GUILTY TX - Kari Baker, 31, found dead in her Hewitt home, 7 April 2006

[A_News_Junkie]

http://www.kxxv.com/Global/story.asp?S=11867045

 

[A_News_Junkie]

http://ww2.kwtx.com/global/video/fl...g=News&undefined&activePane=info&rnd=27939200

 

[A_News_Junkie]

If you didn't get to watch online, I found this 15 min video that has Linda Dulin's overwhelmingly touching full victim impact statement. It also includes the sentence and her best friend Jill's statement.

Tear and Tissue alert:
http://www.kxxv.com/global/category...d=4481189&topVideoCatNo=116555&autoStart=true

 

[A_News_Junkie]

Diana Garland, guest column:
Don't call it an affair. Call it abuse of power

http://www.wacotrib.com/opin/content/news/opinion/stories/2010/01/24/01242010wacdianagarland.html

 

[A_News_Junkie]

Me: IMHO, etc....The same woman who felt Kari made the best choice for herself choosing suicide. Which she had not and a jury decided she didn't. Grrrrrrrrr - someone take my keyboard away! PS - Barf bag highly recommended.......

http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/news/stories/2010/01/24/01242010wacbakerfolonew.html

 

[A_News_Junkie]

Snip from column:
"For Baker, it was the end of a life of duplicity and predatory behavior that culminated in murder. For the Dulins, it was a bitter victory — an affirmation of justice regarding the death of their beloved daughter."
http://www.wacotrib.com/opin/content/news/opinion/stories/2010/01/24/01242010wacfulleditorial.html

 

[A_News_Junkie]

http://www.abpnews.com/content/view/4759/53/

 

[A_News_Junkie]

Todays AP story - short
http://www.news8austin.com/content/your_news/default.asp?ArID=264769

 

[mia g]

Me: IMHO, etc....The same woman who felt Kari made the best choice for herself choosing suicide. Which she had not and a jury decided she didn't. Grrrrrrrrr - someone take my keyboard away! PS - Barf bag highly recommended.......

http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/news/stories/2010/01/24/01242010wacbakerfolonew.html

OKAY this story has me madder then HELLO... UGHHHHHH I understadn defending your child. BUT Mrs BAker could do this without bashing Kari. She could simple say "I dont beleive he did it" and leave it at that. That is her right to not beleive the TRUTH.(though how she can convince herself that the whole state of Texas is just out to get her poor baby boy is beyond me) This story IMHO proves WHO has been poisoning the girls.

Again I say pray for Kensi and Grace... I can not even begin to imagine what their are going through.

 

[A_News_Junkie]

OKAY this story has me madder then HELLO... UGHHHHHH I understadn defending your child. BUT Mrs BAker could do this without bashing Kari. She could simple say "I dont beleive he did it" and leave it at that. That is her right to not beleive the TRUTH.(though how she can convince herself that the whole state of Texas is just out to get her poor baby boy is beyond me) This story IMHO proves WHO has been poisoning the girls.

Again I say pray for Kensi and Grace... I can not even begin to imagine what their are going through.

Yes, I was gonna send barbie (whoops, barbara) a shovel, but she seems to have one and is using it wisely to dig her own destiny. This will come back to haunt her, if it is possible for stoic to haunt. We all know, emotions are out of the question.

 

[Boyz_Mum]

Me: IMHO, etc....The same woman who felt Kari made the best choice for herself choosing suicide. Which she had not and a jury decided she didn't. Grrrrrrrrr - someone take my keyboard away! PS - Barf bag highly recommended.......

http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/news/stories/2010/01/24/01242010wacbakerfolonew.html

This lady makes me mad. You know, she says she wants the girls to have memories of their dad sick but it sure doesn't seem like she or MB's side of the family have done a lot to honor their mother's memory (Kari) nor have they done anything to help these girls bond with the Dulins (from what I've read?) JMO.

I sort of think I can understand being in denial but I feel like she is criticizing Kari while she 'supports her son'.

Sorry for babbling- I guess it's better than cussing?

 

[mia g]

When will people learn that tearing apart a childs parents(or adult for that matter) ONLY TRULY HURTS THE CHILD!!!! Yes sometimes children hafta to face cruel hard facts. In this case ALL that (imho) needs to be said is the jury found your dad guilty. Let them digest that. Let them heal from that. Let them mourn the whole situation. Thsi is the truth, that they will have to accept. Why not start them on the road to recovery, by starting with accepting the FACTS.. and the FACTS are an impartial jury of 12 americans/central texans found matt (arsewhole) baker guilty of murder.

maybe I AM partial. I just do not know anymore. What I do know from experience is when one side of a family tears the parent of a child apart, it slowly kills that child inside. I still deal with those scars daily. My family that raised me hated my dad.. they had reason to. BUT I should have never known their feelings. I can still remember my moms only brother, the uncle I love with ALL my heart crying and begging me NOT to find my daddy, telling me what a dead beat he was all about his drug and alcohol problems..what that uncle did not relaize is by telling me HOW bad my daddy was he was also telling me I was atleast half that bad, or that is what my 13 yr old heart and brain heard. Then as I got older, and NEEDED to find my daddy for my own sanity, it killed me inside to feel I was betraying the family that raised me. They spoke of daddy like he was satan in human skin...so in my head so was I. I feel to this day, ahd they only given me the facts..your dad has a drug and alcohol problem, I woudlnt have felt so worthless as a child and young adult. I know God is watching over Kensi and Grace, He was over me also, but I also fear the path the girl will have to take to get past the "knowledge"(from the lies told to thm) that their mom didnt think they were worth living for. Because it jsut is not true. The name she gave Grace is PROOF of her knowledge God was with her, and would carry her through all the hurt and pain of loosing Kassidy. Grace was proof from God that there WAS life after death of a child. Grace was a gift from God..

Anyway seems once again emotions has taken over me..I even walked away and took a bath and relaxed, but still the underlying anger of those girlls being told Kari commited suicide wont leave me. IF it had been true, that that would be the truth they had to live with, but is just is not. They ahve ahd four years to "adjust" to this lie, and how long will it take before they get to learn the truth and have to start all over.

I have tried hard to give MB's mom the benefit of doubt, but with the things she says it is hard. They say she is stoic, I wonder IF that emtionless face is actually hiding internal guilt of having rasied a murderer, then backing him 100 % as he lied to everyone he spoke to for the last four years!!

Anyway..still praying, and still KNOWING God is in control..and that is truly all that matters. he can and will heal those girls..

 

[A_News_Junkie]

From 20/20:
Matt's mother, Barbara, remains convinced that her daughter-in-law took her own life. "Suicide is an answer to pain you can't get rid of," she said. "There was pain that Kari was undergoing that she either couldn't or didn't get the proper help for and that was not a bad answer for her."
http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=4408157&page=1

Then the other day to Erin of the Waco Trib:
http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/breakingnews/?cxntlid=navbar
8:59 p.m. — Before I ate my sandwich and chips for dinner, I walked to the bathroom, which is just outside of Strother’s courtroom. Matt Baker and his mother, Barbara, were sitting near there, talking casually with one of the bailiffs. Barbara Baker handed me an empty can of Diet Pepsi and asked me to throw it away on my way to the garbage can. I laughed and told her I wasn’t going to the garbage can, but took the can anyway. She said, “There, now your DNA is on it.” Also, she called herself and Matt Baker, “the Baker duet.”

The only duet I see, is the lets cover for mattieboy cause he 'do it' !

Then there is today's article that has mia, me and boyzmum looking like this: :furious: :furious: :furious:

 

[A_News_Junkie]

http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=KARI

 

[A_News_Junkie]

They have added a bar on the left with: What happens next for Baker. My favorite part: "Based on the results of the extensive evaluation, Clark said, Baker will be given a job. These range from kitchen work to field work."

http://www.wacotrib.com/news/Bakers-mother-says-his-girls-are-sure-hes-innocent.html

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TMZ - if you are reading, please get me that pic! PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[A_News_Junkie]

If you are trying to pull up past pages from the wacotrib site that have been posted, you might get a page can't be found or similar error. Seems they have updated their website and all the old links, comments, etc are gone. Maybe they will have it all back by morning.............one can hope. Erin's blogs were the best recap of the trial.

So, kinda OT - but not really as many of the things posted here were from the trib. :banghead::banghead: please just be a small momentary glitch.

 

[mia g]

They have added a bar on the left with: What happens next for Baker. My favorite part: "Based on the results of the extensive evaluation, Clark said, Baker will be given a job. These range from kitchen work to field work."

http://www.wacotrib.com/news/Bakers-mother-says-his-girls-are-sure-hes-innocent.html

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TMZ - if you are reading, please get me that pic! PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am hoping for FIELD WORK, with a crew of MEAN MEAN field bosses..I will be watchign for what unit ha is assigned .. I am sure he wont be in the one here in y town..too close to the area of his crime.. but I have family in Huntsville, and there are MANY men farms there.. Gotta invest in my a wide scope camera..j/k that is illegal. But would sure be fun if it werent.

 

[A_News_Junkie]

http://www.kwtx.com/home/headlines/82645162.html

 

[A_News_Junkie]

If you are trying to pull up past pages from the wacotrib site that have been posted, you might get a page can't be found or similar error. Seems they have updated their website and all the old links, comments, etc are gone. Maybe they will have it all back by morning.............one can hope. Erin's blogs were the best recap of the trial.

So, kinda OT - but not really as many of the things posted here were from the trib. :banghead::banghead: please just be a small momentary glitch.

At least they put everything on one page - but since I can't edit past posts now as it has been to long, if you are looking for something that was linked from the Waco Trib on Matt Baker case - LOOK HERE:
http://www.wacotrib.com/news/crime/MattBaker/

 

[Boyz_Mum]

At least they put everything on one page - but since I can't edit past posts now as it has been to long, if you are looking for something that was linked from the Waco Trib on Matt Baker case - LOOK HERE:
http://www.wacotrib.com/news/crime/MattBaker/

Thank you so much! I looked at the wacotrib site earlier today and couldn't find anything in a "search" of the site. I've been hoping they'd update and furnish us with the stories that have been linked here.

Thanks again for keeping up on it!