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| December 2001 Update New Kurt Cobain Murder Case Message Board!!! The KCWM Message board is a place to discuss progression in getting the murder case reopened. Any well-intending person may join - but we ask that everyone be familiar with Tom Grant's website. The right to ban troublesome members is reserved. However, we do welcome debate as long as it's in a mature manner. October 2001 UPDATE NOW IN AUDIO! VH1 Confidential Transcript~ If you've missed the segment aired on VH1, read it here! AUGUST 25, 2001 UPDATE Tom Grant is working on a current Cobain Case Update that is taking a bit of time due to it being extensive... He doesn't say when but we'll be sure to keep an eye out for it!!! FRANCES BARNETT'S SEPTEMBER 2000 UPDATE TWO BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE An inside look at Courtney, her drug stories and lies, Kurt fighting for the custody of Frances Bean and the insane rumours created by Courtney herself. It wasn’t Kurt telling audiences that he used heroin all the time. It wasn’t Kurt continuously bringing up drugs in interviews. It wasn’t Kurt telling journalists that Courtney was lost to drugs. It wasn’t Kurt who used artwork glorifying drugs on the covers of his records. It wasn’t Kurt using Rohypnol in March 1994. It was Courtney. UPDATE 7/28/2000 VH1'S NEW SHOW 'VH1 Confidential' probes the mysteries, myths, and urban legends in rock. New series premieres in late summer. Two segments consist of Kurt Cobain- "The Curse of 27" and "Kurt Cobain: Suicide or Murder?". Let's not forget that VH1 is also part of MTv. MTv also has a three hour interview with Tom Grant they have never aired. Will VH1 succumb to MTv's total media circus, or will VH1 tell the truth about what happened to Kurt? Tune in to VH1 and find out! UPDATE 2/17/2000 with a : Letter from Frances Barnett AND HE LIKES TO SHOOT HIS GUN...BUT HE KNOWS NOT WHAT IT MEANS... Alot of the recent hype about Kurt's last few days is about Dylan Carlson, his best friend. Alot of you have asked me in emails if Dylan was possibly overlooked as a suspect in this case. This is what Tom Grant had to say about it... NOW IN AUDIO! Excerpt from 103.1 The Buzz West Palm Beach, Florida radio interview 4/08/97 "Of course for quite some period of time I was highly suspicious of Dylan. Eventually through further investigation, further discussions with him and additional research, I've eventually concluded that Dylan had absolutely nothing to do with Kurt Cobain's murder.In the time that he was spending with me, was a confusing time for him. He didn't really know what was going on. He was basically following Courtney's instructions. Dylan Carlson is also a heroin addict, he gets his drugs from Courtney and money from Courtney. He relies on her for an awful lot... It's a dependent relationship, I mean, this is a group of people that all do drugs up there and the Cobain's have all the money and Dylan was Kurt's best friend long before Kurt ever became famous or obtained any amount of wealth. When Courtney hooked up with Kurt she basically took over all of his friends and she became the domineering person in that relationship and in the relationship between any of Kurt's other friends also. The point is, I was able to observe this first hand and in talking to Dylan Carlson and in later seeing the relationship when I went back up to Seattle and how Dylan and Courtney related to eachother, Dylan does basically anything Courtney tells him to do. Dylan also really cared about Kurt and Im totally convinced he had nothing to do with this, but I think he was used by Courtney. He was following her instructions when I was with him. He didn't know initially that Kurt had been killed, he didn't even know that he was dead, at first, and Im totally convinced he was pretty bewildered by what was going on and pretty confused. Courtney was giving all her instructions through Dylan while I was with him. We would stop and Dylan would make phone calls and then he'd come back to the car and tell me what Courtney wanted to do next and he seemed confused by the whole thing. By the time the body was discovered I do think that Dylan was aware that Kurt was dead by that time and I think he knew that he was lying up in the greenhouse. Like I said I dont think he was involved in this initially and had anything to do with the murder but I think he knows an awful lot and I think he was aware of more than what he was letting on to me." To set the record straight, Dylan is not responsible for Kurt's death. He is however questionable on what he knows after the fact. I feel he's being manipulated by Courtney in the same way Kurt was when he was alive. Many people are still afraid to speak out. But someone who has been able to get by practically unnoticed that needs concentrating on in this case--Michael "Cali" DeWitt. Quoting Frances Barnett: "Cali needs to be hounded and highlighted so that everyone knows he is the major suspect along with Courtney. When you take into consideration that it was Dewitt in Rome, Dewitt acting suspiciously during April 1994 and since, along with the total media refusal to report correctly on Dewitt, then it is totally obvious that Dewitt is the suspect. The Seattle Police never investigated anything properly. Dylan didn't have anything to do with it, he didn't know what was going to happen." FRANCES STEADY GOING... We all know of Frances Barnett's webpage concerning the days before and up until Kurt's murder. She's continuing her work and will be letting me know when her next update will be coming. Let her know what you think! Tom Grant did.... Your Website 11/04/99 Good job Frances! Thorough, analytical and well researched. An A+! I was glad to see you were cautious about Brad Barnett's story. I've communicated with him extensively, and can easily prove his story to be a hoax. Unfortunately, so are the so-called "emails from Courntey Love". She isn't writing those. We need to practice discernment here. The world is full of creeps who'll do anything to make a fool out of anyone with a moral conscience. Police detectives are all too familiar with hoaxes surrounding high profile cases. It goes with the territory. Glad to see you have been cautious. Hang in there friend. As I've said from the beggining, it was going to be a long, slow process.We've just got to keep plugging away. Tom Grant |
| UPDATE 4/19/2002 Robert Blake's murder case Robert Blake Arrested for Wife's Murder Yahoo!News Fri Apr 19, 1:47 PM ET The erstwhile Baretta has suddenly found himself on the wrong end of the law in an all too real whodunit. Late Thursday afternoon, nearly a year after his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley, was shot dead, actor Robert Blake was taken into police custody and charged with her murder. A half dozen police officers descended upon the home the actor shared with his adult daughter in Hidden Hills, an upscale enclave in the westernmost portion of Los Angeles County. A handcuffed Blake was spotted emerging from the home about 6:20 p.m. and being placed in an unmarked police car. Blake was transported to the LAPD (news - web sites) headquarters in downtown Los Angeles, about 40 miles away, for booking. "The LAPD case has developed both physical and significant circumstantial evidence that Robert Blake killed Bonny Bakley," Los Angeles Police Chief Bernard Parks said at an evening press conference. Parks say he will recommend prosecutors charge the actor with one count of murder with special circumstances and two counts of solicitation of murder. The special circumstances count, which police said was for "lying in wait," means Blake could face the death penalty. Blake, 68, will remain locked up without bail until his arraignment Monday. Another man, Earle Caldwell, identified as Blake's bodyguard and handyman, was arrested Thursday and also charged in the crime. He faces one count of conspiracy to commit murder. Blake's lawyer, Harland W. Braun, said the actor "is calm. He's collected. His main concern right now is his children...He told me, 'I'm going to face what I have to face. I'm going to fight this.' "Robert has always said that he is not responsible for [Bakley's] killing...We feel we have a strong case." Bakley was slain on the night of May 4, 2001, outside the couple's favorite restaurant in Studio City. Blake told police that he left Bakley in their car after dinner and returned to the neighborhood haunt, Vitello's, to retrieve his gun that had slipped from his waistband. The actor said he was carrying the weapon because his wife feared for her safety. When Blake got back to the car he found his 44-year-old wife slumped over in the passenger seat with a bullet in her head. At the press conference Thursday, however, police said Blake was a suspect from the start. Still, Parks said detectives interviewed more than 150 witnesses in 20 states and logged more than 900 pieces of evidence--from the murder weapon recovered from a dumpster days after the murder to letters, photos and records--before obtaining the arrest warrants. Police Captain Jim Tatreau, who oversees the robbery-homicide division, suggested why Blake might want his wife dead: "We believe Robert Blake had contempt for Bonny Bakley. He felt he was trapped in a marriage he wanted no part of." Indeed, the couple's six-month union was far from picture-perfect. After their daughter, Rose, was born out of wedlock in June 2000, Bakley said she wasn't sure if the child was really Blake's--only a DNA test proved it. Then, after the couple married that November, Bakley moved out of their home and into a separate bungalow on the property. Blake had a nanny take care of the kid and limited Bakley's visits. Following the murder, Bakley's family immediately fingered Blake as a suspect, saying he mistreated his wife. Blake, meanwhile, hired veteran Hollywood lawyer Braun, who portrayed Bakley as a conniving former felon (she once served a sentence in Arkansas for carrying false identification). He said there was evidence Bakley was running a "lonely hearts club," targeting vulnerable men in attempt to scam them out of money through quickie weddings. He claimed Bakley, using various pseudonyms, wrote to a large network of men. He also said some of those men may have threatened her, prompting Blake to carry the handgun. The two sides held separate memorials for Bakley. Blake eventually sold the house they shared, took Rosie and moved in with his adult daughter from his first marriage, Delinah. (Police say Delinah is caring for Rosie while Blake is jailed.) In recent weeks, Bakley's sister insisted an arrest was coming and Blake would be charged with pulling the trigger--something Braun adamantly denied until Thursday. A former child actor on Our Gang, Blake is best remembered for his Emmy-winning turn as the parrot-loving, tough-talking cop on Baretta. He also starred--to much acclaim--in the 1967 movie version of Truman Capote's crime classic In Cold Blood, playing a killer. UPDATE 4/20/02 ALICE IN CHAINS LEAD- LAYNE STALEY DIES AT 34. Charles Cross claims similarities in Kurt's death... How 'similar' to Kurt's death are we going to find in this one? I ask you: was Staley found with a gunshot wound and 3 times the lethal amount of heroin in his system, with drug kit put away and the scene seemingly void of anything suspicious? Was Staley in fear of his life? Was there $50,000 on his head? I think not!!! Do you realise that when Kurt was found dead, the cause of death on the death certificate was a 'self-inflicted gunshot wound' and now all of a sudden in this article, not ot mention many others over the years it's been changed to the now purported ' heroin overdose'?!!!!!! I highly doubt that the SPD and KCME is going to disclose anymore information than what we read here until they can come up with something to where you'll have to stretch the truth to get anything 'similar' in Kurt's death to throw off potential leads to get this case reopened. I am personally sick at heart. Singer Layne Staley dead at 34 Frontman for Seattle band Alice in Chains battled addiction MSNBC STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS SEATTLE, April 20 — The body of Alice in Chains lead singer and guitarist Layne Staley, found in his apartment late Friday, has been positively identified, the King County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed Saturday. Staley, who had battled heroin addiction, was 34. STALEY appeared to have been dead for several days, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported in its Saturday editions. Tests were required to confirm his identity because the body, discovered in the singer’s University District apartment, had started to decompose. The cause of death had not been determined, the medical examiner’s office said Saturday. “It was natural or an overdose — that’s the way it was determined by our investigators,” said Duane Fish, a spokesman for the Seattle Police Department. The circumstances of Staley’s death are eerily similar to those of Kurt Cobain, lead singer-guitarist for Nirvana, whose body was found days after he committed suicide in his Seattle home eight years ago this month. STALWARTS OF GRUNGE Alice in Chains was prominent in the early ’90s heyday of grunge rock. Along with bands such as Nirvana, Mother Love Bone, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and Screaming Trees, Alice in Chains was instrumental in forging the grunge sound, a propulsive brand of rock that came to typify the attitude, passions and thrift-store fashion sense of Gen-X America. Inspired in part by such heavy-metal icons as Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, the grunge bands ruled the charts with densely constructed, often gloomy music. Alice in Chains’ first album, “Facelift,” was released in 1990 and the band quickly rose to prominence, with its next albums. “Dirt,” the follow-up, was well received. “Jar of Flies” (1994) and “Alice in Chains” (1995) both debuted at No. 1 on the U.S. pop charts. The band won several Grammy nominations along the way. But the band’s momentum was stalled by Staley’s habitual heroin use, and Alice in Chains played its final shows in early 1996, as an opening act on the Kiss reunion tour. Staley and guitarist Jerry Cantrell were the group’s creative minds. The band was rounded out by drummer Sean Kinney and bass player Mike Inez, who replaced Mike Starr in 1993. SINGER SPOKE OF DRUG INFLUENCE ‘Layne as a person was a sweet man whose descent into drugs was very tragic, and remarkably similar to Kurt Cobain.’ - CHARLES R. CROSS Seattle music journalist In a 1996 interview with Rolling Stone magazine, a piece titled “The Needle and the Damage Done,” Staley spoke of how his drug use influenced his lyrics. “I wrote about drugs, and I didn’t think I was being unsafe or careless by writing about them,” he told the magazine. “Here’s how my thinking pattern went: When I tried drugs, they were [expletive] great, and they worked for me for years, and now they’re turning against me — and now I’m walking through hell, and this sucks.” Charles R. Cross, a longtime Seattle music journalist and author of “Heavier Than Heaven,” a 2001 biography of Cobain, called Staley “a really talented singer, with one of the most distinctive voices in modern rock. Listening to the radio today, I’m surprised at how much his influence is on groups like Creed, Staind and many others.” “He lost his girlfriend to drugs a number of years ago,” said Cross, a former editor of the defunct Seattle music magazine The Rocket. “People still had hopes he would turn around. It’s a sad tale. “Layne as a person was a sweet man whose descent into drugs was very tragic, and remarkably similar to Kurt Cobain,” Cross said. “As his drug addiction became more severe he retreated from the band, and the world. His death will be mourned by many.” |