January 19, 2010
Prosecution: Baptist Minister Killed His Wife and Staged Suicide
WACO -- Shortly before she died, a minister's wife found crushed pills in his briefcase and was upset because he had accused her of causing their daughter's death, her mother testified Friday at his murder trial. Linda Dulin told jurors that the weekend before Kari Baker's death, which initially was ruled a suicide, she and her husband looked after their two grandchildren because her daughter said she needed to talk to her husband about their problems. Kari Baker said “Matt had accused her of being the cause of (their daughter) Kassidy's death and that she may need to leave him,” Dulin testified. Matt Baker, 38, who was a Baptist minister at several churches, is accused of drugging his wife and smothering her with a pillow after she fell unconscious.Click Here For The Full Story......