02-27-2011, 04:00 PM
Daily Telegraph:
IT SEEMS beyond belief. Adam Baker's 10-year-old daughter, Zahra, was a cancer sufferer in need of constant care. How could she just go missing from her father's notice for 15 days?
Police believe Adam’s wife, Elisa Baker, murdered Zahra on September 25 last year and scattered her remains in bins and woodlands outside of the town of Hickory, North Carolina.
Yet it was not until October 9 that Adam Baker noticed that Zahra was no longer in his life. He decided to call the police.
Elisa Baker, 44, has been charged with second degree murder and faces up to 30 years in prison. The manner in which Zahra died has not been revealed.
Adam Baker, 33, told a local television station that he had been working long hours at his mulching job and was leaving for work and coming home when Zahra was in bed.
Mr Baker’s mother, Karen, 53, of Newcastle, has been in North Carolina with her son since her granddaughter’s partial remains were discovered in October. she backed up Adam’s story.
“Adam was working long hours,” she told News Ltd from the apartment where she is staying with Adam, just out of Hickory.
“He would go into Zahra’s room and she (Elisa) had made up the bed to make it look like she was in bed asleep.”
She agreed it sounded hard to believe. “Honestly, I don’t have all the answers,” she said. “He doesn’t either. I know it’s very hard to understand. A lot of it is still not to be talked about, because we have a trial coming up and there’s nothing we will do to damage that.” a handy crappy excuse.
Karen Baker pointed to one of the charges against Elisa Baker which states that she “secreted the victim from family and others prior to and after the offence”. Karen said Elisa had fooled many people, including men she married when she was not yet divorced.
Karen said when Elisa Baker married her son in Australia in 2008, she “spun big stories that you didn’t always believe, but she was so good with Zahra. She really was. I’m serious.
“But she is a master of deception. Adam only found out later she’d been married seven times. She’d only been married once, according to what we thought in Australia. She had to produce her previous divorce papers to marry Adam, and she did.”
She said she and her son were relieved that Elisa Baker had been charged, and did not share the common sentiment in this area that she should have been charged with first-degree murder so she could face the death penalty by lethal injection.
“Death would be too good for her,” said Karen Baker. “I hope she lives with this every day of the rest of her life.”
A Catawba County grand jury yesterday said Elisa Baker had “unlawfully, willfully and feloniously did of malice aforethought kill and murder Zahra Clare Baker”.
It is understood Elisa Baker cut a deal to reduce the first-degree murder charge – and thereby avoid the death penalty – in exchange for leading police Zahra’s remains. However, the child’s skull, which would most likely reveal the cause of death, has not been found.
Zahra’s autopsy -- also made public yesterday -- showed cut or tool marks on her skeletal remains, caused when she was allegedly dismembered by Elisa Baker inside her own home.
Somehow, Adam didn’t notice.because he's a lying moron?
IT SEEMS beyond belief. Adam Baker's 10-year-old daughter, Zahra, was a cancer sufferer in need of constant care. How could she just go missing from her father's notice for 15 days?
Police believe Adam’s wife, Elisa Baker, murdered Zahra on September 25 last year and scattered her remains in bins and woodlands outside of the town of Hickory, North Carolina.
Yet it was not until October 9 that Adam Baker noticed that Zahra was no longer in his life. He decided to call the police.
Elisa Baker, 44, has been charged with second degree murder and faces up to 30 years in prison. The manner in which Zahra died has not been revealed.
Adam Baker, 33, told a local television station that he had been working long hours at his mulching job and was leaving for work and coming home when Zahra was in bed.
Mr Baker’s mother, Karen, 53, of Newcastle, has been in North Carolina with her son since her granddaughter’s partial remains were discovered in October. she backed up Adam’s story.
“Adam was working long hours,” she told News Ltd from the apartment where she is staying with Adam, just out of Hickory.
“He would go into Zahra’s room and she (Elisa) had made up the bed to make it look like she was in bed asleep.”
She agreed it sounded hard to believe. “Honestly, I don’t have all the answers,” she said. “He doesn’t either. I know it’s very hard to understand. A lot of it is still not to be talked about, because we have a trial coming up and there’s nothing we will do to damage that.” a handy crappy excuse.
Karen Baker pointed to one of the charges against Elisa Baker which states that she “secreted the victim from family and others prior to and after the offence”. Karen said Elisa had fooled many people, including men she married when she was not yet divorced.
Karen said when Elisa Baker married her son in Australia in 2008, she “spun big stories that you didn’t always believe, but she was so good with Zahra. She really was. I’m serious.
“But she is a master of deception. Adam only found out later she’d been married seven times. She’d only been married once, according to what we thought in Australia. She had to produce her previous divorce papers to marry Adam, and she did.”
She said she and her son were relieved that Elisa Baker had been charged, and did not share the common sentiment in this area that she should have been charged with first-degree murder so she could face the death penalty by lethal injection.
“Death would be too good for her,” said Karen Baker. “I hope she lives with this every day of the rest of her life.”
A Catawba County grand jury yesterday said Elisa Baker had “unlawfully, willfully and feloniously did of malice aforethought kill and murder Zahra Clare Baker”.
It is understood Elisa Baker cut a deal to reduce the first-degree murder charge – and thereby avoid the death penalty – in exchange for leading police Zahra’s remains. However, the child’s skull, which would most likely reveal the cause of death, has not been found.
Zahra’s autopsy -- also made public yesterday -- showed cut or tool marks on her skeletal remains, caused when she was allegedly dismembered by Elisa Baker inside her own home.
Somehow, Adam didn’t notice.because he's a lying moron?