SEATTLE, Wash. — Yoko Senger took photos of the bench that has become a kind of shrine to Kurt Cobain; a visitor from San Francisco standing in the shadow of the house where the grunge icon was found dead in 1994.
"I think it was a suicide," said Senger, when asked if she thought his death was a murder or suicide. "Seems like a suicide to me because, you know, he seemed troubled and he was depressed."
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Indeed, Seattle police released several photographs from the scene of Cobain's death in advance of the 20th anniversary, insisting they prove he ingested a lethal amount of heroin, then shot himself.
But public access TV host Richard Lee had tried - and failed - 18 times to force Seattle police to release the most graphic photographs, which he says will prove that Cobain was murdered.
"Cobain's death investigation was a complete falsehood," he told a King County courtroom.
This 19th time, the Seattle city attorney asked a judge to dismiss his claim because Lee had not followed the proper procedure for filing it.
The judge agreed.
Afterward, Lee was asked his reaction.
"I'm rather surprised that this came down only to technicalities of the law," he said.
Despite Friday's ruling, Richard Lee is unwavering in his belief that whatever happened to Kurt Cobain inside his house was a case of murder.
And he will continue seeking the photographic evidence he says will prove it.
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