Neil Low

And I think some of the people that are looking into it now thinks that there may have been signs that he was already dying from the heroin.

So why the shotgun blast?

And if you don't mind me getting a little literate here, um,

John Steinbeck wrote a book called In Dubious Battle.

It was right after Grapes of Wrath.

And in that, there's a union organizer leader that people didn't want, and so they killed him.

And they shot him in the face with a shotgun.

And I thought, whoa, I'm reading this in college.

Professor, isn't that a little graphic, a little gruesome?

Why would they do that?

They said, to erase his identity.

Now, think about that.

I mean, why have a gratuitous...

He's got heroin.

He's got his clunky Volvo parked in the garage below.

He can go down, sit in the Volvo, turn on the ignition, take their heroin, painless.

But to blow off his face, that's somebody who I think didn't want an open casket.

They were hoping it would blow his face off.

It didn't, but I think that was their hope that it would blow up his head.

so-called friends of Kurt who shot heroin with him that might've been hanging around.