April 20th, 2002 @ 5:43 am PDT

Alice in Chains

SEATTLE, Washington (AP): A body was found at the home of Layne Staley, lead singer and guitarist for the Seattle grunge band Alice in Chains.
The King County medical examiner’s office scheduled an autopsy Saturday but investigator[s] … could not immediately confirm the identity of the deceased late Friday night.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer quoted unidentified law enforcement sources as saying the body was Staley’s.
The person appeared to have been dead for several days …

news via A Small Victory

There are 2 comments on this post

April 20th, 2002 @ 9:41 am
michael
dang. I hate rock stars that have been dead for several days…
April 20th, 2002 @ 9:47 pm
robyn
I just found that myself. April is a bad month for Seattle grunge band singers…or rather the poor police that have to discover the bodies…

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