This is doubly so for Cobain whose body has been cremated interestingly, the building where his body was found, soon afterward was ordered torn down. After such a ruling, investigation becomes nearly impossible. Statler uses film clips of testimony by retired law enforcement experts in forensics, investigation and homicide, who point out that a death ruled a suicide conveniently precludes the need for any further investigation of the evidence. The filmmakers with pinpoint logic, methodical and meticulous details and facts underscore that the gunshot wound to Cobain’s head, the position of the rifle and Courtney Love’s (his wife), insistence that Cobain was suicidal, prematurely closed down any further death investigation of the quiet, press-shy man whose music reached out to the down trodden of society and whose language spoke to the “average Joe in the streets.”Ĭourtney Love, Kurt Cobain’s wife. The question of whether it was or wasn’t a suicide is the subject of Soaked in Bleach. His tragic death two years later on April 8th, 1994 was pronounced a suicide by the Seattle Police Department. Cobain was the “go-to” Alternative-Rock icon, establishing grunge music with a permanent place in the stars and Cobain’s Nirvana the #1 spot on the Billboard 200 in 1992 with the album Nevermind. Both ended up dead before their time with Cobain at 27, the same age as Jim Morrison at his death. The documentary begins with the acknowledgement that for Generation X, Kurt Cobain was the equivalent of what John Lennon was for the baby boomers. Soaked in Bleach (a lyric in “Come as You Are” from the album Nevermind), is the metaphoric, suggestive title of Benjamin Statler’s film which infers what really happened in the Kurt Cobain death investigation. Kurt Cobain, ‘Soaked in Bleach.’ Photo courtesy of the film.