The Murder Of Kurt Cobain
There is an extended family of criminals, the Gourvenec family, in Sheffield, U.K., who do assassinations, sexual entrapment, blackmail, and sabotage for clients who sometimes include the British government. This group is off the books and has no connection with any official government service, but operates informally at the request of certain high officials and members of the U.K. establishment. They also do "private sector" crimes on their own for profit. Their value to the crown gives them immunity from the British police and the Crown Prosecution Service.
There are around 100 members of this extended family, most of them from the Sheffield area. And according to one of them, Eve Martin, whom I extensively interviewed, they have been a family of mercenaries and have done assassinations, sabotage, terrorism, and blackmail operations for successive British governments for over 100 years. They also have been heavily into drug trafficking, extortion, and blackmail of well-known entertainers both in the U.K. and in California
Eve Martin, who was informally "adopted" into the family as an infant ( the legal term for such an illegal "adoption" is "kidnapping" ) told me that when she was a teenager, she had an affair with a young man who was later to become well known as a singer. His name was Kurt Cobain.
Eve has a photograph that shows her and Mr. Cobain together. I know photos can be faked, but on the other hand, they should not be ignored on that possibility alone until evidence is presented to show this particular photo is a fake. If it is not a fake, while it does not by itself prove they had an affair, it is rather strong evidence that Eve and Mr. Cobain were together on at least one occasion.
According to biographical information on-line, Cobain had a short affair with a girl from England at around the time Eve would have been 14 years old. That girl is said to have died of a drug overdose a few years later, but that could have been a case of mistaken identity. Her age is said to have been 18 at the time of her liaison with Cobain, but since Eve is unusually tall, she might easily have passed for 18 when she was really only 14.
She says they broke up on the advice of his agent because it would not have been good for his career to be caught having an affair with an underage girl.
But they remained in touch and she claims she was with him on the night of his death. And she also claims that death was not a suicide as is officially believed. She says she was there at his home and her uncle, a professional hit-man whom she describes as a "psychopath", came to the house and murdered Cobain in front of her. Eve said her uncle then left the house and she cleaned up the body to hide evidence of murder and arranged things to make it look like a suicide.
It should be mentioned that Eve had been trained from an early age by her uncles, who were British secret service agents, to help them in assassinations and that training would almost certainly have included how to tamper with evidence at a crime scene and make a murder look like accident or suicide. Police investigating a questionable death seldom take into account the possibility of a highly trained killer with a professional level of expertise in destroying evidence.
Eve described the whole event in great detail, and without any variations or lapses of memory in a series of conversations extending over a period of weeks. And in searching on-line for confirmation, I have found several bits of information that seem to support her story.
But I do not think she told me the entire story. Throughout the two-month series of conversations, although she did not embellish the stories she told me, Eve rather consistently withheld certain details. For one thing, she did not explain why her uncle would have wanted to kill Mr. Cobain. It is possible she did not know. She was in the life-long habit of obeying her uncle's orders and could very well have simply been ordered to do something without having the motive explained to her.
But from other information about her uncle, who frequently killed people for pay, it seems likely he had been hired by somebody to kill Mr. Cobain. Eve has provided plenty of evidence that her uncle was a psychopath who killed many people, including some on behalf of the British government, in the course of his career, so one more murder would not be unlikely.
At the time, Mr. Cobain was in a drug rehab clinic, a place where there would always be people around him, witnesses who would not be welcome to an assassin. According to information available on-line, he suddenly and inexplicably checked out of the clinic and returned home to Seattle, where he was killed.
I suspect, although she did not say so, that Eve herself was used as bait to lure Mr. Cobain into a trap. I think it would be entirely consistent with the known modus operandi of her uncle to take advantage of her prior relationship with Mr. Cobain and order her to contact Cobain and ask him to meet with her.
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Aside from murders for hire, Eve's foster relatives, the Gourvenec family, were also heavily involved in drug dealing in the Los Angeles area at the time, and were the connection for illegal drugs for many well-known Hollywood entertainers. It is very likely they were the drug dealers from whom both Kurt Cobain and his wife, both of whom were drug addicts, and well enmeshed in the entertainment community, obtained their supply.
In that case, one might ask, if a white, middle-class individual with no criminal record wanted to find someone willing to commit murder for hire, to whom would they be likely to turn but their known dealer in illegal drugs?
If someone wanted to hire a hitman and asked the person they thought most likely to be able to put them in touch with one, their drug dealer, if that dealer happened to be a member of the Gourvevec family, that would indeed have been the right person to ask.
The Seattle Police Department investigation of the death was misled because Eve had tampered with the crime scene and destroyed evidence of murder to protect her uncle, and the conclusions they came to, that it was a suicide, do not match the facts as reported in the news media at the time. There has been much speculation about a possible murder rather than a suicide, but so far, no investigation has looked into the possibility that whoever was hired to do the hit might have been already known to the victim or to some of his acquaintances as a drug dealer and that one of those acquaintances had commissioned their drug dealer to do the murder.
The known involvement of the Gourvenecs in both contract killings and selling drugs to Hollywood entertainers suggests they might well have been involved.
Altogether, I consider Eve's story plausible enough that a through investigation of who people involved with Mr. Cobain were in the habit of buying their drugs from would be justified.
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