On April 8, 1994, electrician Gary Smith arrived at Kurt Cobain’s Seattle property for scheduled work and looked through glass into an upper room near the garage. Inside was Cobain’s body, a Remington 20-gauge shotgun, ammunition, drug paraphernalia, personal effects, and a handwritten note.

The King County Medical Examiner determined that Cobain died around April 5 from a contact shotgun wound to the head and classified the death as suicide. That official finding has never been withdrawn.

This episode follows the final month chronologically: the Rome overdose, the March police call involving firearms, the intervention by friends, rehabilitation in California, Cobain’s departure from treatment, the missing-person search, and the discovery at Lake Washington Boulevard.

It also examines the documented details that led private investigator Tom Grant and later proponents to argue for homicide scrutiny: toxicology, the absence of usable identifying prints from the shotgun, questions about the note, Grant’s asserted account materials concerning a SeaFirst card, and crime-scene film left undeveloped until 2014.

The final act was unwitnessed. Do the surviving records show evidence of another person, or the unresolved limits of reconstructing a death after the fact?

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YES OR NO: Do the documented anomalies justify reopening Kurt Cobain’s death investigation?