Nirvana/Murder Case

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Sorry! Just one more thing...I know that you think that Kurt was murdered by Courtney, but do you actually think she did the deed herself? If not, who do you think? Also, what is your theory behind his lethal heroin overdose before he was shot? Surely if he took that amount of heroin he wouldve known that he could die? Sorry for bugging ya!

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Greetings Jenna,

I think she played a part in his death yes, Do I think she did it herself? No. It would have been impossible, she was conviently in California promoting her album "Live Through This", which is why she hired Tom Grant in the first place to "locate" Kurt, she asked him to put survalence on him just to see where he was at all times.

I belive whoever he was with, ( a strong belief it was Micheal Du Witt, Frances' nanny) shot him up or gave him an almost pure dose of Herion before shooting him. There are just to many inconsistances, who knows if Courtney knew he was writing a retirement letter or even told him to, since he no longer wanted to go the way with NIRVANA as they had been. I think she may have suggested it to him, and added the last lines of the letter to make it sound like a suicide note or atleast rasie an eyebrow of thought to it.

The fact that she was found with a peice of paper in her purse, practicing "hand writing" strongly suggests that she played a part in it somehow, I mean she went public with the fact she was extremly upset that NIRVANA had turned down lollapoluza ; in result a loss of alot of money, and Kurt was in the process of getting a divorce and writing her out of the will.

Im sure Kurt knew his limits, as far as the heroin goes, everyone who is an avid drug user does. The fact is he was not suicidal, so his family and close friends (and even himself) said, in fact he was so happy with the birth of Frances; just upset with Courtney.


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Jennifer Hollman  

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I can answer questions about the release history of NIRVANA from 1989-Present, questions about the history of the band, life & death of Kurt Cobain, the remaining members of NIRVANA, and most questions about his family. I can fact check tour dates, live shows, and just about anything related.

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I helped out Carrie Borzillo, rock new editor for cdnow.com (now amazon.com) with fact checking, an interview, eyewitness account and was given special thanks in her book Eyewitness Nirvana. I've been studying NIRVANA since 1993 and have read literally thousands of books, magazine articles, and other publications throughout the last decade and a half. My reference collection is huge with just about every book, entire release catalog, and more from all around the world. I started volunteering for AllExpterts.com in 1999 before it was purchased by About.com sometime in the early 00's. You can find all of the answers to previously asked public question dating back to 1999. I wrote, edited, and published a NIRVANA newsletter (NIRVANA FOREVER), and online zine (About a Son; Lithium) that both ran 7 years on America Online. I've founded and sistered a lot of NIRVANA communities on LiveJournal.com (NIRVANA FOREVER, Kurt & Jim, and NIRVANA Elitests), and Yahoo.com (NIRVANA FOREVER).

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