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For conspiracy theorists, there is no shortage of material: the U.S. government covered up a 1947 alien spaceship crash near Roswell, N.M., or Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone in shooting JFK. Now, there is a new one-that Seattle grunge rock icon and Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain did not commit suicide on April 8, 1994, but was murdered. Espousing this controversial theory are two Montreal journalists, Ian Halperin and Max Wallace. In a book to be published in March, Love & Death: The Story of Kurt & Courtney, they argue that there is enough evidence that Cobain was murdered that the case should be reopened. Among their claims: there were no fingerprints on the shotgun that killed Cobain, and the last five lines of a suicide note found near the body were not in his handwriting. Halperin and Wallace have taken their contentions on the road in the form of a three-hour lecture, "Who Killed Kurt Cobain?" They brought their multimedia presentation to Toronto, Hamilton, and London, Ont., last week, featuring videotaped interviews, slides and audiotapes based on their two years of research. But a Montreal show was cancelled after the promoters received a letter from lawyers representing Cobain's widow, singer/actress Courtney Love threatening to sue if the tour continued. Of course, dedicated conspiracy theorists might have their own explanation for the interest in Cobain's death-that there is a potential for plunder in exploiting a rock star's tragedy. Not so, insists Halperin. "There have been so many copycat suicides," he says. "If Kurt did not kill himself, then maybe we can save some lives."
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