THE EVENTS COVERING THE DATES APRIL 1-7th  1994 Tom Grant, the private investigator hired by Courtney to trace Kurt. Rosemary Carrol, friend to Kurt and Courtney and also their lawyer. Dylan Carlson, Kurt's best friend. Michael DeWitt, long term friend of Courtney's and one of Frances Beans' nannies. Joe Mama, long term friend of Courtney's. 171 Lake Washington Blvd is the house owned by Kurt and Courtney, to which Kurt returned on 2nd April 1994. In the yard is the greenhouse where Kurt's body was found. FRIDAY 1st April: Kurt left the rehab centre around 7 pm, and bought a flight back to Seattle, he paid by credit card (WKKC? p 93).   At 8.47 pm Kurt phoned Courtney at the Peninsula Hotel and left a message for her. The message is in part published on Grants website. Grant says it doesn't sound like a message from a person who is suicidal.   Kurt had, earlier that day  received a visit from Joe Mama at Exodus rehab, Joe said, "I was ready to see him look like shit and depressed. He looked fucking great!" He went on to say: "After Kurt left I was on the phone to Courtney all the time. She was really freaked out, so we drove around looking for him at all the places he might have gone.  She was really scared from the beginning. I guess she could tell." (Cobain by the editors of Rolling Stone  p 83.) If Kurt looked so great surely he would have conveyed this to Courtney. Why then was she so "freaked out, really scared''? Could it be that she now had no control over the situation, Kurt had become a loose cannon and she feared he would proceed with signing his will? After all, once this was signed Courtney would lose her power.  Divorce would follow and Kurt, his fame and fortune would be lost to her. "I love attention, I love the trappings of it all.  To say you hate the trappings, you're an asshole and a liar,"   (Courtney Love.) Kurt did hate the trappings of it.  He wanted out of it.  Suddenly Courtney's speech at the memorial for Kurt takes on sinister perspective. SATURDAY 2nd April: Linda Walker of Seattle Limousines saw Kurt speaking normally to other passengers and he approached her with a "thin smile", (Sandford p 325).   She drove Kurt back to his Lke Wash Blvd home and he arrived early am, see police report below:

Kurt spoke to Michael DeWitt at the house. DeWitt informed Courtney later that day that he had seen and spoken to Kurt at the Lke Wash Blvd. house, (Grant website). At 7.30am a driver for Gray Top Cabs picked up a man from the Lke Wash Blvd, Address.  Here is what the superintendent of Gray Top Cabs told the Seattle police on 19 April 1994: "The driver picked up a person who he thought did not match with the residence. He drove around looking for a place to buy bullets, but was unable to find one. This male told the driver that he recently been burgled and needed bullets.  At 8.30am the driver dropped the man off in the area of 145th and Aurora because he said he was hungry and wanted to get something to eat. The man's fare was $27" (Seattle police report). SUNDAY 3rd April: Courtney hired Grant. She had by now cancelled Kurt's credit card. She told Grant when they met that he had  no access to money through friends or by credit card.  When Grant questioned this she said, "This guy can't even catch a fucking cab by himself." Strange, he had just managed to successfully leave a place he didn't want to be, purchase a plane ticket and arranged to be picked up at the airport and driven home.  He seemed to me to be perfectly capable.   Could Courtney's reason for cancelling this credit card have been an attempt to prevent Kurt from successfully achieving anything else he might have chosen to do?  Someone attempted to charge $1,100 to this card at 3pm on this day, but the charge was rejected.  If this was Kurt, whatever his intentions, they would have been blocked. During this meeting with Grant, Courtney: 1   Admitted that the previous evening she had planted a story with the associated press that she had suffered an overdose. 2   Ranted about how Kurt had turned down Lollapalooza and thereby kissed goodbye to millions of dollars. 3   Told Grant she wasn't sure where Kurt was, that he might be in Seattle or he could have flown back east to stay with Michael Stipe. She did not tell him that Kurt was in Seattle and had been back to the Lke Wash Blvd house. 4   Told him she thought Kurt wanted a divorce (Grant website). See Dylan Carlson's quote: "She went ballistic, she kept on screaming at him about how much money he was giving up and said if he didn't want to do it (Lollapalooza), she'd be glad to take his place," (WKKC? p 89). John Silva and Sara Hoehn saw Kurt on this day. DeWitt told Grant a few weeks after Kurt had died that he had checked the greenhouse on the 3rd April but didn't check it again, (Grant website). MONDAY 4th April: At 9am Courtney, claiming to be Wendy O Conner, filed a missing person report with the Seattle Police Dept. Nowhere on this report does it say Kurt had been seen at his own home, (WKKC? p 97, also Grant's website). Here we have examples of Courtney: 1   Impersonating someone else. 2   Withholding relevant information. Today Courtney told Grant: "Everyone thinks he's going to die". (Grant website). Joe Mama, Dylan Carlson, Rosemary Carroll, Peter Cleary, Novoselic, Grohl and several Exodus psychiatrists didn't think Kurt was going to die.  None of these people thought of Kurt as suicidal. Also today Courtney was interviewed by Robert Hilburn of the L.A.Times during which she burst into tears and did a U turn by saying she didn't care about Kurt pulling out of Lollapalooza, and that she just never wanted to see Kurt on the floor like that again, referring to the Rome incident. When Hilburn asked about the lyrics "I lie, and lie, and lie," Courtney she replied teasingly (Hilburn's words,)  'It's just admitting that I can be dishonest, that I can be a liar.'  Elsewhere in the article Hilburn wrote, 'She clearly enjoys being a star,'   Courtney to Hilburn;  "Everyone likes to gossip about me," She said, pointing to a Macintosh computer that sits across the room in its packing container. 'One of the reasons I got that is so I can read all the gossip about me on America Online.' (Los Angeles Times April 10 1994). So Courtney didn't seem too preoccupied about her suicidal husband being missing.  She hinted at him, Rome and the overdose, and then moved on to more important subjects....herself! In Wallace and Halperin's book "Who Killed Kurt Cobain?" they reported on a man called Brad Barnett who claimed to have seen Kurt in a park near his house on this day. Brad Barnett claims to have gone back to the greenhouse on Kurt's property and spent a while talking with him. (WKKC? p 95-97). However, Barnett didn't know Kurt personally and this was a chance meeting, it could therefore be a hoax.  On November 4 1999, Grant left a message on my message board. Of Brad Barnett, Grant wrote: "I've communicated with him extensively and can easily prove his story to be a hoax".  See a scan of this message in my 29th December 1999 update. TUESDAY 5th April: At 4pm on this day Gillian Gaar, a journalist for the Seattle Rocket magazine, called Courtney at the Beverly Hills Peninsula Hotel.  Gaar was unable to talk to Courtney so she spoke to Eric Erlandson for an hour. The Rocket hoped to have Hole on its cover for the next edition.  They continued to hope that the Courtney interview would take place because Erlandson promised Gaar he'd try and get Courtney to do the interview, but after Courtney hadn't contacted the Rocket by noon on April 6 the Rocket gave the cover story to someone else.

See a scan of the original magazine article to the right. In 2001 Charles R Cross reported that Courtney sent Eric Erlandson to Seattle on April 5th to look for Kurt.   In order to place Erlandson in Seattle on that date, Cross changed the timeline (and circumstances) as given by Gaar, above, to: On Tuesday afternoon (of April 5) Courtney sent Hole's Eric Erlandson to the Lake Washington home to look for Kurt.... Courtney had been scheduled to do a phone interview with The Rocket on Tuesday morning.  Erlandson phoned the magazine and said it would have to be postponed...(Heavier Than Heaven page 335). In the Seattle police report below, dated April 8 1994, it is clear that Courtney arranged for Grant to go to Seattle, below. There was no mention in this report that Courtney had sent Eric Erlandson to Seattle on April 5th. Cross simply accepted misinformation given to him by Love, as fact, even though it contradicts the above mentioned Gaar report, police reports and evidence provided by Grant.

Courtney was so desperate for the publication of the misinformative Charles R Cross book, Heavier Than Heaven, that she was hyping/describing it as: "the definitive book about Kurt" almost a whole year before it was published! The above was a quote from a speech of Courtney's, posted on the official news section at holemusic.com.  The news section was eventually removed, but archive.org have it stored, so you can check for yourselves using the following link: http://web.archive.org/web/20001213000800/holemusic.com/news/index.html scroll down to the September 10 2000 news, and then it's the 13th paragraph down.   That's almost a whole year before Cross' book was published, which indicates that Courtney was very confident Cross wouldn't rock the boat by asking awkward questions, but would stick to her story. I think April 5 was also the day the electrical contractors were approached to work on security for the house. WEDNESDAY 6TH APRIL: Courtney phoned the electrical contractors who were working at the Lke Wash Blvd property and instructed them to start work on the lights and motion detector on the greenhouse, (Grant website.) In hindsight Grant asked himself if she knew Kurt's body was there and was trying to get him discovered? Grant met Courtney at the Peninsula Hotel and offered to go to Seattle, until now he had had a subcontractor (Ernie Barth) working for him there.  Someone asked Courtney if she would go to Seattle, she replied that she had business in LA. What could be more important than searching for the husband you claim to be desperately concerned about, and who you claim is suicidal? Rosemary Carroll told Grant that Courtney had no business in LA. According to Grant, Courtney's last words to him were "Save the American Icon Tom". What a disgusting thing to say.  What a flippant remark, coming from someone who was supposedly concerned about her supposedly suicidal husband. Michael DeWitt was seen coming and going from the Lke Wash Blvd house, along with the electrical contractors. Carlson stated that DeWitt called him asking him if he had seen Kurt, (Carlson's interview with the Seattle Police on 12 April 1994, see below.)   Grant arrived in Seattle at 11.30 pm. and met up with Dylan Carlson.  By this stage Courtney had finally informed Grant that Kurt was seen at the house on 2nd April. A bit late really. THURSDAY 7th April: At 2.15am Carlson and Grant drove to the house, Carlson spent about five minues checking to see if Kurt was there, he saw no sign of Kurt. They then went to a payphone and called Courtney who was now staying at Rosemary Carroll's house in L.A. and asked her to call the alarm co. and turn off the alarm so they could enter the house. During this call Carroll overheard Courtney telling Carlson to check the greenhouse. Shortly after this call Courtney returned to the Peninsula Hotel and promptly overdosed. From her hotel room a call was made to 911, she was arrested and taken to hospital. (Grant website). Meanwhile at around 2.45am Grant and Carlson went back to the house and entered via an unlocked kitchen window. They searched the house not only for Kurt, but also for clues that he had been there, their search included looking under the mattress and pillows of Kurt's bed in their search for drugs and drug paraphanalia. They found no heroin or works, they did find a packet of Rohypnol. There was a bedroom which had a TV on, in which the bed was unmade. Carlson told Grant that this was DeWitt's bedroom. (Grant website). Strange, looks like DeWitt left in a hurry, could it be that he fled the house because he was trying to avoid meeting Carlson and Grant? Carlson did not mention searching the greenhouse and as it was dark and raining Grant was not aware that it existed, so it wasn't searched (Grant website. See also Broomfield's film Kurt and Courtney, and WKKC? p 98-9). It looks like there was surveillance on 171 at this time, due to Ernest Barth taking the initiative and setting it up, see police report below:

From the police report above, it can be seen that Ben Klugman, who worked for Grant, ordered the removal of surveillance from 171, which would unfortunately have meant that DeWitt's activity at 171, after this time, would have been missed.  It is known, however, that DeWitt was at 171 on this day and that he left at around 4pm, see police reports below. Later that afternoon (April 7) DeWitt, indignant that 'Courtney [had] accused me of hiding Kurt', flew to Los Angeles to protest his innocence. (Sandford p 329). The story was that Courtney needed reassuring, she claimed to Grant that she thought DeWitt had been shielding Kurt from her. This interaction between Courtney and DeWitt would imply they had been in regular contact since his call to her on April 2nd. Just consider the scenario if Courtney and DeWitt really did conspire to murder Kurt. By now they know he is dead and the discovery of his body imminent because Courtney specifically instructed the electrical contractors to work on the greenhouse, and for good measure asked Carlson to check it.  Wouldn't it be better if they, as conspirators were distanced from the scene? Be it by geographical location or by a drug induced haze. They must have been apprehensive. Below are the police reports regarding Michael DeWitt being picked up from 171 on April 7 1994:

Dylan also spoke to Courtney again on this day while she was in hospital and now she requested they look for the gun which could be in a closet. Grant wondered why Courtney hadn't asked DeWitt to check this and also the greenhouse days before.   And wouldn't that have made sense. At  9.45 pm, Carlson and Grant again checked the house, this time they found a note on the stairs addressed to Kurt from DeWitt. This note expressed surprise on the part of DeWitt that Kurt had been at the house but managed to evade him, it also lambasted Kurt for his disappearance. This note is found on the stairway and Grant believes it was phoney, a tactic to make out DeWitt had been trying to contact/locate Kurt, when really by all sense of reasoning it looks like Courtney and DeWitt were in cahoots in obstructing efforts to find him.                    QUESTIONS RELEVANT TO THIS 1: Why did Courtney not tell Grant that Kurt had been seen at the Lke Wash Blvd address by Michael DeWitt on April 2nd? When she filed the missing persons report under the name of Wendy O'Connor on April 4th she  made the same omission, but she did stress Kurt was suicidal, and had a gun.  Grant believes Kurt was quite probably dead by the time this report was filed, so Courtney could state these things in the confidence that when his body was found, the police would use her suggestions to support the suicide verdict.   On April 4th she also told Grant: "everyone thinks Kurt will die." She also referred to Rome, death and Kurt in her interview with Robert Hilburn. April 4th was a day Courtney was planting the idea that Kurt would die. 2: Courtney was obviously in regular contact with Michael DeWitt, why didn't she convey the extent of her fears for Kurt to him and get him to check for the gun, and the greenhouse, and constantly monitor the proceedings at Lke Wash Blvd? There are two possible scenarios, either she genuinely thought DeWitt was shielding Kurt, in which case the most logical action she could take was to inform Grant and Carlson

of this situation, she didn't do this. Or her above claim was a smokescreen to cover up the fact that she was conspiring with DeWitt to keep Kurt's whereabouts unknown, at least until April 6th, giving ample time to plant false leads and alibis. DeWitt had been conspicuous by his absence in the search for Kurt, between April 2-5th.  On April 6th he became eager to emphasise he was trying to locate/ contact Kurt by: 1   Phoning Dylan on April 6th to ask him if he had seen Kurt (see police report below). 2   Leaving the note to Kurt on the stairs of the Lke Wash Blvd house (April 7th.) Scan of this note to the right:

Could it be that Courtney and DeWitt were trying to merge his actions to supposedly "find" Kurt in with the false alibis discussed  in the unnamed sources section? On April 18th Courtney told the police that she knew Kurt's death was a suicide and that DeWitt told her he had last seen Kurt on April 2nd.  She then told the police that she wanted to know his whereabouts during the days he was missing, but nowhere on this report did she voice any suspicion to the police that she thought DeWitt had been shielding Kurt during this time.  On the same report emphasis is given to the note DeWitt left on the stairs. If Grant was correct in believing this note was a ploy, this ploy was now being used for the purpose intended, to establish, by implication, that DeWitt at that time believed Kurt to be alive and was trying to locate/contact him. See police reports. None of the people who knew Kurt were aware of the danger, according to Courtney, of Kurt's potential for suicide at this time. Not Dylan Carlson, Charles Peterson, Rosemary Carroll, Mark Lanegan. If it was true why didn't Courtney phone all of these people and arrange for them to work together to find him?  If Courtney was so worried, why didn't she drop any business and fly back to Seattle to look for him? Courtney can't expect her declarations of concern to be believed when all her actions are to the contrary. From which ever angle I look at Courtney and DeWitt's actions, they only really make sense when I reject her claims and seriously consider her actions within the context of a premeditated murder. That is the only way they make sense.