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...Kurtz says he showed the police catalogs of his past exhibits, including one on genetically modified plants at the Corcoran Art Gallery in Washington, D.C. "I told them, I am a professor. Please call my boss and confirm this with her," says Kurtz. After the medical examiner told the police that Hope's cause of death was not strangulation, as officers had initially speculated (her death would be ruled heart failure), the police left...
...Steve Kurtz awoke to find his wife Hope dead in their bed. But that was only the beginning of his ordeal - within hours, he found himself at the center of a bioterrorism investigation even Kafka would have dismissed as too paranoid a tale to be believed. Kurtz called 911 after he saw that his wife wasn't breathing. Paramedics rushed to the couple's three-bedroom home north of downtown Buffalo, and police soon followed...
...hours, detectives questioned Kurtz about how Hope, 45, had died and about the beakers, bacteria and lab equipment he had on a table upstairs. Kurtz, a 50-year-old art professor at SUNY Buffalo who looks more like a high school A/V club member, with long, brown hair tucked behind his ear and a wide, toothy smile, says he explained that his own art work specializes in "bioart," an ultramodern blend of science, technology and art whose medium is living matter, such as cells. He and his wife, also an artist, used the lab equipment for their work, including...
...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...
...began one of the more surreal errors in post-9/11 America. Agents from a rainbow spectrum of agencies occupied Kurtz's home for several days, blocking off his street and setting up a biohazard shower to hose down investigators leaving the residence. (click here for a video about the raid created by Kurtz's art ensemble.) Agents would not let Kurtz retrieve his cat, Bean. Having lost his wife, his home and his pet in the span of 48 hours, Kurtz decided to get a lawyer. He told a friend at one point, "I just need to pretend Hope...