A new lawsuit is
urging the release of Kurt Cobain’s death-scene photos. Richard
Lee, who runs a public-access show, sued Seattle Police Department to
release the never-before-seen images. This has stirred up a chain of
reaction amongst Cobain’s family, friends and not to mention his
fans.
A week after
Cobain’s death, Richard Lee hosted ‘Now See it Person to Person:
Kurt Cobain was Murdered’. He claimed there were several
discrepancies in the police reports, such as multiple changes in the
nature behind the gunshot blast. Since then, Lee has maintained that
Cobain was murdered through a conspiracy involving government
officials.
So why now, over 20
years after his death, are people demanding the case to be reopened?
In 2014, four previously undeveloped rolls of 35mm film from the 1994
crime scene were analysed by Seattle Police in advance of the 20th
anniversary of Cobain’s suicide. According to the department the
pictures were “underwhelming”. However, in light of this news,
Lee took it upon himself to try to get the pictures released to the
public for further investigations.
Of course this meant
other conspirators, or fans as they like to call themselves, decided
to join in and campaign for the release through social media, showing
#justiceforkurt. All the while Cobain’s widow Courtney Love and his
daughter Frances Bean fought against the lawsuit because the pictures
would arguably make their lives pretty miserable (as if losing their
husband/dad wasn’t bad enough).
Nirvana fans claim
they have some sort of right to see these pictures, because they want
to know the truth about his death (suggesting that Seattle Police
Department weren’t capable of doing their job 20 years ago, and
they’re still not capable of doing it). Fans also want to nail Love
down for the murder because apparently he was leaving her, and she’d
be left with no money (none of these theories have of course been
confirmed or proved).
Here’s what fans
need to realise - none of them were there. None of them are sitting
on any real evidence that would suggest Cobain didn’t kill himself.
Some people claim they do, like Lee’s video footage shot from a
tree in Cobain’s back garden. According to Lee (who, by the way, is
no forensic scientist) there was not enough blood at the crime scene.
For the purpose of this feature I have watched this footage and you
can’t even see Cobain’s body in it, yet he claims he can see so
much in it.
Lee has also
suggested in one of the episodes of his show that Cobain’s head was
intact (he of course knows this without seeing the body himself),
meaning there was no way Cobain could’ve shot himself with a
shotgun because his head would’ve been destroyed...whereas police
reports (written by police officers who were at the scene) say that
Cobain could only be identified through his fingerprints. What is
more likely - that a person who climbs trees on private properties to
film a dead person through his window, then distributes the footage
to profit off of it, would be more capable of concluding the cause of
death, rather than all the trained professionals who were actually
involved in the investigation?
None of the fans
have any clear evidence suggesting that Love had anything to do with
it. They have theories that are fuelled by their hate for her. “Hey
Courtney, how come you NEVER allow a full investigation on Kurt’s
death? How can you be satisfied that he committed suicide? What a
wife! Stop spreading your legs you are not Sharon Stone, bitch!
#FuckYouCourtneyLove,” Sandra Alberqueque wrote on Facebook. Well,
there was an investigation, and it was concluded that Cobain
committed suicide. What more is needed? And a woman’s right to
spread her legs is none of your business and is of very little
relevance to this case.
Fans need to get
over it; all these theories will not bring the singer back to life,
and if there was any doubt that he had killed himself Seattle Police
Department would not have released his body after the autopsy, and
then declared it as suicide. What makes the fans think they have any
kind of right to see the crime scene photos anyway? Is it normal for
the police to release pictures of other suicide cases? “What are
people going to gain from seeing pictures of Kurt Cobain lying on the
ground with his hair blown back, with blood coming out of his nose
and trauma to his eyes from a penetrating shotgun wound,” Detective
Mike Ciesynski said. And I add to this quote, how come people don’t
take into consideration the horror his wife and daughter must be
going through in all this?
Then ask yourself
this; a close family member of yours blasts his head off after
struggling with drug abuse and depression for years. You put him to
rest and try to move on with your life. At the same time fanatics
constantly remind you of his tragic death, and often blame you for
it. What good would images of his brains spread out over the floor
and walls in the home you once shared together do to you?