Almost 20 years after Kurt Cobain's suicide, Seattle police have released a couple of unseen pictures of the suicide scene.
Police spokeswoman Renee Witt said that a detective who recently reviewed the Cobain case file found several rolls of undeveloped film taken at the suicide scene. The images released late Thursday, were from that discovery, according to L.A. Times.
Both pictures show a spoon and needles along with a pair of sunglasses, a pack of cigarettes, a towel and a wallet. The presence of drugs at the death scene comes as no surprise as it wasn't a secret that the Nirvana frontman was high on heroin when he shot himself.
The new photos were discovered when Seattle Police Department Cold Case Detective Mike Ciesynski decided to review the case file, anticipating a lot of media inquires as Cobain's 20th death anniversary nears on April 8.
"We knew with the 20th anniversary coming up and we knew there was going to be a lot of media interest," Ciesynski said in a statement published on the Seattle Police Department website. "I've been a detective in homicide for 20 years and I've been in the cold case unit for 10 years. Most of the cases I work on, I look for something that wasn't done [in the investigation] in the past."
There have been several conspiracy theories surrounding the Nirvana frontman's suicide, including a book published in 1999 titled "Who Killed Kurt Cobain?: The Mysterious Death of an Icon." It was those lingering questions and "a lot of media interest" that led Ciesynski to take another look. Ciesynski reviewed the case but didn't re-investigate or re-open it. He watched several documentaries about conspiracies surrounding Cobain's death, read articles and watched TV shows. The detective didn't discover anything new in the case, but he explained that "there were so many conspiracy theories out there, it was good judgement on their behalf to hold to this."
" Cobain's body was discovered in Seattle on April 8, 1994. Investigation into his death revealed that days before he killed himself, Cobain had gone into the greenhouse of his large home taking a massive dose of heroin along. He later shot himself with a 20-gauge shotgun. Although his death was ruled a suicide, some refused to believe it, leading to conspiracy theories that Cobain had been killed.
"Sometimes people believe what they read - some of the disinformation from some of the books, that this was a conspiracy. That's completely inaccurate," said Ciesynski, according to MTV. "It's a suicide. This is a closed case."
