Norm Stamper

Case closed." It was dark-sided psychology.

Norm Stamper, who would become the new sergeant of Seattle's Police Department after the resignation of Sergeant Cameron, admits in the documentary Soaked in Bleach that he did overhear reports of Kurt being suicidal from the falsified missing persons report filed by Courtney pretending to be Wendy.

There you go.

Fact, not conspiracy.

Why was the sergeant of a police department fighting the development of crime scene photos to determine the location of a stool for Kurt's death investigation? Did he know more than he was letting on? Did he really just not give a shit? Or was his reputation in the department before he planned on retiring more important to him than being honest about the fact that his department botched the death of a worldwide icon, Nirvana's Kurt Cobain? Sergeant Donald Cameron's plan to retire with honor didn't ever come to fruition as it had in his own mind's eye, however.

Karma has a way of finding you, even in the 11th hour of your retirement season.

When Norm Stamper spoke on camera for Soaked in Bleach, he revealed that he had taken over Sergeant Cameron's position and title in 1994 at the Seattle Police Department, the very same year Kurt Cobain died.

The explanation for the takeover? Norm Stamper forced Cameron to resign, or else he would be fired after Stamper discovered that Cameron had colluded with one of his own detectives to replant evidence that had been stolen by a homicide detective at a homicide scene.