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Below are clips from the case tapes, recorded by Tom Grant, of conversations he had with Courtney Love & her lawyer Rosemary Carroll.
(Tom Grant is the private investigator hired by Courtney on April 3, 1994)All "BEF" files come from interviews and conversations which occurred during the week prior to April 8th, BEFORE anyone allegedly knew Kurt Cobain was dead.
All "AFT" files come from interviews and conversations which occurred AFTER Kurt's body was discovered on April 8th.These excerpts, do not alone prove that Kurt Cobain was murdered. They will prove, however, that there was a lot of suspicious activity, including lies and misinformation being fed to the press, before and after Kurt Cobain was found dead. They will also help substantiate facts and details that Tom Grant revealed over the years about the events surrounding Cobain's death.ALL INFORMATION TAKEN DIRECTLY FROM TOM GRANT'S WEB SITE
WWW.COBAINCASE.COMTO HEAR THE AUDIO FILES, CLICK THE LINK UNDER EACH EXPLANATION.BEF 022 -
Courtney tells Tom Grant she used Det. Terry to get a drug dealer busted. The fact that Courtney often bought her own drugs from this same dealer is a side issue. What's important to note here is that Courtney had a personal friendship with this narcotics detective. She called Terry once on Tom's car phone while she was with him. Detective Terry was even mentioned in Kurt's Missing Person report as someone to see for additional information.
Detective Terry was murdered shortly after Kurt Cobain was found dead.PLAY FILE - BEF 022BEF 031 -
Courtney says Kurt "has no friends."
And. . . "I always see on TV where the woman comes in and she's like. . . 'There's no way he could have killed himself.'"
This was taped BEFORE the public was even aware that Kurt was missing and several days before anyone supposedly knew he was dead. The comment could have been another slip of the tongue by Courtney or it could be explained away in a number of ways that might make sense. I just found it interesting.PLAY FILE - BEF 031BEF 154c -
Some journalists have written that Kurt was afraid Courtney might leave him if he didn't go into rehab and kick his heroin addiction. The truth is, just prior to his death, Kurt was actually trying to leave Courtney!
After Cobain's death, when rumors of a pending divorce began to surface, Courtney denied she and Kurt were having marital problems and said there was never any talk of divorce.
This is a discussion Tom Grant & Courtney had about the note from the Rome incident. Remember, the Rome incident was called an "accident" while Kurt was still alive. After his death, when he wasn't around to set the record straight, the Rome incident was suddenly called a "suicide attempt."
So, what did Kurt tell Courtney about the incident in Rome and the note he left? In this conversation recorded on April 3rd, 1994, BEFORE Cobain was found dead, she tells Tom Grant, "He claims he was leaving me." (Note the present tense).
It's a long file so this is just a short portion of the conversation. When you listen to more of the conversation on the Cobain Case Audio Tape, it sounds amazingly similar to the interview Courtney did for the December 1994 issue of Rolling Stone Magazine where she told David Fricke about "another note" she supposedly found in her bedroom after Kurt's body was discovered in Seattle. But here she's telling Tom about the Rome note. . . in almost identical terms!
Courtney seems to have a problem keeping her lies straight.PLAY FILE - BEF 154cBEF 171(A,B,C,D,F,G)
From the time Kurt left the rehab center in Marina Del Rey and went missing, journalists were being fed stories by Courtney and her friends. On several occasions, Courtney even tried to get Tom Grant to plant stories for her.
The press was portraying Courtney during this period of time as "desperate," "frantic," "afraid," etc. "She knew he was going to die!" they wrote obligingly as she pulled the strings of eager but gullible journalists.
But the woman Tom was dealing with seemed to be an unbelievable opportunist, obsessed more with promoting her own career than actually finding her "suicidal" husband.
These are excerpts from a conversation Tom Grant had with Courtney on April 3, 1994. She's telling him about the phony story she had planted with the Associated Press the night before. She's also asking Tom's advice on how she might "expand" her lie and take advantage of the additional publicity it will inevitably bring. Listen carefully to the comments listed below.
Courtney pulled the same stunt a few days later, on Thursday night, the night she had expected Kurt's body to be discovered by Dylan Carlson and Tom. The press reported she overdosed in her Peninsula Hotel room and that it might have been a "suicide attempt."
Tom eventually became convinced that these phony overdose events were actually an attempt by Courtney to make Kurt's "pending" death appear to be a "suicide pact" and that she somehow survived.
(Later, after Cobain's body was found, but while Tom Grant was still in Seattle, Tom heard Paul Harvey report the "suicide pact" rumor on one of his radio vignettes).
One of Courtney's favorite publicity tactics during this period of time was to attract sympathy from the press and, most importantly, from Kurt's adoring fans. This would help make the transition from "Nirvana fan" to "Hole fan" seem completely natural.
PLEASE NOTE:
Excerpts bef_171a-g are all included in one file, (BEF_171) on the original audio tape.
Her husband was missing. . .
She was telling everyone he was suicidal. . .
and she just KNOWS he's going to die!
But hey, she's got records to sell!PLAY FILE - 171a
PLAY FILE - 171b
PLAY FILE - 171c
PLAY FILE - 171d
PLAY FILE - 171f
PLAY FILE - 171gAFT 504
As mentioned in the Cobain Case Study Manual, after Cobain's death, Courtney's very own entertainment attorney, Rosemary Caroll, told Tom Grant, "Kurt wasn't suicidal, Tom." Rosemary was also close to Kurt and she was suspicious that Courtney had something to do with Kurt's death.
This is Rosemary Caroll asking Tom to, "Come over again. There's some stuff I want to show you."
Rosemary was disturbed by the handwriting on the so-called "suicide note" from Seattle. She wanted Tom to look at samples of Courtney's handwriting.PLAY FILE - AFT 504AFT 662b
Rosemary Caroll agreeing that the letter from Cali sounded phony.PLAY FILE - AFT 662bAFT 668
Rosemary Caroll thought Cali wrote the phony letter because he, (Cali), "KNEW that Kurt was dead!"PLAY FILE - AFT 668AFT 688
Dylan Carlson and Tom Grant stopped at a pay phone while they were in Seattle searching for Kurt. Dylan called Courtney, (who was staying at Rosemary's house in Los Angeles), to get further instructions. Rosemary later told Tom she was standing next to Courtney when Courtney was on the phone with Dylan and heard her say to him, "Be sure to check the greenhouse."
Dylan later denied Courtney had told him to check the greenhouse.
Rosemary tells Tom here, "It's obvious they're lying."PLAY FILE - AFT 688AFT 712
Rosemary comments on Courtney's ability to manipulate the police and the press.
"It's amazing that she can do this... ya know!"PLAY FILE - AFT 712AFT 933a
Admitting she filed the missing person's report, not Kurt's mom, Wendy O'Conner, as stated on the police report and as reported in the media.PLAY FILE - AFT 933aAFT 975
While discussing the "Note from Rome" Tom Grant asked, "Why would somebody tell you to get rid of that?"
"Because it wasn't really nice... It talked about getting a divorce," Courtney replied. Why would he indicate divorce in a "suicide" note?!PLAY FILE - AFT 975MORE INFORMATION AVAILABLE IN THE VIDEOS SECTION OF THIS PROFILE
