14 DAY TRIAL // It's been 20 years since the death of the Nirvana front man, but that doesn't mean that the case of his mysterious suicide has been classified. Kurt Cobain's name has made news today when Seattle police have made public the fact that they are re-opening Cobain's death in investigation.
Local TV station KiroTV has the scoop and they claim that police have developed four rolls of film that have been inexplicably sitting in a Seattle police evidence locker for years. For some reason, they have been processed only last month at the King County Sheriff's Office photo lab and now the case has been reopened.
The new photos are said to have a green tint to them because of deterioration, but offer a much better glimpse of the death scene than the Polaroids that have been previously available and which were taken at the time by police investigators.
Local Detective Mike Ciensynski has been assigned to the case and he explained why he was chosen in the first place “I was requested to look at the case because I’m a cold case detective because it is 20 years later and it’s a high media case.”
He has already started conducting interviews because he says “there were always these conspiracy theorists out there, and so I was asked to look at the case and review it.”
After reviewing the evidence, Ciensynski claims that the 1994 suicide ruling has remained unchanged, indicating that it was his belief too that Kurt Cobain chose to end his own life. However, that does not mean that the investigation has been completed.
The Detective in charge of the investigation has also added that the newly surfaced photos are not going to be released “What are people going to gain from seeing pictures of Kurt Cobain laying on the ground with his hair blown back, with blood coming out of his nose and trauma to his eyes from a penetrating shotgun wound. How’s that going to benefit anybody?”
Testament to Cobain's fame is the fact that Seattle Police has admitted they still receive requests to reopen his death investigation on a weekly basis from his fans, mainly on Twitter, indicating that they are not happy with the suicide verdict that has been reached many years ago.
The public affairs office of the Seattle police claim that no other case has received so much public attention in over two decades. Detective Ciesynski hopes that the investigation will be closed soon: “I’m sure until the 25th anniversary comes up.”