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Monday, December 05, 2005
Huntsville Times
Book has me believing Cobain was killed
Last year, I was listening to my MP3 player when the battery died. I was about to steal my brother's batteries when I noticed a book in his room: "Who Killed Kurt Cobain," by Max Wallace and Ian Halperin.
"Didn't he shoot himself?" I thought.
I read a bit and soon found myself totally into the book. It became an obsession. As I read, I quickly began to suspect the lead singer of Nirvana did not commit suicide.
On April 8, 1994, an electrician installing an alarm system at Cobain's lakeside estate found the musician dead, a shotgun pointing at his chin. Cobain had escaped a drug rehabilitation clinic earlier that week, and no one had seen him since. His wife, Courtney Love, had just hired a private investigator, Tom Grant, and filed a missing person's report.
The Seattle homicide detectives who arrived at the scene quickly concluded Cobain's death was a suicide.
That was supposed to be the end of the story, but the end won't come until justice is served, according to Grant. He believes Cobain was murdered.
The reasons?
According to the book, no legible fingerprints were found on the shotgun, the box of cartridges or the pen used to write the "suicide note."
Cobain had three times the lethal dose of heroin in his body at the time of his death. According to pathology experts quoted in the book, Cobain would not have been conscious enough to shoot himself after injecting that level of heroin.
Two handwriting experts have said the suicide note at the scene was not in Cobain's handwriting.
Some suspect Love may have been involved in his death. Three weeks before the death, Cobain told police that he was hiding from Love. Three days before the death, he told somebody he "feared for his life."
The death was declared an open-and-shut case of suicide by Seattle medical examiner Dr. Nikolas Hartshorne, whose ruling was accepted by the Seattle police. The book says Hartshorne was a good friend of Love.
There are many other issues addressed in the book, including why Love had her husband quickly cremated and the shotgun destroyed.
Maybe no one will ever know if Cobain was murdered or committed suicide.
If he was murdered, his killer has a heavy debt to pay to Cobain's fans and his daughter.
Monday, December 05, 2005
Huntsville Times
Book has me believing Cobain was killed
Last year, I was listening to my MP3 player when the battery died. I was about to steal my brother's batteries when I noticed a book in his room: "Who Killed Kurt Cobain," by Max Wallace and Ian Halperin.
"Didn't he shoot himself?" I thought.
I read a bit and soon found myself totally into the book. It became an obsession. As I read, I quickly began to suspect the lead singer of Nirvana did not commit suicide.
On April 8, 1994, an electrician installing an alarm system at Cobain's lakeside estate found the musician dead, a shotgun pointing at his chin. Cobain had escaped a drug rehabilitation clinic earlier that week, and no one had seen him since. His wife, Courtney Love, had just hired a private investigator, Tom Grant, and filed a missing person's report.
The Seattle homicide detectives who arrived at the scene quickly concluded Cobain's death was a suicide.
That was supposed to be the end of the story, but the end won't come until justice is served, according to Grant. He believes Cobain was murdered.
The reasons?
According to the book, no legible fingerprints were found on the shotgun, the box of cartridges or the pen used to write the "suicide note."
Cobain had three times the lethal dose of heroin in his body at the time of his death. According to pathology experts quoted in the book, Cobain would not have been conscious enough to shoot himself after injecting that level of heroin.
Two handwriting experts have said the suicide note at the scene was not in Cobain's handwriting.
Some suspect Love may have been involved in his death. Three weeks before the death, Cobain told police that he was hiding from Love. Three days before the death, he told somebody he "feared for his life."
The death was declared an open-and-shut case of suicide by Seattle medical examiner Dr. Nikolas Hartshorne, whose ruling was accepted by the Seattle police. The book says Hartshorne was a good friend of Love.
There are many other issues addressed in the book, including why Love had her husband quickly cremated and the shotgun destroyed.
Maybe no one will ever know if Cobain was murdered or committed suicide.
If he was murdered, his killer has a heavy debt to pay to Cobain's fans and his daughter.