Former Prostitute Testifies At Blair Trial

An autopsy on the body one of the six women Terry Blair is accused of killing showed she died of an accidental drug overdose, the former Jackson County medical examiner testified Tuesday.

Earlier Tuesday, Cherry Chadbourne testified that she told police in 2004 that Blair threw her to the ground when she was working as a prostitute and told her he planned on killing prostitutes.


"He said he was going to kill all the prostitutes one by one because they were the scum of the earth," Chadbourne said.


Chadbourne also testified that she told police Blair said he spent 21 years in prison for killing his first wife because she had become a prostitute.


On cross-examination by defense attorney David Kenyon, Chadbourne said she is a recovering crack addict and had been high when she told police about Blair's threat.


"I was high a lot then," she said.


Chadbourne, who had at least four convictions on drug offenses before 2004, also said she had traded information with police before in order to get lesser sentences and said she received such a deal about a month after discussing Blair with police.

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