The wife of a California public defenderwho died mysteriously in Januaryat a Mexican resort believes her husband was murdered.
“Someone did this to him,” Kim Williams toldGoodMorningAmericaThursday. “I just know it’s not an accident. I know he didn’t fall. I just know that.”
Williams' husbandElliot Blair, 33, died in the early morning hours of Jan. 14 at the luxury Las Rocas Resort and Spa in the coastal city of Rosarito, Mexico. He and Williams were there to celebrate their one-year-anniversary.
But Williams and family attorney Case Barnett believe foul play was involved.
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“It’s the physical evidence we’ve been able to obtain, the autopsy,” Barnett toldGMA. “The autopsy confirms that he, Elliot Blair, was murdered that night.”
“We’ve never been pulled over before,” Williams said. “We were both rattled, but at the same time we both had this feeling of thank God they didn’t do anything more to us.”
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They later spent time dancing at the resort bar before going back to their room around midnight.
Williams said Blair wasn’t highly intoxicated that night — she said he had five or six drinks over a six-hour period — and wouldn’t have just fallen off the balcony.
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“I want to do everything we can to figure out what happened in that 45-minute, hour time span,” she said. “Because that’s what Elliot deserves. And that’s the hardest part for me, is not knowing.”
“I don’t want him to be forgotten,” she said. “I want the world to know who my Elliot is. I want people to know he’s not some drunk that stumbled off the front ledge of our hotel room.”
“That’s one of the only things keeping me going right now — is the idea of doing this for him, for honoring his name,” she added.
source: people.com
