Kurt Cobain

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Shortly after 11:00 A.M., three coroners from the King County Medical Examiner’s Office arrived at the Cobain residence and took little time in concluding that Cobain died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The Cobain residence had by this time become a media circus, and the media soon learned of the coroners’ conclusion. It was reported to the world that Kurt Cobain had committed suicide. The police report said “Suicide” under the “Subject” heading, said that the gunshot wound to Kurt’s head appeared to be self-inflicted, and mentioned the “suicide note”.
There is much controversy about the cause of Kurt Cobain’s death. Considerable circumstantial evidence has been revealed that suggests that Cobain was murdered. In their book Who Killed Kurt Cobain?, Ian Halperlin and Max Wallace summarize this evidence. There were no legible fingerprints on the shotgun that inflicted the fatal wound to Cobain. There were also no fingerprints on the pen used to write the “suicide note” or on the box of shotgun shells. It is hard to imagine that Kurt could shoot himself without leaving fingerprints on the gun. Kurt died with three times a lethal dose of heroin in his bloodstream. Such a dose would knock even the most tolerant addict unconscious in seconds. After shooting up, Kurt would not have had time to put away his needle, much less to put away his needle and then shoot himself. The last four lines of the “suicide note”, which were written after Kurt signed his name, were not written in Kurt’s handwriting. The rest of the letter, which was written by Cobain, does not mention suicide, and it has been suggested that Kurt was planning to leave Nirvana and wrote the note to explain this to his fans. Only with the four lines written by someone else is the note a suicide note. Lastly, Kurt’s credit card was used twice between the when he died (as determined by the medical examiner) and when his body was found. The greenh...