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Cops: Austin choir director found slain in home
cbsnews.com ^ | December 8, 2016

Posted on 12/09/2014 6:52:31 AM PST by ilovesarah2012

AUSTIN, Texas -- Police are investigating the death of a 53-year-old Austin choir director who was found slain in her home.

Austin police say Kathy Blair died Saturday from apparent trauma caused by a "weapon involved," reports CBS affiliate KEYE. They say the killer knew Blair and that there isn't a risk to the public.

A family member called police Saturday after finding her body in the northwest Austin home. Police haven't released other details about the death.

Blair served as the director of the Christian Choral Society of Austin, a music program for home-schooled students. She taught about 250 to 300 children between the ages of 4 and 18.

Neighbors told the Austin Statesman that Blair was renting the house and had moved in four or five months ago. She would sometimes have groups of students come to her house to build sets for musical productions, the paper reported.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: austin; ccsa; kathyblair
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I wonder how the cops determined she knew her killer. Such a tragic story.
1 posted on 12/09/2014 6:52:31 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: ilovesarah2012

Sounds like there was one too few firearms at the scene of that atrocity.


2 posted on 12/09/2014 6:56:36 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Jimmy Carter;No Longer The Worst President In My Lifetime)
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To: ilovesarah2012

husband?


3 posted on 12/09/2014 7:01:09 AM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Most likely no signs of forced entry to the property.

CC


4 posted on 12/09/2014 7:01:20 AM PST by Celtic Conservative (Hodie Christus Natus est!)
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To: yldstrk

I have read a couple of articles and no family is mentioned. I did find her FB page and looked at a friend’s page and she asks people not to post any ideas they may have of what happened.

She sounds like a really sweet woman who wouldn’t have any enemies. None of the articles mentions robbery. Just seems such a waste to kill a woman who was apparently so loved. Hope they find and convict whoever did it.


5 posted on 12/09/2014 7:04:17 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: yldstrk

I read she has two grown children but no mention of a husband.


6 posted on 12/09/2014 7:06:31 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
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"She would sometimes have groups of students come to her house to build sets for musical productions, the paper reported."

I'm guessing one or more students.

7 posted on 12/09/2014 7:07:59 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: Celtic Conservative

That and the wounds may indicate a lack of defensive quality if somebody strange to you walks up and starts to attack, your going to likely show wounds on your forearms and hands, as your defending yourself. However, if you know them and they start to attack, you wont as likely have those defensive wounds.


8 posted on 12/09/2014 7:10:37 AM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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-mark-


9 posted on 12/09/2014 7:13:41 AM PST by Ken H (What happens on the internet stays on the internet.)
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To: yldstrk
Since she was reasonably attractive, I'm going to further guess that rape was involved.


10 posted on 12/09/2014 7:14:26 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: ilovesarah2012

I just checked out her Facebook page. Only someone truly evil could kill such a wonderful lady. :(


11 posted on 12/09/2014 7:20:51 AM PST by painter ( Isaiah: “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,")
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Exactly. I find it strange there is no mention of a husband. I hope they do a follow-up if someone is arrested.


12 posted on 12/09/2014 7:27:15 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: painter

We’re living in the most violent of times since before God drowned the world with His flood. Jesus said the times would be just like it was in those days - a world full of violence.


13 posted on 12/09/2014 7:28:09 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
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To: Roman_War_Criminal
We’re living in the most violent of times since before God drowned the world with His flood.

The last time it was like that, the most horrific incident ever known to man occurred. And, almost no one survived it. Sadly, few believed it ever happened.

Genesis 6:11 Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and the earth was filled with violence.

Immediately after this, we have the great flood.

14 posted on 12/09/2014 7:40:33 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin ( Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you,)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Crime is down a lot since the early 90s, IIRC.


15 posted on 12/09/2014 7:41:27 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: PghBaldy

I’m referring to a worldwide phenomenon, not just here.


16 posted on 12/09/2014 8:30:19 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Genesis 6:5 - 6:11

&

Luke 17:26
“And just as it happened in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: 27 they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. 28“It was the same as happened in the days of Lot: they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building; 29 but on the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. 30“It will be just the same on the day that the Son of Man is revealed


17 posted on 12/09/2014 8:35:06 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
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To: ilovesarah2012
A December 7th report stated:
"Police were called to the home at 12:12 p.m., and said a relative had discovered Blair’s body. As police taped off the home and street, neighbors said they saw a man in his 20s nervously pacing the street in front of Blair’s home with blood on his pants."
Later stories have dropped that claim.
18 posted on 12/09/2014 8:35:18 AM PST by Carl Vehse
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I read that and assumed it was her son, although I don’t know if she had a son. What I read just mentioned two grown children - sex not given.


19 posted on 12/09/2014 8:39:59 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
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I have zero - 0 - information (just to make that clear) but there might have been circumstantial evidence that the killer was known to her. For instance: no sign of forced entry. No evidence of a rampage through her property and belongings. Table set for two with half-eaten Christmas cookies and half-consumed coffee...

Police make inferences from evidence.

20 posted on 12/09/2014 10:23:24 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o
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