{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"The News Journal","provider_url":"https:\/\/qa.thenewsjournal.net","title":"Out & About Kentucky Style \u2026 Jay Bauer &ndash; The News Journal","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"P6qPAYhQPL\"><a href=\"https:\/\/qa.thenewsjournal.net\/out-about-kentucky-style-jay-bauer\/\">Out &#038; About Kentucky Style \u2026 Jay Bauer<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/qa.thenewsjournal.net\/out-about-kentucky-style-jay-bauer\/embed\/#?secret=P6qPAYhQPL\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;Out &#038; About Kentucky Style \u2026 Jay Bauer&#8221; &#8212; The News Journal\" data-secret=\"P6qPAYhQPL\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\n\/*! 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No one enjoyed his job as much as Bauer.\u00a0As a part time bartender around Louisville, including the Toy Tiger on Bardstown Road, he had a built-in audience to listen to his stories of knowing some of the biggest basketball stars in the world that came to town to play the Colonels.\u00a0He turned those relationships into a sideline \u201cYou-trade-em, we-drive-em\u201d business. When professional players were traded, they didn\u2019t have time to drive \u2026 they flew.\u00a0The young Bauer would take care of the cars.\u00a0He even said it would take 10 full-time employees to keep up with all of the trades.\u00a0Further revealing his popularity, the young man represented the team as a pallbearer when former Colonel Windell Ladner died in a New York plane crash. Jay Bauer\u2019s life was good. But when the team\u2019s owner, John Y. and Ellie Brown sold the Colonels and the ABA folded, it took lots of people and businesses with it, and Bauer was one of them in the cruelest of ways. It was 2:37 a.m., Saturday morning, Dec. 10, 1983.\u00a0A phone call to Louisville police claiming intruders with intent to commit a robbery had apparently broken into a house on Fordyce Lane in eastern Louisville.\u00a0The caller told police a glass had been knocked out of the back door in order to gain entry.\u00a0The caller went on to say both of his parents were dead. That caller was 29-year-old Albert Joseph \u201cJay\u201d Bauer, Jr. Police arrived at a horrific scene, finding Albert Bauer and wife Mabel dead.\u00a0Mrs. Bauer was lying in the kitchen repeatedly stabbed in the neck and throat.\u00a0Albert\u2019s body was in the front hall.\u00a0He had been strangled. From the beginning police were suspicious of Bauer\u2019s story.\u00a0Evidence of a burglary didn\u2019t support his story.\u00a0The jogging suit he was wearing was soaked in blood, and the cuts on his hands, he said, were from fighting off the intruders. The broken glass and blood spatters didn\u2019t fit either.\u00a0Besides, Bauer said he had been at Rick\u2019s, a local bar, where friends told police, he was wearing a two-piece suit, white shirt and suede shoes. A search of the house that early morning found Quaaludes, a prescription sedative that belonged to the younger Bauer, who had moved back home with his parents six months earlier. Late that Saturday afternoon Bauer was arrested.\u00a0The charge:\u00a0possession of Quaaludes.\u00a0Police requested a high bond for their double homicide suspect,\u00a0but, as sometimes happens in the judicial system, laws and technicalities override common sense. Jefferson County District Judge John K. Carter set Bauer\u2019s bond at $1,000 cash.\u00a0He said in an interview that a higher bond would have been appropriate \u201conly if Bauer had been charged with the crime for which it was requested.\u201d Jay Bauer had only been charged with possession.\u00a0Five and a half hours later he was free.\u00a0Family attorney Mike Green had paid the $1,000 and with his assistance had checked Bauer into a room at the downtown Galt House for the night. As unimaginable as this story became in such a short time span, it was about to take its final twist. It was a rainy, misty night in Louisville, and Jay Bauer made sure the door to his 20th floor Galt House hotel room was securely locked.\u00a0After moving a small foot-stool close to the window, he made his final decision in life, jumping through the center portion of the room\u2019s large plate-glass window that faced toward west Louisville. Sometime around 4:30 a.m. Monday morning a leak from the rain had been reported by a night security guard on the roof and ceiling of the Archibald Cochran Ballroom, one of the hotel&#8217;s premier rooms that hosted many of the city\u2019s Christmas holiday events.\u00a0When the guard directed his flashlight toward the ceiling he spotted much more than water coming through the roof. A few minutes later hotel general manager Tom O\u2019Hearn\u2019s phone rang at his home telling him what looked like a human body protruding from the roof and ceiling of the third-floor ballroom. Firefighters helped remove Bauer\u2019s body from the ceiling, and then O\u2019Hearn and several employees made their way to the 20th floor.\u00a0They forced their way into the room, and years later O\u2019Hearn recalled the strange feeling he had upon entering the room. \u201cThere wasn\u2019t a note,\u201d he said.\u00a0\u201cIt was just eerie going in there and seeing the stool next to the window and all of the broken glass.\u00a0There was also a candy wrapper lying on the floor.\u201d For some, Bauer\u2019s death and the murders didn\u2019t make sense, but for others it did.\u00a0According to them, when the Colonels departed Louisville a few years before, gone was the one real positive element he had in his life.\u00a0Afterwards began a downward spiral that ended on that December morning in 1983. There wasn\u2019t any burglary.\u00a0There was no coming home and finding his parents dead.\u00a0There was no fighting off intruders.\u00a0Any fighting that happened early that morning came from Jay\u2019s mother, Mabel, resulting in cuts on both of his hands. Everything was there but the motive.\u00a0That, however, would soon become evident. Jay\u2019s parents had become concerned with their sons lifestyle and drug use, and after talking to his friends, on that fateful night it was speculated they informed him he was being cut-off financially.\u00a0Thus, the motive. On Jan. 25, 1984, 46 days after the double homicide, an inquest was held and first degree manslaughter was the charge against Bauer.\u00a0His death was ruled a suicide. Jefferson County Coroner Richard Greathouse, the same Richard Greathouse who had been the first Colonels team doctor back in 1967, made the announcement of all the findings. \u201cIt was believed Jay came home, had a violent confrontation with his parents, blew his cool and totally wiped them out,\u201d Greathouse said. [&hellip;]"}