A’s wife California public defender who died a Mexico The resort was ruled an accident and began a bid to prove he was murdered.
“He was my rock in this world,” said Kimberly Williams ABC News in an interview aired on Thursdays. “We bought our dream home, planning to have kids together. Without him, I feel like I have nothing.
Elliot Blair, 33, alleges he fell from a balcony and died on January 14 at the Las Rocas Resort and Spa at Rosarito Beach, south of Tijuana on the west coast of the Baja California peninsula.
Ms Williams, who was asleep at the time, told the ABC she remembered the hotel manager and a security guard being in her room.
The manager reportedly asked her: “Excuse me, miss, excuse me, excuse me, is this your boyfriend here?”
“I turned to the side, I didn’t see him there, so I ran out the front door and they were pointing to the ground toward our front door area. Well, that was my Elliot,” she said. ABC remembered.
The State Attorney General’s Office of Baja California said in a statement, citing an autopsy, that Mr Blair’s death was “the result of an unfortunate accident caused by the decedent’s fall from the third floor”.
Mexican authorities said there was no indication that there had been a struggle inside the hotel room, and that according to the toxicology report, Mr. Blair had a “significant” amount of alcohol in his body, said the State Attorney General of Baja California. .
The Forensic Medical Necropsy Certificate recorded the cause of death as severe head injury.
But Ms Williams and her lawyer argue the injuries indicate Mr Blair was assaulted. Lawyer Kes Barnett told the ABC that “this is the physical evidence we’ve been able to obtain, the autopsy”.
The attorney said, “The autopsy confirms that Elliot Blair was murdered that night.”
Mr Barnett argues that it appears Mr Blair was attacked by more than one person, yet the motive is unclear.
Ms Williams said Mr Blair was not so drunk that he would have fallen from the balcony, adding that he must have had five or six drinks during a six-hour period that evening.
Dr. Rami Hashish, a biomechanics, body performance and injury expert, has been brought in to advise on the matter. He told ABC that he “really doesn’t think” that there is “a lot of evidence” to point to the fact that it was an accident.
“I think it’s relatively clear that the injury patterns just don’t add up,” he said. There are injury marks on the body.
He said the front of the body had “signs” that it had been “dragged” and that there were “fractures in the back of the skull”.
“Nothing really points to the fact that this was necessarily an accident,” he said.
The family’s lawyer said that the body had decomposed before they could conduct their toxicology report.
“In my nine years of living with him and knowing him, I can tell you, I have never seen him sloppy. I have never seen him standing. I haven’t seen him able to walk and take care of himself,” Ms Williams said.
Ms Williams and Mr Blair dined at a local restaurant on the night of her death. On their way back to the resort, they were stopped by police, who claimed they had rolled through a stop sign and asked them to pay in cash.
She said that they went to bed around midnight after spending some time at the bar in the lobby. He said the next thing he remembered was the manager and guard in his room telling him Mr Blair was on the ground.
ABC obtained 911 calls which revealed that at 12.50am, the resort reported “a man who had apparently suffered a fall”. Paramedics were at the resort about 20 minutes later, noting that Mr Blair had no significant symptoms.
Ms Williams said authorities have put forward a series of possible events, including both an accident and a suicide.
She said that they “went through everything under the sun except what I think: someone did this to her”.
“I just know it wasn’t an accident. I know he didn’t fall. That’s all I know,” she added. “I want to do everything we can to find out why What happened in that 45 minute, hour period. Because Elliot deserves it. And that’s the hardest part for me, not knowing.
She said the police asked if they were fighting.
“We’re here on our anniversary. What are you talking about?” he told the officers. “No, we’re not fighting.”
Mr Barnett said he had “hit a wall with the investigation”.
“Kim’s family needs answers to bring closure so that they can really start to move on from this,” he added.
Ms Williams told ABC News she did not want Elliot to be “forgotten” and “the world should know who my Elliot is.”
“I want people to know that he is not some drunk who tripped over the porch of our hotel room,” she said. “I want the world to remember the person he was, his smile, his heart. That’s the only thing that drives me right now…the thought of doing this for him, to honor his name.” “