Expect little help from the U.S. State Department, which “does not investigate crimes or potential crimes against U.S. citizens abroad.”
Rosarito police had shaken down the couple for $160 during ajust a couple hours before Blair’s death, Williams said, and official autopsy photos show scrapes on his legs, as if he had been dragged. Additionally, Blair, 33, had 40 fractures on the back of his skull, which is troubling because he was found face down.
Wristbands lay in a basket in the lobby during the memorial service for Elliot Blair, the former Orange County deputy public defender who died recently under mysterious circumstances in Mexico, at the Christ Cathedral Church in Garden Grove on Saturday, February 11, 2023. Long-time friends of Elliot Blair, the former Orange County deputy public defender who died recently under mysterious circumstances in Mexico, speak during a memorial service at the Christ Cathedral Church in Garden Grove on Saturday, February 11, 2023.
Correa, upon learning the new details in the case, said Thursday that he plans to present Williams’ concerns to the U.S. State Department and the U.S. consulate in Tijuana. Officials with the Mexican Attorney General’s Office, which conducted the investigation, have been slow to respond to the Southern California News Group regarding the various allegations. Authorities have not, for example, even responded to whether the case remains open or is now closed since it was deemed an “unfortunate accident.”For its part, the U.S. State Department wrote in an email Thursday that it “does not investigate crimes or potential crimes against U.S. citizens abroad.
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