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Kurt Donald Cobain

Case from Seattle, WA dated Apr 05, 1994

Victim Details

Kurt Donald Cobain

Male

White / Caucasian

Seattle

WA

1994-04-05

27

Kurt

Donald Cobain

Self-Inflicted

06/22/2026

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On April 8, 1994, the body of Kurt Donald Cobain, a 27-year-old White male, was discovered in the greenhouse of his Seattle, Washington home. An electrician who had arrived to install a security system found Cobain, initially believing him to be a mannequin until he saw blood. A 20-gauge shotgun was found across Cobain's chest, and a suicide note was discovered nearby in a flowerpot, with a pen stuck through it. The King County Medical Examiner later determined that Cobain had died on April 5, t ...
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