This Just In Again From Seattle Music History!!!
- Posted by Ryan Menges at 10:33 p.m. Mar. 20, 2014

Police said in 1994 that the case was clearly a suicide. Ciesynski said that is still the case after reviewing evidence.
After KIRO 7 first reported the re-investigation Thursday morning, the Seattle police public affairs unit took issue with semantics, saying the case was not technically “reopened” -- despite the new interviews and processing of film that had not previously been developed.
The final investigation report has not yet been completed, Ciesynski said.
He also said images of Cobain dead at the scene will not be released.
“What are people going to gain from seeing pictures of Kurt Cobain laying on the ground with his hair blown back, with blood coming out of his nose and trauma to his eyes from a penetrating shotgun wound. How’s that going to benefit anybody?
“It wasn’t going to change my decision that this was a suicide, and actually I’m the one that makes the decision finally: do we go forward or not? Morally I would not be able to justify that. Legally I can’t justify doing that.”
The morning of April 8, 1994, Veca Electric employee Gary Smith went to Cobain’s home at 171 Lake Washington Blvd. East to do electrical work.
“I noticed something on the floor and I thought it was a mannequin,” Smith told KIRO 7 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.”
The medical examiner determined Cobain had killed himself three days earlier – only days after he had left a rehab facility.
Police said before he shot himself, Cobain had a lethal dose of heroin. The syringes and the heroin kit Cobain used were kept in the Seattle police evidence unit and were part of the re-investigation, along with the previously undeveloped film.
Smith, the electrician, found a suspected suicide note on some planting soil in the greenhouse.
“I only read the bottom lines,” Smith told KIRO 7 in 1994. "(The) bottom two lines said, ‘I love you, I love you’ to someone.”
On March 18, 1994 – less than a month before Cobain was found dead – Seattle police were called to the Lake Washington home after Kurt “locked himself in a room,” and said he was going to kill himself, according to a police report. Police were also told he “had a gun in the room.”
But Cobain told police he was not suicidal and didn’t want to kill himself. However, police said after the 1994 investigation that his death was clearly a suicide.
Someone at Smith’s electrician company tipped then-KXRX radio deejay Marty Riemer, who was the first to announce the musician's death, which the medical examiner determined was a suicide.
More than 7,000 mourners packed Seattle Center two days later for a public memorial, where a recording was played of Courtney Love reading Cobain's suicide note. She also attended the memorial and gave some of his clothes to fans.
Last year, a Seattle Police Department spokeswoman said the department gets at least one request per week, mostly through Twitter, to reopen the investigation.
The public affairs unit keeps the basic incident report on file because of the number of requests, and police have said no other Seattle police case has received similar attention in two decades.
Ciesynski said having the film developed last month will hopefully benefit everyone. KIRO 7 asked if the case was closed.
“Hopefully,” Ciesynski said. “I’m sure until the 25th anniversary comes up.”
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The case was reviewed in preparation for the anniversary. There is no new news!
So you got the hits, but now we all know that you will play fast and loose with the truth. Guess which station I'm not going to go to when I want to know whether there is actual real news or how big of a deal something really is?
Not you.
Totes UNreliable -- Casey and Clancy.
There were many issues with the way the investigation and crime scene was handled, not to mention the weird facts about the case:
1.) the "suicide note" wasn't in his handwriting.
2.) there were no fingerprints on the shotgun that killed him.
I, for one, want to see the people responsible for this MURDER given their justice.
What if this were your child and someone killed them, but made it look like a suicide? Wouldnt you want to dig deeper into this and get some answers? Well that is what the public wants. Justice. Answers.
If both of you were more educated on the situation at hand, then the comments you posted would have never happened.
So, stop being idiots and making dumbass statements.
So it's perfectly okay with you that a murderer is walking around free in society?
And you criticize Kurt's lifestyle?
I'd rather live among heroin addicts than people who think it's okay for murderers to roam free.
I've been following this since the late 90's and have done a lot of research and still continue to do so. It's very intriguing to me.
There are many other unanswered questions as well, but i want people to do the research on their own. That way they can understand what I already know.
there are the facts, then there are the conspiracies. the facts are things i actually point out. the conspiracies are the things i research further.
its very similar to cryptozoology. lots of conspiracy theories on them, but a lot are facts.
if you want to ask me questions and approach this in a more appropriate manner, then i would be happy to oblige. but if you want to go about this like a stupid middle school kid, then go somewhere else.