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We met Courtney at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills. "If you leak this to the press, I'll sue the fuck out of you," Courtney warned me as we walked into the room. "Nice to meet you too!" I thought to myself. Courtney told us her husband was Kurt Cobain and that he just left a drug. She said she lied to the credit card company and had his card. She wanted us to call the credit card company and find out whatattempted activities were on this cancelled card. I mentioned I couldn't understand why she needed us for that. I advisedshe could do that herself and save some money. If we did it, I'd have to charge her fifty dollars just to make a phone call. Courtney responded sarcastically, "What? That's not enough money for?" It was time for me and Courtney to get to know each other better."Look," I replied, "I'll do whatever I can to help you, but I'm not going tohere and get ripped every time I say something." Courtney apoligized, then continued to fill us in. Courtney told us Kurt only had one credit card and without that one cardhad no access to money. She said Kurt didn't have any friends or anyonethat might loan him money. Knowing know who we were dealing with, this't make sense! We questioned Courtney some more about Kurt's ability to get money for his needs. She insisted, "This guy can't even catch a fucking cab by himself!" Courtney told us about the overdose story she had planted with thePress the previous evening. She claimed the reason she did thisto scare Kurt and get his attention so he'd try to contact her. Later that afternoon while I was with her in the hotel room, Courtney on in an angry rage about the 9 1/2 million dollars Kurt was walkingfrom. She said, "If he doesn't want the money, he ought to do it for his child, ,for Frances." She said she'd do the Lollapalooza tour for Kurt if he doesn't want to do it... She said she'll do Saturday Night Live if he doesn't want to do it... She said she thinks KURT wants a divorce... She mentioned a prenuptial agreement, but said, "My name's on all the houses and assets." Courtney said she didn't know for sure where Kurt was. She said he MIGHT be in Seattle or he may have flown back east to stay with Michael Stipe. (She failed to mention Kurt had been seen at their house.) She asked us to find someone in Seattle to watch a drug dealer'sand other locations in case Kurt turned up, but she NEVER asked uswatch the Lake Washington house. I subcontracted with a P.I. firm in Seattle for the Surveillance. Monday, April 4th, Courtney called in a missing person's reportto be Kurt's mother, Wendy O'Conner. The report reads, "Mr.ran away from California facility and flew back to Seattle. He alsoa shotgunm and may be sucidal." The wording of this report made itlike he purchased the shotgun AFTER he left the rehab in L.A. Thealso FAILED to mention Kurt was last seen at the Lake Washington. We continued working with the credit card company trying to track the use of Kurt's credit card. Someone was still attempting to use it. Courtney told us Kurt only stays in the BEST hotels. (We later learnedmostly stays in flop house hotels). We began calling hotels looking forand thought we located him at a hotel under one of his alias's.said she didn't want Kurt to know she was looking for him, but later she called me and said she talked to the person in the room and it wasn't Kurt. During a phone conversation, Courtney told me Kurt was suicidal."Everyone thinks he's going to die," she announced. Wednesday, April 6th. Kurt had not been located. Courtney called thecontractor in Seattle who had been installing a security systemthe Lake Washington house. She instructed the electrcians to begin workthe lights and motion detector on the greenhouse. Did she know Kurt was inside? Wash she trying to get the body? At the hotel later that afternoon, I volunteered to go to Seattle andfor KмЅe#Р ;A 8,@l,@l@@ @ ЊX(@ь@˜@Tю@XMS Sans Serif Symbol SystemTimes New RomanCourier New Summary Part 1 _________________________________________________________________ Page. 1 CONDENSED SUMMARY OF EVENTSinto the death of Kurt Cobain by Tom Grant, Investigator, TheCompany. This summary is not the report of this investigation. It was originallyto serve as an outline to guide me through interviews with the. It started out as one line sentences to remind me of details andand gradually developed into it's current form. The summary is updated and revised every few days as I find time to workit and improve the presentaion of facts. It does not contain ALL of theand information relating to this investigation. It merely highlightsof the events in brief comments so the reader might be better informedto what transpired in April of 1994. This limited information is not intended to PROVE that Kurt Cobain's death was the result of a murder. It simply lays some of the foundation for a much more detailed and complex case. More evidence will be presented at the proper time and place as the theory of suicide unravels and the truthKurt's death emerges. PRIOR TO MY INVOLVEMENT Courtney and Kurt had not been getting along. They'd been talking about. Within weeks before Kurt died, Courtney called one of their, Rosemary Carroll and told Rosemary to get the meanest, mostdivorce lawyer she could find. Courtney also asked Rosemary if the prenuptial agreement could be voided. Kurt called Rosemary too. He hadn't completed his will. He told Rosemary he wanted Courtney taken out of it. Kurt did not want to tour or perform anymore. He was walking away fromCourtney said was a 9 1/2 million dollar contract to headline thetour. Courtney was angry at Kurt for the possible loss of of all those millions. Her anger wasn't working, so she tried to blame Kurt's attitude on his drug use and put together a so called " tough love intervention." Among others at the "intervention" were some of the junkies Kurt did drugs with. Courtney claims she told Kurt, "This has got to end. You have to be adaddy!" A somewhat pretentious statement from a woman who was doingwhen we were first hired and continued her drug use during the nextmonths. It's hard to believe Kurt could have taken this whole scene seriously.26TH, Courtney left Seattle for the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills.30th, Kurt and his best friend Dylan Carlson, purchased a shotgun.told Dylan he was afraid of intruders at the house. Walking out on thetour was a business decision that would cost OTHERS a great deal of money also. I have reason to believe Kurt may have been intimidated into believing his life would be in danger if he failed to do the tour. The shotgun was a 20 gauge, set up for light load. This is what gunoften recommend for home protection because the shot won't penetrateand endanger those on the other side. Kurt took the shotgun to his house so it would be there when he got backrehab. He THEN left Seattle to go to a rehab center in Marina Del Rey,. Friday, April 1st, 16 phone calls were made to Kurt's rehab center from's hotel room at the Peninsula. Most of these are to the patient'sphone. Courtney later told me she only talked to Kurt once that day. That evening, Kurt left the rehab. Later, at 8:47 PM he called theHotel and left a message for Courtney. The message on the hotelreads,... "Elizabeth's phone # is (213) _______." (This # is on my case.) Courtney never mentioned this message to the media. This doesn't sounda message from a person who is suicidal. Kurt arrived in seattle early Saturday morning, April 2nd, and was takenhis house on Lake Washington by a hired driver. Later in the morning,DeWitt, (also known as "Cali"), the male nanny who was living at thehouse, claims Kurt came into his bedroom and had a short conversationhim. Cali later told us he had informed Courtney later that same day that Kurtbeen to the house. Saturday night Courtney had a friend plant a phony story with thePress that she had overdosed on drugs and was in the hospital. This planted story becomes significant later in the investigation. EASTER SUNDAY April 3rd, Courtney called my office in Beverly Hills. She told me someone was using her husband's credit carurt. Someone in the room said, "Why don't you go up there?" "I can't, I have business I have to take care of here," Courtney replied. Rosemary Carroll later told me, "She didn't have any business in L.A." I asked her not to tell anyone I was coming because they might alert, but Courtney called Mike Dewitt, ("Cali"), and told him I was on my way to Seattle. During an earlier conversation, Courtney told me she didn't trust Cali.she said, "He won't tell anyone." "Save the American Icon Tom!" Courtney shouted dramatically as I left her hotel room and headed for the airport. THE SEATTLE SEARCH Wednesday, April 6th, 11:30 PM. I picked up Kurt's best friend, Dylanat his apartment. We went to a cafe where we ate and planned ourfor locating Kurt and finding out what was going on. Dylan told me Kurt had been afraid of intruders at the house lately, sohelped Kurt buy the shotgun to have for protection when he returned from. Later we checked out a drug dealer's apartment on Capitol Hill as well as hotel on the Aurora strip where Kurt had been known to stay from time to. While Dylan and I were driving around Seattle, I asked him if we shouldwith Kurt's mother in Aberdeen. Dylan replied, "No. Kurt wouldn't go. He doesn't get along with his mom." Thursday morning, April 7th, 2:15AM. We went to the Lake Washington. I waited in the car while Dylan walked up alone as we had previously. We didn't want to alert Kurt to my presence if at all possible.came back to the car after at least five minutes saying no one was. I wondered what took so long if no one was home? We went to a payphone and called Courtney. She was at Rosemary Carroll's house in Los Angeles. Dylan talked to her. I told him to have her call the alarm company and turn off the alarm so we could go in the house. After talking to Dylan on the phone. we now know Courtney left Rosemary's and went back to the Peninsula Hotel. A short while later, she called 911. First reports have her overdosing again. She was later arrested. (Rosemary Carroll has shown me evidence that this was possibly a deliberate and planned event.) I searched the house with Dylan. We didn't find Kurt. Dylan didn't tell me about the greenhouse and since it was dark and raining, I hadn't noticed it. Rosemary told me later she heard Courtney say to Dylan. "Be sure and check the greenhouse." Since Courtney directed Dylan to check the Greenhouse, I later wonderedshe hadn't asked Cali to check the greenhouse in the past few days. Dylan and I later spent the day checking out some of Kurt's hangouts andto people that might know where he was. As evening approached, wedriving to the Carnation property but turned back because of darknessbad weather. Late Thursday afternoon Dylan spoke to Courtney on the phone. Sheus to go back to the house to look for the shotgun. She said it could be in a hidden compartment in her closet. Again, I wondered why she had't asked Cali to look there before now? 9:45 PM. Dylan and I returned to the Lake Washing house. Inside I found a note from Cali which had been placed on the main stairway. It wasn't there the night before. The note read in part, "I can't believe you managed to be in the house without me noticing. You're a fucking asshole for not calling Courtney..." I had had a feeling the note was intended for me to find, not Kurt. It just seemed phony. Cali later told us he was hardly at the house from Monday on. If so, why would he find it so hard to believe Kurt had been in the house? Cali says he was hardly there himself! Besides, it's Kurt's house!! What gives Cali the right to be angry at Kurt for being in his own home? This didn't make sense! Cali explained he wasn't staying at the house because Courtney keptand saying she knew Kurt was there. If so, why wasn't she having usthe house during our surveillance? Cali told friends he was leaving for Los Angeles Thrusday afternoon, theth. I never got to see or talk to him while I was in Seattle. I had thehe was trying to avoid me. KURT IS FOUND Friday morning, April 8th. Dylan and I were on the way to the Carnationwhen we stopped for gas. Dylan made a call. When he came back tocar, he said a friend just told him a body was found at the Lakehouse. We turned on the radio and soon heard that it was Kurt.reaction from Dylan. Later we heard Kurt's body was found in the greenhouse. I turned toand asked, "What's the greenhouse?" He told me it's a room above the. I asked, "Why didn't we look there? Dylan replied, "It's just alittle room. I think they keep some lumber in there or something." I called my office and spoke with Ben Klugman. He told me the creditcompany says someone had continued trying to use Kurt's credit card asas just hours before the body was found.We now know Kurt had been dead for two days or more, so someone was still trying to use his credit card after he died! I called the Seattle homicide detectives and tried to tell them something was wrong here. The detective told me Kurt was locked in the room by himself. The door was locked from the inside and the fire department had to break a window on the door to get in, inferring that Kurt had to have been alone in the room when he died. I assumed they must know what they're talking about, but I was curious about what kind of door lock this was. Courtney wasn't at all upset that I hadn't found Kurt. She acted as if she thought Kurt died the night before.If so, we could have saved him! Why wasn't she angry at us? Courtney tried to get me to talk to the press. I told her I didn't want to say anything until I found out more about what happend.This whole thing smelled rotten! 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