Curtis Oxford was the suicidal criminal son of Jane Oxford. Curtis Oxford was born in 1990, in Los Angeles, California, to Jane Oxford and a criminal father. He was emotionally unstable, and was prone to large, and often violent, emotional outbursts. His mother became concerned and sent him to a pyschiatrist in Philadelphia who, as we find out later in the book, turns out to be a fraud. He was said later on in the epilogue of the book to have been on the board of directors at the military school he reccomended Curtis be sent to.