Soaked in Bleach (2015) on Netflix
NR20151h 40mCrimeDocumentary
In 1994, Courtney Love hires private investigator Tom Grant to find her missing husband, Kurt Cobain. Grant examines the official ruling on the death and the doubts that surround it.
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Plot summary
Tom Grant, a former Los Angeles County sheriff's detective turned private investigator, is hired by Courtney Love in 1994 to find her missing husband, Kurt Cobain, days before the musician is discovered at their Seattle home with a gunshot wound. Police rule the death a suicide. Grant's own inquiry, interviews with people tied to the case, including forensic pathologist Cyril Wecht and former Seattle police chief Norm Stamper, and recordings he kept of conversations with attorney Rosemary Carroll and Dylan Carlson, who bought the shotgun, cast doubt on that verdict. Dramatized reenactments and the examination of artifacts from the case reconstruct the events.
Cast
- Mandy Hendersonas Jennifer
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Soaked in Bleach (2015)
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- Courtney Love had lawyers send cease-and-desist letters to theaters booking Soaked in Bleach, arguing the film's implication of criminal behavior against her was defamatory.
- Cold case homicide detective Michael Ciesynski re-examined the 35mm death-scene photographs and told KIRO-TV that nothing suggested Kurt Cobain's death was anything but the 1994 suicide ruling; images of the Remington shotgun released in March 2016 refuted the film's claim that police gave Courtney Love the gun to melt down.
- Retired NYPD homicide detective Vernon J. Geberth, one of the experts interviewed in the film, publicly objected afterward that the filmmakers made it look like he agreed with their homicide theory, when he had actually told them he believed Cobain died by suicide.
- Forensic linguist Carole Chaski, also interviewed in the film, ran Kurt Cobain's suicide note through software called SNARE and said the analysis classified both parts of the note as genuine, undercutting the theory that Courtney Love had added to it.
