NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Published: Thursday, March 20, 2014, 4:36 PM
Updated: Friday, March 21, 2014, 9:59 PM
Like plaid, public fascination with Kurt Cobain's death never goes out of style.
Seattle police recently developed four rolls of film evidence showing the grisly scene where the Nirvana frontman's body was discovered with a gunshot wound to his head, Seattle's KIRO-TV reported.
A separate never-before-seen photo from the police case file — showing a cigar box stuffed with heroin and drug paraphernalia found near the singer's body — was also obtained by the television station and posted late Thursday.
It was not immediately clear why the 35mm film sat undeveloped in a police vault all this time, but investigators decided not to reopen the case after viewing the photographs.
"No change, no developments, no new leads," a police spokeswoman told the Washington Post.
That didn't stop armchair sleuths from weighing in on the Internet.
News of the photos comes just weeks before the 20th anniversary on April 5 of the 27-year-old grunge icon's passing. Cobain's body was found three days later in what was ruled a suicide by the medical examiner's office.
"I noticed something on the floor and I thought it was a mannequin," electrician Gary Smith, who discovered the body, told KIRO TV at the time. "So I looked a little closer and geez, that's a person. I looked a little closer and I could see blood and an ear and a weapon laying on his chest."
A suicide note turned up nearby and was later read publicly at a memorial by Cobain's widow, Courtney Love.
"Please keep going Courtney," he wrote. "For Francis, for her life which will be so much happier without me. I love you, I love you."
Despite the coroner's ruling and the singer's reported history with depression, conspiracy theorists have claimed for the past two decades that Cobain was murdered.
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