Even though Kristen Pfaff's death in June 1994 was attributed to a heroin overdose, rumors have persisted in the years since that she was a victim of foul play.

In the summer of 1994, Seattle was a city in mourning. That April, Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain had died of suicide at the age of 27. Local musicians were still reeling from the loss when another of their own died young that June. Then, Kristen Pfaff, the bassist for the band Hole, was found dead in her bathtub. Like Cobain, she was 27 years old.

Though Pfaff’s story is far less known than Cobain’s, her life — and death — had a huge impact on the Seattle music scene. Pfaff was creative and gifted and, like many musicians in Seattle at the time, struggled with an addiction to heroin. Though she had been working to get clean, Pfaff

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