Friends, colleagues mourn former Rochester teacher killed in New Orleans
Three weeks after Liz Quackenbush was killed in her New Orleans house the suspect is her former boyfriend, Preston Higgs, who remains on the loose colleagues, friends and students are emerging from a numbing grief to talk about the magnitude of the loss. Having known her, they can t imagine a world without her. 10:30 am, Mar. 23, 2021 ×
Mandi Hyres, left, and Liz Quackenbush. (Contributed photo)
ROCHESTER, Minn. Liz Quackenbush was many things: an adventurer, an artist, a free soul, spontaneous and unafraid. But it is impossible to assess her dynamic life a life taken too soon when she was stabbed to death without taking into account her skill as a teacher.