THREE TIMES A LETHAL DOSE OF HEROIN?
Kurt apparently had 3 times the lethal 225 mgs dose of heroin (1.52 mgs per liter) in his blood system and intravenous puncture marks in both arms. Medical experts will tell you that such an amount, when injected directly into the bloodstream would leave you incapacitated within a matter of seconds, if not kill you instantly before the needle can even be removed from your arm. It's common for deaths of heroin overdoses to be found with the needle still sticking out of the arm. That's how quickly one lethal dose can kill a person, let alone three.

It's hard to believe that Cobain injected himself with an insane triple lethal dose of heroin, pulled the needle out of his arm, carefully put away that needle and the heroin paraphernalia neatly back into a cigar box a few feet away, rolled down and button his sleeves, then picked up a Remington 20-gauge shotgun , placed it in his mouth and discharged it. There does not seem to be another case in history in which anything close to this has ever occurred and many researchers feel it is simply impossible.

The drug Diazepam (Valium), was also found in Cobain's blood system. A drug that is known to aggravate heroin, and makes an overdose that much worse. The question remains as to why Cobain would shoot himself after taking a triple lethal dose, which clearly would have been more than enough to cause death instantly. A triple overdose, followed by shooting yourself not only doesn't make sense, but is impossible according to the medical experts.

Canadian Chemist Roger Lewis read the Cobain autopsy report. Knowing that drug related "suicides" are often a staged cover up for a murder, he studied 98 similar deaths and their pathology, criminology and forensic tests. His research is titled "Dead Men Dont Pull Triggers, and it was published in Opinion Magazine. An online version is also available and is a must-read for anyone who wants to intelligently argue that Cobain was murdered. To be fair, there is a rebuttal to Lewis' findings, which has also been posted on the web, as well as Lewis' rebuttal to the first one. Links to that debate are available in the internet coverage section of this site.

NO FINGERPRINTS?
According to the police report, there were no "legible" fingerprints on the shotgun (which some sources say indicate the gun had been wiped or cleaned), none on the pen found with the "suicide" note, or the box of shotgun shells found beside Kurt. How can you write a note, load up a shotgun with 3 shells, and shoot yourself without leaving any fingerprints on anything? Also, his head was nowhere near "blown off", as mistakenly reported by the press. It was fully intact and not as gruesome as people close to the situation had made it out to be to the media and friends. The Remington Model 11 shotgun  is a very light shotgun that dealers recommend for home protection, because the shot won't penetrate walls and endanger those on the other side.

Sgt. Cameron admitted 2 years later that there were no markings on Kurt's hands indicating he had fired the weapon. "Yeah, there weren't any marks on his hands...Some rookie must've put that line in the police report." he said when speaking about the mistake in the police report. Tom Grant says: "I can say with confidence that there were no marks on Cobain's hands that would indicate he fired this weapon. I've had the police reports analyzed by other homicide detectives and criminalists. No one can figure out what these "marks" could have been. I can't explain further at this time, but I can tell you the authorities will never claim the marks were GS residue or soot. Some of the additional evidence I've obtained regarding these so-called "marks" cannot be disclosed until the case is reopened. If the Seattle authorities ever care to describe the "marks" in detail, I'll come forward with additional evidence that will prove those so--called "marks" did not really exist."

Since things were also so neatly put away at the scene and there were no fingerprints on key objects, this seems to indicate someone "swept" it before Cobain's body was discovered. He clearly was not alone in that greenhouse.

BUSINESS IN LOS ANGELES?
Courtney Love was in Los Angeles during the week preceding and up to Kurt's death and when asked by many to fly up to Seattle to help locate her husband, whom she had told others "had a shotgun" and was "suicidal," she replied, "I can't. I have business to take care of." When Tom Grant mentioned to Rosemary Carroll that Courtney had said she couldn't go to Seattle herself because she "had business in L.A", Carroll replied "She didn't have any business in L.A.!" While Kurt was in Seattle in supposed "suicide" mode, Love was arrested due to a 911 phone call reporting an overdose in her hotel room. Paramedics arrived and took her to the hospital before releasing her 2 hours later into police custody. She was charged with possession of a syringe and drug paraphernalia. Phone records show that the 911 call that got her arrested, originated from her own hotel room. Tom Grant believes this was Courtney's attempt to establish an alibi right before Kurt was found.

A SECRET SECOND NOTE?
Courtney produced a never-before seen second note to Seattle police, which she claims Kurt wrote in Rome during "his first suicide attempt". A police officer says it was not a suicide not, but rather a rambling and unflattering diatribe against her. Courtney admits the existance of this note in a December 1994 Rolling Stone interview, and to Tom Grant. Grant has her on tape saying that she burned it Courtney says the second note also mentioned a divorce.

THE ROME INCIDENT
Kurt was not a user of Rohypnol  he also didn't drink alcohol. On March 4th 1994 in Rome, when he was on the verge of leaving Courtney and the tour he was on, he was suddenly hospitalized with these substances in his body. Many believe this was the first, failed, murder attempt as both Michael DeWitt and Courtney Love were also in that hotel room in Rome. By some miracle, Kurt survived the combination of Rohypnol and Alcohol, and told everyone, including the doctors that it was not a suicide attempt. Dr. Galletta, who treated him, agreed it was just an accident. Kurt also mentioned that he could not remember what had happened to cause the coma. This is a common side effect of Rohypnol  better known as the "date rape drug" or "roofies". At the time, Rohypnol was a colorless, odorless drug which dissolves quickly into drinks, including water, and induces amnesia (loss of memory) when abused. The prescription for this drug belonged to Courtney. She was seen popping some during an interview with Select magazine in Rome on March 3rd and it's documented in the interview. Also, Tom Grant found empty packets of the prescription with her name on it when he searched the Cobain home on April 7th.

MONEY FOR MURDER?
Eldon Hoke  (aka "El Duce"), singer of a band called the Mentors, claimed he was offered $50,000 by Courtney Love three months earlier to kill her husband. On March 6, 1996, Hoke was administered a polygraph test by Dr. Edward Gelb, who is one of the country's leading polygraph experts. He was also teaching the advanced polygraph course for the FBI. Hoke passed a lie detector test with 99.7% certainty that he was telling the truth. Eldon Hoke briefly appeared in the Nick Broomfield "Kurt & Courtney documentary.

On April 19th 1997, eight days after having his story filmed by Broomfield, Hoke was found dead in Riverside, California by the California Highway Police. A source described the events as "highly suspicious. He showed up at his house in Riverside with this guy who he introduced as his new friend none of his roommates had ever met before and said they were going out to the liquor store and would be back soon. He never returned. The 'friend' was never seen again and Hoke was found squashed on a railroad track, apparently hit by a train. Anybody who knew Hoke, according to his friends, knew that the best way to befriend him was to offer to buy him a drink. So the scenario is quite obvious."

While Grant and others believe Hoke was offered money by Courtney and was telling the truth about that, he did not personally, nor did he know who killed Kurt. Hoke used the situation to drum up publicity for himself and for a band he apparently started called "Courtney Killed Kurt". In the end, it might have been the thing that got him killed. A popular hoax has popped up in recent years where people claim they know who killed both Cobain and Hoke. Read more detailed information about Hoke including a brief transcript of the conversation he had with Courtney Love in Eldon Hoke, AKA El Duce - By Frances Barnett

A CANCELED CREDIT CARD & FLAT TIRES
There is evidence that circumstances were manipulated to prevent Kurt from using his own car and gaining access to his own money in the days leading up to his death. Courtney canceled his credit card right after he used it to purchase a flight back home to Seattle on April 1st, and according to the police report, all 4 tires of his car went flat

MEDIA MANIPULATION
After Kurt was found dead a month later in Seattle, and could not set the record straight anymore, Courtney tells everyone that the Rome incident was actually "a suicide attempt". This went against everything Kurt, and the doctors that treated him had said about the incident. The media goes with Love's side of the story for some reason and don't question it. The few that tried had gotten legal threats tossed their way or were just pressured to back off.

Peter Cleary, a friend of Kurt's from Seattle said the following in an interview: "The thing you have to remember about all the talk of Kurt being suicidal is that all the talk only started when Courtney came out after the death and said Rome was a suicide attempt and the media picked up on all her examples of Kurt being suicidal. That's when all these people started saying,'Of course he was suicidal, just listen to his music.' But that's a bunch of crap. Sure he was a moody guy and got depressed quite often. That applies to a hell of a lot of people, including me. But nobody ever talked about Kurt being suicidal before he died, Nobody. Why do you think everybody who knew him was so surprised when Courtney said that Rome was a suicide attempt? I've read all this ignorant bullshit in the media pointing to the fact that Kurt wanted to call In utero 'I Hate Myself and I Want to Die.' It was a joke, for chrissake. That was his warped sense of humour. He was the most sarcastic guy you'll ever meet. He was not suicidal, at least not when I knew him, and I knew him for the last year of his life."

CONFLICT OF INTEREST
The medical examiner, Dr. Nikolas Hartshorne insists Cobain died from a self-inflicted shotgun wound. He was interviewed in 2000 for a VH1 Confidential  story on the theories. Hartshorne is adamant that Kurt's death was "an open and shut case of suicide". "Kurt died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. I have no doubt in my mind, not one shred of doubt, that this is in fact a suicide." he says.

However, Hartshorne's credibility has been questioned due to a conflict of interest. He knew Cobain and Love personally. Hartshorne booked shows in Seattle in the late 80s. He was also a "party friend" of Courtney Love.

During a 1996 lecture by the authors of Who Killed Kurt Cobain? in Montreal, they showed video taped interviews of Hartshorne admitting he and Love were friends. Hartshorne left Seattle shortly after Kurt's death.

August 22nd 2002 Update: Mr. Hartshorne passed away on August 6th 2002 in a BASE jumping accident

NO BEHAVIOURAL PATTERN OF SUICIDE
Kurt's friends said he preparing to leave Seattle to join friends on the East coast. Kurt apparently had made plans to see one of his favorite bands who were touring the East coast at the time. He also made plans with his grandfather, Leland Cobain, to go fishing. Michael Stipe, of R.E.M., says Kurt was going to visit him to work on music. They had struck up a friendship and planned to record something together. Why would someone that is about to commit suicide make these types of plans? When Tom Grant asked Kurt's best friend Dylan Carlson if he thought Cobain was suicidal, he was adamant, saying, "No. Not at all," and added that despite the major changes imminent in his life, Cobain was "pretty upbeat." Mark Lanegan (of the band Screaming Trees), another of Cobain's close friends, expressed the same sentiment to Grant, and later told reporters for Rolling Stone, "I never knew Kurt to be suicidal." In a Rolling Stone interview a few months earlier, Kurt was quoted as saying "I've never been more happier in my life". Not one of the therapists who spoke with Cobain just a few days before his death at the Exodus Treatment Center (one of the most renowned drug rehabilitation facilities in the country) considered him suicidal. Finally, Tom Grant and Rosemary Carroll had an impassioned conversation in which she exclaimed, "He wasn't suicidal, Tom. Kurt wasn't suicidal!" For more documented quotes from friends and family close to Kurt in the final weeks, please read Kurt Was Not Suicidal by Frances Barnett

MITE BE A BIT THE SAME AS ABOVE BUT PLEASE READ FOR KURT

Kurt's body was found by Gary Smith an employee of Veca Electric on April 8th 1994 at
approximately 8.56am.

By mid morning spokeswoman for the Seattle Police Dept, Vinnette Tichi was reporting that
a body had been found at the location of 171 Lke Washington Blvd, and that there was a
suicide note.  So by mid morning the police had already wrapped up the case, before they had
even run any forensic/toxicology tests.  How many hours investigation was that? Three at
most.  Upon what information did they draw, to reach that conclusion?  Information supplied
by Courtney Love.

Tom Grant voiced his suspicions to the Seattle police, why didn't they consider what he had
to say?

The Seattle police used the March 18 1994 incident, where Courtney told the police she
thought Kurt was going to kill himself as evidence to support their suicide verdict. They also
used the missing persons report filed on April 4th to reinforce their verdict, this report was of
Courtney claiming to be Wendy O'Connor..

When the police arrived at the house on March 18 1994, Kurt told them, and I say it again, in
very plain and easy to understand terms that he was not suicidal, but that he was trying to
keep away from Courtney. Courtney then retracted her claim to the police that Kurt had
threatened suicide.

The missing persons report filed April 4th was filed by Courtney Love.  Filed one must add,
at a time when it was scientifically/medically possible that Kurt was already dead.

Therefore the Seattle police totally ignored the fact that Kurt had stated he was not suicidal.
The police ignored the fact that none of the people who knew Kurt were aware that he was
suicidal. Friends Dylan Carlson, Mark Lanegan, Peterson, Cleary.   Psychiatrists at Exodus.
Dr Galletta -who treated Kurt in Rome. Professional acquaintances Rosemary Carroll, John
Silva, Novoselic, Grohl.

This means that should anyone of you reading this and having no intention of killing
yourselves be murdered, then the person who murdered you can just say to the police called
out to attend your body that you were suicidal and that you killed yourself.  And no matter
how much evidence there is to the contrary, you will stand accused of committing suicide.

Because that is exactly what happened to Kurt.  How would you like that to happen to you?  
I know I wouldn't, that's for sure.

For anyone who says "You can't prove Kurt was murdered,"  I reply:
I can prove Kurt's death was never investigated properly., I can also prove that Kurt had no
potential for suicide at the time he died.  I can also choose to believe the fact that Tom Grant
has recorded conversations with Rosemary Carroll, one of Kurt's lawyers, wherein she
voiced her belief that Kurt wasn't suicidal, but that she thought he might have been murdered.

Grant has this on tape, Wallace and Halperin have heard these tapes and are therefore
independent witnesses to this.  Rosemary Carroll and Courtney Love refuse to sue Grant
over his claims.  Why?????  Come on!!!!!! they know that if they took him to court, Courtney
would lose the argument.  Courtney would be in deep trouble.

2...."If Kurt was murdered, how come Courtney isn't in jail?"  I reply:
How are the Seattle police going to suddenly backtrack on their verdict of suicide?  It's going
to make them look extremely silly.  They reached their verdict within a few hours using
information supplied by Courtney Love.  To retract that verdict would be acknowledging that
they acted totally unprofessionally, and they are desperate not to do that.  So they prefer to
try to sweep it under the carpet.  Pretend it isn't true.  But use your own minds, logic and
common sense.  Think things out for yourselves.  See that there has been a gross
miscarriage of justice, and then, for Kurt's sake, do something about it.

Here are some very important reasons why this case needs to be reopened and a new
investigation made, but not by the Seattle Police Dept.

1   There is evidence that circumstances were manipulated to prevent Kurt from:

a)  Using his own car.

b)  Gaining access to his own money in the days leading up to his death.

Would you like it if someone deflated the tyres on your car? Would you like it if someone
cancelled your credit card?

2  Kurt was not using heroin.  There are witnesses/evidence to the fact that he was clean.
So why was there 3 times the lethal amount of morphine in his system at the time of his
death?  Would you like it if you were clean and then somehow you suddenly stood accused
of being a severe heroin addict?  Look at the facts.  Interrogate the evidence.  Do it properly
under your own steam, don't believe what other people say unless it is substantiated, be it by
witnesses who are named, medical evidence, or behavioural patterns which support these
claims.

3  Kurt was not a user of Rohypnol, he also didn't drink alcohol.  So why, on March 4th,
when he was on the verge of running away, did these substances come to be in his body?

4  Kurt was not suicidal, there are many witnesses to support this.  His behavioural patterns
support this.

5  On April 2nd 1994, Kurt expressed concern for personal safety to a driver at Gray Top
Cabs. He told this driver that there had been a burglary at his house and he needed bullets.
This is supported by Dylan Carlson's claim that Kurt wanted the gun for protection.

6  No finger prints were found on the gun.  How could this be?  And why did it take the
Seattle Police Dept nearly a full month before they tested it for prints?  Yes, some good
investigative work there, don't you think?  How would you like it, to be victim of such
incompetent police work?

7  Why did Courtney Love deliberately withhold information as to Kurt's whereabouts whilst
he was missing?  She told neither Grant nor the police (when she filed the missing persons
report,) that Kurt had been back to 171 Lke Wash Blvd on April 2nd.  This withholding of
information, and offering up of information with regards to drugs and a gun which ultimately
were the means  by which Kurt died is highly suspicious.  At least to anyone with an ounce of
common sense.

8  Kurt was in the process of changing his will to exclude Courtney as a beneficiary.  He
was trying to leave her, both on March 4th (in Rome,) and by starting divorce proceedings.
This gave Courtney ample motive to murder him, millions of dollars worth of reasons.
People  have attempted to murder/murdered their partners for much less, why should
Courtney be different?

9  Because Kurt was not a user of heroin at the time of his death, why did the Seattle police
use the argument that, as a severe heroin user, he would have been able to inject that
amount of heroin and still have been able to pull the trigger? The Seattle Police have relied
on the statements of Courtney Love alone in their belief that Kurt was a severe heroin addict
at the time of his death.  They have totally chosen to ignore evidence contrary to Courtney's
claims.

10  El Duce passed a polygraph test held by one of Americas leading polygraph examiners,
stating that he was asked by Courtney Love to murder Kurt.


Journalists who have failed, be it intentionally or by sheer ignorance to report this case
properly are:

Caitlin Moran journalist at EMAP's Select Magazine.
John Harris editor of EMAP's Select Magazine.
Mat Snow editor of  EMAP's MOJO.
Steve Sutherland Editorial Director at  IPC/TIME WARNER's NME and one-time editor of
the now defunct VOX.
Everett True (aka Jerry Thackray) journalist at Melody Maker, NME, VOX etc.

Select magazine published an article in the September 1999 edition in praise of Courtney
Love.  I emailed them to protest their stance on Love, needless to say, it wasn't printed in
the November letters page, the only letters they printed were those in praise of Courtney.
One of these letters said something to the effect of:

"Normally articles on Hole come with the pretext of 'Did she or didn't she? (murder Kurt)
no/do we care?"

I CARE.  SO DO MANY OTHERS.  BUT SELECT WON'T ALLOW US A VOICE.  So
email Select at, select@ecm.emap.com and make them hear your voice.  Boycott Select, if
you have to read it, do what I do, read it in the shop and don't buy it!  Thanks.

Note: As of December 2000 Select magazine and Melody Maker ceased publication  due to
falling readership.

Freedom of information.  Don't let the mainstream press get away with this cover-up.
Boycott these magazines, boycott MTV sponsors.  Copyright Frances Barnett, anyone
wishing to print out and distribute my work in the interests of getting this case reopened, does
not need my permission. Print it out, copy and distribute it.