Police hand off inquiry on Kasem

Police found no evidence of wrongdoing after investigating allegations that relatives of radio personality Casey Kasem were responsible for his 2014 death, but will now turn the matter over to prosecutors, officials in Washington state said Friday. The administrative investigation didn’t find evidence of a crime, Gig Harbor police said.

The case will be forwarded to Pierce County prosecutors for review. The longtime American Top 40 host had a form of dementia and a severe bedsore when he died at age 82 at a hospital in Gig Harbor, southwest of Seattle. Gig Harbor police opened their investigation last month after Kasem’s wife, former actress Jean Kasem, submitted a private investigator’s report claiming three of Casey Kasem’s children from a previous marriage were responsible for the radio host’s death. Jean Kasem has not commented.