KY KY - Jackie Blair, 52, Letcher County, July 2000

[OkieGranny]

http://www.wkyt.com/wymt/home/headl...-still-unsolved-14-years-later-279207291.html

In October of 2000, Jack Blair was found dead inside his car more than 200 feet over Pine Mountain along U.S. 119 in Letcher County. His body was wrapped in jumper cables...

Just before his disappearance, Blair was arrested in a cocaine conspiracy case. He later pleaded guilty to the charges.

However, Bolling tells WYMT that is not the man her father was. "We were kept completely in the dark. You know, you hear the term, people having a double life, he had a double life because as far as we knew, he got up in the mornings and he went to work and he came home and he was our dad," said Bolling.

http://media.kentucky.com/smedia/2011/03/11/12/Drug_Reprint_Section_2.source.prod_affiliate.79.pdf

People quickly concluded that someone killed Blair because he had squealed to the cops about big-time drug dealers — even though police insist Blair never told them about any drug activity except his own.

 

[Catmommy]

Prayers for the family to find some answers and peace.

 

[Tulessa]

Next county over. Prayers for answers.

 

[Seattle1]

Reward offered in Whitco murder - The Mountain Eagle

The brother of a woman found murdered in her home at Whitco more than a year ago is offering a reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the murderer. Jack Rogers posted the reward last week on social media and this week in The Mountain Eagle. Rogers said he will give $3,000...

www.themountaineagle.com

on March 01, 2023

Police have still not solved the death of Jackie Blair, 52, whose skeletal remains were found wrapped in booster cables inside a car that had run off U.S. 119 and overturned in the treetops 250 feet over the side of Pine Mountain. While local law enforcement said no one could have predicted the car would travel as far as it did over the mountain and surmised that the booster cables had become tangled around Blair as the car flipped, a state medical examiner ruled his death a homicide. Kentucky State Police confirmed that assessment. Adding to the mystery, Blair had recently pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in a cocaine trafficking conspiracy.

 

[Let the light shine]

Reward offered in Whitco murder - The Mountain Eagle

The brother of a woman found murdered in her home at Whitco more than a year ago is offering a reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the murderer. Jack Rogers posted the reward last week on social media and this week in The Mountain Eagle. Rogers said he will give $3,000...

www.themountaineagle.com

on March 01, 2023

Police have still not solved the death of Jackie Blair, 52, whose skeletal remains were found wrapped in booster cables inside a car that had run off U.S. 119 and overturned in the treetops 250 feet over the side of Pine Mountain. While local law enforcement said no one could have predicted the car would travel as far as it did over the mountain and surmised that the booster cables had become tangled around Blair as the car flipped, a state medical examiner ruled his death a homicide. Kentucky State Police confirmed that assessment. Adding to the mystery, Blair had recently pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in a cocaine trafficking conspiracy.

How did the car jump the guardrail?

 

[Let the light shine]

How did the car jump the guardrail?

was jack blair a mason?

 

[Let the light shine]

was jack blair a mason?

was jack blair a mason?

Does anyone know the names of Kentucky State Police who showed up on the scene?

 

[Jleeryan99]

How did the car jump the guardrail?

there was no guard rail there at the time. There was a gap between that little grave yard and where the guard rail started back in that curve. The gap was plenty wide enough to push a car through it. At one point in going down the mountain there, your car would be pointed directly at that gap, before you went on around the curve. It was the perfect place to push a car over with a dead body in it to make it look like a car wreck. Now, the road through there is slightly different and the guard rail would prevent any car from going over there. But back then it wasn't that way.

 

[Let the light shine]

there was no guard rail there at the time. There was a gap between that little grave yard and where the guard rail started back in that curve. The gap was plenty wide enough to push a car through it. At one point in going down the mountain there, your car would be pointed directly at that gap, before you went on around the curve. It was the perfect place to push a car over with a dead body in it to make it look like a car wreck. Now, the road through there is slightly different and the guard rail would prevent any car from going over there. But back then it wasn't that way.

Interesting

 

[Let the light shine]

Interesting

Maybe a rollback. They would also carry long jumper cables any idea if the cable were extra long

 

[nhmemorymaker]

All the unsolved in Lechter County... and the recent Mullins / Stine case...
Not a very positive glow on this community.

 

[Seattle1]

New attention drawn to unsolved murders - The Mountain Eagle

In most murders there is a mystery. In the death of District Judge Kevin R. Mullins, the great mystery isn’t who did it or how it was done. The great mystery is why. But there are other murders in Letcher County where none those questions have yet been answered. In the past five years, there...

www.themountaineagle.com

10/9/24

Police have still not solved the case of Jackie R. Blair, 52, whose skeletal remains were found in October 2000, three months after he went missing. Blair was wrapped in booster cables inside a car that had run off U.S. 119 and overturned in the treetops 250 feet over the side of Pine Mountain. A hunter scouting for deer found his body.

Two contradictory pieces of evidence baffled police. Blair’s body was wrapped in booster cables, but the opening between trees where his car left the road was so narrow both mirrors were sheared off. Law enforcement said no one could have predicted the car would pass through those trees if it were pushed over without a driver, nor could officers agree on how fast the car would have had to be going to travel as far as it did over the mountain. While state police surmised that the booster cables had become tangled around Blair as the car flipped, a state medical examiner ruled they could only have been wrapped by someone. Some Kentucky State Police detectives confirmed that assessment, but others still believe it was an accident.

Adding to the mystery, Blair had recently pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in a cocaine trafficking conspiracy, and like in the Lowe Case, the crime scene was trampled by police and rescuers who used a rope to descend the steep mountainside and recover the body.

Dr. Emily Craig, who was the state’s forensic pathologist at the time, taught police and coroners what she called Emily’s law: “If you see a bone, leave it alone.” But rather than call her to examine the remains in the car, Kentucky State Police and the Letcher County Coroner removed Blair’s remains. In the process, some of Blair’s bones were left in the car and Craig had to travel to the site personally a few days later to recover them. Two months later the Kentucky State Medical Examiner ruled the case was a homicide, and now police disagree even among themselves whether Jack Blair died in an accident or a murder. Persons who attended her crime scene classes afterward say she uses the incident as an example of how not to handle a murder scene.