SANTA ANA, Calif. (KNX) – The wife of an Orange County public defender who died in Mexico said she believes her husband was murdered.
In an interview with Good Morning America, Kimberly Williams said that on Jan. 14, she and her husband, Elliott Blair, were celebrating their one year anniversary in Roasarito Beach. After a night of dinner and dancing, Williams said she fell asleep and was woken up by hotel manager and security that her husband had apparently fallen from the third floor balcony.
“They're pointing over the side of our front door area to the ground,” she recalled. “That was my Elliot down there.”
While Mexican authorities believe it was an accident, Williams said she doesn’t buy it. She said they listed a number of things that could have happened, including “accident, suicide (and) gunshot wound.”
While officials said Elliot had alcohol in his system, Williams told GMA that Elliott had five or six drinks over a six-hour period.
Williams and the family’s attorney, Case Barnett, told GMA that the autopsy “confirmed” Elliot had been murdered that night.
Williams also recalled that on their way back to the hotel earlier that night, she and Elliott were pulled over by local police who demanded money.
“Elliott had said, we don't have the amount of cash that you want,” she said, adding that they eventually gave the officers $160 in cash.
Williams said another officer asked the couple where they were staying, and her husband told them.
“Elliott told them that we were staying at Las Rocas...that we were down here for vacation,” she explained.
She said she wants that traffic stop investigated.
Barnett told the outlet private investigators in Mexico were hired, but that they “hit a wall in the investigation.”
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