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Item #1, according to Grant, Kurt Cobain carried
only one credit card. Courtney Love had reportedly cancelled
that card shortly after Cobain left the drug rehab in California.
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Tom Grant
Now Courtney told me that she had stopped this credit card so that
she could track Kurt’s activities, as he attempted to use the
credit card. In actuality, stopping the credit card is what made
it more difficult.
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After the credit card was cancelled, the bank apparently recorded
only the dates, the amounts and generic information. Amount worthy
attempts were made to use the card. |
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Tom Grant
There was an attempt made on April 6th, in an amount of over $1500,
there was another attempt made on April 8th, which was Friday the
day the body was found, for an amount of $43. Now according to the
medical examiner, Kurt had died sometime on April 5th, the previous
Tuesday. Who was using the credit card?
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Sean
O’ Donnell
The information we’ve been able to receive from the bank has
only been able to identify for us when the information was logged
onto their mainframe computer, and not specifically when the attempt
was made or who it was made by.
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Tom Grant
Now after the body was discovered of course the police searched Kurt’s
property. Two other cards were found in the wallet, but the actual
credit card that Courtney had cancelled, the same card that someone
was attempting to use after we now know Kurt was already dead, was
not found in Kurt’s property.
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Item #2, the autopsy reported showed Kurt Cobain’s blood
contained a tranquiliser; Diazepam, and Heroin. According to
Tom Grant and
published news articles the level was 1.52mg/l. Some medical experts
say that much heroin could kill a non-addict three times over. |
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Tom Grant
Could he with that much heroin and diazepam in his system, could
he even pick up that shotgun? Wouldn’t he be incapacitated
within seconds?
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Cyril
H. Wecht – Forensic
Pathologist
For most people including addicts, 1.52mg/l of morphine is a significant
level and for most of them, the great percentage, it would be a
level that would induce a state of unconsciousness quite quickly;
talking about seconds, not minutes.
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Cyril Wecht is a nationally known forensic
pathologist. Even though he hasn’t seen the autopsy report,
but believes the suicide ruling correct. However he does find the
high level of heroin
intriguing. |
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Cyril H. Wecht
I just cannot tell you that it would have been impossible for him
to have shot himself because it was found that he had a level of
1.52mg/l of morphine at the post-mortem examination. It’s certainly
within the realm of possibility, but it does raise a question as
to whether or not he shot that shotgun.
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Dr.
Donald Reay – Chief Medical
Examiner of King County, inspected Cobain’s body at the scene.
He does not find Cobain’s heroin intake problematic. |
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Donald Reay
It’s really an issue of tolerance. How much is this person
used too? If a person has gradually over months or years increased
the dose, a person could function with that amount of drugs, narcotics,
whatever it is present in the system. Again, so much of it depends
upon individual tolerance over a period of time.
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Item
#3, police have checked the shotgun, the shotguns shells and
the pen used to write the suicide note for
finger prints. There were no legible prints on any of them. |
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Sean O’ Donnell
I think its clear that anyone who is familiar with firearms and there
use would know that as they hold a weapon that frequently that weapon
will move in their hand. Additionally when that weapon is discharged
that causes a jerking motion which causes the hands to move over
the surface of the weapon. And all of those factors could cause any
fingerprints that may have been left on the weapon to be unusable.
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Item #4, the alleged suicide note. Tom Grant
believes it was actually a retirement letter to Cobain’s fans.
There were rumours that Cobain was feeling burned out and was planning
to adopt
a lower profile.
He had recently pulled out of the annual Lollapalooza tour. A decision
which some speculate could have cost Cobain and others involved millions
of dollars.
This is a copy of the note that has been widely circulated. Tom Grant
suggests
that only the last four lines indicate suicide, they read – “Please
keep going Courtney, for Frances, for her life, which will be so much happier
without me…I love you, I love you”. Curiously these lines are written
in much larger characters than the rest of the note. Unsolved Mysteries asked
handwriting expert Marcel Matley to compare a copy of Cobain’s alleged
suicide note with copies of two pages of lyrics, hand written by Cobain. Matley
believes the bulk of the note was written by Cobain, but finds the last four
lines questionable.
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Marcel
Matley – Handwriting Expert
As to the last four lines, there are more than a dozen differences
that should give us pause, and we would have to reasonable explain
these differences before we can conclude that the same person wrote
the four lines that wrote the body of it.
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Handwriting expert
Reginald Alton of Oxford University also compared copies of Cobain’s handwriting to
a copy of the note. In a five page written report, Alton pointed
out more than a dozen discrepancies. Alton believes the bulk of the
suicide note was written by Cobain, but raises questions about the
first line and last four lines. His report concludes, quote “there
are many indications that there may have been a second hand at work”.
Alton cautions however that the copies are not good enough to make
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Sean O’ Donnell
We did take the note from the scene, and have it examined at the
Washington State Crime Lab, and their analyst has indicated that
it is her belief that this note was written by Mr. Cobain.
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Tom Grant
Kurt Cobain had made an important decision in his life. He wanted
out of the entertainment business, he didn’t want to tour anymore,
he didn’t want to perform anymore. He wanted to be left alone;
he never liked that aspect of being a performer. This decision that
he had made was going to affect a lot of other people. He was no
longer the money machine that he once was; now Cobain was worth more
dead than he was alive.
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But who would have wanted Kurt Cobain dead?
Could it have been a mysterious user of his credit card? Could that
same person
add critical
lines to Cobain’s alleged suicide note? For now those questions
remain unanswered.
Tom Grant believes the investigation should be reopened and the inconsistencies
resolved once and for all.
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