In 2013, Chris Cornell showed up at a township memorial service for victims of 9/11, standing silently and carrying a sign that read "9/11 was an inside job," Lt. Mitch Hill said.
His father said that since his son's graduation in 2012 from Oak Hills High School Chris Cornell has been working part-time jobs and spending the the past few years trying to find himself — experimenting with politics, religion and vegetarianism. Chris Cornell embraced conspiracies about the 9/11 attacks and later called himself an anarchist.
Cornell's father, John Cornell, was nearly thrown out of court when he told his son, "Don't trust anyone, Chris." The elder Cornell maintains that a "snitch" set up the 20-year-old.