Zahra Baker, a murdered child

[Lady Cop]

this is Zahra...in the foreground, her prosthetic leg is evident.

i hope that she is running freely and swiftly on two strong healthy legs with other little angels.

[Lady Cop]

nothing was found in pond.

the stepbrother, here, opted not to live with his mother quite some time ago. her sister last night said she was also estranged from gothicfairybitch.



HICKORY, N.C. -- Zahra Baker's stepbrother made his first public statements Tuesday to a crowd of reporters at a candlelight vigil for his missing stepsister.

Douglas Proctor, the 22-year-old son of Elisa Baker, would not answer questions about charges against his mother, the ongoing homicide investigation, or allegations that Elisa Baker abused Zahra.

"I can't really comment right now what's going on because I am still learning everything and it's a private matter right now between myself and my family," he said. "To all the people who helped us come out and look the other day, to all the messages that we've received, all the phone calls -- it's not gone unnoticed."

He also thanked law enforcement officers investigating the case. "I just want everyone to know that we really appreciate everything and that we're not going to stop looking for Zahra. We'll go as long as it takes."

On Zahra, he said, "I think it would make her happy to see all this, but with that in mind, until anything changes, or we get any more facts, I am not really going to make any more statements."

Proctor personally thanked the pastor of East Hickory Baptist Church where about 300 people gathered on the lawn to pray for Zahra Baker Wednesday evening.

Most people who attended -- many with children -- said they were strangers who'd been touched by the news of her disappearance.

ABC News:
Zahra's father, Adam Baker, told "Good Morning America" Monday that he believed his wife could be involved in his daughter's disappearance. But now police have turned their attention to him, claiming he has not been cooperating with the investigation.

"He seems concerned. I don't know how sincere his concern is," Burke County Sheriff John McDevitt said Wednesday as investigators continued to search for any sign of Zahra's remains. When asked if he believed Adam Baker, McDevitt said, "I don't."

Much of last night's anger was focused on Zahra's extended family, who some people implied did nothing to protect the little girl. But one family friend stood up to defend them and said the family called social services on Zahra's behalf.

"They tried, they really tried," Baker family friend Lindsey Parker said at the vigil. "And I just want everybody here to know that the family honestly tried."

Elisa Baker's son, who also attended the vigil, did not comment on the allegations of abuse.

"Right now's not the appropriate time for that, you know," Douglas Baker told "GMA." "We need to let all the facts come out and go from there."

[Lady Cop]

photo of Zahra at Camp Quality in Australia.

HICKORY Daily Record (very slow local NC paper) --

The disappearance of Zahra Clare Baker has devastated her family and friends in Australia.

The Townsville Bulletin, a newspaper published near Zahra’s former home in Giru, Queensland, reports Zahra’s grandmother, Karen Baker, and close family friend, Kim Wright, “spent many an hour with the bubbly Wagga-born girl in the four years she was growing up in Giru,” the Bulletin reported.

Queesnland is a large state in the northeastern part of Australia.

“She was the most determined little girl I have ever met,” Wright said.

“She was going to still do everything she could, despite not having her leg or her hearing. People say she has had a rough trot, but she never believed that for a second.”

“We are just stunned and shocked and so upset about what has happened,” Karen Baker, who lives in Newcastle, said.

“There is nothing we can do from here. We feel so helpless. We have friends who live over there who work in the trucking industry, and they have got all their mates to put out the alert that Zahra is missing through their CB systems, so hopefully there will be someone who has seen something. We want our darling girl back safe and sound,” Baker said.

The Bulletin and other news sources reveal a child who was shy, but always smiling in spite of her serious health problems.

Zahra was unable to attend school for a year because of the cancer.

Her friends in the community and the Giru State School raised enough money to buy her a laptop computer and educational software so she could keep up with her studies.

Wright met Zahra during a fundraising drive. Wright also worked with Zahra’s father, Adam, and her grandfather, Tony, at Invicta Sugar Mill.

Wright described Zahra as “determined and positive.”

Giru is near Townsville and has a population of 375.

She and her father lived with her grandparents. Family members say Zahra’s mother had little contact with her since she was eight months old.

Zahra also won the hearts of soldiers at Camp Quality in September of 2008 when she and 30 other North Queensland children and their companions were guests at the camp of Lavarack Barracks, Townsville.

[Lady Cop]

the old man, the witch's father speaks here. he had them living with him for a while, but kicked them out when they failed to help with bills as promised.
further, this is only mention/info about Zahra's real/bio mother. she has not been in child's life since 8 months of age. and she's lying about searching for her, the child would have been easy to locate. no info on why she did not want the girl as a baby. or what her issues may have been. another contradictory report:
THE mother of missing 10-year-old Zahra Baker is devastated by fears her girl has been murdered in the US.
North Carolina police officer Clyde Deal told the Herald Sun he had spoken with the mother and her sister in Australia.
"Like any parent, she was extremely upset," he said.
Captain Deal said Zahra's mother and father, Adam Baker, separated when Zahra was a baby, but she maintained contact with her daughter over the years. HUH??

i think the father will be arrested soon, he is not cooperating and he could not fail to be involved if child was disposed in wood chipper. the wife/witch will spill her guts i think.
oh this cracks me up:
Elisa Baker told them (in Australia) she was she was a police officer who was shot in the line of duty. She also said she was a bounty hunter and had met celebrities. and wrote songs for American Idol. and had lupus and cancer.


from News 14 in NC.
Elisa Baker's father, Marshall Fairchild, says he hasn't seen Zahra Baker in more than a year. He got in a dispute with his daughter and they moved out.

“It's hard for me to believe that Lisa would do anything to that youngin, but you never know. I mean drugs interfere with your mind,” he said.

Fairchild didn't elaborate on his daughter's drug use, but he did say he wanted peace for Zahra.

“If they done it, I wish she'd go ahead and they'd tell him where the body's at,” he said.

Baker has only been in the United States for a couple of years. She was born in Wagga Wagga, Australia, then moved to a couple of other small towns in Australia before coming to the U.S. She didn't enter the local school system until third grade.

Records show Baker attended Hudson Elementary School in Caldwell County in March 2009, finishing third grade. She moved to Granite Falls Elementary School through March 2010 then finished fourth grade back at Hudson.

The school system says she was enrolled for fifth grade at Hudson but never showed up. Her parents told the school that she was being home schooled but The North Carolina Division of Non Public Schools says there is no record of Adam or Elisa Baker currently operating a home school.

Police do want to talk to anyone who may have seen the girl or her parents recently so they can identify where she was and when. They are collecting surveillance video from the area, also interviewing teachers and doctors to see when she was seen by people other than her parents.

Zahra's mother spoke out that she has been searching for her for five years, and that she just found out last week her ex-husband was remarried and in North Carolina.

[aussiefriend]

Hi just dropping a line to say that myspace.com/gothicfairy6668 has been deleted. that isprobably because the "uncooperative" father is still running around out there. alot of people were leaving comments on her blog. also the lead song she had on her page was "killing in the name of" with a pic of someone on fire. interesting, given there was a fire in backyard. so now the pics she had put up with negative comments towards the child is gone too. hope this is resolved soon, its very distressing.

cheers oz

[Lady Cop]

i just heard an unconfirmed report the father is missing.
i'm waiting for confirmation.
i think it's just some reporter talking out of his ass. LE HAS to have this guy under surveillance.

note: Aussiefriend, i am making you a member rather than a newbie.

[Duchess]

I would have thought that his every move was being observed. If he is missing, that was kinda dumb of them not to have kept him under surveillance.

[aussiefriend]

hahahaha thanks!

[Lady Cop]

click this pic of step-'fairy-goth-witch' to blow your lunch.

relatives have stated she was a drug-dealer. hubby had to know that.

[Lady Cop]

friday: from today's Hickory Daily Record, they may have kept Zahra in the attic? i have my doubts, since it would have been quite difficult for her to climb up there.
the child looks drugged in this photo below--or maybe just tired.

GRANITE FALLS --

When the Baker family first moved into the apartments on Congress Street in July 2009, Shirley Mims had been the manager for only a short time.
It didn’t take her long to become better acquainted with Elisa and Adam Baker, who were in the apartment next door to Shirley and her husband, Darrell.
“They fought verbally and physically with each other. You could hear it through the walls,” Shirley said. “They’d even take it out into the parking lot.”
It was so bad one time that it knocked the pictures off the wall the Mims shared with the Bakers, Shirley said.
She said the couple began fighting about three weeks after they moved into the apartment.
As for the now-missing Zahra Clare Baker, Shirley didn’t even know the couple had a daughter.
“We saw the little girl when they moved in, but we didn’t see her no more after that,” she said. “When I saw the little girl, I assumed it was a grandchild or a visitor, because I never saw her again.”
Zahra, 10, was first reported missing at 2 p.m. Saturday, although Hickory police suspect she may have been missing longer than that. No one other than family has seen Zahra in a month.
On Sunday, Zahra’s stepmother, Elisa, 42, was arrested on unrelated charges to Zahra’s disappearance. Hickory police interviewed Elisa on Tuesday, and she admitted writing the ransom note found on one of the Bakers’ car, demanding $1 million. She has since been arrested for obstruction of justice and had her first court appearance on the charge. Officers are still searching for Zahra.
The Bakers lived in the apartment on Congress Street until early November 2009, when Shirley asked them to move out because of their fighting.
“In one-and-a-half days, they were gone,” Shirley said. “I got the impression they didn’t want the police here.”
When Shirley and Darrell went into the Bakers’ apartment after they left, they were surprised by what they found. One of the doors to a closet had been removed. That closet provides access to the attic — an attic where you can’t store anything, it just contains blown insulation for the two-story apartments.
When the Mims were watching the news this week, they recognized their former tenants. They were also surprised to learn they had a daughter.
They’re now wondering if maybe Zahra was in the attic
“We don’t know for sure, but we think they kept her in the attic,” Darrell said. “There were black shoe sole prints all around the inside (of the door frame). The door to the cubby hole was taken off.”
The Mims still haven’t found the door to the closet, and aren’t sure what the Bakers did with it.
Darrell said for several months — during the time the Bakers lived next door — it sounded as if squirrels were in the attic.
“All the noises I heard in the attic must have been her, but I never heard them again after they left,” Shirley said. “I can’t prove that’s what it was, but in my heart, that’s what I believe.”
When Darrell went up to the attic to look, he saw a section of the firewall that divides the two apartments was pulled down and was on top some of the boards and insulation. It was cracked in a few places.
“It looked as though a child had gone to sleep on it,” Darrell said.
To get into the attic, you would have to go into the closet, pop out the part of the ceiling covering the hole to the attic, lift yourself up to the 8-foot ceiling and crawl inside. Once inside the ceiling, which is covered with insulation, the area above each apartment is about 20 feet-by-20 feet, and about 4-and-a-half feet tall at its highest point.
Shirley said Elisa and Adam Baker were not the only two in the family who concealed information about a child in the house. Shirley used to work with a relative of Elisa’s.
“Not one time did she mention there was a girl here,” Shirley said. “She would talk about Elisa, but not mention a girl.”

[Lady Cop]

thursday's massive search yielded nothing substantive. or we haven't been told. frankly, IF the child was murdered weeks ago, it may be futile.

here is a slideshow of the search
click:

SEARCH

[Lady Cop]

bitch bio:

CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV) – Authorities have essentially reached a dead end in their search a girl from Hickory who is missing and new details are surfacing about the girl's stepmother.

Adam Baker and his daughter are originally from Australia. He met his 42-year-old wife, Elisa, online and two years ago, both he and his daughter, moved to North Carolina to live with Elisa.

Elisa Baker is currently being held in the Catawba County jail on a felony obstruction of justice charge. Police say she wrote a fake ransom letter to purposely throw off investigators in their search for the missing girl.

WBTV has uncovered new details about Elise Baker. She has been married at least three times, and she had children with two boyfriends.

Baker is originally from Burke County. Her parents are Marshall Thomas Fairchild and Sylvia Jean Fairchild. The mother's maiden name is Barnes.

Baker has at least three biological children in which we were able to find information about.

According to Myspace and Facebook, one of Baker's daughters is Brittany Starbuck.

Her second daughter is Amber Fairchild whose father is Christopher Frank Hicks. Elise was never married to him.

She also has a son named Douglas Proctor and his father is Douglas Joseph Proctor. Baker's son claims he only saw his stepsister, Zahra, once or twice.

Baker's first marriage was in 1985 to Jerry Alan Winkler in Caldwell County. In 1997, she was married to Jeffrey Russell Allred in Caldwell County.

Her third marriage was to Adam Baker, whom she met online. They were married about two years ago.

We were unable to find a record of Elisa and Adam's marriage in North Carolina, but it is possible they were married elsewhere or possibly in Australia. There is a picture of them holding a marriage certificate on Amber Fairchild's myspace page.

We also found several pictures from Amber's page including photos of Zahra with her prosthetic leg, Adam and Elisa, Elisa with a blackeye, and Elisa with Zahra.

We were unable to find any convictions on file against Elisa Baker with the North Carolina Department of Corrections.

[Lady Cop]

so the father is still around and "helping" police. hoping to save his own ass no doubt. here comes the bus adam, and your lovely wife is going to throw you under it. haha

HICKORY, NC (WBTV) - Investigators looking into the case of a missing Hickory girl who is presumed to be dead returned to the 10-year-old's home Friday morning and removed some items from the house.

Police were at the Hickory home for about two hours Friday morning and they brought a cadaver dog to the house.

The dog was led into the house, but officials have not said if the dog detected anything unusual inside the home.

Police also brought Zahra Claire Baker's father, Adam, to the home.

Officers removed mattresses and box springs from the house. Adam Baker left the house around 12:30 p.m.

HICKORY, N.C. -- On Friday afternoon, Zahra Baker’s father, Adam Baker, was with investigators at the home where the 10-year-old girl disappeared from and for the first time in four days, Channel 9’s Dave Faherty was able to speak with him.

Faherty learned that Baker is at the home because he gave police consent to search the home and the property around the home again on Friday.

Faherty said two K-9 units were seen at the home searching behind the house in wood piles.

The dog teams also separately entered the home to search for any clues in the case. Faherty learned that these are two new K-9 units that have not been used in the investigation up to this point.

Faherty was able to confirm with one of the handlers that the dogs did not hit on anything outside the house but when asked if they hit on anything inside the house the handler said “I can’t answer that question. You are going to have to talk to police.”

Faherty said that he saw one of the investigators carrying a bag with something in it from inside the home and put it in his car.

Faherty also noticed investigators carry a mattress and box spring that were bagged from inside the home and placed in a truck that was pulled around the back of the house. That truck has since left the property.

Faherty was able to speak with Baker on camera Friday afternoon. According to Faherty, Baker wanted to thank everyone who is actively searching for his daughter.

Faherty asked Baker if he thinks his wife, Elisa Baker, is involved in the disappearance in Zahra. Baker declined to answer the question.

Faherty also asked Baker if he knew where Zahra was. Baker said “No.”

Faherty said Baker’s main point was to thank everybody who has helped in the search.
As he was walking out of the house to leave, he was surrounded by media questioning him. When asked what was going on, he said, “I don’t know. Everybody knows more than me.” BULLSHIT

Adam Baker told The Associated Press on Friday he still hopes to find 10-year-old Zahra Clare Baker alive. He says he'll move back to the family's native Australia if the girl wants to go. FUCKING LIAR.

[aussiefriend]

“I can’t prove that’s what it was, but in my heart, that’s what I believe.”

No, she can't prove it - but forensic science can! Along with testimony.

I love the picture of the two love birds! groooosssss! Soul mates? True Love? OMG.

[Lady Cop]

very brief interview video with the father here. gawd he's missing front teeth. ugh.
so he's only lying through a few teeth.

click:

adam baker

[Lady Cop]

sat. morning. nothing new and i don't know where the search will go next.

but a pretty reliable source (it seems) did see Zahra alive two weeks ago in a furniture store, so that narrows time line a little.
i still think the father, who is playing dumb innocent, is a lying sack of shit. and i hope the police have his passport. they have held off serving warrant on him, maybe it's time he went to the county bed and breakfast. they can fresh-squeeze him better there.
if nothing else he stood by and let that horror of a wife abuse the girl. his girl. and he sure as shit knew about/and or participated in drug use/sales.

[Still Waters]

It is a good thing that the police brought the SBI an FBI in from the start as the only real evidence they are going to be able to get will be forensic if they get any at all. The circumstantial evidence cast a lot of suspicion on the parents, but suspicion is not proof. I don't care for theses media trials, they turn into witch hunts. Witch hunts kill innocent people.

[Lady Cop]

welcome to Mock Still Waters!

i have to say that circumstantial evidence. contrary to popular opinion, is GOOD evidence. and wins cases at trial. but i think they'll come up with some forensics as well that we don't know about yet.
the mere fact stepgothicbitchmom admits writing the bogus ransom note makes her complicit in whatever happened to that child. at some point, that has to be explained.

thanks for joining, good to meet you.

[Still Waters]

Yes circumstantial evidence does convict. A NC jury just convicted a double cop killer on circumstantial evidence that was nowhere near as damming as what has already come out about the Zahra Baker case.
I won't be the least bit surprised to see the prosecution seek the death penalty once murder charges are filled. When it comes to the death penalty, I find a conviction based on circumstantial evidence to be troubling. There have been too many inmates on death row that were latter proven to be innocent. Hell, from what I've read about the case I figure she done it, and I try to keep an open mind.

[aussiefriend]

Good morning all. Sunday morning here in oz.

Forensic evidence does not lie. Also there are unusual behaviours that are being demonstrated by the adults that were supposed to be primary caregivers. How weird that at 2pm they checked on a child? thats weird. Any parent would know that is a red flag.

The fact she wrote a note and said "we" have your child shows there is more than one person involved. When someone commits a crime and they try and deflect on themselves by doing something like blaming someone else or writing a note its demonstration for some sort of guilt.

Also we don't know if she has admitted it, because the police might be keeping that from the media until they find the poor little girl.

cheers