05-29-2011, 04:18 PM
i agree with this article deeming adam as an imbecile, but i don't think that lets him off the hook. abject stupidity is not a defense.
Adelaide Now
US Correspondent Paul Toohey
HE'S a wholesale idiot with a low IQ and the self-confessed worst dad in the world, but no murderer.
That is the view of North Carolina police and prosecutors of Adam Baker, the Australian father of 10-year-old cancer sufferer Zahra, who was allegedly murdered and dismembered by her stepmother, Elisa Baker, late last year.
A senior source said Adam Baker would almost certainly never be charged in association with his daughter's death, and revealed why authorities believe he had no knowledge of her murder.
Mr Baker's behaviour at the time was so baffling it appeared possible he could be charged as an accessory to his daughter's death.
Mr Baker reported Zahra missing from their home in Hickory, North Carolina, on October 9, last year, on the same day Ms Baker allegedly wrote a false ransom note saying Zahra had been kidnapped.
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It emerged that Zahra had been missing from her home for 15 days before Mr Baker noticed his daughter was gone.
How was that possible?
"You're talking about a wholesale idiot," said a North Carolina source of Adam Baker.
Authorities are convinced that Mr Baker is so gullible and stupid that he was completely fooled by Ms Baker, who flew to Australia to marry him while still married to another man.
Federal prosecutors last week charged Elisa Baker, also known as Elise Young, with dealing prescription painkiller drugs from various trailer parks and apartments where she lived in North Carolina, including from the house where Ms Baker allegedly murdered Zahra.
Authorities have not charged Mr Baker over this matter, because they do not believe he was aware she was running an illegal drug distribution business under his nose.
Authorities believe Mr Baker had no knowledge of the drug dealership.
"This goes to what I have always believed about him: that he is almost pathologically numb-nutted," the source said.
"I don't know his IQ, but he is the self-confessed worst dad in the world.
"Given the alternatives, the only alternative is that he was unaware (of Zahra's murder)."
On the day Mr Baker reported Zahra missing, he told a 911 operator that his daughter was coming into puberty and was "hitting that brooding stage, so we only see her when she comes out when she wants something".
Authorities believe Ms Baker convinced her husband Zahra did not want to see him for 15 days and that he genuinely believed Zahra was going through some pre-teen stage.
The only thing that has impressed authorities about Mr Baker is his guilelessness.
"What kind of man would meet a woman in a Goth online chatroom, fly her over to Australia?" the source said.
"Look at her: she's not exactly a winsome woman. He marries her, and then takes his cancer-ridden, one-legged, deaf daughter, who's being taken care of, to America?
"What kind of guy would do that in the first place?
"You're talking about a wholesale idiot."
Elisa Baker has been indicted for second-degree murder, obstruction of justice and along with her new drug charges, faces multiple counts of bigamy, fraud and identity theft.
Mr Baker, who is wearing an ankle monitor and has no valid visa for the US, remains facing charges of obtaining property - believed to be electricity supply - under a false name.
Adelaide Now
US Correspondent Paul Toohey
HE'S a wholesale idiot with a low IQ and the self-confessed worst dad in the world, but no murderer.
That is the view of North Carolina police and prosecutors of Adam Baker, the Australian father of 10-year-old cancer sufferer Zahra, who was allegedly murdered and dismembered by her stepmother, Elisa Baker, late last year.
A senior source said Adam Baker would almost certainly never be charged in association with his daughter's death, and revealed why authorities believe he had no knowledge of her murder.
Mr Baker's behaviour at the time was so baffling it appeared possible he could be charged as an accessory to his daughter's death.
Mr Baker reported Zahra missing from their home in Hickory, North Carolina, on October 9, last year, on the same day Ms Baker allegedly wrote a false ransom note saying Zahra had been kidnapped.
Start of sidebar. Skip to end of sidebar.
End of sidebar. Return to start of sidebar.
It emerged that Zahra had been missing from her home for 15 days before Mr Baker noticed his daughter was gone.
How was that possible?
"You're talking about a wholesale idiot," said a North Carolina source of Adam Baker.
Authorities are convinced that Mr Baker is so gullible and stupid that he was completely fooled by Ms Baker, who flew to Australia to marry him while still married to another man.
Federal prosecutors last week charged Elisa Baker, also known as Elise Young, with dealing prescription painkiller drugs from various trailer parks and apartments where she lived in North Carolina, including from the house where Ms Baker allegedly murdered Zahra.
Authorities have not charged Mr Baker over this matter, because they do not believe he was aware she was running an illegal drug distribution business under his nose.
Authorities believe Mr Baker had no knowledge of the drug dealership.
"This goes to what I have always believed about him: that he is almost pathologically numb-nutted," the source said.
"I don't know his IQ, but he is the self-confessed worst dad in the world.
"Given the alternatives, the only alternative is that he was unaware (of Zahra's murder)."
On the day Mr Baker reported Zahra missing, he told a 911 operator that his daughter was coming into puberty and was "hitting that brooding stage, so we only see her when she comes out when she wants something".
Authorities believe Ms Baker convinced her husband Zahra did not want to see him for 15 days and that he genuinely believed Zahra was going through some pre-teen stage.
The only thing that has impressed authorities about Mr Baker is his guilelessness.
"What kind of man would meet a woman in a Goth online chatroom, fly her over to Australia?" the source said.
"Look at her: she's not exactly a winsome woman. He marries her, and then takes his cancer-ridden, one-legged, deaf daughter, who's being taken care of, to America?
"What kind of guy would do that in the first place?
"You're talking about a wholesale idiot."
Elisa Baker has been indicted for second-degree murder, obstruction of justice and along with her new drug charges, faces multiple counts of bigamy, fraud and identity theft.
Mr Baker, who is wearing an ankle monitor and has no valid visa for the US, remains facing charges of obtaining property - believed to be electricity supply - under a false name.