Zahra Baker, a murdered child

[Lady Cop]

welcome Clouds, thankyou very much for joining the conversation!
i did read about the London connection, and was waiting for more details to emerge.

[Lady Cop]

all discussion of "the REV" here from now on---->

http://mockforums.net/t-the-rev-thread

i'm moving the tent show out of the thread for Zahra.
i'd like to keep ZAHRA only the focus of this thread.

thanks everyone!

[Lady Cop]

NEWTON, N.C. --
charlotteobserver.com
Zahra Baker's stepsister asked a judge Wednesday not to release her mother from jail, saying she feared for her safety and that of her own children.

Amber Fairchild, 25, described her mother, Elisa Baker, as a potentially violent and unstable woman who has severed ties with her N.C. family and begun an online relationship with a man in London.

Fairchild didn't specify why she was afraid, but a Catawba County prosecutor noted that Elisa Baker has had several allegations of communicating threats filed against her this year.
baker was deemed a flight risk as expected.
“The only time this defendant comes to court is when the sheriff's office brings her to court,” Prosecutor Ballas said.


Fairchild:

[lawnranger]

Damn, look at that evil fucking witch in her pink jumpsuit. She has been toking a shitload of meth in the last two years. Her wedding photos show a tattooed wanna-be sumo-wrestler now she is a withered and wrinkled shell full of worthless shit. I pray that Zahra's ghost is ramming a cattle prod up her ass nightly in that bitch's cell.

[Duchess]

Being forced to wear pink would be enough to keep me out of the slammer.

[lawnranger]

Fairchild isn't much better of a person. She owes debts to her shit beetle of a mother for dope. All of the debts that are spoken of in the scuttlebutt about this bitch, Elisa Baker, are all over dope. Some think she is/was a dealer. Not necessarily! I guess technically that you are a dealer if you are the one that drives to pick up the fat sack and then split it with your kids, hubby, daughter and niece.

[lawnranger]

From the Hickory Daily (Broken) Record -

Investigators are looking through mounds of garbage in a landfill in Caldwell County, hoping to find a key piece of evidence in the Zahra Baker case.
Hickory police, the State Bureau of Investigation, the FBI, the U.S. Marshal Service and Evidence Recovery Team members are combing through the trash at Foothills Environmental Landfill. The Caldwell County Sheriff’s Office and the Hickory Fire Department are supporting search efforts. Investigators began their search at about 6:30 a.m. Wednesday.
At a press conference Wednesday afternoon, Hickory Police Chief Tom Adkins declined to say what piece of evidence investigators are looking for, saying only that it could take several days for the search team to find it. He did state it was not Zahra’s body, however.
Ten-year-old Zahra was first reported missing Oct. 9 by her father, Adam Baker, although Hickory police believe she’s been missing longer than that. She was last seen by someone outside the family on Sept. 25 at In Your Home Furnishings on U.S. 70, SE, in Hickory. Zahra was in the store with her stepmother, Elisa Baker.
Baker, 42, is currently in jail for writing a false ransom note, in which she demanded $1 million. Police charged Baker with obstruction of justice. They also arrested her on several other charges unrelated to Zahra’s disappearance.
Police initially called Zahra’s disappearance a missing person’s case. On Oct. 12, that was changed to a homicide investigation. On Wednesday, Adkins again declined to say why the investigation was changed.
“We have not found her body,” he said. “We continue to have hope, but we are running a homicide investigation.”
The police department has been planning its search of the landfill since Friday.
“We’ll search only when the landfill is open,” Adkins said. “It could last up to five days.”
The landfill is open from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays. When a team is not searching, law enforcement will be posted outside the landfill to ensure the search is not compromised. Personal vehicles wanting to drop off trash will be turned away.
The landfill gets 1,200 tons of trash from Burke, McDowell, Yadkin, Alleghany, Alexander, Mitchell, Yancy, Watauga and Caldwell counties daily into 40 acres of the landfill, said LouAnne Kincaid, public information officer for Caldwell County. The landfill does not incinerate any trash it collects, leaving piles for officers to search through.
Adkins declined to comment on how the piece of evidence investigators are searching for may have gotten into the landfill.
“I hope that if we find this evidence, it will provide a good, solid timeline in the case,” he said. “Interviews have led us to it.”
A team with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children was flown to the Catawba Valley and also is helping with the search. According to the Hickory Police Department, the team that flew to the area provides on-ground technical assistance and connects area law enforcement with a network of national resources.
Adkins still urged anyone who has seen Zahra in the last month to come forward.
“We have had different family members tell us different timelines. We’re looking for other people to help confirm it,” he said. “The timeline is so crucial to the investigation. We’re determined to find the truth and seek justice.”
Anyone with information is asked to call the Hickory Police Department at (828) 328-5551.

[lawnranger]

"Search only when the landfill is open" says Police Chief!!!

[tput11]

Just a question. I remember seeing in the search warrant they found 3 passports. Could they have possibly sold the girl to the guy from England that has been sending money?

[Lady Cop]

Just a question. I remember seeing in the search warrant they found 3 passports. Could they have possibly sold the girl to the guy from England that has been sending money?

Hi Tput, welcome to you also!

i know that theory is floating around out there, but there would be a record with airlines et al of her traveling overseas. a really excellent state-of-art fake passport would be needed.
if the 3 passports the police have are the bakers' and Zahra's, then i don't see that as likely. it would be pretty tough to hide/disguise a girl with only one leg.
even if sold to some third-world country as a novelty.

[Lady Cop]

interesting they took a mattress.
i thought the arson fire was to dispose of the prosthetic, but parts of that would not burn. so perhaps that is on the radar also.

[Lady Cop]

On Thursday, searchers used a track hoe to dig into a 60-yard section of the 40-acre landfill. At one point, they spent about 15 minutes focusing on what appeared to be a mattress. Minutes later, they looked over a second mattress.

Interviews done during the course of the investigation led them to begin searching the landfill, Adkins said. He added that the search will be very methodical and time-intensive and will likely take days.

The landfill takes in trash from nine North Carolina counties: Caldwell, Burke, McDowell, Yadkin, Alleghany, Alexander, Mitchell, Yancey and Watauga. According to a Caldwell County official, about 1,200 tons of garbage is brought in daily.

At the end of each day, an officer or deputy will be posted at the landfill to secure it until searchers return the next day.

[VoteEmOut]

Nancy Grace said they were looking for a leg. I believe what I see on TV. I believe Nancy Grace. Screw the truth. I want to follow her suppositions based on her intimate knowledge of the news story in Hickory. She is such a pleasant person. Nice eyebrows.

Stupid cunt. Shut your pie-hole. Bitches like that spouting half-truths and suppositions as facts are the reason why nobody believes what the "media" reports, regardless of the veracity of the source.

Speaking of sources, my sources tell me that the police are in fact looking for a mattress in a landfill, which yes, would be the second mattress the police have "secured" in this investigation. Why do you suppose all the interest in the mattresses?

C'mon, let's play Nancy Grace. Give me your half-truth and suppositions and we can all go around talking about them as if they were facts.

[Duchess]

Nancy Grace said they were looking for a leg. I believe what I see on TV. I believe Nancy Grace. Screw the truth. I want to follow her suppositions based on her intimate knowledge of the news story in Hickory. She is such a pleasant person. Nice eyebrows.

For a moment there, I thought you had lost your mind.

[VoteEmOut]

Mayhaps I have.

[Duchess]

You're in the right place then.

[Lady Cop]

Mayhaps I have.

you might enjoy this thread>>

http://mockforums.net/t-nancy-grace-love...ancy+grace

[Duchess]

I might actually be able to sit through one of her shows if she wasn't such a fuckin' shrew.

[lawnranger]

This thread isn't about Nancy Grace Duchess! It is about Zahra! Go take your fake-ass profile pic and hide! I am not scared of you or anyone here.

[Duchess]

Shut the fuck up you little bastard. I'll post anyfuckingwhere I please here.