Report Maintains FBI Delay Put Kirkland Family in Danger

An investigative report by KIRO-TV news is claiming that a backlog at the FBI laboratory that tests for DNA delayed the discovery of a match that might have prevented an attack last year on a Kirkland family.

Dr. Craig McCallister was beaten outside his home along Kirkland’s Holmes Point Drive in March of 2009 by two men trying to gain entry. The men fled the scene when the family locked the doors and they could not get into the house.

According to the KIRO report, King County police believe one of the men was a felon, a former Seattle police officer named Gary Kreuger. He is believed to have drowned in Lake Washington after stealing a boat while fleeing the scene.

But the KIRO report maintains that a DNA sample that ultimately linked Kreuger to the slaying of a real estate agent in Woodinville more than three years earlier sat in the FBI lab in Virginia because of a backlog of samples. If it had been tested promptly, the reports says, Kreuger might have been apprehended and the attack on the McCallister family prevented.

The motive for the attack remains unknown, but KIRO reports that police believe Kreuger might have been a hit man in other area murders. Another suspect in the attack on the McCallisters has been identified, and police believe he also might be dead.

See the full report here: http://www.kirotv.com/video/27866751/index.html.