Sam Mizerek
Mr. Quici
Block 2
October 23, 2015
Kurt Cobain Suicide Conspiracy Theory
On April 5th, 1994, Kurt Cobain took a gun to the roof of his mouth in the greenhouse of his
Lake Washington home. His body was found three days later. The medical examiner of Cobain’s body, Dr. Nikolas Hartshone, stated, “‘The autopsy has shown that Kurt Cobain died of a gunshot wound to the head, and at this time the wound appears to be self-inflicted.” Or was it? The conspiracy theory revolving around his alleged suicide blames Courtney Love, his wife at the time. This paper is to explore and explain that theory with multiple points of evidence.
This paper has been organized into two main sections: before and after the body was found. In the first section, …show more content…
Kurt used a Remington model 11 20-gauge shotgun. The police neglected to check the gun for fingerprints until thirty days after Kurt's body was discovered. Though four prints were found on the gun, none of them were legible. Furthermore, contrary to popular belief, Kurt did not have an awful exit wound. In fact, the bullet never exited his skull. “The shotgun barrel was placed in the mouth against the hard pallet. The pellets from the shotgun blast remained inside the head. This was a ‘penetrating’ shot that DID NOT EXIT. [sic.]. (burntout.com/kurt/tomgrant/grant04.html )” Isn’t that weird though? The man who discovered the body, Gary Smith, originally mistook Kurt’s body for a mannequin because it was so neat. After noticing blood in Kurt’s right ear did he call it in. This does not sound at all plausible for a shotgun wound to the head that supposedly ended his life.
Furthermore, the shotgun shell is a very interesting key argument in the Cobain case. Kurt’s Remington was found with the trigger and magazine trapdoor pointing up. The cadaveric spasm locked Kurt’s left hand on the gun, proving the ejection point of the gun was on his right side. The shotgun shell was found on his left side. How could that