16: Kurt Cobain's Death | The New Evidence
6/9/202652 min
On April 8th, 1994, an electrician arrived at a Seattle mansion to install a security system and found the body of the most famous musician on the planet. He'd been there for three days. Seattle Police ruled it suicide before the week was out. Thirty years later, a peer-reviewed forensic paper published in an international journal says they got it wrong.
So what does it mean when the official story has more holes in it than the investigation that produced it?
In this episode, Richard Baker and Dr. Nick Coatsworth go through what the evidence actually shows, what's been conveniently overlooked, and what the gap between those two things tells us.
- The toxicology report: heroin levels so extreme that forensic experts say he couldn't have physically pulled the trigger, and why that question was closed anyway
- The suicide note: what it actually says, the handwriting dispute, and the theory that the bottom half was written by someone else entirely
- Tom Grant, the private investigator she hired who became her most dogged accuser, and what he found that the police didn't look for
- The physical evidence: the wrong injection arm, the shotgun shell that landed in the wrong direction, and a scene that forensic specialists call suspiciously clean
- Whether this is a three-decade grief conspiracy built around a troubled man's tragic end, or the most under pursued murder case in music history
Some of this is documented. Some is genuinely unknown. And almost none of it is as settled as the people who closed the file want you to believe.
Join Rich Baker and Dr Nick Coatsworth as they suss it all out.
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First 90 secondsRichard Baker· Host0:00
Hi, this is Rich, just welcoming all the new listeners we've been picking up lately. It's, uh, awesome to have you on board, and really want to encourage you to go back through our season one, where we cover some unreal topics from the secrets of Antarctica to ancient civilizations, and did they have some non-human help to make them suddenly really smart? And Westall, the UFO incident in Melbourne that happened 60 years ago. Still one of the most famous mass sightings in the world. Check them all out, and we've got some great stuff and some great guests lined up for season two. So enjoy, and thanks for coming on board. Hey, just a heads up, guys. This episode touches on suicide. Um, if this causes a problem for anybody, please call Lifeline on 13 11 14. On April 8, 1994, a Seattle electrician opens a greenhouse door and finds Kurt Cobain's body three days after the most famous rock star in the world at that time vanished, and across his chest lays a 20-gauge shotgun.
Kurt Loder· Soundbite1:05
I'm Kurt Loder with an MTV News special report on a very sad day. Kurt Cobain, the leader of one of rock's most gifted and promising bands, Nirvana, is dead, and this is the story as we know it so far. We have a death. We need to confirm identification, and then we need to perform an autopsy.
Richard Baker· Host1:21
Nick, I was in year 11 at high school in '94, and I was a massive Nirvana fan. Were you?
Nick Coatsworth· Host1:27
I was more of a Billy Joel