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Matt Baker Trial Updates - 1/13/10
:35-- Judge Strother announces that one jury member is ill. Replaces her with a junior Baylor student.
9:45-- Presentation of several items of evidence including: a Bible, face mask used on Kari Lynn Baker the night of her death, two crime scene photographs, diagram of the Baker mask, and more.
Kari and Matt Baker had two daughters, a third daughter had passed away years earlier after battling a brain tumor.
9:50-- Asst. DA Shaffer gives timeline and re-telling of events
10:00-- Shaffer says investigators many hits on pharmaceutical purchasing Web sites were found on the computer used by Matt Baker. Another computer Baker used at the church also had forensic tests done on it; those results will be released later during the trial.
10:06-- Shaffer says the court will hear contradicting statements by Baker. One thing he's been consistent with: saying he loved his wife and never had an affair.
Vanessa Bulls tells a different story; that she did have an affair with Matt Baker, while his wife was still alive.
10:08-- Matt Baker's lawyer, Guy James Gray, says Kari had two lives:
Public life: she was a well-liked teacher
Private life: she was "quite a bit different" from her public life. However everything indicates that she was a "quality person." She carried the pain of losing a child tragically. On the anniversary of the child's death she would have a "little period" of sadness that would "come and go." Gray says doctors diagnosed Kari in 2006 (just weeks before her death) with depression.
BREAKING: Baker's lawyer, says that evidence indicates that Matt did have an affair with Vanessa Bulls and that both Bulls and his client lied to try to cover it up.
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