NC - Zahra Clare Baker, 10, Hickory, 9 Oct. 2010 #26

[bellyup]

I don't understand why they didn't protect it before now. It was completely open for anyone to go into the yard etc.

I was wondering that way back in the thread. It also surprised me that we didn't see media peeking in windows/ etc. to get photos or a "scoop" on the condition of the home :waitasec:

 

[passionflower]

Remembering the posts about missing teeth, my 11 yr. grandson is here with me (ill)
and just said his tooth was loose. Next from eye tooth...........interesting.
I thought at 11 children had all there adult teeth..........ben a long time sinc I was a tooth fairy.

 

[rbrnmw2]

If EB was involved in Zahra's disappearance, do you think she would have the foresight to deliberately leave the girl's hearing aids behind?

Did she forget about them?

Did she wait until Zahra took them out and went to sleep, to attack her?

Did Zahra always take the hearing aids out, when she went to bed?

Are Zahra's fingerprints, the only ones on the hearing aids?

*****MOO
******IMO

Maybe she took them out while sleeping and left them out on a dresser and EB left them there so AB would think well Zahra is asleep and wouldn't bother her because IIRC she EB told AB zahra had the flu Just throwing it out as a slim possibility but a possibility ****IMO****

 

[ynotdivein]

Have searched my furry fanny off and can find no print or video to confirm that the wood chipper was seized as evidence or dismantled. Next best step would be to go through aerial footage of the search scene and determine whether the chipper was still on the site at the end of the search, but even that wouldn't be conclusive.

Putting wood chipper back in the "unconfirmed/rumor" column. *sigh*

 

[eleni777]

Remembering the posts about missing teeth, my 11 yr. grandson is here with me (ill)
and just said his tooth was loose. Next from eye tooth...........interesting.
I thought at 11 children had all there adult teeth..........ben a long time sinc I was a tooth fairy.

My daughter lost her last tooth, exact one that your grandson says is loose, 2 months before she turned 13. she turned 13 this Sept. I think it depends on the child and how early their baby teeth come in.

 

[Scamperoo]

Dear God,

Please let Zahra be found today, and please give those who loved her and came to love her some closure. Please led LE to the right places to put an end to this search for answers,

Amen

If stepmom is cooperating why don't we have Zahra? can one kill and dispose of a family member then not be able to remember the location. I can only think that mommy dearest killed her and daddy disposed of her somewhere and gave her just the vaguest information as to where.

I hope today we find out something..anything! before he lawyers up.

 

[sophclown]

Does anyone know if the house at 21 21st Avenue has a basement?
I sure hope that Zahra is found today!!!

 

[4BB]

MOO

Maybe they are getting forensics off various parts of the house. Fingerprints and DNA to prove if Zahra ever lived there at all. Surely doorknobs, fridge handles, bathrooms, etc would have some evidence that a particular person lived there.

This may help their timeline.

 

[gibby207]

Remembering the posts about missing teeth, my 11 yr. grandson is here with me (ill)
and just said his tooth was loose. Next from eye tooth...........interesting.
I thought at 11 children had all there adult teeth..........ben a long time sinc I was a tooth fairy.

LOL Tooth fairy time! You know, the teeth thing is so personal and hereditary... My friend's daughter is 6 and has lost 5 teeth so far while mine who are nearly 6 haven't lost any. Would you believe I had a baby tooth (eye tooth/canine tooth) until I was 25?!! Turns out my adult tooth was never going to come down as it was impacted sideways in my jaw and had to be removed via surgery. I have a fake canine tooth there now.

Hope your grandson is feeling better soon!

 

[kwmred]

'Morning WSers...

bellyup...I don't recall ever seeing anything as specific as "2 days"...when i saw your post yesterday (i think) re: 2 days, i too was anxiously awaiting a link to that article...i might have missed it; however, IMO if that timeframe was included in an article...me thinks, someone said a little more than they should have and probably retracted it...:waitasec:

Oh yeah...re: "mama", has that been confirmed, since last night? link please???

If not, it's rumor, so please edit your post....as the mods have worked their arses off as have many posters, to try to keep this thread "rumor free"...thanks!

BBM
It's not a rumor. Printed in Hickory paper. Look back about 7 or 8 pages. AB picked up his mother and brother from Charlotte airport.

 

[cluciano63]

I liked to think that LE was on top of things in this case but not having secured that house all this time makes me wonder. That is such a basic step. I hope that does not turn out to have been a huge mistake.

 

[kcsmom76]

WSOCtv reporting investigators are on Christie Road today.

 

[bellyup]

Oh yeah...re: "mama", has that been confirmed, since last night? link please???

If not, it's rumor, so please edit your post....as the mods have worked their arses off as have many posters, to try to keep this thread "rumor free"...thanks!

http://www2.hickoryrecord.com/news/2010/oct/26/11/mattress-found-landfill-ar-485567/
Zahra’s father, Adam Baker, has been in the Catawba County jail since he turned himself in at the Hickory Police Department at 3:12 a.m. Monday. He went to the police station after picking up his mother and brother at the Charlotte-Douglas International Airport.

 

[JoeFromLB]

Yes, agreed, while, on the other hand, if evidence is now found there to support a prosecution case, there's a certain defense lawyer named Lisa Dubs who is certainly licking her chops at the notion the house apparently has sat unguarded for a time.

She'll put the investigators on trial, like O.J.'s "dream team" did. I don't feel good about this at all.

 

[eleni777]

I liked to think that LE was on top of things in this case but not having secured that house all this time makes me wonder. That is such a basic step. I hope that does not turn out to have been a huge mistake.

Maybe the finally taped it off because both AB and EB are in Jail...they may be done collecting evidence from it and now are just trying to keep the "rubberneckers" for coming around.

 

[wfgodot]

She'll put the investigators on trial, like O.J.'s "dream team" did. I don't feel good about this at all.

There's also the matter of the mattress, apparently not discovered by LE after their search but found by landfill workers later. The defense took note of that, one can bet, as it speaks to chain of evidence.

Not criticizing LE at all - they are doing their absolute level best, and they're working in real time, not, like me, sitting here afterwards and reading news accounts.

 

[sarx]

Just made it to the computer. I see there is all kinds of talk about the house, the pile that burnt etc. What's going on?

 

[shopgirlnc]

Several LE at hickory house...with workers from city of hickory...walking the yard...picking various stuff up in yard. Whole yard taped off...also blue 4 door chevrolet? Car parked in drive beside cop car. Various people in raincoats standing in yard.

 

[tk71texas]

:waitasec: i wonder who's gonna turn on who first?

 

[wfgodot]

I wonder if Adam Baker is represented by counsel yet.