charged with murder and will go on trial next June. Police said he may have worked for Blehar. Her obituary said she lived in Vine Grove, a nearby community.Blehar was an Air Force veteran and former Continental Airlines employee who later worked as an Uber driver.
Her cousin Mark Stephens recently contacted the Human Rights Campaign to identify her as trans, saying she should be “remembered, honored, and counted.”“If there is one thing to know about Cris, it was that she fought fiercely to define her life as SHE wanted,” Stephens said in a statement to HRC. “Whether it was her military service, her 20+ year career in the airline industry, or her post retirement decision to buy a farm & start a family of her own.