Courtney Love's legal team recently
issued cease and desist letters to theaters showing the documentary
film Soaked In Bleach, which delves into the troubling circumstances
surrounding the death of her husband, Kurt Cobain. Allegations that
Love conspired to murder Cobain have been leveled against her since
shortly after his passing, and Soaked In Bleach highlights some of
her suspicious behaviors near the time of his death. Most significant
about the film, however, is that it features a panel of forensic
experts and the former Chief of the Seattle Police Department at the
time of Cobain's passing, who weigh in on the Department's handling
of his death.
The forensic testimony, in sum, is a
clear and reasoned indictment of the Seattle Police Department's
conduct in the Cobain matter, with fault found primarily in the fact
that the Department determined Cobain had committed suicide without
conducting even the most bare minimum of investigation. The
consequence of this premature determination is made abundantly clear
when testimony is offered with regard to Cobain's triple-lethal
blood-morphine concentration, which suggests he would have been
incapacitated prior to being able to fire the alleged suicide shot.
This would naturally indicate Homicide as the proper determination of
cause of death and consistent in this regard is the former Chief's
telling assertion that the Seattle Police Department should have
conducted an investigation into the behavioral patterns of “key individuals who had a motive to
see Kurt Cobain dead.”
In total, the forensic testimony makes
undeniably clear that as a result of not following basic death
investigation protocols, significant and necessary areas of
evidentiary exploration were ignored, thereby rendering the Seattle
Police Department's finding of suicide improper and a re-opening of
the case necessary.
This of course should be of no concern
to Ms. Love. That's because, as to be expected, one of her recently released cease and
desist letters to theaters makes unequivocally clear that she played
absolutely no role in her husband's death: with confidence her legal
team asserts that “there is simply no credible evidence” to
support such an allegation and that claims to the contrary are merely
“debunked conspiracy theor[ies]” to be brushed off and discarded.
Yet this all begs a very large
question. Given such adamant reassurances, when then can we expect
to hear Courtney Love demand answers from the Seattle Police
Department to the troubling questions that surround the death of her
husband? Now that leading experts
and the former Chief at the time of Cobain's passing have weighed in,
when can we expert her, as widow, to petition for a re-opening of the
case?
The answer to this
question, of course, is the “tell,” and reveals the true reason
behind those cease and desist letters: Courtney Love and her
attorneys know that a re-opening of the case will necessitate, as a
matter of standard police procedure, inquiry into Love's behavior
surrounding the time of Cobain's death, and that there are numerous
and entirely valid avenues of inquiry in this regard that will need
to be pursued. If there is “no credible evidence” behind the
allegation that Love was involved in the death of her husband; if
such a claim is merely a “debunked conspiracy theory,” as her
attorneys contend, then, by all means, she should welcome a
re-investigation with open arms, and her legal team should advise her
to do so.
The more Courtney
Love and her lawyers resort to First Amendment-obstructing legal
threats and belittlement of credible case details supported by
forensic experts and the former Chief of the Seattle Police
Department, the more evident the truth really becomes.
