Homicide victim was loving, loved

Michelle Mockbee, the Fort Mitchell woman found dead at her Boone County workplace Tuesday, lived for her daughters.

"She was very loved," her husband Dan Mockbee said through tears. "She gave so much of herself to everyone else. She did everything she could to make our daughters feel special and loved."

Reached at his mother-in-law's home, Dan Mockbee said the girls, 7 and 10, were OK and trying to cope with their mother's death.

Asked how she was coping, Michelle Mockbee's mother Patricia Whalen could only say: "It's rough."

The family is trying to stick together to support each other, Dan Mockbee said.

Michelle Mockbee worked at ThermoFisher for 16 years as a logistics support representative. Dan also works at the company but has taken a leave of absence after his wife's death.

Mockbee, 42, was found assaulted inside ThermoFischer Scientific on Empire Drive in the Northern Kentucky Industrial Park about 7:20 a.m. as employees arrived for work at the distribution warehouse.

As of Thursday, 12 to 15 deputies were working on the case, said Tom Scheben, Boone County Sheriff's spokesman. Investigators are trying to create of timeline of Mockbee's activities working back from when she was found Tuesday morning, he said.

"Identifying where she was, who she was with and what she was doing, that type of thing," he said. "We would do that on any serious crime."

The night her body was found at the distribution facility, deputies searched Mockbee's home on Virginia Avenue.

Deputies could be seen removing computers from the house and using dogs to search the area.

Scheben said deputies will now go over the computers.

"In order to do thorough investigation we'll take those and analyze them back to here to see if they provide leads," he said.

He would not say why the dogs were needed to search the house and surrounding area.

Days after her death, the house appeared untouched with several bikes close to the house and porch was littered with plastic plant containers and other gardening supplies.

Someone left a bouquet of flowers on the front steps where the porch lights were still on.

An autopsy was completed Wednesday, said Boone County Coroner Doug Stith. He would not release the cause of death at the request of sheriff's officials. Scheben would also not say how Mockbee died.

Michelle Mockbee grew up in Fort Mitchell and graduated from Beechwood High School in 1987. Classmate John Middleton remembered her as a nice girl.

"She was pretty quiet, kind of shy at that point," he said. "But she was always very kind."

Middleton said most of the students went from kindergarten through 12th grade together with just 78 people in the graduating class.

Middelton said he had not talked to Mockbee recently but kept up with her and her children through Facebook.

Sheriff's deputies ask that anyone with information about Mockbee's death call investigators at 859-334-2175 or Crime Stoppers at 513-352-3040.

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