Barth draft

NOTEBOOK 1—SPD COBAIN FILES

Page Index 12-1 

"Barth said he was contacted on Monday April 4th 94 by Tom Grant and that Grant requested that he set up surveillance at the 11th & East Denny location... He said they surveilled the 11th & Denny location on Monday April 4th 94 from 6:30 PM until 07:30 AM on Tuesday April 5th 94... He said they surveilled the... Lake Washington Boulevard house until Thursday April 7th 94 at 1:30 PM when Ben Klugman called and cancelled the surveillance. He said he was very upset then he found out that Grant came to Seattle and went into the house with Dylan without telling him."

CASE STUDY MANUAL—TOM GRANT

TIMELINE OF EVENTS: The Seattle Search

"Thursday morning, April 7, 2:15 AM—We went to the Lake Washington house. I waited in the car while Dylan walked up alone as we had previously planned. ...Dylan came back to the car after a least five minutes saying no one was home.. We found a nearby pay phone at a gas station and called Courtney.... Upon returning to the Lake Washington house, we gained access through an unlocked kitchen window... A television was still on in one of the bedrooms upstairs and the bed was unmade. Dylan told me this was Cali's room."

NIRVANA THE BIOGRAPHY—EVERETT TRUE (2006)

CHAPTER 29: Spring Rain

"On April 7... Cali and Jennifer Adamson carried out another search of the house at 2:15 AM —They discovered the bed unmade in the master bedroom, cold to the touch - with MTV playing, muted."

SING BACKWARDS AND WEEP—MARK LANEGAN (2020) CHAPTER 21: Days Gone Dark 

"The next day someone in the Nirvana camp asked if I would go with Dylan to some Capitol Hill dope houses to see if Kurt was hanging out at any of them. A private investigator Courtney had hired named Tom Grant picked us up. After we had gone to the spot of every last dealer we could think of, Grant drove us to Kurt's house near Lake Washington. We went from room to room calling his name but there was no answer."

According to Notebook 1 of the Seattle Police Cobain Files , Barth states that Tom Grant hired him on April 4th to watch the 11th and East Denny location on Capital Hill. He said they surveilled that location from 6:30 PM Monday until 7:30 AM Tuesday April 5th and then relocated surveillance to the Lake Washington house until Thursday 1:30 PM when Ben Klugman called to cancel all surveillance. Thirty minutes after Barth leaves the property—Charles Pelly and Gary Smith arrive to the house to inspect the perimeter of the property for a security installation planned for the following day. According the police documents—at 4 PM, a person matching Michael DeWitt’s description was picked up at the residence by cab driver Mike McGee—but according to Joe Burns—DeWitt left the house that week with him and Bonnie. Bonnie Dillard would later call the following tip into Unsolved Mysteries:

"Caller was at their house the night he died with the nanny. She saw someone standing in the greenhouse. She saw through the window. It could have been Kurt. This was 6pm. She saw this as she and the nanny were driving away from this house. Caller was not sure of the date."

Everett True's Nirvana biography states the following.

"The same day, Cali and Jennifer Adamson carried out another search of the house at 2.15 a.m. - Jessica had flown back to Minneapolis two days before. They discovered the bed unmade in the master bedroom, cold to the touch - with MTV playing, muted. The pair returned again at dusk, with a few other friends. Cali was seriously spooked. He didn't want to enter the house. After checking every room, Cali left Kurt a note on the main staircase.... "Do you remember the wax old lady that we had?" Cali asks. "It was a life-sized replica of Lizzy Borden. I would put it in windows facing out to scare people, or put it in front of guests' bathroom doors for when they opened the door. I was always afraid of that thing. That day, Bonnie Dillard [who was] Jennifer Adamson's friend [at the time]—and me and some other people went over there to get some food or money or something. On our way out the driveway, Bonnie turned around and said she saw someone looking out the attic window. I turned back and it was gone. In my memory, that was Kurt watching us leave. I imagined it was the wax lady she saw, but it was probably him"

This aligns with the story told by Joe Burns who claims that he, Bonnie, Cali and Jennifer left together and he and Bonnie both saw someone in the greenhouse. Joe also mentions that when Kurt was killed—Dylan was there with a few others and there was a P.I. lurking around taking photos. 

The statement in Everett's book about Cali and Adamson searching the house at 2:15 AM and discovering the bed in the master bedroom unmade, cold to the touch with Mtv playing—muted, mirrors the exact time and description of Tom Grant's statement from his Case Study Manual...

"Upon returning to the Lake Washington house, we gained access through an unlocked kitchen window. While we were searching the house... A television was still on in one of the bedrooms upstairs and the bed was unmade. Dylan told me this was Cali's room. We didn't find Kurt since Dylan hadn't told me about the room above the garage. It was dark and raining very hard so I hadn't noticed it."

Mark Lanegan wrote that He, Dylan and Grant went room to room calling out Kurt's name, which mirrors Grant's story of him and Dylan calling his name. However he excludes Mark from being present during the house search.

So at 2:15 AM, Thursday morning we have Tom Grant, Mark Lanegan, Dylan Carlson, Michael DeWitt, and Jennifer Adamson—all searching the exact same location looking for the exact same person at the exact same time—all checking the same rooms, same bed, missing the same greenhouse—all parties having the same experience while being completely unaware to the other parties presence—Let's not forget that Ernie Barth is right outside surveilling the house. 

If we include Charles Pelly and Gary Smith who is there during the day we have eight people at the house that Thursday—oh and one according to Never Fade Away. 

Barth says he was given a limited description of Cobain and never claimed to have seen Tom Grant or Dylan during the four days of surveillance. Tom Grant claims that after arriving Wednesday at 11:30, he and Dylan went to a 24/7 cafe to plan their search. They then drove passed Barth [according to Wallace and Halperin] or one of his investigators [according to Grant] surveilling 11th and East Denny—one version has them chit-chatting and the othet has them rolling by and noticing the surveillance truck with a video camera sitting on the dash. Barth's surveillance had ended at the East Denny location Tuesday morning—so Grant's "anchoring" of time falls apart completely according to Barth's report to the SPD. 

Barth was told to cancel surveillance by Klugman, because according to Grant—Courtney was furious that Barth was at the house and told Grant to call it off as Cali the Nanny was supposedly there. Klugman told Barth something different, he sad that Grant and Dylan had already searched the house. This infuriated Barth because he hadn't known that Grant had flown up to Seattle and broke inside the house with Dylan.

Apparently Barth nor his investigators ever saw Grant that entire week and the matter of when exactly Grant arrived and broke into the house isn't even mentioned. 

So when Grant arrived and broke in is unknown.

Charles Pelly had never seen or met Grant, he states that his name and cellphone were the only information on Grant that was given to him by Courtney. Grant called early morning stating that he was in the driveway and later that evening asking if Pelly closed the open window in which Pelly told him no he hadn't as he had not been inside the house that day. Was Grant merely calling to create a documented alibi through Pelly's statements?

The window screens alarm thr police if an intruder attempted to remove the screen. However, as Pelly and Smith were working on installing upgrades, they would disarm the security alarms, and while disarmed—if someone were to remove a screen from the inside and left removed when the day was over and the alarm was armed it would bypass that section entirely—allowing any intruders to enter in and exit undetected. 

Thursday, while Pelly and Smith were planning the routing of cables and wires with the alarm disarmed, Cali could have removed a screen from an open window—a missing mesh screen from one of the many open windows that give the Mansion it's distinct look would be almost impossible to detect. Cali leaves that afternoon and Grant and Dylan return later that evening for the "second search". All the windows were open according to Grant, this was the beauty of Dictograph Security, they focused entirely on communications and the monitoring of homes for high profile celebrities to seperate paparazzi and fans from the perimeter. The client can open the windows for a nice spring breeze and not worry of break-ins. 

So according to Barth, Grant and Dylan weren't there that morning. Where were they then? Possibly with Courtney. But let's backtrack, let's move the events of Thursday to Monday morning 2:15 AM. Barth hasn't been hired yet. Mark, Dylan and Grant show up to the house, Dylan asked Josef if Kurt was there, Joe recalls that he didn't see any car parked in the driveway. Cali, Jennifer and Bonnie are there as well. Jessica Hopper claims she was downstairs and heard footsteps from upstairs and seemed to be walking with a purpose. We know Joe left for a short time at some point and returned, Joe was there for several days according to his first interview in which he stated "when we finally did leave (the second time) Cali came with, and we all went to Jennifer Adamson's to crash out, the next day is when they found his cold body. Kurt had been laying there for several days. Hartshorn notes that rigidity is easily broken meaning this was at the beginning stage of post-riger when the body becomes completely flacid. That coloring of the abdominal area shows the early stage of decomposition. The body had already bloated and stiffened and was becoming flacid. As it turns out, we were wrong about the day of his death. Kurt did die on Tuesday the 5th. Postmortem is rapid, had he laid dead for 24 hours longer there would have been a lot more decomposition. Moving Joe's timeline to the 5th opposed to what he wrote in his book being the 2nd and everyone showing up on the 4th, we place the 7th as the day everyone began showing up... Mark, Dylan, an investigator, Courtney Love (the one Joe says was rumored to have shown up and who had indeed shown up) and Josef, Bonnie, Jennifer and Cali all leaving together, spotting Courtney Love in the famous red dress. Bonnie says this was at 6 PM, Cali says it was on Thursday, Josef says Thursday, Tom Mark and Dylan say Thursday, Courtney says thursday... and this would be after Barth left. A cop shows up, Pelly and Gary are there as well. Perfect time to stage the gun in Kurt's hand as it had loosened up from the rigger. 

Remember Tom's Case Study Manual?, there was nothing written for the 5th. Perhaps the Saturday and Thursday alibis were to throw everyone off.. tip line states that Kurt was seen in Bellevue in his dodge dart with Eric and Kristen, I believe they went to carnation, this date is also missing from Kristen's journal. I believe he may have gone their to crash, returned Sunday, hung out through Monday, killed early Tuesday.. Wednesday passes, and Thursday, and then everyone gets with Courtney at the house to finish the staging, this is when the cop showed up, the missing persons report was altered because Barth—a former SPD officer—did not know Kurt was suicidal, thus the report was not out yet... it was a distraction, and forged. Look at the timestamp. 

NOTEBOOK 1—SPD COBAIN FILES

Page Index 12-1 

"Barth said he was contacted on Monday April 4th 94 by Tom Grant and that Grant requested that he set up surveillance at the 11th & East Denny location... He said they surveilled the 11th & Denny location on Monday April 4th 94 from 6:30 PM until 07:30 AM on Tuesday April 5th 94... He said they surveilled the... Lake Washington Boulevard house until Thursday April 7th 94 at 1:30 PM when Ben Klugman called and cancelled the surveillance. He said he was very upset then he found out that Grant came to Seattle and went into the house with Dylan without telling him."

CASE STUDY MANUAL—TOM GRANT

TIMELINE OF EVENTS: The Seattle Search

"Thursday morning, April 7, 2:15 AM—We went to the Lake Washington house. I waited in the car while Dylan walked up alone as we had previously planned. ...Dylan came back to the car after a least five minutes saying no one was home.. We found a nearby pay phone at a gas station and called Courtney.... Upon returning to the Lake Washington house, we gained access through an unlocked kitchen window... A television was still on in one of the bedrooms upstairs and the bed was unmade. Dylan told me this was Cali's room."

NIRVANA THE BIOGRAPHY—EVERETT TRUE (2006)

CHAPTER 29: Spring Rain

"On April 7... Cali and Jennifer Adamson carried out another search of the house at 2:15 AM —They discovered the bed unmade in the master bedroom, cold to the touch - with MTV playing, muted."

SING BACKWARDS AND WEEP—MARK LANEGAN (2020) CHAPTER 21: Days Gone Dark 

"The next day someone in the Nirvana camp asked if I would go with Dylan to some Capitol Hill dope houses to see if Kurt was hanging out at any of them. A private investigator Courtney had hired named Tom Grant picked us up. After we had gone to the spot of every last dealer we could think of, Grant drove us to Kurt's house near Lake Washington. We went from room to room calling his name but there was no answer."

According to Notebook 1 of the Seattle Police Cobain Files , Barth states that Tom Grant hired him on April 4th to watch the 11th and East Denny location on Capital Hill. He said they surveilled that location from 6:30 PM Monday until 7:30 AM Tuesday April 5th and then relocated the the surveillance to the Lake Washington house until Thursday 1:30 PM when Ben Klugman called to cancel all surveillance. Thirty minutes after Barth leaves the property—Charles Pelly and Gary Smith arrive to the house to inspect the perimeter of the property for a security installation planned for the following day—Friday. Around 6 PM Michael DeWitt leaves in a cab—but according to Joe Burns—DeWitt left the home that week with him and Bonnie, and Bonnie Dillard called in to Unsolved Mysteries Tip-Line and told them that she was at the house with the Nanny the night Kurt died, as they left she saw a shadowy figure in the greenhouse as they left at 6 PM. Regarding Thursday, Everett True's Nirvana biography states the following.

The same day, Cali and Jennifer Adamson carried out another search of the house at 2.15 a.m. - Jessica had flown back to Minneapolis two days before. They discovered the bed unmade in the master bedroom, cold to the touch - with MTV playing, muted. The pair returned again at dusk, with a few other friends. Cali was seriously spooked. He didn't want to enter the house. After checking every room, Cali left Kurt a note on the main staircase.... "Do you remember the wax old lady that we had?" Cali asks. "It was a life-sized replica of Lizzy Borden. I would put it in windows facing out to scare people, or put it in front of guests' bathroom doors for when they opened the door. I was always afraid of that thing. That day, Bonnie [ Dillard, Jennifer Adamson's friend] and me and some other people went over there to get some food or money or something. On our way out the driveway, Bonnie turned around and said she saw someone looking out the attic window. I turned back and it was gone. In my memory, that was Kurt watching us leave. I imagined it was the wax lady she saw, but it was probably him. I talked to his mom afterwards. She was like, 'He could be so quiet if he wanted to be. He could just sit there.' It was a huge house. So I'm loaded, and I don't think he's in there. If I hear a creak of the floorboards here and there, I'm sure he was there a lot of the time. Was he going over to Caitlin's house? Maybe. He had a car. There's so much crazy speculation."

This aligns with the story told by Joe Burns who claims that he, Bonnie, Cali and Jennifer left together and he and Bonnie both saw someone in the greenhouse. Joe also mentions that when Kurt was killed—Dylan was there with a few others and there was a P.I. taking photos. 

 The statement in Everett's book about Cali and Adamson searching the house at 2:15 AM and discovering the bed in the master bedroom unmade, cold to the touch with Mtv playing—muted, mirrors Tom Grant's statement in his Case Study Manual...

"Upon returning to the Lake Washington house, we gained access through an unlocked kitchen window. While we were searching the house... A television was still on in one of the bedrooms upstairs and the bed was unmade. Dylan told me this was Cali's room. We didn't find Kurt since Dylan hadn't told me about the room above the garage. It was dark and raining very hard so I hadn't noticed it."

and Mark Lanegan wrote that He, Dylan and Grant went room to room calling out Kurt's name, which aligns with Grant's claim that he and Dylan went room to room calling out Kurt's name, however he excludes Mark from being present during the house searches. 

All present throughout the day according to the written testimonies were—Ernie Barth, Tom Grant, Mark Lanegan, Dylan Carlson, Cali Dewitt, Jennifer Adamson, Bonnie Dillard, Joseph Burns, Charles Pelly, and Gary Smith.

However, Barth was given a limited description of Cobain and he never saw Tom Grant or Dylan during surveillance. In fact—no one in the reports claim to have seen Tom Grant that week.

NOTEBOOK 1—SPD COBAIN FILES

Page Index 12-1 

"Barth said he was contacted on Monday April 4th 94 by Tom Grant and that Grant requested that he set up surveillance at the 11th & East Denny location... He said they surveilled the 11th & Denny location on Monday April 4th 94 from 6:30 PM until 07:30 AM on Tuesday April 5th 94... He said they surveilled the... Lake Washington Boulevard house until Thursday April 7th 94 at 1:30 PM when Ben Klugman called and cancelled the surveillance. He said he was very upset then he found out that Grant came to Seattle and went into the house with Dylan without telling him."

CASE STUDY MANUAL—TOM GRANT

TIMELINE OF EVENTS: The Seattle Search

"Thursday morning, April 7, 2:15 AM—We went to the Lake Washington house. I waited in the car while Dylan walked up alone as we had previously planned. ...Dylan came back to the car after a least five minutes saying no one was home.. We found a nearby pay phone at a gas station and called Courtney.... Upon returning to the Lake Washington house, we gained access through an unlocked kitchen window... A television was still on in one of the bedrooms upstairs and the bed was unmade. Dylan told me this was Cali's room."

NIRVANA THE BIOGRAPHY—EVERETT TRUE (2006)

CHAPTER 29: Spring Rain

"On April 7... Cali and Jennifer Adamson carried out another search of the house at 2:15 AM —They discovered the bed unmade in the master bedroom, cold to the touch - with MTV playing, muted."

SING BACKWARDS AND WEEP—MARK LANEGAN (2020) CHAPTER 21: Days Gone Dark 

"The next day someone in the Nirvana camp asked if I would go with Dylan to some Capitol Hill dope houses to see if Kurt was hanging out at any of them. A private investigator Courtney had hired named Tom Grant picked us up. After we had gone to the spot of every last dealer we could think of, Grant drove us to Kurt's house near Lake Washington. We went from room to room calling his name but there was no answer."

According to Notebook 1 of the Seattle Police Cobain Files , Barth states that Tom Grant hired him on April 4th to watch the 11th and East Denny location on Capital Hill. He said they surveilled that location from 6:30 PM Monday until 7:30 AM Tuesday April 5th and then relocated surveillance to the Lake Washington house until Thursday 1:30 PM when Ben Klugman called to cancel all surveillance. Thirty minutes after Barth leaves the property—Charles Pelly and Gary Smith arrive to the house to inspect the perimeter of the property for a security installation planned for the following day. According the police documents—at 4 PM, a person matching Michael DeWitt’s description was picked up at the residence by cab driver Mike McGee—but according to Joe Burns—DeWitt left the house that week with him and Bonnie. Bonnie Dillard would later call the following tip into Unsolved Mysteries:

"Caller was at their house the night he died with the nanny. She saw someone standing in the greenhouse. She saw through the window. It could have been Kurt. This was 6pm. She saw this as she and the nanny were driving away from this house. Caller was not sure of the date."

Everett True's Nirvana biography states the following.

"The same day, Cali and Jennifer Adamson carried out another search of the house at 2.15 a.m. - Jessica had flown back to Minneapolis two days before. They discovered the bed unmade in the master bedroom, cold to the touch - with MTV playing, muted. The pair returned again at dusk, with a few other friends. Cali was seriously spooked. He didn't want to enter the house. After checking every room, Cali left Kurt a note on the main staircase.... "Do you remember the wax old lady that we had?" Cali asks. "It was a life-sized replica of Lizzy Borden. I would put it in windows facing out to scare people, or put it in front of guests' bathroom doors for when they opened the door. I was always afraid of that thing. That day, Bonnie Dillard [who was] Jennifer Adamson's friend [at the time]—and me and some other people went over there to get some food or money or something. On our way out the driveway, Bonnie turned around and said she saw someone looking out the attic window. I turned back and it was gone. In my memory, that was Kurt watching us leave. I imagined it was the wax lady she saw, but it was probably him"

This aligns with the story told by Joe Burns who claims that he, Bonnie, Cali and Jennifer left together and he and Bonnie both saw someone in the greenhouse. Joe also mentions that when Kurt was killed—Dylan was there with a few others and there was a P.I. lurking around taking photos. 

The statement in Everett's book about Cali and Adamson searching the house at 2:15 AM and discovering the bed in the master bedroom unmade, cold to the touch with Mtv playing—muted, mirrors the exact time and description of Tom Grant's statement from his Case Study Manual...

"Upon returning to the Lake Washington house, we gained access through an unlocked kitchen window. While we were searching the house... A television was still on in one of the bedrooms upstairs and the bed was unmade. Dylan told me this was Cali's room. We didn't find Kurt since Dylan hadn't told me about the room above the garage. It was dark and raining very hard so I hadn't noticed it."

Mark Lanegan wrote that He, Dylan and Grant went room to room calling out Kurt's name, which mirrors Grant's story of him and Dylan calling his name. However he excludes Mark from being present during the house search.

So at 2:15 AM, Thursday morning, Grant, Mark, Dylan, Cali and Adamson are all searching that exact same location looking for the exact same person and the exact same time without any of the parties bumping into each other.

All present at the house during the daytime according to the written testimonies were—Ernie Barth, Charles Pelly, and Gary Smith.

However, Barth was given a limited description of Cobain and he never saw Tom Grant or Dylan during surveillance. Tom Grant claims that after arriving Wednesday at 11:30, he and Dylan went to a 24/7 cafe to plan their search. They then passed by Barth or one of his investigators surveilling 11th and East Denny, even describing the vehicle and seeing the video camera facing the location on the dash. Barth's surveillance had ended at that location Tuesday morning—Grant's "anchoring" of time falls apart completely. 

Barth was told to cancel surveillance by Klugman, because according to Grant—Courtney was furious that Barth was at the house and told Grant to call it off as Cali the Nanny was supposedly there. Klugman told Barth something different, he sad that Grant and Dylan had already searched the house. This infuriated Barth because he hadn't known that Grant had flown up to Seattle and broke inside the house with Dylan.

Apparently Barth nor his investigators ever saw Grant that entire week and the matter of when exactly Grant arrived and broke into the house isn't even mentioned. 

So when Grant arrived and broke in is unknown.

Charles Pelly had never seen or met Grant, he states that his name and cellphone were the only information on Grant that was given to him by Courtney. Grant called early morning stating that he was in the driveway and later that evening asking if Pelly closed the open window in which Pelly told him no he hadn't as he had not been inside the house that day. Was Grant merely calling to create a documented alibi through Pelly's statements?

The window screens alarm the police if an intruder attempted to remove the screen. However, as Pelly and Smith were working on installing upgrades, they would disarm the security alarms, and while disarmed—if someone were to remove a screen from the inside and left removed when the day was over and the alarm was armed it would bypass that section entirely—allowing any intruders to enter in and exit undetected. 

Thursday, while Pelly and Smith were planning the routing of cables and wires with the alarm disarmed, Cali may have removed a screen from an open window—a missing mesh screen from one of the many open windows that give the Mansion it's distinct look would be almost impossible to detect. Cali leaves that afternoon and Grant and Dylan return later that evening for the "second search". All the windows were open according to Grant, this was the beauty of Dictograph Security, they focused entirely on communications and the monitoring of homes for high profile celebrities to seperate paparazzi and fans from the perimeter. The client can open the windows for a nice spring breeze and not worry of break-ins. Pelly received a call from Grant Thursday morning stating he was in the driveway, because the system was monitored in real time—calling ahead would make recorded alibi, again, Barth did not see them that morning so Grant and Dylan were not there and definitely not in the driveway.

Grant claims Dylan crawled in through the window and opened the back door for Grant, the doors are still logged and Grant would need a door opened to establish a shadowy alibi... having Cali simply open and close the door. 

So according to Barth, Grant and Dylan weren't there that morning. Where were they then? Possibly with Courtney. But let's backtrack, let's move the events of Thursday to Monday morning 2:15 AM. Barth hasn't been hired yet. Mark, Dylan and Grant show up to the house, Dylan asked Josef if Kurt was there, Joe recalls that he didn't see any car parked in the driveway. Cali, Jennifer and Bonnie are there as well. Jessica Hopper claims she was downstairs and heard footsteps from upstairs and seemed to be walking with a purpose. 

This we know. The Alarm system had been set up prior to the move in. The generator for the Alarm system is shown in the insurance photos. Pelly owned a security window alarm system which is what was being installed. This allowed celebrities to have the peace of mind to open their windows to allow the cool spring breeze in. The mesh screens had a wiring trigger meaning that anyone trying to remove it would trip the alarm. However since the alarm system had to be disarmed in order to work on it, if a screen was removed, by the end of the work day when the system was turned back on—the screenless window along with it's section group would not set to ready mode

Case Manual

We found a nearby pay phone at a gas station and called Courtney. She was at Rosemary Carroll's house in Los Angeles. Dylan talked with Courtney. I told him to have her call the alarm company and ask them to turn off the alarm so we could go in the house.

The Mysterious death of Kurt Cobain

Before I left Los Angeles, I had asked Courtney to contact the alarm company, Veca Electric, to turn off the alarm. But we had to check in with Veca ourselves when we arrived at the house before they would actually turn it off. So we then drove down the street to a pay phone in order to call them. Remember, this was 1994, and while I did have a cellphone, cellular reception was far less reliable back then and people still had to rely on payphones much of the time, especially in bad weather. I spoke to Veca supervisor Charles Pelly who turned off the alarm from the main office

From Notebook 1 -

As I waited, Charles A. Pelly W/M 07/28/37 arrived and contacted me. Pelly is the president of Dictograph Security Systems, the company which had arranged for the electrical work to be done by Gary Smith and had responded to see if he could be of assistance, Pelly stated he had recently spoken with Courtney Love (who was in Los Angeles) Cobain's wife. Love had stated that they were concerned that there might be unauthorized people staying in the house, and that Love had arranged for Tom Grant, a private investigator in Los Angeles to go to Seattle to check the house. Love stated that Grant had been given Pelly's name as a contact. Pelly said this conversation occurred on 04/06/94. Pelly stated he received a call on 04/07/94 at about 0245 from Grant, who stated that Grant was in the driveway of Cobain's house, and was going to check the interior of the house, At about 1400 hrs. that same day, Pelly and Gary Smith surveyed the property to assess the wiring job that was to be performed. Pelly stated that neither he, nor Smith looked into the room over the garage. Later that day, at about 2140 hrs., Pelly received another call from Grant. Grant asked if Pelly had locked the window that Grant had used to get inside the house. Pelly told Grant he had not, as Pelly had not entered the house. Pelly stated he had no information on Grant other than his name, and a cellular phone number of (310)503-8780. Pelly stated he had never met Grant. I told Pelly that if he should hear from Grant, to have Grant call the Homicide office.