There are so many conspiracy theorists and people who believe that Kurt

Cobain was murdered and his suicide staged because there are heaping piles
of evidence pointing that way as well as people close to Kurt who strongly
believe that he was not suicidal and did not kill himself. For ease of reading,
I'll run through some key points (some of it factual, some of it speculation
based on factual information) in bullet point format along with a summary at
the very bottom for those who don’t want all the detail.

• The MotiveNearly everyone in Kurt & Courtney's circle knew that Kurt
was very unhappy with their marriage and intended to divorce her. If
he did that, she stood to inherit nothing as they had a prenuptial
agreement which ensured Kurt would retain all his assets; with him
dead, however, she got everything, including the rights to his music,
name, and image, which kept her very well taken care of for decades.
Kurt Cobain was, for a period in the aughts, the highest grossing dead
musician in history, surpassing Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, and John
Lennon. Kurt made people even richer in death than in life, as he -
much to the chagrin of Courtney, his managers, DGC Records, and
nearly everyone else who benefitted financially from him - wanted to
quit touring and, near the end of his life, quit Nirvana and live a quiet
life out of the public eye. However, it was Courtney Love who
financially benefited from his death far, far more than anyone else.

• The AlibiRosemary Carroll, Courtney Love's own attorney and

godmother to her and Kurt's daughter Frances Bean, believes that
Courtney was involved in a conspiracy to murder Kurt. Courtney had
accidentally left her handbag at Carroll's house, and shortly after Kurt's
death became public knowledge, she decided to look inside. She found
two pieces of paper: one was a note Courtney wrote to herself that
read "GET ARRESTED." In the days prior to Kurt's death, she was
indeed arrested for possession of narcotics - however, she allegedly
designed it as such that she only had narcotic paraphernalia and no
actual drugs, so she was released from jail a couple days later. This
was supposedly her manufactured alibi. However, Kurt's body had not
yet been discovered, at which point she hired private investigator Tom
Grant to locate him (more on his investigation later) - his first stop was
the Cobain residence, where Dylan Carlson (frontman of the band Earth
and Kurt’s best friend) took him and showed him around but, for
reasons unknown, entirely avoided the greenhouse in which Kurt’s
dead body was laying. Courtney later called an electric company to
install an alarm system on that space above the garage as soon as
 possible (she even made a point of it being urgent). The electrician
who got the job was the one who discovered Kurt's body. Many believe
this was her new alibi she manufactured.

• The Questionable Suicide NoteThe second, more disturbing note in

Courtney's handbag was a handwriting practice sheet. Kurt Cobain's
suicide note has been independently analyzed by multiple handwriting
experts who unanimously agree that the first portion, the bulk of the
letter in which Kurt seems to be addressing his fans and discussing
why he's choosing to quit Nirvana and the music industry, is written in
Kurt's own handwriting. The very bottom portion - the only part of the
note that alludes to suicide - is written differently and has the look of
someone trying to copy Kurt's handwriting style. Handwriting experts
analyzed this portion of the letter alongside the "practice sheet" found
in Courtney Love's handbag, and the form & shapes of the letters
match almost identically. In addition, she repeatedly wrote specific
letters and phrases that showed up in the part of Kurt's note that
identifies it as a suicide letter. Many people believe it was not a suicide
note at all and that this bottom portion was added on to make it
appear like one.

• The AccompliceA musician who went by the stage name El Duce came
forward after Kurt's death and claimed that Courtney Love offered him
$50,000 to murder Kurt and stage it as a suicide. He turned her down
at the time, thinking she wasn't serious, but after Kurt's death, he
came forward and spoke out about this in the media, even passing
multiple polygraph tests attesting to it. In 1996, he died in mysterious
circumstances, allegedly passing out on railroad tracks and being run
over by a train. A local Seattle musician who goes by the stage name
Allen Wrench is believed to be the hitman that Courtney Love wound
up hiring. He is known in that scene as a very temperamental, violent
person, and he had extensive training in martial arts and handling
guns. Shortly after Kurt died, he suddenly began living far above his
means, buying two new cars and a house for himself.

• The Botched InvestigationSeattle PD did a poor job on the case - the

chief of police at the time even admitted so himself and stated that it
merits being reopened. They assumed suicide from the start, so any
evidence suggesting homicide was dismissed and the investigation
was lazy and rushed. There were many errors in the official report; for
instance, it was written that the door to the room in which Kurt's body
 was found was locked from the inside making it impossible for anybody
but Kurt himself to have been in there during his death. This was false,
as the door had no deadbolt, just a "push" lock that could be locked on
the inside by someone before exiting. The lead detective in the case
was a corrupt cop who quit the force years later when threatened with
being charged with evidence tampering. Also, the crime scene photos
were not even developed until earlier this year - a whole 21 years after
Kurt's death, which is extremely unusual for a death investigation.

• The Forensic InconsistenciesThe amount of heroin in Kurt's system was

so high (three times the lethal dose) that even a heavy user with a
high tolerance would not be able to inject it, remove the syringe, place
it back in his "works" box, roll down his sleeve, and pick up a shotgun
and use it on himself. Intravenously administered heroin takes effect
within mere seconds, and furthermore, Kurt had spent a week in an
inpatient rehab facility in L.A. just prior to his death (he infamously
jumped over the wall then caught a plane back to Seattle); during that
time, he was not taking any drugs, so his opiate tolerance would’ve
been close to an average person’s as it had all left his system during
his detox. Additionally, the prints on the shotgun weren't legible and
appeared as though someone wiped it down - if Kurt handled this gun,
loaded it, and shot himself, his prints would’ve been all over it. The
fired shotgun shell was also on the wrong side of his body -
forensically, given the position in which he was found and the way he
allegedly used the gun on himself, the shell casing should've been on
the opposite side of his corpse. Also, think about this - why would Kurt
shoot himself in the head and leave that horrible image for his
daughter, the love of his life, to grow up with when he could simply
inject a lethal dose of heroin and peacefully drift off to his death?

• The Private InvestigatorTom Grant, the private investigator Courtney

Love hired to locate Kurt days before his body was found, believed that
the entire situation was very suspicious. He felt that Courtney's
behavior was odd and that she knew much more than she was letting
on. He felt so strongly about this, he conducted his own investigation
using his own money and resources long after Courtney stopped
paying him for his services. He eventually started up a website,
CobainCase.com

• , in which he posted a variety of evidence (including the pieces of

paper Rosemary Carroll discovered in Courtney's handbag which she
 told him about, breaking attorney-client privilege) that points toward a
murder conspiracy. Grant is an ex-police officer with decades of
experience in homicide investigation, and he so strongly believes that
Kurt Cobain's suicide was staged that to this day he continues to fight
for the case to be reopened and investigated properly.

• The Possibly Related CaseIt's rumored that Kristen Pfaff, the bassist in
Courtney Love's band Hole, was in love with Kurt and that they wanted
desperately to get away from Courtney and the Seattle music & drug
scenes (which were unfortunately intertwined and inescapable for
them). After Kurt's death, Pfaff was devastated - she quit Hole and
moved back to her hometown in Minnesota to get sober and
recuperate. A couple months later, she briefly returned to Seattle to
pick up the last of her belongings and say goodbye to some friends,
but she never left - on the day of her scheduled departure, she was
found in her bathroom overdosed on heroin and with narcotics
paraphernalia scattered all over the room. Prior to Kurt's death,
Courtney had noticed her interest in him and publicly threatened her in
front of numerous people on several occasions. If El Duce's mysterious
death wasn't suspicious enough, this certainly is.

There is even more evidence I haven't mentioned here. If you're interested in

reading into it further, look up Tom Grant's website I posted a couple
paragraphs up as well as the website Justice For Kurt Cobain

. Both go into great detail from the position of a murder conspiracy

implicating Courtney Love and at least one other accomplice who committed
the crime. There are also several movies and books on the subject (Who
Killed Kurt Cobain?, Love & Death, Kurt & Courtney, Soaked In Bleach) that
further explore this topic. Kurt Cobain was one of the most legendary &
mythologized figures of the 20th century as well as one of the greatest
artists & musicians who ever lived, so naturally, his untimely, unnatural
death was bound to cause quite a stir.

• TL;DR - Due to a very poorly handled investigation and lack of any

concrete evidence, the cause of Kurt’s death is inconclusive, so at the
time of this writing, neither suicide nor homicide can be ruled out. The
people who loved him and whose lives were touched by his life &
creative work deserve a definitive answer which, I believe at this point
in time, will only come in the form of a confession (likely a deathbed
confession). We may never know the cause of Kurt’s death; it is tragic
either way, but if you take all I’ve written here and the plethora of
other related things into account, it is difficult to not suspect foul play.