Neil Low

Well, I think there were things that were suspicious, just that nobody was there that gave it a hard look.

I was in a different precinct.

I had just made lieutenant.

I was at South Precinct.

And they had put out a notice to our roll calls, which read to the patrol officers before they go out on the streets.

And it was that supposedly Kurt's mother...

We'll come back to that.

Reporting that he was in town, possibly, and was possibly suicidal, and he escaped drug treatment.

Pretty close to that.

So that really didn't impact my precinct.

Within a couple days that they found Curtin, he was dead, and it seemed to match up with the predicted story.

I think that set the tone for what happened.

When detectives finally got to Curtin,

Kurt's house.

They went in there with the mindset, okay, here we have a, this is really during kind of like a heroin epidemic in Seattle.

We have a rocker, he's done heroin and he's dead and end of story.

So homicide detectives didn't really want to process it.

It says there's no suspect here.

He's laying on the floor.

And our protocol was that patrol officers would handle