The Strange and Unexplained Murder of Blair Adams — True Crime

Lisa Marie Fuqua
True Crime Addiction
4 min readNov 2, 2019

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Robert Dennis Blair Adams 31 of Canada, would be found murdered in the United States while he was on the run, from whoever he thought wanted him dead.

Photo by Katie Drazdauskaite on Unsplash

With no known enemies, the death of Blair Adams, in another country on July 11, 1996, shocked everyone who knew him.

The mystery started six days earlier on July 5, 1996.

While still in Canada, his family noticed changes in Blair. When his mother asked him what was wrong, he told her he couldn’t talk about “it.”

Blair went to the bank and drained his checking and savings accounts, and gathered all his jewelry.

July 7

He drove to the Canadian-American border and tried to cross. But he was denied. He had declared a large amount of cash, and as a single man, it appeared he was a drug trafficker.

July 8

Blair went to Surrey, British Columbia, into his workplace, and quit.

Later that same day, he bought a round-trip airline ticket from Vancouver to Frankfurt, Germany, for $1600. The flight was to depart the next day.

Only a few hours after purchasing the ticket to Germany, Blair went to a friend’s house. He told her that he…

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Lisa Marie Fuqua
True Crime Addiction

True Crime Writer in Las Vegas. I used to be a Web Developer in the Newsroom, now I spend my time in coffee shops researching murder.