EVERETT, Wash. — The state Department of Corrections issued an all-out bulletin for schizophrenic killer Lowell Gene Lowe, who hasn't been seen in a month. Lowe was supposed to check in with his community corrections officer in Everett, but he never showed. He has been jailed nearly half a dozen times for no-shows in the year and-a-half he has been out of prison. This time, the DOC says they have no idea where he is.
In 2002, Lowe was homeless but another man Gerald Schindler offered to take him into his Arlington home so he could help Lowe with his alcohol and drug problems. Lowe was convicted for stabbing Schindler to death in that home in 2002.
While looking into Lowe's disappearance, we questioned a DOC official by phone. She said Lowe is among 16,500 under DOC supervision and part of the 70 percent considered high-risk to re-offend.
"The majority, a good two-thirds of them are compliant with the rules of supervision, which is not an easy task," Anna Aylward, the Assistant secretary for Community Corrections told us.
But that statistic means one-third of those offenders are not compliant, and some of them, like Lowe, are killers."Quite frankly, we supervise higher risk offenders and community correction officers across the state have a very difficult job of engaging in these offenders and trying to help them turn their lives around," Aylward explained.
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