****((R=reporter, B=AB, L=officer))*****
http://abcnews.go.com/US/missing-hickory-girl-zahra-bakers-mom-involved-dad/story?id=11848643
*****((link to video))*****
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R: Do you think your wife could have something to do with Zahra disappearing?
B: Uh......I wouldn't like to think so. No. Going off what I heard so far it could be possible
R: It could be possible? Well, what have you heard?
B: Umm......(big swallow) ((interrupted))
L: ((interrupts)) that's just something we want to remain in the investigation
R: Well, you want it to remain in the investigation but you haven't ruled out that Elisa Baker is a person of interest in this case?
L: We haven't ruled any possibility out. We...we are looking at every angle, what it could be, issued the amber alert... uh.... to make sure the info got out there to see her in the public. We just haven't ruled anything out. All possibilities are there.
R: When you say you haven't ruled anything out let me just be clear because there's been some inconsistency on this as well. Have you ruled out Mister Baker as a suspect?
L: Again this investigation is ongoing and we cannot rule out anybody at this time. We just want to make sure that we do a very methodical investigation and as the time progresses we may be able to rule out folks but right now every possibility is there
R: Mr. Baker that's got to be very hard to hear but why don't you tell us in your own words what happened. I understand that the last time you saw Zahra....uh...was about 0230 Saturday morning when she was sleeping in her bed?
B: uh............that's what time......uh.......her mother told me she went to check on her.
R: So you didn't go check on her as well?
B: No. I was asleep.
only thing he says without pause and without an ummmmmmm-my observation
R: So when was the last time that YOU saw Zahra?
B: .....Ummmmmm.........pause....it woulda been probly thursday night and than I got up early and went to work
interrupted by reporter but he says something I could not make out
R: ((interrupting)) Thursday night. So you didn't see her all day Friday and than you went to sleep Friday and She's sleeping when you get home so there was a long period of time when you didn't see Zahra when Elisa Baker had been with her........ ((goes on with rehash....missed part of it))......next thing 5-5:30 firefighters are called to your house? You didn't check on Zahra then?
B: ummmmm........ ((shakes head)).... no. Because I was in a big panic. There was a fire in the yard and I was talking to investigators in the backyard.
R: so you went back to sleep and left the house around 11 or 12 on saturday also
B: yes ((no hesitation))
R: also to check on a job. Got back sometime around 2 pm and that;s when you reported that Zahra was missing?
B: Yes sir
R: That's the first time that you believed she was gone?
B: uh.....yeah... I was up and I came back from looking at a job and starte some work in the yard and... uh.....her mother came out and .......((pause))....started screaming that Zahra was missing.
R: what did she tell you? what did she say happened? what did she know?
B: Uh... She didn't know very much. She.. uh... came out crying and panicing just like telling me Zahra was gone. Ummm.... I went inside and searched the house, started searching around the block and called police.
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R: It now seems that you wonder whether you wife had anything to do with your daughter's disappearance. How does it make you feel and what did she say about it when you asked her?
B: ..........ummmm.........she wasn't very............((huge pause))... I didn't talk to her very much. When I called the police...ummm....I think just about every officer in hickory came to the house and....uh....I haven't really seen my wife since then.........ummmm..........I just hope I can get my daughter back (cries). I miss her so much (cries)
