Jessica Hopper
During the week of Kurt Cobain's death, Michael "Cali" DeWitt had his girlfriend, Jessica Hopper, in his room spending the week with him. On the early morning of April 5, 1994 (the official date of Cobain's death) she awoke and Cali wasn't in bed with her. She claims she heard footsteps in the hall,"walking with purpose" and allegedly called out but got no answer. A couple hours later, Cali came to bed. A day later, on the morning of April 6,1994, Jessica felt so ill that she called a taxi to take her to the airport. Then, in the driveway, with Kurt's body less than 20 yards away, she looked back and vomited. Her feeling ill could, more likely given the circumstances, have been a reaction from the events of the last 4 days. After the body was discovered, Courtney gave Cali $30,000 to "go to rehab in Arizona" with Jessica. Did she see the body or even help with the murder in some way? She is definitely on the list of people to question when this case is reopened.
Jessica is a now a rock critic and music writer. Her 42 essays cover a wide range of music, from emo to hip-hop, from rock to punk, from history of Hole’s 1994 album Live Through This, to making interviews about troubled musicians.
Running into Courtney Love was more than just another celebrity sighting in 2015. Hopper was finishing up her first tour for her new book, The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic, and she was making her way through LA to catch a flight home to Chicago. “I’m going up the escalator, and I look up and there’s Courtney Love,” she recalls.
“Way back in the 90s, Courtney supported my fanzine. She paid for the printing of my third issue. I was in 11th grade.”
The two hadn’t seen each other in a decade and spent a few minutes catching up. “I pulled my reading copy out of my bag and gave it to her. She looked at the title and gave me this amazing flash of maternal pride. Her belief in me very early on was all the underwriting that I needed.”
Photo of Jessica Hopper in an interview with Lare View of Books. June 15, 2015
An interview with Jessica Hopper in Dublin, 2015. She was the girlfriend of Cali Dewitt. The last persons that saw Kurt Cobain alive. When questioned 25 years later, she reacts very upset and doesn't want to anwser any question about Kurt. The interviewer gets a lot of angry reactions and has to stop the interview with Jessica, but the interviewer persists!
Micheal Cali Dewitt
All we know for certain about Cobain’s return to Seattle is the first thing he did and the last thing he did. Cobain arrived at his house after midnight on April 2, and at dawn he awoke his friend Michael “Cali” DeWitt, who had been house sitting with his girlfriend (a young Jessica Hopper) while Cobain and Love were in rehab. Shortly after DeWitt and Hopper fell back asleep, Cobain took a taxi to a gun shop, where he purchased more shotgun shells. DeWitt had been using drugs and didn’t even register that Cobain was back; it wasn’t until two days later, during an argument with Hopper, that he realized Cobain’s visit wasn’t a hallucination. He then told Love, who sent her Hole bandmate Eric Erlandson to search the house with DeWitt. The house would be searched two more times in the next two days — once by Grant and Carlson, and again by DeWitt. No one looked in the garage or the greenhouse above The site of Cobain’s death.
After Kurt’s body was found, we met with Cali in Los Angeles. He told us he was hardly at the house from Monday on although he did say he had gone to the house a few times between Sunday evening, April 3rd, and Thursday afternoon, April 7th. In addition to the questions raised by the note Cali left, we have to wonder why he didn’t look in the greenhouse. Kurt had been in there for several days before his body was discovered.
According to his note, Cali “couldn’t believe” Kurt had been in the house without him noticing.
Why would Cali find it so hard to believe Kurt had been in the house if he wasn’t there most of that time?
A picture of Micheal Cali Dewitt in 1994
Both Dewitt and Hopper appear to have been befriended by Mr. Cobain's widow, Courtney Love, when they were minors; Dewitt asserts that Love took him “under her wing” approximately four years prior to Mr. Cobain's death, when he was sixteen; Hopper indicates that Love befriended her approximately two years prior to Mr. Cobain's passing, when she was either fifteen or sixteen. Ms. Love has a history of violence and manipulation and engaged in a number of suspicious behaviors near the time of her husband's death, including misrepresenting her identity in a Missing Persons Report filed with the Seattle Police Department
Notably, additional statements by Hopper to Everett True bearing on the date of her departure from the decedent's home are strangely contradictory in nature, with Hopper twice unmistakably indicating that she left the Cobain home for Minneapolis on the same day she and Dewitt observed Mr. Cobain in Dewitt's bedroom, which was on Saturday morning,
April 2. As indicated above, however, this April 2 date of departure is an impossibility given Hopper's various other assertions to True. Why is Hopper offering obviously contradictory accounts bearing on the date of her departure from the decedent's home?
Given the high volume of troubling evidentiary concerns relating to Mr. Cobain's death, Dewitt's and Hopper's departures are highly relevant and need to be probed in depth by authorities. It's worthwhile here to keep in mind that Dewitt and Hopper chose not to merely depart the Seattle residence of Mr. Cobain, but chose to leave the state of Washington altogether.
A picture of Dewitt with his art. He is now an artist, making cryptic artwork
Artwork of Calidewitt
The Nanny
'Jennifer', as we will call her, was hired by Kurt and Courtney in March, 1994 as one of Frances Bean's nannies just after they returned from Rome following Kurt's. She stopped at the end of March 1994. Jennifer tells Broomfield and in the interview below, that Courtney was obsessed by Kurt's will during this period.
"There was just way to much will talk"
Interview with a nanny who worked for Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love Cobain in the months and weeks before Kurt Cobain was found dead on April 8th 1994 in the socalled "Green House" at the Cobain-estate.This fragment is from an interview from the Nick Broomfield-documentary “Kurt & Courtney” that was released in 1998.
Dylan Carlson
Dylan Carlson is the lead guitarist, lead singer, and only constant member of the drone doom group Earth, and the main contributor to his solo project Drcarlsonalbion. Carlson was born in Seattle, Washington.
He had first become interested in being a rock musician at age 15, inspired by bands such as Molly Hatchet, AC/DC, and Black Sabbath. He also cites the Melvins, and composers La Monte Young and Terry Riley as major influences on his music. It was in Olympia, Washington that he met Slim Moon, Greg Babior, Dave Harwell and Joe Preston, with whom he would later form Earth.
Carlson was a good friend of Kurt Cobain and like Cobain, has struggled with heroin addiction, particularly so after Cobain's death.
Several days after Kurt's staged intervention, (we talk about that more later) Kurt Cobain would paid a visit to his friend Dylan Carlson, who also participated in the aforementioned intervention, at his Seattle home on March 30. Citing problems with trespassers on his property, Cobain asked for help securing a firearm. “He seemed normal, we’d been talking,” Carlson later said. “Plus, I’d loaned him guns before.”
If you have seen the film ‘Soaked in Bleach’, by Ben Statler, which presents all the facts gathered by private detective Tom Grant related to his investigation into Kurt Cobain’s death, you may remember that Grant and Kurt’s friend Dylan Carlson went to the house looking for Kurt on April 7th.
Actual recording of Tom Grant and Dylan Carlson looking for Kurt on April 7th, 1994. The day before Kurt was found. Kurt was in the Greenhouse on that moment.
Grant and Carlson didn't find Cobain that day. Kurt was found the next day, April 8th, 1994, early in the morning bij an electrician. The electrician was hired by Courtney love to install an alarm system. Why was she so worried about an alarm system that had to be installed in the Greenhouse? Why specifically in the time that her husband was missing? Why was that alarm system so important? Why didn't Courtney go to Seattle to look for her husband?
We assume that Courtney, propably Cali and Hopper, maybe Allen Wrench, knew that Kurt Cobain was dead, days before he was found. Courtney called an electrician company so that Kurt Cobain would be found on the morning of April 8th, 1994.
Interview with Dylan Carlson in the documentary Kurt & Courtney, 1998.
Carlson claims that Kurt was not suicidal.
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