East Nashville Murder-Suicide Under Investigation

NASHVILLE, TN — Stephanie Jackson's son said his mom planned to leave her boyfriend and move close to him in Phoenix. She never made it to Arizona.

Metro Police found Jackson, 56, and her boyfriend, 61-year-old Wolfgang Blair, dead in an apparent murder-suicide at their Ninth Street home in East Nashville Thursday.

Jackson's son told investigation that she and Blair had been having problems and he waited at the Phoenix airport for her to arrive Wednesday, but she wasn't on the arriving plane and airline officials said she never boarded the flight. He contacted Metro Police who went to the couple's home Wednesday night for a welfare check, but no one answered the door and they saw nothing suspicious.

Jackson's son then flew to Nashville and with police went to his mother's home.

Jackson was found shot in the back in a hallway with her packed suitcases nearby. Blair was in a bedroom with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head and a pistol in his hand.

Early indications are that Blair shot Jackson and then himself Wednesday morning, according to investigators.

No one in the neighborhood reported hearing or seeing anything suspicious.

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