Overview
- An unofficial private-sector team led by independent researcher Michelle Wilkins and specialist Brian Burnett claims a peer-reviewed paper indicates involvement by at least one other person in Kurt Cobain’s 1994 death.
- The team says it spent three days reviewing autopsy findings and crime-scene materials before concluding Cobain was the victim of homicide.
- Their analysis cites autopsy signs they argue fit incapacitation by heroin before the gunshot, alleges a staged scene, and points to differing handwriting in the note’s final lines.
- The King County Medical Examiner reaffirmed that Cobain’s death was ruled a suicide following a full autopsy and stated there is no new evidence that would justify reopening the case.
- A Seattle Police Department spokesperson said the department’s position remains that Cobain died by suicide, and the case has not been reopened.