Kurt Cobain May Have Been Murdered, New Report Claims

Forensic specialist Brian Burnett has demanded that the Seattle Police Department reopen the case into Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain's death, ruling that his death was a homicide rather than a suicide.

Although the Medical Examiner's Office has ruled that Cobain's death doesn't require further investigation, a team of private resarchers led by Burnett has determined that his gunshot wounds are more indicative of a murder than anything self-inflicted (via Daily Mail).

A New Report Gives Evidence for Cobains' Death Being a Homicide

Kurt Cobain died on April 5, 1997 at the age of 27 in his home in Seattle. The cause of death was ruled to be a self-inflicted shotgun wound. Now, almost three decades later, a new report suggests that Cobain was murdered, with the perpetrators forging a suicide note.

"There are things in the autopsy that go, well, wait, this person didn't die very quickly of a gunshot blast," said independent researcher Michelle Wilkins. "The necrosis of the brain and liver happens in an overdose. It doesn't happen in a shotgun death."

Burnett and Wilkins propose that Cobain was drugged against his will, causing a death by heroin overdose. The killers then allegedly shot the rock star and made the scene look like a suicide.

"Our office is always open to revisiting its conclusions if new evidence comes to light, but we’ve seen nothing to date that would warrant re-opening of this case and our previous determination of death," said the King's County Medical Examiner's Office.

Wilkins also argues that Cobain's suicide would have been logistically impossible given his physically incapacitated state: "He's dying of an overdose, and so he can barely breathe, his blood isn't pumping very much [...] I mean, he's in a coma, and he's holding this up to be able to reach the trigger to get it in his mouth. It's crazy."

Multiple reports to reopen the case have been rejected by the Seattle Police Department.

"If we're wrong, just prove it to us. That's all we asked them to do," Wilkins said.