Frances Barnett has also written a piece entitled Kurt Was Not Suicidal, which has documented quotes from friends and family talking about Kurt's behavior with them in the final weeks. Check out the Unanswered Questions section of the site for questions people on both sides of the issue would like answered.

SUSPECTS?
After several months of "intensive investigation", including dozens of taped interviews with Cobain's closest friends and family members, Private Investigator Tom Grant says he has reached the conclusion that Courtney Love and Michael DeWitt (the male nanny who lived at the Cobain residence), were involved in a conspiracy that resulted in the murder of Kurt Cobain. Love and DeWitt were also in Rome a month earlier when Kurt had the overdose with Rohypnol and alcohol, which Grant believes was the first attempt on his life.

It should be noted that others have different theories that reach the same conclusion of Kurt being a victim of foul play. This one just seems to be the most prevalent.

At the time, Courtney Love apparently claimed she had "business in LA" and could not fly up to Seattle to help in the search for Kurt. Many have wondered what could be more important than quickly finding your missing and supposedly suicidal husband? During this critical time, Love allegedly cancelled his credit card, planting false stories in the press that she overdosed, called the police from her hotel room to get herself arrested on drug charges the day before Kurt's body was found, and did interviews to promote her upcoming Live Through This. She hired private investigator Tom Grant, who first tried to track down Kurt through his credit card usage, before going up to Seattle to try and find Kurt with Dylan Carlson, Kurt's best friend. "Save the American icon Tom", Grant claims she said to him in a "flippant way", as he left her hotel room to catch a flight to Seattle.

Michael DeWitt, who eventually became Grant's prime suspect, was not seen for days, although he had apparently been in regular contact with Courtney since at least April 2nd. He left Seattle and showed up in Los Angeles for a visit with Courtney on April 7th. This was also the day Grant says Courtney was telling Carlson to "check the greenhouse" over the phone from Los Angeles, before going back to her hotel room, overdosing and getting arrested. She also called a local security company and instructed them to begin working on security lights on that greenhouse.

Grant and others believe that by this point, she knew Kurt was inside and was trying to get the body discovered. Kurt was found by one of the electricians hired to work on the greenhouse on the morning of April 8th 1994.

WHO IS TOM GRANT?
Tom Grant is a California state licensed Private Investigator. You can look up the status of his license at the State of California Department of Consumer Affairs. He claims Courtney Love and her lawyers have done everything they could to discredit him. Tom Grant has been in law enforcement since 1969, and a Private Investigator since the 70's with many cases under his belt. More background information can be read on his PI web site He was just as involved as others in the search for Cobain as well as working with Courtney for a few months after.

Courtney was aware of what he was doing and apparently gave him her blessing at the beginning, before she cut off all contact with him after January 1995. On this site, you can listen to the last phone conversation between Grant and Courtney, where Love is obviously rattled, and Grant is upset that she seemed to be purposely sabotaging his investigation by not doing the things she had promised.

"He died on my watch", Grant says, and feels the need to get out what he believes is what really happened. His web site about the case is located at cobaincase.com

MOTIVE
Grant believes the main motive is the oldest in the book. She was facing a divorce and would have possibly lost millions of dollars. She apparently admits on tape that the note from Rome mentioned Kurt wanting a divorce. Coincidentally, she also admits destroying that note. Kurt Cobain apparently had his Will re-done in March 1994, which excluded Courtney. Sadly, he didn't get the chance to sign it and make it official. Rosemary Carroll, Love's attorney, allegedly told Grant that Courtney wanted her to get "meanest, most vicious divorce lawyer" she could find a few weeks earlier. Love was preparing to fight it.

Nirvana's management company claims the Rome incident was not a suicide attempt. Kurt was just "going to take his and Courtney's money and run away". Witnesses have Cobain writing a note and getting ready to leave the hotel. All of a sudden he's in a Rome hospital with an overdose of Rohypnol and champagne in his system, which others claim he never used.

There are also witnesses, including Grant, who saw Courtney throw fits because Kurt turned down millions of dollars when he decided not to headline the 1994 Lollapalooza tour. It seems Cobain had enough of the music industry and/or Nirvana, and told friends he wanted out. Turning down an insane amount of money to headline the biggest summer tour of the time seems to support this fact. Dave Grohl has also said in recent years that Nirvana were about to break up. Kurt seemed interested in, and actually planned on making music with Michael Stipe of R.E.M, who he struck up a friendship with.

There is also information that Courtney was having an affair with Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins 3 weeks after Kurt's death. Apparently while the press had her at home as the upset widow, Tom Grant claims she called him from a resort in Arizona bragging that she was sleeping with Corgan. Courtney's father Hank Harrison has told the media that she was having an affair with Corgan while she was married to Kurt, which may or may not have contributed to Kurt's decision to leave Courtney and get his Will re-done.

Grant claims with a divorce, "Courtney would have gotten half, at best, of Cobain's fortune" since they had a prenuptial agreement. She also could have lost full custody of their daughter to him. With a "suicide", she got everything. Grant says she also got a lot of publicity, as her "Live Through This" album which was released shortly after Cobain had died.

JUSTICE FOR KURT
The purpose of this site is help raise awareness about this information. Everyone who has followed this case over the years would like to see it reopened and investigated properly. If it turns out Kurt was murdered, then obviously the responsible people should be brought to justice. If Tom Grant and others are proven to be liars, then Kurt's legacy, and Courtney's name will finally be cleared of these theories and allegations.