Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, aj Benzi here with Same as a Bitch.
Speaker 1: It's September eleventh, and while I should be talking about
Speaker 1: that awful day twenty three years ago, I'm gonna give
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Speaker 1: with the weekly free show Everything is a Bitch and
Speaker 1: the Patreon shows of Politics is a Bitch once a
Speaker 1: weekend and Fame is a Bitch every single day for
Speaker 1: seven years in counting. But what I'm gonna do with
Speaker 1: these free shows, at least in the first few weeks
Speaker 1: and months, I'm gonna focus on some of the bigger
Speaker 1: cases of things, murders, all sorts of stuff that either
Speaker 1: I was a part of while I was a reporter,
Speaker 1: an active daily journalist for the New York Daily News,
Speaker 1: or maybe living in Los Angeles or New York at
Speaker 1: the time of these particular circumstances, be it Amy Fisher
Speaker 1: and Joey Buttafuco or the men Andez Brothers, or Tanya Harding,
Speaker 1: Michael Jackson, O J. Simpson. The big issue is that
Speaker 1: hit us in the eighties and nineties and two thousands.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be in today or this week's free show
Speaker 1: with something I touched on in the Patreon behind the
Speaker 1: paywall about whether or not Kurt Cobain was murdered or
Speaker 1: did in fact, as they say, commit suicide. I've got
Speaker 1: somebody on my side, a great source, a private eye,
Speaker 1: who says otherwise, and I'm gonna go from that. Next week,
Speaker 1: I'll probably do an exclusive on Sean Puffy Combs and
Speaker 1: the whole situation where he's being sued up the ass.
Speaker 1: In fact, there's one hundred million dollar judgment against him
Speaker 1: that a judge just said it's fine. This particular guy
Speaker 1: is in jail and is supposedly allowed to get ten
Speaker 1: million dollars a month from Puffy. Puffy's selling his mansions
Speaker 1: in New York Miami. He just getting rid of all
Speaker 1: his property and god knows where he's gonna go. I
Speaker 1: don't know why they don't consider him a flight risk.
Speaker 1: Well I do know why, because he's been cooperating with
Speaker 1: ADS for years. That's the inside story on Sean Puffy Combs,
Speaker 1: except now he's on really thin ice. And some say,
Speaker 1: when you're on today, you might as well tap dance.
Speaker 1: If Puffy decides to tap dance like he used to
Speaker 1: do with those videos, he's gonna plunge into freezing water
Speaker 1: and die. So next week I'll probably do Puffy. Not
Speaker 1: to mention weeks ago, I gave you excerpts from the
Speaker 1: mouth of kim Porter, the mother of Puffy's children, and
Speaker 1: now her book sixty pages. It's only sixty pages because
Speaker 1: it's what kim Porter was writing before she was found
Speaker 1: dead from pneumonia, even though there were no medicines on
Speaker 1: her night table or prescriptions for a cough for anything.
Speaker 1: But that's how she died daemonia. And I'll be sure
Speaker 1: are just happened to go into a comment almost die
Speaker 1: and Heavy Deed did die and now Andrearell did die.
Speaker 1: Puffy is surrounded by people who ended up dying before
Speaker 1: their time or got very ill. Either way, That'll be
Speaker 1: probably next week's show because I was the first to
Speaker 1: bring you excerpts of Kim's book, and now that it's
Speaker 1: out on Amazon called Kim's Lost Words, you can read
Speaker 1: all about this stuff I told you about weeks and
Speaker 1: weeks ago. And maybe the third show will be John
Speaker 1: Beney Ramsey's Killer. I Got It Decide didn't follow that too,
Speaker 1: But let's begin with the Kurt Cobain story. Was Kurt
Speaker 1: Colbain murder? Ever since this iconic frontman for Nevana was
Speaker 1: found dead in his home in Seattle in April nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety four, thirty years ago, there'll be conspiracy theories all
Speaker 1: around about his short life and tragic death. His death,
Speaker 1: as you know then and now, has been ruled a suicide.
Speaker 1: But a private investigator named Tom Grant took a close
Speaker 1: look at the case while it was unfolding. Now he's
Speaker 1: not my source, but another private eye is my source.
Speaker 1: But Tom Grant, who took a close look at this,
Speaker 1: he believed that Kurt Cobain was murdered. Specifically, he thinks
Speaker 1: that Cobain's wife, Courtney Love, was involved in a conspiracy
Speaker 1: that resulted in the murder of the grunge Star. Now,
Speaker 1: while Tom Grant has been the most vocal believer of
Speaker 1: this theory over the years, there are a couple of
Speaker 1: investigative journalists I have a lot of respect for Ian
Speaker 1: Halpern and Max Wallace. Both of them have publicly supported
Speaker 1: this point of view. In fact, Helprint and Wallace even
Speaker 1: published books that make the case that Kurt Cobain was murdered.
Speaker 1: And I begin to tell you this story, I think
Speaker 1: you'll see it my way as well. Most shot, Kurt
Speaker 1: Cobain's own grandfather has raised questions about his death, and
Speaker 1: at one point he was even quarterly saying that he
Speaker 1: believed Kurt was murdered and didn't commit suicide. Whenever a
Speaker 1: family member makes those kind of statements, I pricked my
Speaker 1: ears up because family knows. But let's now enter my source.
Speaker 1: It's a private I have known for several years now
Speaker 1: who's brought me some different angles on some sensational deaths
Speaker 1: across the last twenty five years or so, including the
Speaker 1: murders of the Cole Brown and Ronald Goldban and I'll
Speaker 1: have more information about the John Boney Ramsey case according
Speaker 1: to him as well. But in addition to this Kurt
Speaker 1: Cobain was he murdered or would commit suicide story? There's
Speaker 1: also the theory or the story that I can't talk
Speaker 1: too much about, but there is the idea that there
Speaker 1: was a love child fathered by Kurt and she is
Speaker 1: alive today and it is about two well, let's say
Speaker 1: she's been been taken care of. She's in hiding, so
Speaker 1: to speak, and people are being very delicate about how
Speaker 1: she's perceived and who she talks to and whether they
Speaker 1: even want to go forward with this. But she's made
Speaker 1: some she's made some mentions of the fact that she's
Speaker 1: a love child Kurt Cobain, the woman and the woman
Speaker 1: involved I don't know, but this particular girl says she is.
Speaker 1: But let's hold off on that for a second. What
Speaker 1: you need to know about this story before we go
Speaker 1: forward is Kurt Cobain at the time of his death
Speaker 1: was not happy in his marriage. He told friends he
Speaker 1: wanted to divorce Courtney love and he was even gonna
Speaker 1: write her out of his will. People who are close
Speaker 1: to the story. Know that back then he turned down
Speaker 1: The Life palozatur which was a I think a nine
Speaker 1: million dollar deal. He'd written, ah, he'd written to Geffen
Speaker 1: Records about going solo. And that's an interesting factor because
Speaker 1: Kurt Cobain loved the Beatles, and what he was doing
Speaker 1: in that letter to Geffen Records kind of mirrors what
Speaker 1: John Lennon was doing years early with the Beatles. Either way,
Speaker 1: there's no doubt in my mind, in other people's minds
Speaker 1: who are very closed to Kurt or work close to him,
Speaker 1: that he was accelerating toward breaking up the band. I'd
Speaker 1: asked Dave Grohl's opinion. But he's a fucking liar. He
Speaker 1: just got caught cheating on his wife again. This time
Speaker 1: he fathered a daughter. I was the guy who told
Speaker 1: you several years ago that he really wounded his marriage
Speaker 1: by banging or having an affair with his Wife's a
Speaker 1: good friend, destroying that marriage and really putting a big
Speaker 1: damper on his Look at pictures, his daughters can't stand him,
Speaker 1: No one smiles. This particular person doesn't believe that his
Speaker 1: heroin use, Kurt Kirbran's heroin use was the cause of
Speaker 1: his death. My source doesn't believe that. He doesn't believe
Speaker 1: Kurt was as much of an attic as he's been painted,
Speaker 1: because he played too wonderfully while they performed live for
Speaker 1: him to be that blasted out of his mind on heroin. Yes,
Speaker 1: was he surrounded by heroin. Of course, Courtney Love probably
Speaker 1: the biggest influence. But my source doesn't believe Kurt was
Speaker 1: that into it. He feels that heroin and the overdose
Speaker 1: was blown out of proportion to support their suicide claim,
Speaker 1: and the circle around him didn't have his best interest
Speaker 1: in mind. In fact, his bandmates wanted Kurt to get clean.
Speaker 1: They were pissed off, he was tired. Courtney Love and
Speaker 1: others had motives in mind, and not so much to
Speaker 1: make sure he got clean. Let's not forget that very important,
Speaker 1: but they raised enough of a stink that he did
Speaker 1: head to Los Angeles to go to rehab, and he
Speaker 1: knew his bandmates felt things were going downhill by turning
Speaker 1: down the European Tour and Lollapalooza. They were concerned. Intervention
Speaker 1: interventions occurred. In one of those interventions, he punched his
Speaker 1: friend in the limousine and route to the airport wanted
Speaker 1: no part of an intervention, but he still agreed to
Speaker 1: go to Los Angeles to get clean and I believe Exodus,
Speaker 1: but he only spent one day in that rehab. Then
Speaker 1: he bolted and hopped the plane back to Seattle on
Speaker 1: April first, or the early morning. Every per second, some
Speaker 1: people say, oh, no, I've seen an autograph he signed
Speaker 1: April fourth. He was dead as a doorknob by April fourth.
Speaker 1: There are people who have come forward with phony autographs.
Speaker 1: Kurt Cobain was not alive past April fourth. That's a lie.
Speaker 1: So he spends one day in rehab, bolts, hoops a
Speaker 1: plane back to Seattle. The legend goes on that plane,
Speaker 1: he sat next to Duff mccagan from Guns n' Roses
Speaker 1: and they started talking to Kurt told him he just
Speaker 1: left Exodus, and Duff mccagan is on record saying they
Speaker 1: both drank a lot on the plane, which is weird
Speaker 1: because Kurt really wasn't a big drinker. Heroin was his thing,
Speaker 1: it wasn't his only thing, but he preferred that over drinking.
Speaker 1: But he did tell Duff he was down, not feeling well,
Speaker 1: and at baggage claim Kurt Cobain went outside to grab
Speaker 1: a smoke with this guy named Eddie who was going
Speaker 1: to drive Duff back to his house, but Eddie lost that.
Speaker 1: Kurt came back inside the airport and said, hey, man,
Speaker 1: Kurt's gone. I can't find him anywhere. Because of his mood,
Speaker 1: Courtney Love decided to report him missing. Now. She was
Speaker 1: in La at the Peninsula Hotel. She was there to
Speaker 1: support him, but when she doesn't hear from him, she
Speaker 1: reports a missing and then she hires a private eye
Speaker 1: to find him. That's Tom Grant. Tom Grant believe it
Speaker 1: was a former La County sheriff Courtey was concerned about
Speaker 1: Kurt's wellbeing. But this is where the Pandora's box begins
Speaker 1: to open. On April third, Courtney Love calls Tom Grant
Speaker 1: and says somebody is using her husband's credit cards, and
Speaker 1: this begins Tom Grant's journey. He ended up playing a
Speaker 1: prominent role in at death that shook the world of
Speaker 1: rock and roll, and let's face it, to this day,
Speaker 1: has generated a cult following that still exists. And it's
Speaker 1: thirty years ago. God that flew as we remember. He
Speaker 1: was found dead in his home on April eighth, nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety four. Seattle police quickly ruled his death a suicide,
Speaker 1: but Tom Grant wasn't wasn't short. He blamed negligence on
Speaker 1: the part of the cops. Grant never said Courtney Love
Speaker 1: pull a trigger, but he always held the belief that
Speaker 1: there were other people involved in this conspiracy that resulted
Speaker 1: in Kurt's death. Now, police developed four rolls of film
Speaker 1: from the death scene, and Tom Grant believed the police
Speaker 1: knew what was coming down the pike. They were feeling
Speaker 1: the pressure of a dead superstar, and you know what
Speaker 1: it's like. They had to respond to the public, who
Speaker 1: was angry and confused, where is our music legend? What
Speaker 1: happened to Kurt Kilban? Sometimes cops get ahead of themselves
Speaker 1: and want to get above and beyond the controversy or
Speaker 1: conspiracy and make a decision, but those decisions aren't always accurate.
Speaker 1: Tom Grant was the first person to say he felt
Speaker 1: like he was being misled and certain people knew more
Speaker 1: shit than they were saying. So now he's got the
Speaker 1: smell of this all over him, and he's very determined.
Speaker 1: So he began to heavily record conversations and started to
Speaker 1: document every move he made because he felt that maybe
Speaker 1: he was being used as a pawn. At any rate,
Speaker 1: Tom Grant hooks up with Dylan Carlson and arrives in
Speaker 1: Seattle April seventh, around two am. Actually, Carlson founded the
Speaker 1: group Earth. He was one of Kurt's best friends. He
Speaker 1: also knew Corney was also a heroinautic and a big junkie. So,
Speaker 1: according to my source, possibly this person had a lot
Speaker 1: to do with the death of Kurt Kobank. The first thought,
Speaker 1: we go to his Kurt's house, but they don't find him.
Speaker 1: They don't find him there, but they don't even look
Speaker 1: in the greenhouse, which is in front of the house
Speaker 1: in plane view of everyone. It sat right on top
Speaker 1: of the house, above the driveway. And for Tom Grant
Speaker 1: to say he didn't know it existed is crazy. Any
Speaker 1: investigator would have seen that room right in front of
Speaker 1: the house and taken a look. And he went back
Speaker 1: to the house at ten PM and again doesn't look
Speaker 1: in the greenhouse. It really stinks that a private eye
Speaker 1: and a best friend of Kurt's would look in every
Speaker 1: room in the house, but not inside the greenhouse, which
Speaker 1: sat right there, impossible to ignore, but Here's where things
Speaker 1: get even weirder. The first night they searched, they didn't
Speaker 1: uncover a letter or a suicide note. But the next
Speaker 1: night they go there, there it is. The letter looks
Speaker 1: like a woman's handwriting. All right, it's even been set.
Speaker 1: Another friend wrote the letter. Some guy named Callie de Witt.
Speaker 1: Now de Witt lived briefly in Seattle while working as
Speaker 1: Francis Bean's nanny, their little baby's nanny. You can see
Speaker 1: de Witt if you look. He's appearing in Drag on
Speaker 1: the actual CD of Nirvana's in Utero. In another weird twist,
Speaker 1: Francis Bean only had male nanny's. I mean, there was
Speaker 1: some females there, but the males tended to her, and
Speaker 1: both of those men were junkies. The other guy was
Speaker 1: named Renee Navarett. It's amazing this kid, Francis Bean is
Speaker 1: alive and now I guess she's with the skateboarder's son Hawk,
Speaker 1: God bless. She ended up being a pretty decent looking kid.
Speaker 1: She looks and appears level headed. Who knows, but she
Speaker 1: came out of a war zone. But actually that's why
Speaker 1: Courtney Love didn't trust me when we first met. She
Speaker 1: hated me because I wrote in my column that she
Speaker 1: was shooting Heroin while pregnant, and she threatened to sue,
Speaker 1: but she backed off. And then all things, you know,
Speaker 1: of all things, we end up living not only in
Speaker 1: the same building in New York City's West Village neighborhood,
Speaker 1: but on the same floor. And she used to see
Speaker 1: me and put her fingers up as if to make
Speaker 1: the sign of a cross to keep me away, right,
Speaker 1: And I'd shout to her, I know you'd like me
Speaker 1: if you just talked to me, Cortney, just talk to me, baby.
Speaker 1: I was just real, like loud, and she'd run away
Speaker 1: with the fingers crossed. But eventually we met in the
Speaker 1: laundry room by accident. She must have been high, because
Speaker 1: we got along fine folding clothes. She even hugged me
Speaker 1: and said we're cool, no worries. She even liked the
Speaker 1: fact that there were a Calvin fine breefs that were
Speaker 1: tight that went to my thigh. She thought those were hot.
Speaker 1: If Courtney Love wrote this suicide note, she had to
Speaker 1: have done it earlier because she was in la so
Speaker 1: there would have been some premeditation. And it's believed by
Speaker 1: many that she wrote it days ahead of time, then
Speaker 1: flew to La as an alibi, and then had DeWitt
Speaker 1: placed the letter on the stairs when it was finally discovered.
Speaker 1: The one thing you have to think about when it
Speaker 1: comes to attics, especially heroin addicts, they stick together because
Speaker 1: they need each other. They got secrets, they share more
Speaker 1: than needles. Put it that way, they have a vested
Speaker 1: interest in getting more heroin. Protecting Francis Bean from heroin
Speaker 1: was a big thing as well, and they acted as
Speaker 1: a team. And by the way, Courtney and Kurt did
Speaker 1: have female nannies too, because if it were just guys
Speaker 1: on junk, child Protective Services would have taken France as
Speaker 1: being away. So they went about taking care of that
Speaker 1: baby in a very intricate way with multiple people. Okay,
Speaker 1: so the person who eventually finds Kurt's body was the
Speaker 1: electrician who was hired by Courtney and gave him instructions
Speaker 1: to fix the lighting in the greenhouse. Interesting those instructions
Speaker 1: given to him from Courtney in Los Angeles, but he
Speaker 1: went Nobody else saw the body, not Tom Grant, not
Speaker 1: any other investigator hired, not any of the nanny friends.
Speaker 1: Remember at this point there are seven or eighty people
Speaker 1: in this house, and nobody goes to the greenhouse to
Speaker 1: look for Kurt. And when I lose my keys, I
Speaker 1: look in the oven of the bathtub. If you're missing
Speaker 1: the lead singer of Nirvana and a rock superstar, wouldn't
Speaker 1: you check every goddamn room, wouldn't you look everywhere? Sounds
Speaker 1: like a cover up. So this dope e electrician walks
Speaker 1: through the French doors to the greenhouse and he thinks
Speaker 1: he sees a mannequin, but then he notices blood leaking
Speaker 1: out of the person's ear. Does he call the cops? Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: but he also calls a radio station as well. So
Speaker 1: police and firement and paramedics arrive at the house and
Speaker 1: a Detective Terry was there and a Detective Cameron, who
Speaker 1: happened to be murdered about a month later in a
Speaker 1: very weird circumstance. But let's not get into that conspiracy today.
Speaker 1: But they believe Kurt locked the door behind him, slams
Speaker 1: some heroin. He also had his favorite can of Bark's
Speaker 1: root beer next to him. Then he shot himself with
Speaker 1: his own Remington shotgun. Interesting tidbit here is that the
Speaker 1: dope in his blood was said to be enough to
Speaker 1: kill a rhinoceros. Okay, time for drug school. There are
Speaker 1: people who overdose at point four milligrams per leader of blood,
Speaker 1: So four milligrams of heroin per leader of blood is
Speaker 1: an overdose. Kurt Cobaine had one point five to two
Speaker 1: milligrams milligrams in him. That's five times the amount needed
Speaker 1: to overdose. So if you're a good cop, there's evidence
Speaker 1: of murder already. If esk me, how many guys can
Speaker 1: handle a shotgun with five times a lethal dose of
Speaker 1: heroin pulsing through their blood, chunkies just want to lean
Speaker 1: back a lot of cigarette and wait for the warm
Speaker 1: fade away. I can't even say that without thinking of
Speaker 1: being in the hospital waiting for the morphine shot. I've
Speaker 1: been to the hospital, you know, for my pneumonia and
Speaker 1: lung surgery, and I'm sorry, man, we can all admit
Speaker 1: certainly feels good when we hear that nurse's footstep come
Speaker 1: down all and we get that plunge, and man, the cold,
Speaker 1: comfortably numb feeling begins. By the way, I have to
Speaker 1: say this, the last few years that I've been hospitalized
Speaker 1: for different kind of ailments, I don't like this new
Speaker 1: thing where the nurses write their cell phones on the
Speaker 1: board and you're supposed to remember to call them every
Speaker 1: four hours. It ain't like the old days when you
Speaker 1: can hear those shoes squeaking down the hallway at three
Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning because you know you're getting the shot.
Speaker 1: Now you got to stay awake and call them. I
Speaker 1: don't like that. It's bullshit, all right. Back to the
Speaker 1: crime scene. Very important to remember, gang, there are no
Speaker 1: prints on the gun, or on the gun's case, or
Speaker 1: on the shells, or on the pen written used for
Speaker 1: this suicide letter. Everything's wiped. So there's evidence of a murder, right,
Speaker 1: I would think so. So the police immediately follow this
Speaker 1: up as a suicide. But there are so many people
Speaker 1: who believe that a the heroine alone in Kurt's body
Speaker 1: was enough to kill him. He wouldn't have been able
Speaker 1: to hold that shotmun to his face in the state
Speaker 1: he was in. The key question is does anybody really
Speaker 1: know that he's already dead when the gun is stuck
Speaker 1: in his mouth and the trigger pulled. That's a big question.
Speaker 1: Is that true? Was that the way it was? So
Speaker 1: the autopsy was leaked to me and there's no real
Speaker 1: proof that the heroine killed him. The autopsy says there's
Speaker 1: fluid in his trachea and that could be cause for
Speaker 1: some sort of internal damage. But my source says he
Speaker 1: believes Kurt was killed in the basement, ejected with the
Speaker 1: heroine in the basement, and he's moved to the greenhouse
Speaker 1: by two men and they staged the room over a
Speaker 1: forty minute period before a witness hears a gun shot
Speaker 1: go off. Now the point is, we don't know if
Speaker 1: Kurt is alive or dead when he's shot. But the
Speaker 1: blast went through his upper palate and there was blood
Speaker 1: coming out of his ear. It didn't blow his head off,
Speaker 1: as people have said, like the big Jane Mannsteel lie
Speaker 1: that she was decapidated. No, she wasn't her wig flew off.
Speaker 1: She was in the back seat. It wasn't her ahead,
Speaker 1: it was her wig. A lot of these things happened
Speaker 1: with the death of Superstars, and Seattle police said that
Speaker 1: Kurt was indescribable when they found him, not recognizable. My
Speaker 1: source says that's bullshit because he has a photo of
Speaker 1: Kurt Cobain dead. I've seen it. He's definitely identifiable. Now
Speaker 1: you rifle officionados would know that this shotgun he used
Speaker 1: or was used, is it Remington Model eleven with a
Speaker 1: five inch choked on it. It's a long nune so
Speaker 1: most likely he'd have to use his toe to press
Speaker 1: the trigger. Problem is he has his sneakers on tied tight.
Speaker 1: Kurt was five to eight. They know how long. His
Speaker 1: arms were almost impossible to have used his own hand
Speaker 1: on that trigger. Not impossible, but he would have busted
Speaker 1: some teeth in attempting to do that. Another thing is
Speaker 1: the heroin he had in his cigar box next to
Speaker 1: his body. The needles in that box were all capped,
Speaker 1: so when you push that much heroin into your veins,
Speaker 1: a junkie would typically nod out with the needles still
Speaker 1: in his arm, as many people do. I used to
Speaker 1: go to New York City when I was doing my
Speaker 1: photography class and I was taking photos up close of
Speaker 1: junkies in New York City in nineteen eighty three, and
Speaker 1: it was intimidating to get close to them, but I
Speaker 1: did it first from thirty yards away, then ten, then
Speaker 1: finally I got right up to their face. And I
Speaker 1: have great pictures of these chunkies with needles in there arms,
Speaker 1: nodding off or possibly dying. That's what junkies do, but
Speaker 1: think of it slamming the junk into his arm, then
Speaker 1: capping the needle and placing it back in the box,
Speaker 1: then grabbing a gun, perhaps loading it, cocking it. It's
Speaker 1: not impossible, but he'd have to have superpowers to do
Speaker 1: all that after the amount of heroing heroin pulsing in
Speaker 1: his ains. My source says it's possible, but we're talking
Speaker 1: about a man's life, reputation, and legacy. So my source
Speaker 1: has gone to SEATTLEPD and spoken to a detective and
Speaker 1: presented his case. The detective pretty much acted like there
Speaker 1: was nothing. He acted like he didn't need to be
Speaker 1: bothered by another dead junkie. He was lazy about even
Speaker 1: listening to an alternative idea. But my sources dog he's
Speaker 1: made a career out of looking at the true crime cases.
Speaker 1: This is the same person who gave me the OJ
Speaker 1: Simpson had an accomplice theory. And it's so funny that
Speaker 1: that accomplice who he named was actually on CNN's Caitlin
Speaker 1: Collins Show when OJ Simpson died. Fucking CNN had the
Speaker 1: alleged accomplice on the air and didn't know what to
Speaker 1: do with that school assholes to the end. Anyhow, my
Speaker 1: source says this is the case that bothers him the
Speaker 1: most because he really feels, undoubtedly that Kurt Cobain was murdered.
Speaker 1: He calls her the worst investigation ever. Let's now enter
Speaker 1: a man named Matthew Ricker. Matthew Ricker has written about
Speaker 1: the death of Kurt Cobain on law for about twenty years.
Speaker 1: In twenty seventeen, he wrote a book when Amazon Kindall
Speaker 1: called The Mysterious Death of Kurt Cobain, And in writing
Speaker 1: that book, he came to the conclusion that no one
Speaker 1: had really done enough with the investigation into his death.
Speaker 1: It was talked about, it was discussed, it was argued over.
Speaker 1: But he realized that the Seattle Police Department never really
Speaker 1: did a fall on investigation in ninety four or even
Speaker 1: since then, and that really no one else has either.
Speaker 1: And one of the things he realized in recent years
Speaker 1: is that there were witnesses from that day April nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety four, and that no one had sought to question
Speaker 1: them ever. Even still, so, he rounded up a couple
Speaker 1: of witnesses who saw Kurt Cobain on the night he died,
Speaker 1: and he recorded some of that testimony, and he set
Speaker 1: to release a portion of those interviews in the coming
Speaker 1: months to finally try and find that exactly what happened.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure I'll get those ahead of time. So basically,
Speaker 1: with these interviews conducted and soon to be released, is
Speaker 1: in essence giving this writer his flowers and allowing him
Speaker 1: to push the facts that he's uncovered. My source is
Speaker 1: not sitting home and saying I figured out the whole
Speaker 1: Kirk theband case. No, it's not what it is. He
Speaker 1: was always doubtful, and when he met the writer, it
Speaker 1: was like a domino fell on to him and now
Speaker 1: he was ready to really present the truth to all
Speaker 1: of us. So that's typically the way he's always worked,
Speaker 1: this PI source of mind. Somebody comes forward with a clue,
Speaker 1: then he goes off and does his own groundwork. And
Speaker 1: like I said, I first met and met him when
Speaker 1: he presented me with the OJ had an accomplice theory,
Speaker 1: and I bit because it wasn't the old tired trope
Speaker 1: that OJ's son helped him. I never believed that for
Speaker 1: a second, but I could believe that something else happened
Speaker 1: that night in Brentwood outside Nicole Brown door. Because I
Speaker 1: covered this case as a journalist and I saw the
Speaker 1: color photos many months before anybody else could have a
Speaker 1: chance to see them. They were very highly guarded back then.
Speaker 1: And one day my editor in chief, Martin Dunn, said,
Speaker 1: you won't see the pictures of Ojay's victims. I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: and I tell you Nicole Brown. She looked like a
Speaker 1: pez dispenser. Her head was peeled back, barely connected to
Speaker 1: her spine. And Ronald Goldman looked like he put up
Speaker 1: a hell of a fight. He wasn't a small guy. Probably,
Speaker 1: if we are to believe what Ronald Goldman was like
Speaker 1: back then, he probably had some cocaine pulsing through his blood,
Speaker 1: although I never heard that theory. But you know, he
Speaker 1: wasn't only their waiter at their favorite restaurant, met Salona.
Speaker 1: He was also the guy a lot of women in
Speaker 1: back then went to for their coke. Call Fay Resnick
Speaker 1: Chris Jenner two and many years ago, like I guess
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety six, I went out with fair Resnick a
Speaker 1: couple of times, and you know, we had some fun
Speaker 1: and I got her comfortable enough to talk Turkey with
Speaker 1: me and even she can fight it at OJ that
Speaker 1: she didn't think OJ did all that by himself, and
Speaker 1: she hinted that Nicole had big problems and issues with
Speaker 1: drug dealers of the Columbian kind. And my sources kind
Speaker 1: of always delve into this theory that the accomplice, alleged
Speaker 1: accomplice of OJ, there was something going on with drug dealers,
Speaker 1: Colombian cartel, blah blah blah. Very messy. But this writer
Speaker 1: has spent over twenty years with this story. He was
Speaker 1: even paired with the privadi Tom Grant for a time.
Speaker 1: He wrote the book that anyone can read if you
Speaker 1: want to, So the credit should go to him for
Speaker 1: the legwork. But let me finish up by talking about
Speaker 1: some of the evidence again. As we said, a ton
Speaker 1: of heroin in his system. Was he killed in another
Speaker 1: room with that heroin pushed and moved to the greenhouse.
Speaker 1: Police didn't even look to check if there was any
Speaker 1: evidence of him being in any other room but the greenhouse,
Speaker 1: and there were people in the house. Did police interview them. No,
Speaker 1: So they're flying blind at this point. They're flying blind.
Speaker 1: From the start. We've seen a lot of crime cases
Speaker 1: bungled and This could easily be another one of those.
Speaker 1: Why aren't any of Kurt Cobain's prints on the gun,
Speaker 1: on the hand, on the case, on the trigger, etc.
Speaker 1: Why are there no prince? And why isn't Kurt's prince
Speaker 1: on the red pen that was used to write this
Speaker 1: suicide note? And that red pen was stabbed through the
Speaker 1: note into a pot of dirt. No prints on the
Speaker 1: pen because all the objects were wiped down. Why is
Speaker 1: the twenty gage shell of bird shot on the wrong
Speaker 1: side of the ejection chamber? And in addition, the last
Speaker 1: four lines of that note are in a different font
Speaker 1: and a lot of people who looked at it say
Speaker 1: it's not Kurt's handwriting. My source says, there's no way
Speaker 1: it's Kurt's handwriting. He even had handwriting experts look at
Speaker 1: it and they agree it's not kurtz which could basically
Speaker 1: mean this note was written days before he was killed.
Speaker 1: And this is where my source says things decidedly point
Speaker 1: to Courtney Love. An interesting thing to note is that
Speaker 1: when Tom Grant met with Courtney, he said she had
Speaker 1: a sample of Kurt's handwriting and her backpack. Apparently he
Speaker 1: wrote something down on the back of an I hop
Speaker 1: menu and she kept it. And they also say she
Speaker 1: made attempts on that menu to trace letters in Kurt's
Speaker 1: style of writing. Why would anybody do that? She even
Speaker 1: wrote down that paper the words quote get arrested. In
Speaker 1: the last four lines of that letter, it should be
Speaker 1: noted were I love you, I love you. You'll all
Speaker 1: be happy without me? And my source says those were
Speaker 1: not written by Kurt. If he's divorcing Courtney Love and
Speaker 1: writing her out of his will, and she tells her
Speaker 1: friend Rosemary Carroll, find me the nastiest divorce attorney in
Speaker 1: the world. Then she and Kurt already at odds he's
Speaker 1: breaking up Nirvana. There goes that money, there goes her marriage,
Speaker 1: there goes her rights to the music. But what happens
Speaker 1: if he dies? Who would Herod's all the money? Who
Speaker 1: would Herod's all the music, writes Courtney Love. Wouldn't you
Speaker 1: consider that a motive? Here's her second motive, the people
Speaker 1: who were at the house, because he says there were
Speaker 1: multiple killers who took part in this, all multiple accessories.
Speaker 1: Did Courtney maybe whisper in their ears. Look, if you
Speaker 1: do this, I'll take care of you. You'll get a house.
Speaker 1: You'll get heroin the rest of your life, free drugs,
Speaker 1: free money. Just get rid of them. And my source
Speaker 1: also has proof that Courtney bought a house for one
Speaker 1: of those people in Los Angeles. Now you can play
Speaker 1: Devil's advocates say, well, she had money, so she bought
Speaker 1: a house for a friend. Yeah, okay, but come on,
Speaker 1: she also gave money right away to a few of
Speaker 1: them to go to rehab. Just flast them thirty grand
Speaker 1: right away, no questions asked. Take your girlfriend too, both,
Speaker 1: you get healthy on me. Now. He's very careful to
Speaker 1: say he's not implicating her in the murder, but that's
Speaker 1: a bit of a conspiracy, to be sure. And then
Speaker 1: that final night, Kurt arrives at the airport and Courtney
Speaker 1: arranges for him to be picked up. They get it
Speaker 1: right home from a female friend. It's very, very late
Speaker 1: the night of April first. By the time he gets home,
Speaker 1: it's the early morning als of April second. So everyone
Speaker 1: at the house knows Kurt's coming home shortly, and Courtney
Speaker 1: tells them, look, he left rehab, he's on his way back.
Speaker 1: He'll be there momentarily. At that time, there are eight
Speaker 1: people in the house, Kurk gets home, has a meal
Speaker 1: because when he was dead, they found food in his
Speaker 1: stomach not fully digested, so he ate the meal when
Speaker 1: he got home. He's still wearing the medical bracelet from
Speaker 1: the rehab even when they find his body. There's still
Speaker 1: a plane ticket in his pocket. There's money in his pocket.
Speaker 1: He just got home from the airport. So why does
Speaker 1: he still have that stuff in his pocket when they
Speaker 1: find him dead. Why is he's still winning the bracelet
Speaker 1: from rehab? He would keep them on for six days. No.
Speaker 1: From my pi's investigation, Having spoken to the witness that
Speaker 1: came forward from the informant, from multiple people who've known
Speaker 1: these people for years, he says Kurt wanted these people
Speaker 1: to leave the house. You know, hey, guys, you gotta go.
Speaker 1: You're shooting up, you're smoking, you're nodding off. It's getting late.
Speaker 1: You gotta go. They don't want to hear it. They're
Speaker 1: not going anywhere. He believed things may have heightened between
Speaker 1: them and the voices that were raised, and maybe some
Speaker 1: pushing and shoving and maybe some threats between friends what
Speaker 1: have you, between druggie friends. He thinks he was assaulted
Speaker 1: and knocked down, knocked out by two men in front
Speaker 1: of women, and then they begin to shoot them up
Speaker 1: with heroin that's already preloaded, so they know they're doing this.
Speaker 1: This was a setup. And you should also know when
Speaker 1: the gun is purchased by Dylan Carlson, it's not in
Speaker 1: Kurt Cobain's name, and my PI has the receipt. Dylan
Speaker 1: Carlson bought the gun, not Kurt. He made up a
Speaker 1: story that Kurt wanted a gun. But let me ask you,
Speaker 1: when Kurt Cobain want to buy a gun today? He
Speaker 1: was gonna fly out to rehab, like on March thirtieth
Speaker 1: or something. That doesn't make much sense. So the upshoot,
Speaker 1: according to my guy, is Kurt is assaulted, shot out
Speaker 1: with junk in front of people. He's then carried to
Speaker 1: the greenhouse. Is he alive at this point we don't
Speaker 1: exactly know. But about thirty to forty minutes later a
Speaker 1: gun shot is heard. That's the shot in the mouth.
Speaker 1: After that, these people stay in the house. So my
Speaker 1: guy says, the killers are the killers of Kurt Cobain
Speaker 1: are Dylan Carlson and Daniel clint Rich. Now everybody who
Speaker 1: knows this case knows who Dylan Carlson is, but only
Speaker 1: my guy as id'd who Danny rich is. Nobody knows
Speaker 1: that name with regard to this case, and now you do.
Speaker 1: The accessories or witnesses are Michael Kelly de Witt, Renee Navarett,
Speaker 1: Jessica Hopper, Jennifer Adamson, and Bonnie Dillard. These people have
Speaker 1: been caught talking about this before. And even though we
Speaker 1: still might have people saying, oh everything is here, say well,
Speaker 1: my guy isn't a cop. He's a storyteller. He's solved
Speaker 1: murders in the past, He's identified killers in the past.
Speaker 1: That's what he does best. But the question that bothers
Speaker 1: my mind though, if this was a murder, why the shotgun?
Speaker 1: They could have just shot all that dope into him,
Speaker 1: as they possibly did, and let that take its natural course.
Speaker 1: The thing is all these people obviously have the right
Speaker 1: to remain silent and never talk about his case, and
Speaker 1: in doing so they're standing behind the us CA institution.
Speaker 1: But if they were interrogated as they should have been
Speaker 1: and then decided not to talk, now you're looking at
Speaker 1: obstructing justice. But until the detective with balls does just that,
Speaker 1: this will always be seen as a Kirk Cobain suicide.
Speaker 1: What else should people think when police never even interviewed
Speaker 1: them or got statements from these people? See, that's what
Speaker 1: it all goes downhill very fast. According to my source
Speaker 1: and myself, we've seen many cases of terrible police work,
Speaker 1: and that's where my sources specialty really is. And when
Speaker 1: you lay out the facts as we've just done, I
Speaker 1: for one, honestly believe Kirk Cobain was murdered. Now, with
Speaker 1: respect to this rumor that there is a love child,
Speaker 1: all I can tell you about that is I've seen pictures,
Speaker 1: I've seen comments where this particular love child is next
Speaker 1: Francis Bean. I don't know her name. I know that
Speaker 1: things are very tight and dangerous and it's a subject
Speaker 1: that's not to be dilly dallied with. So right now
Speaker 1: I don't have much more than just telling you that
Speaker 1: you might be hearing about a love child down the road,
Speaker 1: and if you do, you know you got that from first.
Speaker 1: But until I can confirm it, it's just that a rumor.
Speaker 1: But I do have the pictures that say otherwise. Like
Speaker 1: I said earlier, when we start first out of the show,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you a free show every week that's
Speaker 1: gonna detail some of the most fantastic and outrageous murders,
Speaker 1: crazy stories from the last two or three decades, even
Speaker 1: further back. It won't be so much me hearkening back
Speaker 1: to my days as a columnist, et cetera, but more
Speaker 1: about the the blood and guts of murder cases that
Speaker 1: just seem off. Maybe there's a different angle on some
Speaker 1: of these cases we've all kind of gone to bed
Speaker 1: with and accepted. We'll see in the meantime. That's all
Speaker 1: for today. I met A J. Benzon. That was your
Speaker 1: free show September eleventh, twenty twenty three. We'll talk to
Speaker 1: us next week.