Matt Baker was a Baptist preacher with an active congregation in Waco, Texas, and a beautiful family, including two young daughters.
But his seemingly picturesque life changed forever on April 7, 2006, when he found his wife, Kari, dead in their bed, apparently from an overdose of sleeping pills ...
Kari’s family became increasingly suspicious of Baker and then their investigation uncovered even more stunning evidence: Kari’s therapist revealed that Kari suspected Matt was having an affair and she feared he was out to get her. ABC online article Jim Avila 8th July 2010, ‘Was Pastor’s Double Life Motive for Murder’
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Matt Baker begins forming his own mob … The remains were indeed Jared’s [Whaley] … It doesn’t take long for detectives to home in on the crew. Killer Kids s4e10: Ready, Set, Action & What Happens in Vegas, LMN 2015
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2001: Bonnie Lee Bakley is … living in Los Angeles surrounded by Hollywood stars. People Magazine Investigates s5e8: The Price of Fame, ID 2021
Bonnie and Blake are married at a small ceremony in November 2000. Sadly this marriage would be quite short. ibid.
Bonnie’s been shot twice … While examining the car police find two shell casings. ibid.
Robert [Blake] was the last person to see Bonnie alive. ibid.
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Some killers come unstuck because they are too smart for their own good. Charismatic Polish intellectual Krystian Bala believed he could get a way with murder. He’s now serving 25 years in prison. On a grey December morning in the year 2000 fishermen find a bloated semi-naked body. Killers: Behind the Myth s1e1: Bala: The Novel Killer, 2014
The diary reads like the blog of a murderer. ibid.
He was jealous of his ex-wife’s lover. ibid.
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July 1997, the Naval station in Norfolk, Virginia: a sailor, William Bosko, had just returned from sea … There was no forced entry. The apartment was clean and tidy except for the bedroom where Michelle Moore Bosko had been brutally raped and murdered. To the police it looked like a single assailant. Frontline: The Confessions, PBS 2010
‘… a small room … getting in your face, yelling at you, calling you a liar, poking you in the chest …’ ibid. Danial
Danial Williams confessed after eleven hours of interrogation … ‘completely inconsistent with the facts of the crime.’ ibid. defence dude
The results of Danial’s DNA were back and they did not match the semen left at the crime scene … They kept the DNA results secret and went looking for his accomplice. ibid.
His name was Omar Abdul Ballard; the letter ended with a stunning admission. ibid.
Ballard confessed almost immediately … The state was undeterred. ibid.
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Who would be the most wanting Tommy [Ballard, father of disappeared] out of the picture? The Disappearance of Crystal Rogers, resident, Sky Crime 2020
So many cases in Marchtown and they are all unsolved. ibid.
Today marks two years since Crystal Rogers, the Bardstown mother of five, was last publicly seen. ibid. PLG13 news 3 July 2017
Was there something bigger going on in Bardstown? ibid. investigator
It’s not an accident: It’s an assassination. The Disappearance of Crystal Rogers II, ballistics expert re Ballard’s supposed hunting accident crime scene
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There are miscarriages of justice in jail, seriously there are, but Jeremy Bamber is not one of them. Razor Ruddock Smith, HMP Wakefield: Evil Behind Bars, Channel 5 2022
In the dead of the night on 7th August 1975 five members of the same family were brutally murdered in their farm house. Two six-year-old boys and three adults were shot dead in cold blood. Officers believed Sheila Caffell had killed her family and then turned the gun on herself. But the twist that followed thrust this horrific crime into the headlines and turned the focus to her brother – Jeremy Bamber. Crimes That Shook Britain: Jeremy Bamber
Is the right person behind bars? ibid.
A tragic young woman with severe mental illness had repeatedly shot both her children and parents. ibid.
Friction within the Bamber family soon emerged. ibid.
The weapon that lay with Sheila Caffell was a .22 calibre rifle ... It was able to accommodate a silencer or sound moderator like the one discovered in the gun cupboard ... Two days later police collected the items the cousins had discovered. ibid.
New evidence that puts a twist on this heinous crime ... On the morning of the tragedy Jeremy Bamber was adamant there was movement within the farm ... Police telephone logs from the evening state officers were in conversation with somebody inside the farm at 5.25 a.m. ... So initial inspection of the property reported two bodies downstairs and three bodies upstairs; yet by the time of Jeremy Bamber’s trial that had changed. ibid.
Sheila’s blood was still running from her wounds. ibid.
Two documents show a silencer was collected on 11th September, but other family documents contradict these saying one was found a month earlier on 10th August. Which account is true? Were two silencers actually found? ibid.
A large part of Jeremy Bamber’s trial is flawed. ibid.
The enzyme AK1 found by the forensic expert on the silencer and attributed to Sheila Caffell can in fact be found in dozens of animals including rabbits. This was never outlined in the trial. ibid.
So hurt was Julie at the breakdown of their relationship she admitted to officers she had tried to smother Jeremy with a pillow. It took one month after the murders for her to go to police with her story. Bamber’s account of that fateful evening has never changed. ibid.
Only Jeremy’s call was discussed at her trial. Now we are able to reveal this document – a phone call from Nevill Bamber to police at 3.26 from White House Farm – which states ‘Daughter gone berserk and has got hold of one of the guns’. ibid.
It [the silencer] was never on the gun at any time that night. There is no way Sheila got it out of the cupboard and used it, then removed it and replaced it back in the cupboard. Jeremy Bamber
Jeremy Bamber’s girlfriend at the time of the tragedies said he had discussed ways of getting rid of the family ... Her conscience getting the better of her. Detective Inspector Bob Miller, Essex rozzer
In the English county of Essex just north-east of London there is a small area that has seen no fewer than eighteen murders in the last forty years. The most widely publicised took place in White House Farm near Tolleshunt d’Arcy on 7th August 1985. A young man, Jeremy Bamber, phoned the local police station to say he had just had a call from the farm that had frightened him. It was his father, Nevill Bamber, who said, ‘Your sister’s gone crazy and she’s got the gun.’ Great Crimes & Trials: Jeremy Bamber, BBC 1994
Daniel still had his thumb in his mouth. ibid.