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...next day, however, FBI agents showed up at the house, and Kurtz allowed them to search him, his home and his car. When he told them he had to go to the funeral home to make arrangements, the agents drove him there. When he arrived, an apologetic funeral home director told him that the body was gone. The FBI had redirected it back to the morgue for further analysis...
...FBI confirms much of Kurtz's account, but stresses that the situation was far from clear-cut when agents arrived on the scene. "He had a working microbiology lab in his home. He did not have an art exhibit in his home. We also had a dead body," says Maureen Dempsey, spokesperson for the Buffalo field office of the FBI. "We didn't know what was in there. That's why we had to cordon off the house." The bacteria that Kurtz had in his house had been used in the past to simulate dangerous bacteria for research purposes - which...
...unusually constructive response to a federal investigation, Kurtz and a group of artists have created "Seized," a small but mesmerizing exhibit made out of the refuse, scraps and assorted detritus that FBI agents left inside and outside of his house. "I started thinking," says Kurtz, remembering the day he returned to his house after the raid, "they went through my trash, so maybe I'll go through theirs...
...FBI spokesperson Dempsey points out that the pizza boxes and most of the rest of the trash were left in garbage bags outside of Kurtz's house. And during the search, all food was consumed outside of the house. "We had to order food," she says. "When you have a federal search warrant, you can't just take a lunch hour. The judges wouldn't appreciate it." And the cat? "We gave the cat food and water the whole time we were there...
...safe," says Kurtz, smiling. The exhibit will probably move to Berlin and New York City next. And it may grow. Kurtz and his attorneys are still fighting to get back the three computers, 25 books and assorted lab equipment the government seized four years ago. The FBI says those items will be returned after the normal paperwork process is complete...