Overview
- An independent team that includes Michelle Wilkins and specialist Brian Burnett says evidence points to homicide and possible involvement by others after a three-day review of case materials.
- The researchers compiled their conclusions in a peer-reviewed document following what they describe as an exhaustive examination of autopsy findings.
- The team alleges Cobain was incapacitated with heroin before the fatal gunshot and claims differences appear in handwriting between portions of two parting notes.
- The King County Medical Examiner’s Office says its 1994 suicide determination remains correct and that it will revisit the case only if verifiable new evidence emerges.
- Seattle police state the department is not reopening the case and continue to hold that Cobain died by suicide.