Garry Hill battled mental illness, drug addiction and homelessness. After he died, his mother refused to give up looking for answers to basic questions about his death. She has met resistance from the Seattle Police Department and silence from Garry’s alleged drug dealer in her attempt to solve the mysteries that surround her son’s early demise
It all began with a message on Priscilla Hill’s answering machine.
On June 21, 2014, around 6 p.m., when Priscilla, 72, returned to her small North Seattle apartment, she listened to the recorded voice of Geraldine Hill, her daughter-in-law. Geraldine, 46, began with long rambling remarks related to a storage space and ended by saying that Garry Hill, Priscilla’s 45-year-old son, was in the hospital. Priscilla called Northwest Hospital and learned that Garry had been in the emergency room and the intensive care unit for more than 26 hours. ...