As I’m sure you all know, Courtney Love was the wife of Kurt Cobain. While there are many things about her that I would like to discuss, I am only going to stick to her involvement, and place in this theory.

In my mind, Love is the brains behind the murder of Kurt Cobain. On April 3rd, 1994 Love hired the Private Detective Tom Grant to track down Kurt, who was presumed missing. Courtney remained in Los Angeles while Grant flew to Seattle to find Kurt. This in itself is revealing - if Courtney was so worried about Kurt why did she not go look for him herself?

Love’s main motive is of course money driven. It was a well known fact among the couple’s friends that she was facing a divorce. Kurt, it seems, had had enough. It was not the divorce itself that bothered Love - she did not love Kurt and would not miss him. However, before they got married both Kurt and Courtney signed a pre-nuptial agreement. If Kurt divorced Courtney, she would not be entitled to the millions of dollars he had made from being in Nirvana. Love herself was no great music talent, and knew without Kurt her popularity would fade fast. So she took matters into her own hands. After Kurt’s untimely death, Love inherited his money, as well as their properties and a life time of publicity. However, Love also believed Kurt was having an affair with his drug dealer (although I myself think Ms Love has a cheek to talk - she was probably having countless affairs at the time)

Love, while being an excellent judge of character is not well known for keeping her mouth (or her legs) shut. There was in fact a 2nd note left by Kurt addressed to Courtney. According to Love and Tom Grant the note states that Kurt is leaving Courtney and Seattle - but not by means of killing himself.

Courtney was also exceptionally angry at Kurt around the time of his death. Cobain had just turned down a headlining slot on the Lollapalooza tour - a slot which would have earned him about 9.5 million dollars.

Love also lied to Tom Grant on more than one occasion during the investigation. On April 1st, she phoned the rehab centre Kurt was at 12 times - but lately told Grant she had only spoken to Kurt once that day. Love continued to lie - she planted a phony story with the Associated Press claiming she had over-dosed and was in hospital. She also failed to mention to Grant that Kurt had been seen in Seattle on April 2nd by Cali. Her peculiar behaviour just got stranger - she did not ask Tom Grant to monitor the house where Kurt had been seen, this in itself is very suspicious.

While Love’s behaviour speaks volumes about her, the behaviour of others also demonstrates her true personality. Max Wallace and Ian Halperin attempted to interview two people about Love - but they were in hiding because they were “afraid of her.” Most ironically, these people were her own father and her first husband. People quite clearly fear Love. An old friend of Kurt and Courtney’s was also being interviewed by Wallace and Halperin. When they asked her about Courtney, she had this to say:

“You expect me to talk about Courtney with the camera running? Do you think I have a death wish?”

But the most telling quote about Courtney comes from her first husband, James Moreland whom she fell pregnant to, but abused drugs so severely during her pregnancy that she had to have an abortion. Moreland was also afraid of Love, and the following quote is oddly accurate.

“She certainly seemed to know a lot about hitmen.”

Tom Grant is a California licensed private investigator and a former detective for the LA County Sheriff’s Department.

Grant was hired on April 3rd by Love who was in California at the time. Love hired Grant to locate Kurt after he escaped a rehab centre in Marina Del Ray, California. Tom flew to Seattle and met with Dylan Carlson, a friend of Kurt’s to find him. In fact, Grant and Carlson were in the residence where Kurt’s body was found the night before it was discovered.

After months of intensive investigation, Grant became certain that Love and Michael “Cali” Dewitt, the Cobain’s nanny were involved in a conspiracy to murder Kurt Cobain. Not only does Grant believe they were successful, he believes that the supposed over-dose in Rome was Love’s first attempt to kill her husband.

In December of 1994, Tom Grant went public with his theories. He was met with physical and legal threats, as were any media outlets who gave him the opportunity to explain his theories. However, Grant was never faced with actual legal action and he allowed Max Wallace and Ian Halperin to listen to some (not all) of his case tapes regarding the Kurt Cobain case for their second, more explosive book, “Love and Death.”

I myself find Tom Grant highly inspirational. Over the course of his 10 year investigation he has never attempted to cash in on his theories, nor has he revealed his most explosive evidence. Grant believes that this explosive evidence will be cheapened by making it public and will also allow all those involved with the murder of Kurt Cobain to hide their tracks. No, this evidence will not be revealed till the case is re-opened - and even then it will be only to the FBI and the case prosecuter.

On April 2nd, 1994, Michael “Cali” Dewitt, the Cobain’s nanny and an old boyfriend of Love’s was the only person home at the Seattle residence of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love. Cali was nanny to the couple’s young daughter, Frances Bean, despite being a long term cocaine and heroin addict. He invited a girlfriend over, and just after 6am on the morning of the 3rd, Kurt walked into Cali’s bedroom and sat on the end of the bed. Cali and his girlfriend woke up, saw Kurt and urged him to call Courtney. Cobain did call her at the hotel, but did not get through. This story was twisted in the re-telling for the Cobain Official biography “Heavier Than Heaven” but the fact remains the same - Michael “Cali” Dewitt was the last person to see Cobain alive.

On the evening of April 7th (the night before Cobain’s body was found) Dylan Carlson and Tom Grant returned to the Seattle Residence at the insistence of Courtney Love. They were greeted by a note, left in plain site by Cali. The note had not been there the previous night, and it did not make sense to Tom Grant. In the note, Cali seems surprised that Kurt had somehow managed to be in the house without him noticing. However, Cali had been staying at his girlfriend’s most of the week - why was he surprised that he had not noticed Cobain’s presence if he had not been there? Tom Grant believes that the note was there for his benefit and that’s why Love was so desperate for Grant and Dylan to return to the house. Grant is not the only person who believes the note was phony - Rosemary Carrol, a long time friend and lawyer to the Cobain’s believes Cali wrote it because he “knew Kurt was dead” and wanted to free himself from suspicion.

The evidence points in the direction that if Cali himself did not pull the trigger, he was definitely involved in at least hiding the plot to murder Kurt Cobain. Grant himself is skeptical as to whether or not Cali actually murdered Kurt, but Grant does believe that Cali might have found Kurt’s dead body in the greenhouse and took the credit card out of his wallet for his own use, without reporting to anyone what he had found.

Love, although claiming in a phone conversation with Grant that she loved Cali, subtly tried to set him up to take the fall for Kurt’s murder. She tells Grant - “I believe you when you tell me that he knows something” and tries to plant a motive in Grant’s mind by telling him that Kurt wanted to fire Cali from his cushy, well-paid job because Cali was still taking drugs.

Love was not the only person to lie to Tom Grant. Dylan Carlson, Kurt’s best friend and the man who bought the shot gun that killed him, lied to Grant about the greenhouse - the room Cobain’s body was found in. On their first inspection of the house, Carlson did not alert Grant to the location or even the existence of the greenhouse.

On April 8th when Grant and Carlson heard about the discovery of Cobain’s body in a room called the greenhouse, Tom asked Dylan about it.

Tom: “What’s the greenhouse?”

Dylan: “It’s a dirty little room above the garage.”

However in a newspaper article later, Dylan was asked why he did not tell Grant about the greenhouse - if he did the body of Cobain would have been found sooner. To this, Dylan replied:

“For all the times I’d been there, I didn’t even realise there was a room above it associated with the house.”

So Dylan lied to Tom Grant about the greenhouse, but Grant ruled him out as an accomplice to the murder. While Grant acknowledges that Carlson showed no emotion upon hearing about the death of his best friend (“He just found out his best friend had died, yet he hardly had any reaction. My gut instinct from the way Dylan acted was that he already knew Kurt was dead, although I didn’t necessarily think he was involved.”) Tom ruled out Carlson as a suspect because he did not like Courtney and frequently bad-mouthed her, and therefore would not help her murder his friend. Also, Carlson asserted on many occasions that Kurt was not suicidal. Grant concludes that Dylan was probably being used by Courtney but that he was not part of the actual conspiracy to murder Kurt Cobain.

El Duce was the stage name of Eldon Hoke, the man who claimed Courtney Love asked him to murder Kurt Cobain.

Love arrived at the hangout of Hoke around New Year’s Eve 1993 and supposedly said: “El, my old man’s been a real asshole lately. I need you to blow his fucking head off.” Hoke was renowned for being a heavy drinker which usually would discredit his story. However, this exchange was witnessed by the manager of the store Hoke hung out at.

That was the last Hoke heard from Courtney Love. She did make a telephone call to the store he hung out at around late March 1994. She got through to the manager who witnessed the earlier exchange and said to him “I need to talk to him. He’s got a job to do.” Hoke was on tour at the time and so did not get the message.

Eldon Hoke sat a polygraph (lie detector) test under the supervision of Dr Edward Gelb who is a pioneer in the field. He sat the test because if it proved he was lying, he would not be asked to appear on a TV show in the States. When Hoke was asked if Courtney Love asked him to kill Kurt Cobain, he said yes. The response of the machine showed with 99.91% certainty that he was telling the truth. This score is such a high percentage that it’s under the category “beyond the level of deception” which basically means that while some people may be able to trick lie detectors, it is impossible to be lying and get that percentage saying you were telling the truth.

In an interview filmed on April 11th 1997, Hoke reveals that it was his friend “Allen” who murdered Kurt Cobain.

Eight days later, Hoke was run over by a train. He did however tell Brent Alden in an earlier interview that it was a man called Allen Wrench who murdered Kurt.

Allen Wrench is a jock like man that Eldon Hoke claimed killed Kurt Cobain. Wrench was the last man to see Eldon Hoke alive. This following quote was taken from “Love And Death”: “Hoke rats out Wrench, Hoke winds up dead. The last person to see Hoke alive is the man he’s just named as Cobain’s killer. Isn’t this scenario somewhat suspicious?

In a telephone interview with Max Wallace and Ian Halperin, Wrench said: “Ok, off the record, I whacked him, as long as it’s off the record.”

But after meeting face to face, Wallace and Halperin came to the conclusion that Allen Wrench was lying to them for attention.

However, Wrench was seen driving a white, late model luxury Lexus. That car sells for about $50,000 and it also happens to be Courtney Love’s favourite model of car - the automobile she demanded Kurt buy her in March 1994. He didn’t buy her the car.

“For the sake of Kurt, and for the sake of the many fans who may still be tempted to follow what they believe was his path, it’s time for Courtney Love to keep her promise.” - Quote taken from “Love and Death”

Wallace is a recipient of Rolling Stone Magazine’s Award for Investigative Journalism. In 1998, he co-authored the international bestseller “Who Killed Kurt Cobain?” with Ian Halperin and is the author of 2 more biographies. A documentary film maker, his first film was nominated for a Gemini Award. Max has also been a guest columnist for the Sunday New York Times and has contributed to the BBC.

Halperin is also a former winner of the Rolling Stone Magazine’s Award for Investigative Journalism and the co-author of “Who Killed Kurt Cobain?” with Max Wallace. He is the author/co-author of 5 books as well as a number of exposes of the modelling industry. Ian is a regular correspondent for Court TV and has contributed to 60 Minutes 2.

*information on Max Wallace and Ian Halperin was taken from “Love and Death” as well as many of the quotes and information in this section - it truly is an amazing book, buy it*

This is the last page of information on this site, thank you for reading and I hope you enjoyed it!

Other helpful sites...

I would like to thank the websites that made my own site possible. These sites are:

www.cobaincase.com

www.justiceforkurt.com

I would also like to thank Tom Grant, Ian Halperin and Max Wallace for their continued and inspirational dedication to this cause.

Kurt Donald Cobain

20th February 1967 - 5th April 1994

"It's better to burn out than to fade away"

Kurt - Gone But Never Forgotten

Rest In Peace, Love and Empathy