Kurt Cobain's death scene photos released by Seattle PD give new previously ...
On the cusp of the 20th anniversary of Kurt Cobain's death, new crime scene photographs obtained by the Daily News give a macabre look at the Nirvana frontman's grisly end.
One of the two photos released by the Seattle Police Department Thursday morning shows a close-up of the 27-year-old grunge singer's arm with a hospital ID bracelt around his wrist. The other shows a box of shotgun shells inches away from Cobain's foot, still clad in a Converse sneaker.
The pictures are part of a steady stream of 20-year-old crime scene photos released by police ahead of the grim anniversary of the April 5, 1994 suicide that shocked the nation.
Cobain's body was found three days after a self-inflicted shotgun blast to his head, according to the medical examiner's office.
'I noticed something on the floor and I thought it was a mannequin,' electrician Gary Smith, who discovered the body, told Seattle's KIRO TV at the time. 'So I looked a little closer and geez, that's a person. I looked a little closer and I could see blood and an ear and a weapon laying on his chest.'
A suicide note turned up nearby and was later read publicly at a memorial by Cobain's widow, Courtney Love.
'Please keep going Courtney,' he wrote. 'For Francis, for her life which will be so much happier without me. I love you, I love you.'
Despite the coroner's ruling and the singer's reported history with depression, conspiracy theorists have claimed for the past two decades that Cobain was murdered.
It's no wonder: the singer is sorely missed by his fans. Nirvana's legacy has remained important in music history, eclipsing many of its grunge contemporaries and ascending to a place in this year's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class.
In answer to a continual influx of public records requests, the Seattle Police Department recently investigated a previously undeveloped roll of film from the scene.
A police department spokeswoman told Seattlepi.co m that detectives examining the images decided there was no reason to reopen the case.
'There was nothing earth-shattering in any of these images,' Witt said.
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