Robert Stabile
/ photo: Puget Sound Theatre Organ Society Pipeline
SEATTLE, WA -- Police say a Syracuse native who became a vaudeville performer on the west coast was murdered at his home in Seattle on Wednesday.
The Seattle Times reports that 60-year-old Robert Stabile was stabbed repeatedly in the chest. 19-year-old Angelo Felice, a New York State native, has been charged in connection with the murder.
Stabile grew up in the Eastwood neighborhood of Syracuse and was a 1968 graduate of Henninger High School. He became well known as an accomplished pianist and "vaudeville performer" whose stage name was Professor Hokum W. Jeebs.
According to his online biography on the Puget Sound Theatre Organ Society Pipeline, Stabile "started his professional career falling off piano benches for laught at community talent shows in his native Syracuse, New York."
Over the years, Professor Hokum W. Jeebs performed at Disney World in Florida and Tokyo Disneyland before settling in the Seattle area.
No word yet on funeral arrangements for Robert Stabile.
