Since the release of two films about Kurt Cobain, a lot has been going on about the case… First of all, Tom Grant, the private detective hired by Courtney Love in 1994 to find her husband, has left Facebook and Twitter. He was also hired as a consultant for Ben Statler’s movies, ‘Soaked In Bleach’, which reaches to the conclusion that Kurt Cobain was in fact murdered. When he was on Facebook, Tom Grant was interacting almost on a daily basis with fans eager to know more details about his investigation, but he has decided to quit social media, giving this explanation:
‘With so many inquiries, I’ve had to write the following form response;
Thank you for noticing my Twitter and Facebook accounts are closed. I didn’t notify anyone in advance because I didn’t have the time or inclination to either read or ignore, (due to time constraints), hundreds of “private messages” or “tweets” about my decision.
The reason for closing my social media accounts is very simple—I spend far too much unpaid time online dealing with issues surrounding the Cobain Case. Now that I’m no longer needed here, I must create a source of income to supplement my inadequate retirement income. Like everyone else, I do have to bills to pay.
Since the release of “Soaked In Bleach” you now have Ben Statler and several highly qualified experts who are more than capable of taking the Cobain Case to the next level. It’s no longer a matter of MY opinion anymore! Prominent experts have expressed alarm and outrage over the improper handling of the case by the Seattle authorities as well as established evidence discovered about the events and details surrounding the death of Kurt Cobain. As most of you have seen, even the former Seattle Chief of Police, Norm Stamper, has stated that if he were the Chief today, he would reopen the Cobain case!
Even though my name seems to be permanently attached to the Cobain case, in reality, my name is now completely irrelevant. And I like that a lot!
Meanwhile, I’m finishing a new page on my website at www.cobaincase.com that will focus on the specific issues that should result in the Seattle authorities changing the findings in Kurt Cobain’s death. I think you’ll be amazed and surprised at the simplicity of this approach. It details the issues I’ve wanted everyone to focus on for years.
Now that the basics of my story have been told on my website and in Ben Statler’s great film, “Soaked in Bleach,” I have been personally analyzed, ridiculed by some, and complimented by others. So it’s time to take our focus off of me and put it where it truly belongs. I’m not yet sure what I’m going to name the new website page but it will deal with the strategy needed to bring all of our hard work to a successful end.
Once I’ve finished that new page, I’m going to be developing another website where I’ll be selling E-Books based on a variety of short, true stories. I will also be writing about several of my favorite topical issues. These E-books will sell for just a few dollars each and will, hopefully, help supplement my monthly income.
Thank you all for your support and understanding.
Tom Grant’
This declaration and the idea that he is ‘no longer needed here’ have left some fans wondering about the investigation… Does it mean that the case has progressed in the right direction? Are they going to reopen the investigation? No such thing has been announced though, Grant is still maintaining his Cobain page though, and so not totally leaving the case behind him, Fans who avidly follow everything related to Cobain have also noticed that Hank Harrison, Courtney Love’s father who has always believed his daughter was guilty, has also disappeared from Facebook and other social media, strangely the same week…
This week, another event has forced to make Courtney Love speak up about the tragedy once again. Last time I heard about her, she and her lawyers had sent some cease and desist letters to the theaters which were planning to screen ‘Soaked in Bleach’. ‘The Film falsely presents a widely and repeatedly debunked conspiracy theory that accuses Ms. Cobain of orchestrating the death of her husband Kurt Cobain. A false accusation of criminal behavior is defamatory … which entitles Ms. Cobain to both actual and presumed damages,’ wrote her attorney.
Then, a few days ago, Richard Lee, a long time murder conspiracy theorist, has made public some documents related to his lawsuit against the city of Seattle and the Seattle Police Department for full disclosure of pictures and other documents related to Cobain’s death. This lawsuit is not new, ‘I initiated this lawsuit more than a year ago,’ says Lee, but these new declarations by Courtney Love and Frances Cobain were made a few days ago. Lee has given a bad name to ‘conspiracy theorists’ because of his shady attempts at various political offices to question political figures about the investigation into Cobain’s death, but he has a good point, these documents should be released by the police. Lee was told that Love and her daughter were ‘parties’ to the city’s effort to suppress release of the photos and documents. You can read their entire legal declarations sent through their lawyers on Alternative Nation website, but basically Frances says that these ‘never-before-released graphic photographs’ would be horrifying for her to see, and if nobody is doubting about this, I don’t think it was Lee’s intention to publicize them, everywhere! He is suing the city and the SPD because they have kept these documents secret, and haven’t made them available to experts.
‘I once saw mock photos depicting my father’s body,’ writes Frances. ‘That experience irreparably scarred me. I cried for days afterward. Those horrible images still haunt me. I cannot imagine how terrible it would be knowing that the photographs that Mr. Lee seeks were public, and that I or any of my loved ones, including my father’s mother and sisters, might inadvertently see them. Release and publication of the photographs would shock me and exacerbate the post traumatic stress that I have suffered since childhood.’
‘Releasing the photographs would physically endanger me and my mother,’ she continues. ‘My mother and I both receive a constant stream of death threats from very disturbed individuals who are obsessed with my father. Once, a stalker broke into my home while I was on vacation, and laid in wait for three days. This person’s twisted explanation was that he was meant to be with me because my father’s soul had entered my body.’
Honestly, as much as I have empathy for this poor girl stuck with such a mother, I can’t follow her reasoning, there’s not gonna be an increase of stalkers because of these photos and there is a way to release them without finding them in the National Enquirer; again only experts should have access to them and let’s keep in mind that Lee is also talking about documents, not only pictures!
As for Courtney, she, of course. does not want anyone to see these photos:
‘I understand that the Plaintiff seeks the public release of death-scene photos of Kurt that show his entire lifeless body, as well as the damage done by the shotgun blast to his head’, reads her legal declaration. ‘I have never seen these graphic and disturbing images, nor do I ever want to. I cannot believe that there exists any genuine public interest which might be served by the public release of these images. Certainly, public disclosure would reopen all my old wounds, and cause me and my family permanent – indeed, endless, and needless – pain and suffering, and would be a gross violation of our privacy interests.’
‘Inevitably, these images will wind up on the Internet, where they would be permanently disseminated. By virtue of the fact that Kurt is my late husband, they will also likely end up in search results about myself. I would unavoidably come across them, and I would never be able to erase those haunting images from my mind. I cannot even imagine the enormity of the trauma this would cause me, not to mention many others.’
‘I am routinely called a murderer and receive death threats by conspiracy-theory obsessed individuals who believe I was somehow involved in my husband’s death, and the public release of these images would only exacerbate such activity and further endanger my safety.’
She is also playing the safety card, and the bereaved widow image has sure always worked very well for her, but how does she dare talking about privacy? The woman who read in public Cobain’s suicide letter in front of thousands of Nirvana fans who had gathered for a candlelight vigil is talking about privacy? Isn’t a suicide note the most private thing ever? Love even distributed some of his clothing the same day, and I have a hard time to believe it was a sudden gest of generosity. Then didn’t she give an unprecedented access to Kurt’s personal writings and belongings to a certain filmmaker recently? Doesn’t she think Montage of Heck could also revive Kurt’s memory in the mind of deranged stalkers? After all there were some intense and disturbing drawings in this movie, which was giving full exposure to Kurt’s thinking and was, to me, entirely exploitative.
And another important thing, it is widely reported that Love was admitted in the greenhouse to see Kurt’s body, another proof that the police didn’t treat the scene as a crime scene, so she already saw him dead and she even reportedly stroked his face and cut off a lock of his hair! Despite what most people think, his face hadn’t been blown off, people recognized him immediately as his face had surprisingly little damage, another oddity of the case,…
Courtney Love and mini Courtney, who has been brainwashed by her mother recently, don’t want anyone to see these pictures, may be because the case is currently closely watched again, now that ‘prominent experts have expressed alarm and outrage over the improper handling of the case by the Seattle authorities’ as Grant says. May be Courtney Love is scared, and that’s a good thing.