Zahra Baker MEDIA links only **NO DISCUSSION**

[FaerieB]

DA's office asks to delay hearing on Baker warrants
Hearing on sealed search warrants was scheduled for next week; wants it moved to January.

http://www2.hickoryrecord.com/news/...delay-hearing-zahra-baker-warrants-ar-601764/

 

[FaerieB]

District attorney's office files motion to seal additional warrants
Warrants contain medical data, information on networking site where Bakers met.

http://www2.hickoryrecord.com/news/...ys-office-files-motion-seal-additi-ar-602009/

 

[FaerieB]

Students are inspired by Zahra to give

Zahra Baker may no longer be alive, but she is still providing inspiration for many in the surrounding area.

In two weeks, the students at River Bend Middle School have collected more than 800 stuffed animals for two Cops for Tots programs in Catawba County. Even the students in the school’s junior beta club, which organized the toy drive, are overwhelmed with their classmates’ generosity.

http://www2.hickoryrecord.com/news/2010/dec/08/students-are-inspired-zahra-give-ar-602025/

 

[nums24]

Prosecutors want more Zahra warrants sealed

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2010/12/08/1897628/prosecutors-want-more-zahra-warrants.html

The motion, filed by the Catawba County District Attorney's Office, would seal warrants that include medical information about Zahra's stepmother, Elisa Baker. They also contain information about a website where Elisa Baker met Zahra's father, Adam Baker.

 

[NoeticSoul]

DA's office asks to delay hearing on Baker warrants
Hearing on sealed search warrants was scheduled for next week; wants it moved to January.

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"The Catawba County district attorney's office filed a motion Wednesday to move a hearing to discuss at least 20 sealed search warrants in the Zahra Baker investigation. The new date is Jan. 3, 2011.

The warrants that remain sealed contain DSS information on Elisa’s three children, Brittany Proctor (Starbuck),Amber Fairchild and Douglas Proctor in Alexander,Cleveland,Lincoln,Gaston,Burke,Catawba and Caldwell counties.

The search warrants also contain information on the Baker house at 21 ave.NW in Hickory, cell phone records, information from IMVU, the social networking site where Elisa met Adam and medical records for Elisa Baker."

more at link

http://www2.hickoryrecord.com/news/...delay-hearing-zahra-baker-warrants-ar-601764/

(original post by lauriej)

 

[salvarenga]

Prosecutor's In Zahra Baker Case File New Motion Concerning Warrants

http://www.digtriad.com/news/local_state/article.aspx?storyid=151562&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Prosecutors have filed a motion for a January hearing to discuss six sealed search warrants in the investigation into the death of a 10-year-old North Carolina girl who authorities believe was killed and dismembered.

The Hickory Daily Record reports that the warrants include Elisa Baker's medical data and information about a website where she and Zahra Baker's father met.

Three of the warrants would have been unsealed on Wednesday if Catawba County Assistant District Attorney Sean McGinnis hadn't filed a motion on Nov. 29 to extend orders on all sealed documents relating to the Zahra Baker case. The other three would have been unsealed on Friday.

A hearing on whether two search warrants should be unsealed is scheduled for Dec. 13. The next hearing would be held Jan. 3, 2011.

 

[madeleine]

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/12/08/Two-NC-men-deny-raping-Zahra-Baker/UPI-20401291839170/

Two N.C. men deny raping Zahra Baker


Carolina men deny having raped Zahra Baker, a 10-year-old disabled girl found slain and dismembered, and say they passed a lie detector test.

"I've never done anything inappropriate with Zahra," James Young told The Charlotte Observer.

Young said police cleared him and that he has met with no investigators since October, the newspaper reported Wednesday. His cousin, Timothy Young, also said the allegations are false and he also passed a polygraph.

James Young's brother was once married to Elisa Baker, Zahra's stepmother. Young lived across the street from Elisa, Zahra and her father, Adam Baker, in Caldwell County before the Bakers moved to Hickory.

An unnamed source told police the Youngs might have raped and physically assaulted Zahra, who had lost part of a leg to cancer, search warrants unsealed last week said.

The Youngs have not been charged with any crime, but Hickory police declined to say whether they are still under investigation.

 

[lauriej]

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2010/12/10/1901099/catawba-students-write-original.html

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Zahra Baker inspires students' one-act play

It's a variation of an all too familiar story.

But this outline is from an original one-act play called "Isabell's Case," written by theater students at Hickory's St. Stephens High School.​

"Isabel" isn't a real person. But when the production is performed today and Saturday, a candle will burn in memory of 10-year-old Zahra Baker, a case that has gained worldwide attention​

"Isabell's Case," the last of the productions, will be performed a St. Luke's Lutheran Church in Conover. The price of admission is $5 or the donation of a new stuffed animal or blanket to the advocacy center.​

 

[salvarenga]

http://www.wbtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=13662434

A court hearing will held in Catawba County Monday morning that could reveal even more details in the Zahra Baker death investigation.

There are a lot of search warrants in this investigation that are currently sealed right now.

Two of the warrants that are sealed will be discussed in a hearing this morning and a judge could decide to make them public. Right now, it's unclear what those warrants could possibly reveal.

Six more warrants in the case reportedly have information on Elisa Baker's medical history as well as information on a website where she and Adam Baker met online.

It's those six warrants District Attorney James Gaither wants to remain sealed. He even filed a motion with the court last week to keep that paperwork private.

WBTV's Derrick Rose is at the hearing this morning and we will update WBTV.com as soon as we learn what the judge's decision is regarding the warrants.

 

[salvarenga]

Hearing canceled on sealed search warrants in Zahra Baker case


http://triad.news14.com/content/top_stories/634025/hearing-canceled-on-sealed-search-warrants-in-zahra-baker-case

Article includes video.

The hearing scheduled for Monday in Catawba County in the Zahra Baker case has been canceled. A judge was expected to decide whether to unseal more of the search warrants in the case. There's no word on when the hearing will be rescheduled.

 

[salvarenga]

http://www2.hickoryrecord.com/news/2010/dec/13/court-asked-unseal-more-warrants-zahra-baker-case-ar-614566/

A hearing in Catawba County Superior Court for a motion to unseal two search warrants in the Zahra Baker case was cancelled on Monday because the clerk of court released those warrants with the others on Nov. 30.

However, attorney Amanda Martin, who is acting on behalf of several media outlets including the Hickory Daily Record, filed a new motion seeking to unseal additional warrants.

When Judge Nathaniel Poovey ordered the release of the warrants, these two warrants should not have been released, according to his order. It stated that the court will hear the state’s motion to extend the sealing orders for entered on October 27 and October 29 on December 13 or at such other time…that the matter could be heard.”

The two warrants that were under orders to be sealed are back under seal, as of Dec. 10. On the outside of the two search warrants is a copy of Poovey’s order, along with a note, stating they are resealed per an order signed by Poovey.

In all, there have been 41 search warrants in the Zahra Baker case, Bogle said. This includes two search warrants that have not been returned to the clerk’s office yet.

 

[fran]

http://www2.nbc17.com/news/2010/dec/05/8/zahra-baker-case-inspires-new-ar-592982/

Zahra Baker Case Inspires New Anti-Child Abuse Effort

HICKORY, N.C. --
When Kristie Pope learned what happened to 10-year-old Zahra Clare Baker, she had heard enough about children who had been abused, injured or killed at the hands of others. She was ready to do something about it.

Pope formed The Zahra Project on Facebook around Oct. 14, just a few days after the Zahra case turned into a homicide investigation. Since then, The Zahra Project has generated more than 6,000 followers.

“I wanted to get people together who were sick of watching how DSS (the Department of Social Services) has failed kids,” Pope, 40 and a mother of three, said. “With the Caylee Anthony case, who could have predicted it? But with the Zahra Baker case, the more you learn about it, the more you could have predicted it.”

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[Texas Mist]

HICKORY, NC (WBTV) – An investigator in the case of a dead 10-year-old Hickory girl is facing DWI charges and may be kicked off the force after crashing his Jeep into a tree in early December, Hickory police say.

more here

http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=13688824

 

[FaerieB]

Zahra Baker investigation file delivered to DA

Progress is being made in the Zahra Baker case.

Hickory police investigators have worked steadily since 10-year-old Zahra was reported missing on Oct. 9, and they delivered their findings to the District Attorney&#8217;s Office Thursday.

more at link:

http://www2.hickoryrecord.com/news/...rs-investigation-file-delivered-da-ar-627244/

 

[Alice Ramnit]

http://abcnews.go.com/US/prosecutors-receive-evidence-zahra-baker-case/story?id=12436174

Police in North Carolina investigating the death of 10-year-old disabled girl Zahra Baker have handed the case over to prosecutors, leading to speculation that a suspect in the young girl's murder will be arrested imminently.

 

[salvarenga]

Charges in Zahra Baker case on hold until after the New Year

http://www.wbtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=13726990

Despite giving a preliminary investigation report on the Zahra Baker case to the District Attorney last week, Hickory Police officials do not expect any decision on possible charges to come quickly.

On Tuesday, Dec. 21, Hickory Police Chief Tom Adkins would not go into details, but would only say, "the investigation is not over."

Due to the approaching holidays, many of the principals that would be involved in any decision on possible charges would not be able to get together until after the first of the year.

The Catawba County Grand Jury meets on January 3rd and sources tell WBTV News that it would be difficult to have a presentation ready by that session.

In the past, District Attorney James C. Gaither has said there would be "No rush to judgment in this case, that officials would wait until all the evidence is in before deciding what to do next."

Police sources confirmed on Tuesday that not all of the lab results on evidence are back yet.

 

[FaerieB]

School creates garden in honor of Zahra

When Zahra Baker was a student at Hudson Elementary, she wanted to make the school grounds more beautiful. Now that she&#8217;s no longer alive, students and staff are working to make it that way in her honor.

Zahra attended Hudson Elementary School at the end of her third-grade year, from March through June in 2008, before going to Granite Falls Elementary. She returned to Hudson Elementary to finish her fourth-grade year in 2009.

&#8220;She was outside at the end of last year,&#8221; said Robyn Stella, principal of Hudson Elementary. &#8220;She and another student were walking around picking up trash. She said they wanted to pick up the school and have a beautification club.&#8221;

http://www2.hickoryrecord.com/news/2010/dec/22/school-creates-garden-honor-zahra-ar-638834/

 

[dar107]

Timeline in the Zahra Baker Case

http://www2.hickoryrecord.com/news/...a-baker-disappearance-and-homicide-ar-653485/

 

[Texas Mist]

Effort underway for playscape that would accomodate all children


HICKORY -- Rick Rozzelle is hoping there will soon be a place all children in Catawba Valley will be able to remember Zahra Baker.

The coordinator of “Let’s Build a Park in Zahra’s Memory,” he is hoping to have a park where children of all abilities will be able to run and play one day in Catawba County or close by.

“The idea came to me several months ago. I felt like this community needed to do something,” said Rozelle.

more here - including video

http://www2.hickoryrecord.com/news/2011/jan/01/10/park-zahras-memory-ar-653513/

 

[Hickory Born]

http://triangle.news14.com/content/...a-baker-to-appear-in-superior-court-on-monday

Zahra Baker's stepmother, Elisa Baker, is due in court on Monday.

She is scheduled to be in criminal superior court for an obstruction of justice charge. It involves a ransom letter she told police she wrote.

It was found outside the home where Zahra lived with her father and stepmother in Hickory.