SEATTLE – Police are investigating the theft of a human kidney from a traveling science exhibit of preserved human corpses and body parts.
A manager for “Bodies … The Exhibition” called police Saturday to report someone had taken the kidney.
The show is at the 800 Pike exhibition space, sponsored by the Seattle Theatre Group.
The 21 cadavers and 250 organs in the exhibit are injected with liquid silicon rubber to preserve them. The bodies are skinned, cut open and arranged in various poses to expose muscles and organs.
The missing adult kidney was valued at $1,000, according to police reports. A security camera may have filmed the thief at the counter, police reports say.
A tree trimmer for Tacoma Power has died from injuries suffered as crews were cleaning up from a December storm, officials said.
Barry Kensrud, a veteran Tacoma Power worker, died Tuesday, the utility and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers said.
Officials said Kensrud was helping to clear a tree that fell across power lines on Dec. 17, after a windstorm knocked out power to 1.5 million utility customers in the Puget Sound region.
Officials said Kensrud had been hospitalized in critical condition.
The Port of Seattle has hired a former executive of ports in Oakland, Baltimore and Los Angeles as its new director.
Tay Yoshitani, 60, most recently worked as a consultant and lobbyist in Washington, D.C. He replaces Mic Dinsmore, who is retiring.
Yoshitani plans to start work in March, at a salary of $325,000, including $15,000 in deferred compensation.
The salary makes Yoshitani the highest-paid port director in the country, as was Dinsmore, according to an American Association of Port Authorities survey.
A woman was stabbed to death as her young children were sleeping early on New Year’s Day, one of at least four people to meet violent ends in Washington state in the first two days of 2007, authorities said.
Jeramy Adam Lofstrom, 27, of Rainier was arrested early Monday after dialing 911 and telling the operator, “I just killed my wife,” Thurston County sheriff’s deputies said. Soon afterward, Sarah G. Lofstrom, 25, was found dead in the bathroom at their home with stab wounds.
Investigators wrote that Lofstrom told deputies he was angry with his wife because she was using drugs and causing the family financial problems.
He said he gave her a backrub early Monday until she fell asleep, then attacked her with a butcher knife from the kitchen, deputies wrote.
Across the state, Spokane County sheriff’s deputies responding to a 911 call found a Deer Park couple dead at their home in an apparent homicide-suicide.
Neighbors identified the couple as James and Patricia Elliot.
Grant County sheriff’s deputies were investigating the shooting death of one man at a Cascade Valley duplex and the wounding of another who was taken to Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane with a bullet lodged in his brain early Tuesday.
Circumstances of the shooting were unclear and a man and a woman were being questioned, deputies said.
Associated Press
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