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Dec 24, 2023 · Prosecuting Evil With Kelly Siegler is examining the murder of Kari Baker, who was killed by her own husband, Baptist minister Matt Baker, at their home in Hewitt, Texas.
Dec 23, 2023 · On April 7, 2006, Matt Baker called police in Hewitt, Texas — a predominantly Baptist town just south of Waco — telling dispatchers his wife, Kari Baker, “just committed suicide.”
Jan 22, 2010 · WACO, Texas (CBS/AP) More than three years after Matt Baker drugged his wife with sleeping pills and smothered her to death so he could be with his mistress, a Texas jury sentenced him to 65...
Deadly Little Secrets: The Minister, His Mistress, and a Heartless Texas Murder is a 2012 true crime book written by the non-fiction author and novelist Kathryn Casey and released by HarperCollins about the 2006 murder by Baptist minister Matt Baker of his 31-year-old wife, Kari Baker, and the staging of her death as a suicide .
May 26, 2013 · Nearly four years after claiming he found his wife, Kari, dead, Matt Baker is now on trial for murder.
Jul 8, 2010 · Former pastor Matt Baker was charged with murder in the 2006 death of his wife Kari Baker. Her death initially was ruled a suicide, but a witness testified that Baker drugged his wife with sleeping pills and then suffocated her with a pillow.
Editor’s note: On January 20, the jury returned with a guilty verdict against Matt Baker, the former Baptist minister in Waco who had long been suspected of murdering his wife. The key witness...
Jan 21, 2010 · The 38-year-old former Texas minister faces up to life in prison for drugging and suffocating his wife, Kari, then faking her suicide note in 2006. Jurors deliberated more than seven hours before...
Jan 20, 2010 · Former Baptist Pastor Matt Baker is accused of first degree murder in the death of his 32-year-old wife Kari. She was found dead in her bedroom April 7, 2006, in what her husband Matt claimed was ...
Jul 8, 2010 · Police jailed Baker, who was pastor at Crossroads Baptist Church in Hewitt, Texas, at the time of his wife's death, for two months late in 2007. He was set free after a judge reduced his bond because there wasn't enough evidence to hold him.
