A mysterious fall and alleged police extortion: Everything we know about California public defender [View all]

[Judi Lynn]

A mysterious fall and alleged police extortion: Everything we know about California public defender Elliot Blair’s death at Mexican resort

Elliot Blair’s family has refuted reports by Mexican authorities that he fell to his death his from an open-air walkway while intoxicated, Andrea Blanco reports

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Kimberly Williams and Elliott Blair

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Kimberly Williams and Elliot Blair had been celebrating their first wedding anniversary in Mexico when the unimaginable happened.

In the year they had been married, the couple — both public defenders back home in California — had bought their dream home in Orange County and were already planning for children, Ms Williams said in an interview with ABC’s Good Morning America on Monday.

The trip to Mexico was full of dancing, karaoke and beach days at a dreamy resort. But after falling asleep next to her husband just past midnight on 14 January, Ms Williams was woken up by hotel staff delivering news of a tragedy she could not comprehend: her husband was dead.

Mexican authorities said that a very intoxicated Blair, dressed only in underwear, socks and a T-shirt, fell from a fourth-floor balcony in what they described as an accident. But Ms Williams and Blair’s parents have fiercely refuted that story, claiming instead that he was murdered just two hours after local police officers extorted them for money.

More:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/elliot-blair-mexico-resort-dead-b2279367.html