
says he and Cobain’s friend did not check. According to Grant
he was never told about the room, and it was too dark to see it. |
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Tom Grant
It just really seemed strange to me that the one place in that entire
property that we didn’t search was a place that I was never
told about. And of course the medical examiner later determined that
Kurt had been laying up there dead for several days. So while we
were searching the main house, Kurt Cobain was lying dead up above
the garage.
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This is a diagram of Tom Grant’s depiction of the death scene.
A 20 gauge shotgun was still cradled across Kurt Cobain’s body.
His heroin kit was at his side, and a note apparently written by
Cobain was in plain sight.
The first officers to arrive at the house reported that they were
on the “scene
of a suicide”.
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Tom Grant
I contacted the police the day the body was found. I attempted on
the telephone to get them to slow down a little bit. I indicated
I felt something was wrong. They basically told me on the phone, ‘hey
we know a suicide when we see a suicide’.
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Tom Grant strongly disagrees and believes he has found a number of
notable inconsistencies. |
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