Inside the Greenhouse
A deep dive into Kurt Cobain's final moments
If you were a teen or young adult in 1994, you are likely very familiar with the photo shot through the back door of Kurt Cobain’s greenhouse. When this photo was taken, I was 14 years old, and had just started really getting into Nirvana around Christmastime of the previous year (1993).
So, when this happened just a few months later, it cranked up the teenage obsession to beyond 11. Despite spending the following years tracking down every b-side, demo, bootleg, or live recording I could, the picture above was the only actual insight I had into Kurt’s final moments.
Now, I’m not saying it was specifically because of this picture, but I did start wearing One Stars sometime around 1994… did I mention I was 14? Anyway… by the end of the 90s, I had moved on but would still check out any “newly-found” material or official releases just to see if it was anything I missed. It never was, and by around 2005, I completely stopped paying attention.
Fast-forward 20 years, and photos of the gun Kurt used have been released, along with some shots from the mysterious undeveloped rolls of film that anyone following the case knew about back in the 90s… and I missed it all until a few months ago. In fact, I totally forgot about the 2015 biopic Soaked In Bleach until after I started writing this (I never did see it, so maybe I’m not pointing out anything new).
Because I’m so late to the party, I likely wouldn’t have bothered writing anything about it, but after looking through the photos of the gun and the scene of his death, I realized the vision that I’ve had in my head since I was a teenager — of what Kurt’s final moments looked like — was totally inaccurate. That is what I will be digging into with this article.
End Scene
For those not familiar with the details of the situation, the short version is this: On April 8th of 1994, an electrician visited to check the security system and found Kurt Cobain’s corpse laying on the floor holding a shotgun on the second story of Kurt’s detached garage that had a 19' x 23' greenhouse on its top level. There was a note stabbed into a planter, there may or may not have been a stool blocking the doorway, and there was a cigar box full of drug paraphernalia. That was, more or less, all the solid info we had back in the day.
Based on the reporting at the time, I always pictured Kurt sitting on the floor while writing his note, shooting up, finishing the note, and then turning around (while still sitting) to stab the note into the soil of a nearby potted plant before shooting himself. There were always questions about these details, but after seeing the pictures and reviewing the Seattle Police Department’s reports & the autopsy report, I have even more questions.
After seeing these pictures, I realized that what I imagined for all these years wasn’t even possible.
First of all: where could he even write the note? I don’t think he wrote it on the floor. Anyone who has ever tried writing on the linoleum of their kitchen floor knows that it’s too textured to write on using just a sheet of paper — it would be too bumpy and you would see it in the writing1. Maybe he was writing on one of the notebooks he used as journals? Nope. As we’ll see in the close-ups of the letter, regular notebook paper wasn’t used.
The only smooth surfaces in the room were the counters against the front and back walls of the greenhouse… and the stool that was mentioned in the reports just happened to be sitting next to the counters on the front wall. Initial reports claimed that it was used to barricade the entrance [at the back of the room] but even from the one picture that was widely-circulated back in the 90s, you could see the doors opened outward — which would make that pretty useless, especially with knob-style handles.
Obviously, someone doing all this isn’t thinking totally straight, so… I guess it’s possible, but in all the pictures, the stool is sitting in front of the balcony doors, right next to the front wall counter. Considering the lack of any other sufficiently smooth writing surfaces in the room, the counters seem like a good bet… and a counter with a stool sitting next to it seems like an even better bet. The only problem with that theory is found in the SPD’s Follow-Up Report, which claims that there was a box of gardening tools sitting on the stool…
And the only problem with that is the lack of any kind of “box of gardening supplies” in any of the scene photos — some of which include the stool with nothing on it.
Though, if he was sitting at the counter, that would create conflicts with the official story, or at least make it less plausible. The explanation for why the handwriting was so obviously different in the last few lines was that he must have shot up and was too intoxicated to write normally… which is totally plausible.
But… if he was sitting at the counter, that means he had to shoot up, stand up, walk to the counter, finish the letter, stand back up, walk across the room, stab the letter, and then shoot himself.
Oh, and, at some point during all this, he also put away his drug paraphernalia — which was sort of in the center of the room, which suggests that’s actually where he shot up. I’m not an expert on any of this, but… all of that seems like a lot of effort for someone so full of heroin.
Let’s say he wasn’t sitting at the counter to write the note — that he was sitting on the floor, more or less, where his body was found. There’s still the question of what surface he was using to write, but also… he still would have had to stand up to stab the letter into the planter. It wasn’t some potted plant sitting on the floor, like I imagined all these years. It was a mostly-empty, waist-high raised plant bed that ran the length of the greenhouse. You would need to be standing up to do all that... which, again, seems like a lot of effort for someone so impaired.
A few other things of note around the scene: two cigarette butts (one half-smoked), and some broken glass.
The glass is said to have come from the window that was broken to open the back door — in the police report, some of the glass was documented as having landed on Kurt’s face. Not sure it matters, especially with such low resolution photos, but those chunks of glass under the stool look too… chunky to be from the window pane of French doors.
Not much to say about the cigarette butts, though it is kind of interesting that one was smoked far more than the other. Assuming both were smoked by Kurt, it seems like he smoked one full cig, lit another, and then snuffed it out halfway through.
I used to smoke, but I’ve never killed myself, so I can’t say what one’s thought process is like, but… I kinda feel like I’d smoke the second cigarette all the way. It’s like he was thinking... OK… let’s get this over with <snuffs out half-smoked cig>. Though, I do have to wonder if that was before or after he put away all his drug paraphernalia and rolled his sleeve back down.
Additionally: in one of the scene photos of the front wall of the greenhouse, you can see the security system control panel2 — Kurt’s body was found laying in front of the counter directly beneath it. The electrician that found his body was called and instructed to check the security system… by Courtney Love… while in LA, where she was planting stories in the press about her overdosing at the Peninsula Hotel.
The Note
We saw photocopies of the note Kurt left behind long before actual photos of it were available, but once looking at the photos, a few interesting details jump out.
First: the use of red ink. I avoided looking at Kurt’s journals for a while, but eventually I had seen so many screenshots that I figured I needed to see it all in context for myself. I’m not sure if I’ve seen everything that’s been released, but out of the 280+ pages of his journal that I do have, I only noticed the use of red ink once or twice. He didn’t seem to use it that much, which isn’t a surprise… but also: if you’re not the type of person to use red ink often, seems odd that would be the pen you happen to have handy. Though, I guess it was a special occasion, so… who knows?
Second: the paper used. For years I assumed it was just a page ripped out of a notebook, like he used for his journals — and the lines just didn’t show up because it was a photocopy, and a low-res JPG of a photocopy at that. Once I saw actual photos of the note, I had to look into it further, because it wasn’t from a notebook… with all four sides scalloped and the weird height-to-width ratio, I thought it was some kind of special stationary. It doesn’t look like normal paper at all — and it wasn’t. Apparently, it was written on the back of an IHOP placemat. So much for the special occasion theory!
We know it was on an IHOP placemat because, while speaking with Detective Tom Grant on the phone, Courtney Love mentions that the note was “on red pen” and “on an IHOP”… but what’s interesting is that she also starts to say “…’cause I went to IHOP” before being cut off by Detective Grant. What did that mean?
Third: the angle of the pen. Before I started writing, and without telling anyone what it was, I posted a one-question poll about which hand they imagined was used to stab the pen through the paper shown in the photo. I can’t know how many people already knew what they were looking at, but an overwhelming majority of them said it was done with a left hand… and based on the angle seen in the picture, I tend to agree.
Thing is: Kurt wasn’t left-handed. He only played guitar lefty. He was actually right-handed.
Look for any pictures of him writing, and you won’t find any of him using his left hand. Look for pictures of him holding a gun — it’s in his right hand. Look for pictures of him eating, drinking, or gesturing, in almost all of them he’s using his right hand. Throwing his guitar? Right hand. Even his wallet chain is on his right side — a lefty would never!
He was right-handed.
It’s said that he played guitar left-handed because of back pain due to scoliosis, but… I kinda think the situation wasn’t quite as intense as I thought he claimed…
Even if we assume he did have back pain severe enough that only playing lefty made it bearable, why did he never claim “back pain” as the reason he did heroin? Kinda feel like that would have been more easily-accepted as an excuse. Honestly, if I were to guess, I’d probably say it was more likely that he was copying artists he admired, like Paul McCartney, or even Jimi Hendrix, but especially Greg Sage.
Though, this is once again a “who knows” situation. Being left-handed myself, I don’t use a computer mouse with my left hand (though, I do play guitar left-handed). I was taught to use a mouse using my right hand as a child, and that’s just how it’s always been. So, I can see a similar situation happening with guitar. Though, his situation does seem like it’s a lot less common than the other way around (lefty learning to play right-handed).
The point is: other than guitar, he was right-handed… and the angle of that pen definitely looks like it was done by someone using their left hand. Not saying he couldn’t have done it that way, but… rather odd to write a note with your right hand and then switch the pen to your left hand to stab it through the paper.
Speaking of stabbing — even while extremely intoxicated, and using his non-dominant hand, Kurt managed to avoid stabbing the pen through any of the words. He somehow got the pen right between “The fact is” <pen> and “I can’t fool any of you”.
This is interesting not only because of his lucky aim, but because that line was repeated by the press all the time back in the 90s… but I don’t remember ever seeing it mentioned that he stabbed the pen into the paper right in the middle of that line. [Personal aside: if I was trying to fool someone, that would be an amazing place to stab the pen.]
Fourth: the content. I know this has been covered hundreds of times over the last 30 years, so all I have to say is: imagine your father killed himself and he left a note behind, but he spent the entire note bitching about work while addressing the fans of his work but not you, and then signed off.
And then was like… Oh, yeah… to my wife & kid (who I supposedly care deeply for), you’ll be fine. Later!
I’m sorry, but that’s insane. Even if it wasn’t in totally different handwriting, even if it didn’t come after signing his name directly after writing “peace love, Empathy” — that would still be one of the most inconsiderate suicide notes ever. After everything he said about her, you’d think he’d write a few more words specifically to his daughter… and in the body of the note, not as a sloppy afterthought.
As far as the part about Frances that was in the body of the note: if you really want to analyze it through the lens of this being written specifically as a suicide note, you kinda have to view Kurt as being comically selfish and short-sighted.
Through that lens, the section about not wanting to see Frances turn into a “miserable, self-destructive, death rocker” like he had become, can be translated to: “I’m killing myself so I don’t have to witness my daughter’s emo phase”. I mean, I get it, but still... kinda overboard.
Frances, on the other hand, would now have to do it while famous and without a father… but at least Kurt didn’t have to witness it! OK. That doesn’t make any sense… and taken at face value, makes him seem like a self-absorbed asshole. Also: if a divorce in his childhood is so bad that he talked about it into his late 20s, what exactly did he expect this to do? It just doesn’t make sense. None of it.
[From a 1993 interview, in Brazil (?), where Kurt talks about how his perspective changed after Frances was born]
To be specific, the part addressing Courtney and Frances (sort of) directly, is 31 words of the 570-word note. Of those 31 words, only 6 are directly addressing Frances — and those 6 words also do not make sense.
WTF does being “at your alter” even mean? I could not find that phrase, or variations of it, used anywhere outside of references to Kurt’s letter. And it doesn’t seem to really fit in with his style of writing… reads more like lyrics written by someone who spent a couple semesters studying demonology, err... theology. Just sayin’.
Coincidentally, Courtney claimed there was a second letter, specifically to her, left under her pillow in the house, but she apparently never told anyone until revealing it in a Rolling Stone interview 9 months after the fact3. Considering that she said she burned the Rome note4 after it was returned to her by the police, if a second “suicide” note did actually exist, it’s likely it was also destroyed a long time ago. That said, if there was a second note specifically for Courtney, why bother adding that last part onto a note addressing his fans?
Of course, none of this helps answer the question of where the letter was actually written. Was it even written in the greenhouse? Did he write it somewhere else and bring it up with him? The paper did have creases in it, implying that it was folded at some point, so it actually seems likely that it was brought up completed (or mostly complete… who folds up a totally blank diner placemat to write on later?).
Maybe I’m naïve, but… I think I would have checked any of the key IHOP locations5 and reviewed their security footage. That said, on top of not knowing where it was written, we have no way of knowing when it was written either… so, that very well could have been a dead end regardless.
[Detective Tom Grant speaking with Entertainment Attorney Rosemary Carroll]
The Gun
Images of the shotgun Kurt used were released by the Seattle Police Department in 2016. It was a Remington Model 11 that Kurt had his friend, Dylan Carson of the band EARTH, purchase for him6 because the cops — after responding to a domestic disturbance call7 exactly two weeks after the Rome incident — had confiscated his other guns and he was paranoid that someone might be after him… particularly after turning down 6 million dollars to do Lollapalooza (and potentially quitting the band altogether).
[Courtney Love speaking to detective Tom Grant about Kurt turning down Lollapalooza after she claims to have given up her slot so Kurt could earn 5-10 million dollars]
On the evening of March 25, at the end of the first day of a two-day intervention for Kurt, Courtney left Seattle and flew to LA and was joined by Frances and her nanny the following day (March 26). This is apparently what Courtney was referring to when she said “That ’80s tough-love bullshit — it doesn’t work” during the taped vigil broadcast two weeks after Kurt’s death.
Five days later, on March 30th, Kurt gave Dylan cash to buy the gun and ammunition, and the next day (March 31) he flew out to LA to check-in to the Exodus Recovery Center.
Note: I had already written several paragraphs speculating on the size of the gun and Kurt’s ability to reach the trigger when I just happened to notice that a video by Brandon Herrera covering this exact topic was posted just a few hours ago (as of writing), and he’s using the exact model of shotgun Kurt used. So, instead of relying on estimates from someone who doesn’t really know anything about guns, maybe just watch his video instead. Though, it did get age-restricted shortly after I found it, so no point in embedding it — here are some GIFs of the important parts…
Brandon is reportedly 5’10”, which is convenient because that’s the height recorded on the missing person report that was filed by Courtney Love in the days before Kurt’s body was found8. He clearly demonstrates that it’s well within the realm of possibility to reach the trigger. To be honest, I was assuming the opposite, but I have to accept the clear evidence — having to re-write this section was actually a blessing in disguise!
One thing Brandon demonstrates that I wasn’t focused on at all, is the kickback and the fact that the entire barrel rapidly slides back when fired. Kurt was found holding the barrel of the gun with his left hand.
Considering the kickback when firing, it’s especially odd, because — according to the SPD’s scene note — Kurt only had his thumb and index finger around the barrel, and only his thumb had a burn on it. It kinda seems like if one was holding onto the barrel tight enough for it to still be in their hand when they collapse dead on the floor after getting their head violently blown back, they would have burns on all their fingers, and also their palm.
One thing I noticed while doing research on all this: being an actual lefty myself, I kinda found it more natural to mime holding the barrel of a gun with my left hand than with my right. I’m not totally sure where to start researching something like this, but does anyone reading happen to know — when people shoot themselves with a long gun, do they generally use their dominant hand to guide the barrel or pull push the trigger? Because, as previously mentioned, Kurt wasn’t actually left-handed.
Scene Note, Autopsy, and Missing Person Report
Beyond the morbidly voyeuristic thrill of reading through the SPD’s scene notes and the autopsy report, there are a few important details worth focusing on:
Toxicology Report
Morphine 1.52 mg/L
Codeine 0.11 mg/L
Diazepam 0.08 mg/L
Nordiazepam 0.28 mg/L
…which seems like a lot of drugs, but it’s actually just two: Heroin and Valium. The Morphine and Codeine are from the Heroin — Morphine is a metabolite of Heroin; Codeine isn’t but is generally found along with Morphine in blood samples of Heroin users due to impurities introduced during the heroin manufacturing process. Nordiazepam is a metabolite of Diazepam (Valium).
Based on the ratio of Diazepam to Nordiazepam, one could assume he ingested the Valium 10-20 hours prior. The effects of Diazepam can last up to 12 hours after a single dose. However, it stays in the system much longer than its effects are felt, which is why it’s involved in so many overdose deaths. This, combined with a level of Morphine that was over 3 times what’s generally found in overdose victims (.5 mg/L), is… interesting9.
Needle Marks
Both the scene note & autopsy mention that Kurt was found with a number of needle marks in both arms, though mostly in his right arm.
On his left antecubital fossa [opposite side from elbow, on the inside of arm] there was one puncture wound that was covered with a cotton swab and a band-aid. Seeing as Kurt just left rehab, it’s safe to assume that was from something like drawing blood or an IV. Not having much firsthand experience with any of this stuff, I’m not sure if that would have made shooting up in his left arm more difficult/impossible, but… what was happening on his right arm was even more interesting.
On Kurt’s right arm there were approximately 13 recent puncture wounds starting near the same area as on the left arm and spread down his forearm. This is interesting because, assuming one is right-handed, they would generally hold the syringe with their right hand and inject into their left arm.
This raises a question that only the people close to Kurt could answer. When he did shoot up, which arm did he generally use? It seems, even if he was exclusively left-handed, making a habit of shooting up in his left arm would make sense as it would be highly-visible in his right arm while playing guitar (if he ever forgot a long sleeve shirt, or thoughtlessly took off his flannel, pushed up sleeves, etc).
The closest I can come to answering this is pointing out that his self-administered tattoos were on his left arm — because he was using the needle with his right hand… because he was right-handed. So, it seems obvious that his left arm would be the natural candidate in all circumstances anyway.
This is why I’m curious about recent IVs possibly making veins non-viable for shooting up (if anyone reading knows, please leave a comment). If there’s no other explanation for this, it really seems like something that should have been looked into. Why was he shooting up in his right arm (and why so many times)?
This would have been good information to have, because without knowing, it leads to questions about things beyond just his ability to function at all with that amount of heroin in his system — especially considering that a number of the puncture wounds were surrounded by bruising commonly associated with fumbled injections. This could be explained by a number of things: anything from using his non-dominant hand (for some reason), already being extremely intoxicated, or… being injected by someone else.
Spine, Stomach, Appendix
While not focusing on the entirety of his spine, the autopsy didn’t imply that there was anything notable about his skeletal system. It did specifically mention his spine, but it was mostly focusing on where it connects to the skull, which was also “unremarkable”.
The autopsy also mentioned that the mucosal lining of his stomach was intact — I think this kinda backs-up suspicion that both his back and stomach issues were likely exaggerated, as many people have suggested over the years.
That said, his appendix was present… the autopsy didn’t mention whether it was ‘remarkable’ or not, just that it was present. Appendicitis causes severe stomach pain, and nauseousness that leads to vomiting. Sound familiar?
Oh, and there are two kinds of Appendicitis: Acute Appendicitis, which is the more common form, and Chronic Appendicitis, which can come and go with periods of inflammation and isn't fully understood even in 2025. Maybe the stomach pain was real, but it wasn’t his stomach at all.
Missing Person Report
On the Missing Person Report that was filed on April 4th by Courtney Love pretending to be Kurt’s mother, Wendy O’Connor, I noticed a couple of errors. It says that Kurt’s ‘K’ (K Records) tattoo was on his right forearm — it was on his left forearm. And then in the section about whether the missing person had military experience, the YES box was checked.
This could be a simple mistake, but it is interesting that Kurt had previously claimed that, when he was 17, his father made him take the test for the Navy and meet the recruiter several times before finally deciding against it at the last minute.
That recruiter’s name? George Morrison.
Just kidding… not sure what to think of this — something I noticed, it was probably just a mistake.
The Crime of CRIME
Another testament to how sloppy the police work was: the Case Investigation Report was apparently a template that wasn’t even filled out properly. This resulted in the line “There is probable cause to believe that SUSPECT committed the crime of CRIME within the City of Seattle…” being left in the report… and signed-off on as being “true and correct”.
Tom Peterson Watch
Not related to what happened that day in the greenhouse, but still kind of interesting: in one of the photos that shows the most of Kurt’s body we can see his watch, which is described in the SPD’s scene note as “a black banded wrist watch with a human face on the face”. Turns out it was a promotional item for a small northwest chain of electronics stores, known for its television ads and bizarre promo items, called Tom Peterson’s.
While there were a few photos of Kurt wearing it while he was alive, there really weren’t hi-res images available until the last decade, or so (and I don’t remember anyone obsessing over his watch while I was still paying attention to all this)… kinda makes me wonder if it was the picture of Kurt’s corpse wearing it that led to it showing up on eBay for hundreds of dollars — they’re even apparently being counterfeited. This part didn’t really have a point — I just thought it was kinda weird.
Conclusion
Ultimately, revisiting the details of Kurt Cobain's final moments seems to have produced more questions for me than it answered.
Where was the note written?
When was it written?
Considering that he wasn’t actually left-handed, why was Kurt shooting up in his right arm?
And why so many times if he was just going to shoot himself anyway?
Why does the pen look like it was stabbed into the soil by someone using their left hand?
Why was he holding the barrel of the gun with his left hand, and is that typical in long-gun suicides?
How was his hand still on the barrel after it was shot, but only his thumb was burned from the heat?
Why wasn’t the cigar box or its contents (drug paraphernalia) checked for prints?
How did neither the pen nor the gun he used have fingerprints on them… and why did a month pass before they were processed when his body was cremated within 6 days of it being found?
If I’m being honest, I’ve never completely bought-in to the official story, but just over the last few months researching this, I kinda feel like I’ve become more black-pilled on it than I ever was as a teenager in the 90s. Without some solid answers about a few details, it kinda does seem like it was staged — and staged to look like it was done by someone that was known to be left-handed… even though they weren’t.
In the years following Kurt’s death, El Duce, of the punk band Mentors (also: Chinas Comidas, The Screamers) claimed that he was offered $50K to do it by Courtney herself. In 1997 his body was found decapitated on train tracks — eight days after filming his interview for the Nick Broomfield documentary Kurt & Courtney, in which he claimed Allen Wrench10 took up the offer instead.
Coincidentally, El Duce was originally from Seattle (before moving to LA), but more interestingly: while playing with Mentors, he appeared on New Wave Theatre and was one of the initial suspects in the murder of Peter Ivers…
Which means this is now the second musician I’ve written about who was killed with something obtained through a friend “for protection”, whose corpse watch has been a focal point, had connections to the punk band Germs and El Duce. And this one just happened to be during the last year in the Decade of Hammers!
Sorry, got a little sidetracked there. Where was I…
For decades now, many of us have had an image of those final moments based on limited secondhand information filtered through media narratives. Inspecting the evidence that’s been made available with my own eyes really just made the official narrative more questionable. I went into this thinking that I would find that all the rumors were over-hyped, but all the oddities and unanswered questions, while individually minor, collectively suggest a situation far more complex and less conclusive than presented.
While it's not possible to definitively rewrite history with the fragments of information still available, recognizing these inconsistencies feels necessary — and not just in some “justice for Kurt” type of way, but to highlight how “official” narratives are crafted by the media choosing to frame (or omit) certain details.
Kurt Cobain’s life and death were shrouded in myth and speculation, yet what little evidence remains of his final moments warrants a re-examination free from emotional bias. Whether this re-examination leads to new conclusions, or simply deepens the mystery, it should remind us that every iconic image splashed onto the cave wall deserves careful consideration — they’re probably not there just to entertain us.
Sources
Full autopsy, police reports, and a ton of audio clips of phone conversations & eyebrow-raising contextual information can be found on Detective Tom Grant’s site: www.cobaincase.com
It’s possible this could explain the line quality of the final 4 lines, but I would need to see a clean hi-res image to really tell what’s going on
It’s the picture showing the stool sitting between a Police Officer and Detective — left side (2nd to last picture of the 1st gallery of scene photos)
Where she also points out a brown coat on her sofa and says "He killed himself in this coat" — which can’t be true, as his corpse was not wearing a coat. I’ve read that there was a coat laying on top of a gun case next to his body, but neither of those details are confirmed by the scene photos or police reports
In March of 1994, Nirvana was on tour in Europe and Kurt took a break to visit Courtney in Rome, Kurt was rushed to the hospital after overdosing on a combination of champagne & 50 Rohypnol tablets (i.e. Roofies... which were prescribed to Courtney), and he spent about 20 hours in a coma. There was reportedly a note involved, which was rumored to have mentioned divorce and quitting the band
IHOPs near his residence, the Seattle airport, LA airport, Exodus Recovery Center, etc.
Dylan was also Kurt’s introduction to guns and heroin
Courtney called the police and told them that Kurt had locked himself in a room and was going to kill himself. Police arrive, confiscate Kurt's guns (that weren't even in the room he locked himself in), and then speak to Kurt, who says that he wasn't suicidal at all. The period from after the Rome incident to when Kurt went to rehab was filled with tension between Kurt and Courtney — at some point during this time period, both Kurt and Courtney called the same lawyer: Kurt asking to remove Courtney from his will; Courtney looking for the most vicious divorce lawyer she could find
Though, knowing Kurt’s actual height seems to be rather impossible — reports vary from 5’7” all the way to 5’11” (on his driver’s license)
One could argue tolerance, but studies have shown that, despite a pattern of long-term use, heroin users can still overdose on what would be considered a toxic level for ‘opioid-naive individuals’, particularly in conjunction with alcohol or benzodiazepines. Valium is part of the benzodiazepine family. Also: he just left rehab on the 1st of April so he only had a couple days to rebuild tolerance after presumably being clean from the time of his intervention [March 25] to when he left rehab
Of the band Kill Allen Wrench, whose guitarist, Steve Broy, also played with Mentors as Dr. Heathen Scum
Regarding the watch: It's hard to overstate how "known" Tom Peterson was in PDX and how prevalent promo items with is likeness on them were. Alarm clocks (he used to run late night ads where he'd say "Wake up!"), watches, shirts, etc. You'd could even go there and get the same buzz haircut he had.
Dang this was well researched! I heard somewhere that he and some other musicians who "killed themselves" were about to expose a pedophile ring in the music industry.