"Several of the family members have been aiding him and hindering the investigation," Fair said.įair said he typically doesn't talk about family members who fail to cooperate with investigators, but their obstruction and unwillingness to help was something he considered unusual. , a website that compiles news from New Orleans, authorities believe Higgs passed through Rochester while on the run. Immediate family and friends supported him financially and coordinated his movements while he was at large, Fair said. (Contributed photo)įair said Higgs had been moving around the country, eluding authorities and would likely have been caught sooner if not for the assistance he received from friends and family, including those from Rochester. Higgs, also from Rochester, followed her there, and they became a couple. Quackenbush was raised in Rochester and was a teacher at the Alternative Learning Center in Rochester before moving to New Orleans. The two had been a couple, friends say, but Quackenbush had sought to end the relationship.
Having known her, they can't imagine a world without her. Three weeks after Liz Quackenbush was killed in her New Orleans house - the suspect is her former boyfriend, Preston Higgs, who remains on the loose - colleagues, friends and students are emerging from a "numbing grief" to talk about the magnitude of the loss. Higgs had been on the run since early March, when Quackenbush, Higgs' former girlfriend, was found dead after being stabbed multiple times with an ax in the house they shared in New Orleans.įriends, colleagues mourn former Rochester teacher killed in New Orleans Higgs, 36, is expected to be extradited to New Orleans and charged with second-degree murder. Higgs' capture by authorities took place on a Greyhound bus in Lake County, Ind., where he is currently jailed. Preston Higgs, the man accused of killing Rochester Public Schools teacher Liz Quackenbush, was captured Friday morning, July 9, after a four-month manhunt, according to Brian Fair, a senior inspector with the U.S.
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