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Kurt Cobain was murdered, according to a former captain of the Seattle Police Department, and the case ought to be revisited, as per loudwire. An unofficial team of forensic experts who carried out their own investigation and concluded that the Nirvana frontman’s death was a murder sent a fresh report to the Seattle Police a few weeks ago. According to the department, the matter will not be reopened. Neil Low, a former captain of the department who retired in 2018, has now spoken out about the matter.
According to the Daily Mail, Low spent fifty years as a member of the Seattle Police Department. On April 8, 1994, Cobain was discovered dead in his greenhouse from what appeared to be a shotgun wound. Low was instructed to audit the case by his superior in 2005, despite not being involved in the inquiry at the time. In an interview with the Daily Mail, Low stated that he thinks the first inquiry was “botched” and set up to appear to be a suicide.
I just am not buying that Kurt did that to himself.
Inconsistencies between the police and autopsy reports, including missing notes and contradicting information regarding the singer’s pre-death circumstances, and anomalies in the blood evidence were cited by the retired captain.
One thing about report writing is the human error factor: misheard, misunderstood, transposed thoughts and forgotten details. They were led astray. I might have fallen for it too, but now I think it’s a homicide and I do think the case should be reopened… I’ve read the case and I can tell you what the evidence says because that’s what I did for a living and it does say not suicide.
When Low did the audit in 2005, he had access to all the evidence gathered at Cobain’s death scene and had reviewed the entire Cobain death file. Audits are not conducted to alter the outcome of the case, even though their goals are to guarantee that all policies were correctly followed, preserve the integrity of the evidence, and avoid mistakes in subsequent instances. According to the former captain, the squad that looked into Cobain’s death didn’t attempt to handle it as a homicide because they were so certain it was a suicide.
It was obvious this man is dead from a shotgun wound to the head… Now there was a suicide note left inside the house. – Vinette Tishi, spokesperson for the Seattle PD
Low told Daily Mail that he thought Cobain’s hands were remarkably clean based on the murder scene photos, and the pattern of blood spatter wasn’t consistent with a shotgun wound that close to the skull.
All the pellets were accounted for, but the impact would have been so forceful that it would have produced a significant spray, not just a little, a large spray.
In addition, Low claimed that Cobain would have had trouble handling a shotgun by himself due to the quantity of heroin discovered in his system, which was around three times the amount required for a deadly dose. Crazy Love, a novel Low authored on the Cobain case, was released in 2024.
