Seattle police have released two more never-before-seen photos from the scene of NIRVANA frontman Kurt Cobain's suicide nearly 20 years ago. The police re-examined the case last month in advance of media interest surrounding the 20th anniversary of Cobain's death and came across four rolls of undeveloped film taken at his Seattle home on April 8, 1994, the day his body was found after he shot himself three days earlier.One of the two photos released by the Seattle Police Department Thursday morning (April 3) shows a close-up of the 27-year-old musician's arm with a hospital ID bracelt around his wrist. The other shows a box of shotgun shells inches away from Cobain's foot, still clad in a Converse sneaker.According to The Pulse Of Radio, the photos revealed no new evidence, but paint a bleak picture of his final hours. The room he was in was empty of furniture except for one stool, while other photos reveal what police say was his suicide note and his "heroin kit" of drug paraphernalia. More photos show Cobain's wallet, trash strewn around and various views of his residence.Cobain died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound not long after he took a massive dose of heroin which could have proven fatal on its own.Cobain began using heroin to ease chronic stomach pain he had suffered from his entire life, and his biographer, Charles R. Cross, told The Pulse Of Radio that one of the biggest misconceptions about Cobain was that he glamorized drug use. "Here was a guy who tried, almost ever since he started heroin, to quit," he said. "He was in rehab at least five different times, he got extensive help, but none of it ultimately worked or kept. And in his diaries, you know, hundreds and hundreds of times he's pleading to God that he wants to quit drugs. So this idea that he in any ways glamorized drug use or promoted it is just absolutely untrue."Detective Mike Ciesynski, who was assigned to review the case, said that he developed the rolls of film to possibly help quiet persistent and groundless conspiracy theories that Cobain was murdered.NIRVANA will be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame on April 10 just five days after the 20th anniversary of Cobain's death. Photos provided by the Seattle Police Department
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