Kurt Cobain Death: Inside His Final Days

For six days in April of 1994, Kurt Cobain was missing.
One of the biggest rock stars in the world, the Nirvana frontman was nowhere to be found. Police were on the hunt, his wife Courtney Love hired a private detective and friends of the troubled musician were on high alert.
On April 8, 1994, an electrician named Gary Smith arrived at Cobain’s Seattle home to install a security system. And when he entered the greenhouse above the garage, he discovered a body, a 20-gauge shotgun laying across its chest, and a note. 
The King County Medical Examiner ruled his death a suicide. But for years, the circumstances surrounding Cobain’s death have spurred many conspiracy theories, with many fans—and a 2026 report by a private sector team of forensic scientists—suggesting he was actually murdered.