NC - Zahra Clare Baker, 10, Hickory, 9 Oct 2010 - #1

[watcher9]

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[ella971]

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[mysticrose]

Oriah I see you are here... With the dogs not picking up anything what does that say to you ?

I think she was moved to a vehicle and transported out of the area, perhaps wrapped in something..........

 

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[kcsmom76]

Here is a slide show of Zarha. http://www2.hickoryrecord.com/news/...ncerned-about-welfare-missing-girl-ar-448453/

 

[nursebeeme]

fwiw, it has been abnormally dry in the area:

http://www.ncdrought.org/

catawba county is one of 12 NC counties currently under a moderate drought alert

 

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[badhorsie]

ella971, I just read your post. Yes I have a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach too!

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When I first read about this little one my heart lurched, I don't have a good feeling at all....

 

[Oriah]

I thought the same thing. Not sure.

Depends on the kind. Some are titanium. They don't burn very easily. Others would burn in a few minutes.

Also- just noting that sometimes children who have had treatment for certain cancers (especially radiation to the CNS) will have hearing-impaired issues as a result.

 

[ella971]

Could she have been gone since Wed night? Father left for work Thursday morning came home and said she was sleeping.

 

[mysticrose]

Could she have been gone since Wed night? Father left for work Thursday morning came home and said she was sleeping.

That is what I was wondering as well ella.......

 

[shefner]

Just by way of information: Hickory is located in Catawba County and Catawba is adjoined by Caldwell County, where many of the SM charges were accrued. The two counties are partially divided by Lake Hickory and the address where Zahra and her family live would be in very close proximity to Lake Hickory.

I read that Zahra last went to public school in Hudson. Hudson is in Caldwell County and is a very small town. The town consists of railroad tracks running through the middle of it with streets on either side of the tracks. There are a few shops and a Hardee's there, as well as some home-style restaurants...but it is a small place.

When Zahra's family moved to Hickory, they were still only 20-25 minutes from Hudson....not far but just far enough to get the SM in another county and maybe help her evade arrest on some of those charges.

 

[kcsmom76]

Yes we are in a drought. It has been abnormally dry this year and in years past.

 

[darlin gal]

Former neighbor Kayla Rotenberry, said she and her fiance were good friends with the Bakers when they lived in nearby Sawmills, and saw Zahra often. The couple was skeptical of the girl's stepmother, in part because she claimed to write songs for musician and American Idol finalist Chris Daughtry, and told other far-fetched stories, Rotenberry said.

"We just got to the point where we didn't believe her. We knew they were lies, but she never gave me a reason not to trust her," said Rotenberry, 23.

The stepmother had a short-temper, Rotenberry said.

"She wasn't as nice as she seemed," she said.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap...LWNY3lLWF2wqDQ34pAEwD9IPJ3B80?docId=D9IPJ3B80

 

[tehcloser]

Father said he saw her Thursday night. Let me get link.

In an emotional interview, Baker described when he last saw Zahra Thursday evening and said she was in bed when he got home from work on Friday.

http://www.wsoctv.com/news/25354656/detail.html


I said "night", it should have been "evening".

 

[kcsmom76]

Hudson is also on the other side of me. I am looking all over and checking everything i can to get more updates.

 

[ella971]

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[SondraK]

Is it possible the fire could have been a diversion to get everyone into the back yard and leave the front unnoticed???

 

[MsFacetious]

I am continually amazed that I am still amazed at how different my perspective is from 98% of the world. :waitasec:

I know it is hard for some people to believe...but not all kids like to play outside. My children do, but are only outside the hours my neighbors work and never unattended. I wouldn't be surprised if they have never seen them outside.

Moving around does not surprise me. It would be interesting to know if the places they moved got continually less expensive? They may have had to keep downsizing due to the cost of Zahra's treatments. We moved several times from 2003-2006. Cheaper apartment, better job, closer to the doctors to use less gas...If we didn't we had to choose between life sustaining medication or having heat in the middle of winter.

Home schooling doesn't surprise me. The hearing loss may have factored into that. When you add all the school that would have been missed for 2 different cancer battles... If she also got sick easily and would again keep missing a lot of school...

Not all cancer survivors have the horrible, lingering fatigue... but alot of them do. She did have other lasting effects from treatment, hearing loss...so that makes it more likely she would also have lasting fatigue or other effects.

My best friend's son who beat Hodgkins sleeps 15 hours a day. They cut him to half days at school so he takes a 3 hour nap and is awake for dinner. If she did have lingering fatigue her sleeping until 2pm would not be odd to me. (I don't believe that story, but it isn't because I don't think she would sleep that long.)

I really don't like the step mother's mug shot expression. I agree, I am going to wonder about drugs for now. It would make it easier to understand her hurting this little girl who fought so hard to stay alive.

I don't think Dad was involved.

Unfortunately I think this is going to be a horribly tragic situation, right up there with Ethan Stacy and Shaniya Davis...because of what this child has successfully battled, the people who failed her and how preventable this is going to turn out to be.

 

[Shutterfly]

Could she have been gone since Wed night? Father left for work Thursday morning came home and said she was sleeping.

I'm wondering the same ella.....maye Zahra was gone much longer than the 2:30pm time missing. If that were the case, no telling how far away this poor child could be. I'm also starting to wonder if someone else is involved. If there's no evidence to suggest that Zahra left the home via the Suburban or the Toyota, then she certainly left somehow. If someone who doesn't live at the Baker home were involved, such as a friend of the Baker's, perhaps she could've been whisked away into someone else's vehicle?