Kurt Cobain

Kurt Cobain, the lead singer of nirvana and innovator of grunge and voice of a generation, took his own life on April the 5th, 1994. Soon after, questions appeared around the truth about his death. Only to fall on deaf ears and be labelled as the work of crazy conspiracy theorists. However, 28 years after his death, the conspiracy theories continue and show no sign of going away.

To understand the conspiracy theories, one must first know the official story of Kurt’s death and how these conspiracy theories began.

On April the 4th, 1994, VECA employee Gary T. Smith arrived at Cobain’s Seattle home to install a security lighting system when he discovered Cobain’s body. At first, Smith believed Cobain to be asleep until he saw blood coming out of his ear and realized Cobain was dead.

Smith called the police, who gained entry into the apartment above the garage where Smith had discovered Cobain’s body. The police found he had written a suicide note and used a shotgun to take his life. It is at this point in the story that the conspiracy theory starts. Private investigator Tom Grant claims Seattle police made a significant mistake when investigating Cobain’s death.

They didn’t consider Key events that triggered private investigator Tom Grant’s later suspicions that Kurt’s death may not have been a suicide. Cobain’s wife Courtney Love hired Grant to find her husband when he had left a drug treatment centre on March the 31st, 1994. Love’s reason for hiring a grant was serious concerns about her husband’s safety and state of mind.

These concerns seem to be legitimate and based on Cobain’s drug usage and his alleged suicide attempt in Rome when he overdosed on painkillers. However, grant claims that the overdose in Rome wasn’t labelled a suicide attempt until after Cobain’s suicide and believes it was an accidental overdose. So why would Grant think Cobain’s death was murder? Simply, he claims Cobain was preparing to divorce Love and leave Seattle.

He also claims that weeks before Cobain’s death Love had asked one of her attorneys to get the “meanest and most vicious divorce lawyer she could find” indicating that Love knew of Cobain’s plan to divorce her. He also claims serial key facts were and continue to be ignored by Seattle’s police. This includes the amount of herion in Cobain’s body would have made it impossible for him to shoot himself.

That a credit card registered to him was being used when Cobain was dead and only stopped being used after the body was discovered.

That the suicide note wasn’t a suicide not and was in fact a letter to his fans and was about the reasons he was quitting nirvana and that the note in which he mentions his daughter and wife was actually finished by someone else and has been confirmed by handwriting experts. Grant’s theory and evidence in are well documented in the documentary drama Soaked in bleach and his own website.

The question now is if true, why was Cobain murdered and by who? Grant believes the Motive was money and that Love and a male nanny who lived at Cobain’s home named Michael Dewitt were responsible for a conspiracy that lead to the murder of Kurt Cobain. It is hard to comprehend the possibility that Cobain’s death was not suicide. Yet when researching and reading the official truth and the claims of Grant, nobody can deny there are some alarming and legitimate questions backed by evidence that supports his claim. Or is it possible that Grant himself is a man of opportunity and is making himself a public figure? Is his reason truth or financial?

If there are truths to the conspiracy theories around the true cause of Cobain’s death, why has it remained ignored by the police? What motive do they have to lie? If so, how has a coverup of the true cause of death remained secret? These questions, to my knowledge, remain to be answered. The truth is Kurt was not a man without his demons and it’s clear that towards the end of his life he had become disgusted and disillusioned with fame and success he retreated into drugs leading to a tragic end.Nothing is going to change the fact that Kurt left this world far too early. He spoke to a generation, invented a style of music and continues to speak to his fans young and old through his music and lyrics offering comfort and sanctuary. This is his legacy, this matters. This is what we should always remember him for not the cause of his death.