Kurt Cobain’s death shocked the world in April 1994.
The Nirvana frontman was found dead in his Seattle home and died of a single gunshot wound at the age of 27.
While Kurt’s death was officially ruled a suicide following the discovery of a suicide letter, alternative theories emerged soon after his passing.
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In May last year, a 10-page FBI file on Kurt was made public and revealed the law enforcement agency had received two letters from redacted sources asking them to re-investigate a potential murder.
So, what is the truth about Kurt’s untimely demise?
Murder claims
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Speculation that Kurt was murdered emerged soon after he died, with concern for the singer beginning while he was still alive.
Following his sudden disappearance from the Exodus Recovery Center in California, Kurt’s wife Courtney Love instructed private investigator Tom Grant to locate him.
Tragedy was to follow.
Upon the discovery of Kurt’s dead body and a “botched” police investigation, Grant was one of the first people to suggest the star had been murdered.
Slamming the Seattle police department’s handling of Kurt’s demise, the former detective went public with claims of foul play in December 1994.
He suggested Kurt’s wife Courtney Love was involved in a plot with the couple’s male nanny Michael Dewitt which resulted in the murder of the rocker.
Grant also argued that any person with the large amount of heroin Kurt had in his system when he died would have been physically incapable of pulling a trigger or holding a gun.
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Other central figures in Kurt and Love’s lives would later share their own theories that his death was not a suicide and instead, occurred at someone else’s hands.
According to Grant, his suspicions about Love’s involvement in Kurt’s death were immediately shared by her own entertainment attorney Rosemary Carroll (via cobaincase.com).
Kurt’s grandfather Leland Cobain later shared his own belief that his grandson was murdered.
The comments were made in a taped interview played at a press conference for Max Wallace and Ian Halperin’s book Love & Death in 2004 (via IndieWire).
Love’s estranged father Hank Harrison also claimed to have a “high degree of certainty” that his daughter Courtney was involved in murdering Kurt.
He previously told Radar Online: “No doubt she was capable.
“I can’t prove she pulled the trigger, but I can prove her involvement to a high degree of certainty.”
Linked ‘murder for hire’ death
In 1997, “rape rock” artist Eldon Hoke came forward and sensationally claimed Courtney Love had “offered him $50k” to kill her husband Kurt Cobain.
Nicknamed El Duce, the shock rocker alleged that he was approached at a record store in Hollywood in December 1993 and asked to kill Kurt.
Hoke told the BBC he declined the proposal and delegated the assassination to a friend.
Following scepticism about Hoke’s claims, he passed a lie detector asking if he had received the offer.
Suspiciously, he was found dead just two days later, having been hit by a train.
Still alive?
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Amid ongoing speculation, a review into Kurt’s death was conducted by Seattle Police in 2014 – which reaffirmed the death by suicide verdict shared by police at the time.
Years on from his passing, however, theories remain that the singer is alive and living his life away from the spotlight.
In July 2019, a teenager in Bakersfield, California claimed he’d ran into the supposedly dead star while he was strumming a guitar in the street.
New sightings
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Other rumoured sightings of Kurt have been made public over recent years.
Computer programmer Daniel Carr went viral in 2019 when he shared a picture of a long-haired blonde man wearing white sunglasses in Nice, France.
He captioned the post: “Kurt Cobain is alive and living in Nice, France.”
In 2017, a clip of Peruvian singer Ramiro Saavedra singing Nirvana’s Come As You Are also exploded on Reddit, with one fan claiming: “He is alive.”
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