11-07-2010, 06:23 AM
from the looks of the house interior, there wasn't much to take out. (post #260)
adam baker showed up sat. with a rental moving truck and emptied what remained in house.
investigators have taken a well-deserved weekend off from ground searches.
HICKORY RECORD:
Adam Baker was spotted along with his mother, brother and assorted friends and family as they loaded the Bakers’ possessions into a U-Haul truck Saturday afternoon.
About 10 people gathered in front of the home as furniture and other possessions were carried out of the house at 21 21st Ave. to the truck.
Baker was served an eviction notice Tuesday and ordered to leave the home where, on Oct. 9, he had called 911 to report his daughter, Zahra Baker, missing.
Three days later, Hickory police cancelled an Amber Alert put out for her and said the case was being investigated as a homicide.
Jennifer McAlpine, 36, of North Wilkesboro said she and her two daughters made the 45-minute drive Saturday to leave a teddy bear at the shrine for Zahra in the front yard.
She arrived at about 2 p.m. and said she was stunned to spot Adam Baker in the yard, and when he saw her he went into the house where he stayed.
“I just told my girls not to say anything,” McAlpine said. “We’re not here for that.”
As word got out that the Bakers were at the house, local people began to gather, and the tension built as they took pictures with their cell phones.
Eventually Baker’s mother came out of the house to ask the people to leave her family alone.
“She said, ‘Please stop taking the pictures. You don’t know what’s going on and you shouldn’t judge until you have all the facts,’” McAlpine said.
One woman asked why Baker was helping a “murderer” and the two got into a shouting match before Baker got into a station wagon loaded with Zahra’s toys and was driven away, McAlpine said.
Baker got into another car and followed his mother. Then the U-Haul drove away behind them.
McAlpine began to cry as she explained that she had driven from North Wilkesboro because her heart goes out to 10-year-old Zahra.
“There’s no one who should have to go through that,” she said. “We just want them to tell what they did if they did anything to Zahra.”
The other onlookers agreed.
“We just want to know the truth,” said Paula Shannon of Greenville who was in Hickory to visit friends when she decided to have a look at the Baker house.
adam baker showed up sat. with a rental moving truck and emptied what remained in house.
investigators have taken a well-deserved weekend off from ground searches.
HICKORY RECORD:
Adam Baker was spotted along with his mother, brother and assorted friends and family as they loaded the Bakers’ possessions into a U-Haul truck Saturday afternoon.
About 10 people gathered in front of the home as furniture and other possessions were carried out of the house at 21 21st Ave. to the truck.
Baker was served an eviction notice Tuesday and ordered to leave the home where, on Oct. 9, he had called 911 to report his daughter, Zahra Baker, missing.
Three days later, Hickory police cancelled an Amber Alert put out for her and said the case was being investigated as a homicide.
Jennifer McAlpine, 36, of North Wilkesboro said she and her two daughters made the 45-minute drive Saturday to leave a teddy bear at the shrine for Zahra in the front yard.
She arrived at about 2 p.m. and said she was stunned to spot Adam Baker in the yard, and when he saw her he went into the house where he stayed.
“I just told my girls not to say anything,” McAlpine said. “We’re not here for that.”
As word got out that the Bakers were at the house, local people began to gather, and the tension built as they took pictures with their cell phones.
Eventually Baker’s mother came out of the house to ask the people to leave her family alone.
“She said, ‘Please stop taking the pictures. You don’t know what’s going on and you shouldn’t judge until you have all the facts,’” McAlpine said.
One woman asked why Baker was helping a “murderer” and the two got into a shouting match before Baker got into a station wagon loaded with Zahra’s toys and was driven away, McAlpine said.
Baker got into another car and followed his mother. Then the U-Haul drove away behind them.
McAlpine began to cry as she explained that she had driven from North Wilkesboro because her heart goes out to 10-year-old Zahra.
“There’s no one who should have to go through that,” she said. “We just want them to tell what they did if they did anything to Zahra.”
The other onlookers agreed.
“We just want to know the truth,” said Paula Shannon of Greenville who was in Hickory to visit friends when she decided to have a look at the Baker house.