Who Killed Kurt Kobain?

On April 8th, 1994, Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain was found dead of a gunshot wound sustained on April 5th, 1994, in his Seattle home. Many, including the Seattle Police Department, believe this gunshot wound was self-inflicted. Some do not.

In a theory that dovetails with the idea that Love attempted to plant false ideas of a drug-addled and suicidal Cobain in the media, Cobain murder truthers insist he had turned a corner in the months before his death. He was serious about sobriety, a happy, new father, and—perhaps most significantly—cured of the persistent and debilitating stomach pain the led him to abuse heroin.

The fix came after a specialist diagnosed a pinched nerve related to his scoliosis in the summer of 1993. Cobain's close friend Dylan Carlson spoke about the effect this had on Cobain in Max Wallace and Ian Halperin's Who Killed Kurt Cobain? saying:



"Kurt became a new person after that. He stopped retreating into the dark side that everybody came to associate with him and actually seemed cheerful. Part of it was Frances, I think, but the stomach thing was the most important."
Music journalist Everett True wrote about a more upbeat Cobain in the March 1994 edition of Melody Maker:

"Although it's no secret that in the past Kurt Cobain has taken drugs, sometimes to excess, the last time we met (in Seattle, last December -1993), he seemed completely 'clean.' That is, he was clean, optimistic and happier than he'd been for years....I knew that he'd cut down on his drug taking for a while....He hadn't taken alcohol in any serious quantity for several years, that's for sure."
In the April 1994 edition of Melody Maker, published after Cobain's death, Buzzcocks frontman Pete Shelley—who had been on Nirvana's final tour—also noted that he seemed clean in his last months:

"He seemed really clean when we were on tour. In some ways it was a bit awkward because he wasn't really joining in the very mild debauchery that went on."
El Duce: Murder for Hire?





In Nick Broomfield's documentary Kurt & Courtney, Eldon Hoke, also known as "El Duce," singer of Seattle band The Mentors, claims Courtney Love approached him at a record store in Hollywood and offered to pay him $50,000 to kill Kurt Cobain.

"You had some deal with Courtney, right?" asks Broomfield. "Yeah, she offered me 50 grand to whack Kurt Cobain."



Tom Grant: Private Investigator

The largest advocate for the reinvestigation into Kurt Cobain's death is, probably, Tom Grant. ("Not my cousin Trent?" No, not your cousin Trent.) Grant is a former private investigator who was hired on April 3rd by Courtney Love after Cobain went missing from rehab.

Grant runs the website cobaincase.com, a very thorough resource for anyone interested in more Kurt Cobain murder-related information, where he explains that "after several months of intensive investigation, including dozens of taped interviews with Cobain's closest friends and family members," he believes Courtney Love and her live-in nanny Michael Dewitt (whom you might remember from Rome) conspired to kill Cobain.

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SUMMARY OF EVENTS
Investigation into the death of Kurt Cobain
by Tom Grant

Prior To My Involvement
Courtney Love and her husband, Kurt Cobain, had not been getting along. They'd been talking about divorce. Kurt did not want to tour or perform anymore. He was walking away from what Courtney said was a $9.5 million dollar contract to headline the Lollapalooza tour.

Courtney was angry at Kurt for the possible loss of all those millions. Her anger wasn't working, so she tried to blame Kurt's attitude on his drug use and put together a so-called "tough love intervention." Among others at the "intervention" were some of the junkies Kurt did drugs with!

Courtney claimed she told Kurt, "This has got to end. You have to be a good daddy!" This statement is somewhat pretentious, since it came from a woman who was doing drugs when I was