The fascination with Kurt Cobain and his death continues to capture the attention of fans and the general public worldwide. With the recent 20th anniversary of the Nirvana frontman’s death already dredging up a number of emotions, Seattle Police have also been digging through their archives and releasing unseen documents from the investigation into Cobain’s death.
Having already released some rather grizzly new photos from the scene of Cobain’s suicide, developed two decades later, the Seattle Police department earlier this week released a previously unseen image of a scrawled note that authorities claim was found in Cobain’s wallet following his tragic passing on 5th April, 1994, as CBS News reports.
At first inspection, the contents of the short handwritten message appeared to be a rather nasty note aimed at Courtney Love, mocking the troubled grunge power couple’s wedding vows.
Now the full version of the note has been released by Grungebook, including a crucial last sentence which changes the tone of the whole letter dramatically.
The lines from the original copy of the note released by police read, “Do you Kurt Cobain take Courtney Michelle Love to be your lawful shredded wife, even when she’s a bitch with zits and siphoning all [your] money for doping and whoring …” But after reading the rest of the note, which reads, “Will you promise to f— her at least once a week, O.K.,” it adds a different perspective to it altogether.
Some are now suggesting the Love herself could have written to note. Author Mark Yarm, who wrote the book ‘Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge,’ tweeted overnight that he believes Love did write the note and that it was an attempt at dark humour.
Here's the FULL note found in Kurt Cobain's wallet. It's just dark humor, folks (& apparently written by Courtney) http://t.co/MJLe3lG9Ng
— Mark Yarm (@markyarm) May 1, 2014
Pure coincidence, but it’s creepy that the same day that Cobain’s note should surface (this past Tuesday) that Courtney Love shares a new song titled ‘Wedding Day‘, the flipside of her new double-A single featuring the fiery ‘You Know My Name’.
It’s totally up for interpretation if the wallet-bound letter was written ironically, genuinely, or to Love’s knowledge or not – but it’s sure to be enough to fuel the conspiracy theorists that have played with the idea that Love was somehow directly responsible for Cobain’s death.
It’s that same ‘Cobain was murdered’ through-line taken by Soaked In Bleach, a new feature length documentary. As a sneak peek of the new grunge whodunnit demonstrates, the film is heavy on dramatic re-enactments along with a series of interviews with local authorities who all seem to point their direction in Love’s direction.
All which seems to fly in the face of a new public report released by the Seattle Police Department on Monday 28th April in which cold case detective Mike Ciesynski details all the evidence, including some new conclusions, but to the same tragic outcome; reasonably proving that there was no foul play to Cobain’s suicide. If you want to delve deeper into the report, you can do so here.
In less morbid news, the surviving Nirvana members – Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic, and Pat Smear – recently discussed their plans for the future following their high-profile induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, performing a medley of Nirvana hits with four generations of female rockers – Joan Jett, Kim Gordon, St. Vincent, and Lorde; followed by a secret reunion gig in a Brooklyn bar.
