Dead US conductor is accused of double rape

Dead US conductor is accused of double rape

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norman lebrecht

February 06, 2023

A former conductor of the Albuquerque Philharmonic has been named as the rime suspect in the rape of two women in Alabama between 1991 and 2004.

Elliott L. Higgins of Jemez Springs, New Mexico died in 2014 at the age of 73.

Higgins visited Alabama to stage an International Horn Competition. He also worked as manager of the Santa Barbara Symphony in California and the Fort Wayne Indiana Philharmonic in Indiana. Alabama police are appealing for more information. He was identified as a suspect from DNA records.

His family ran the the Hummingbird Music Camp at Jemez Springs.

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