The hypothesis, already circulated as a conspiracy theory, that Kurt Cobain, American legend of the band Nirvana, did not in fact commit suicide – as established by the official investigations of the time – but may have been killed, once again rears its head.
It was relaunched by the British tabloid Daily Mail on the basis of research conducted by “private experts” in forensic medicine including Brian Burnett: indicated as a specialist who had already worked on the case in the past.
Cobain was found dead in his Seattle home on April 5, 1994: he was 27, a notoriously cursed age in the rock world. His premature end plunged myriads of fans around the world into despair. The police authorities and doctors from the King County Medical Examiner in Seattle then established that the singer had committed suicide with a gunshot, fired from a Remington he owned, already under the influence of a heroin overdose.
However, the team cited by the Mail calls into question those conclusions through the mouth of the “independent researcher” Michelle Wilkins, who relies on the opinion sanctioned by Burnett after “three days” of new checks on the available documents. According to Wilkins’ statements, the review of the autopsy results would reveal the unsustainability of the suicide thesis. The state of the organs and the residues of the digestive system would, in his opinion, be incompatible with the scenario of “an instantaneous death” such as that caused by a suicide with gunshot to the head.
While the necrosis “of the brain and liver” would suggest a gradual deprivation of oxygen. Hence the alternative ‘truth’ – yet to be confirmed by other more detached sources, official and otherwise – according to which Kurt Cobain may have been confronted by one or more phantom attackers, who would have forced him to take the drug to neutralize him and then shoot him.
A rather cinematic reconstruction, to support which we must also hypothesize that the alleged murderer, driven by no one knows what motive, then had to create a staging: putting the gun in the musician’s hand to simulate the suicidal gesture and forging the farewell message found in the room.