January 21, 2010
Baptist Minister Found Guilty of Murdering His Wife
Matt Baker, dubbed by prosecutors as the “murdering minister,” was convicted Wednesday in the April 2006 drugging and suffocation death of his wife. Jurors in 19th State District Court deliberated more than six hours before finding the former Baptist minister guilty of the murder of Kari Baker. Neither Baker nor his mother, Barbara Baker, showed any emotion as Judge Ralph Strother read the verdict. On the other side of the courtroom, Kari Baker’s parents, James and Linda Dulin, embraced, while other friends and family members sobbed silently into clenched fists.Click Here For The Full Story......
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Waco Jury Convicts Former Minister In Wife's Death
Angela K. Brown, The Associated Press
WACO -- A former Texas minister was convicted late Wednesday of slipping his wife sleeping pills, smothering her and faking her suicide note so he could be with his mistress. Jurors deliberated more than seven hours before convicting Matt Baker, 38, in his wife's 2006 death, which initially was ruled a suicide. Baker did not testify during the seven-day trial and showed no emotion when the verdict was read, but relatives of his wife, Kari, began to cry. After the judge revoked Baker's bond, he shook his attorney's hand and said "thank you" as a sheriff's deputy took him into custody.
Matt Baker Guilty of Murdering His Wife
KXXV News Channel 25
WACO -- Seven and a half hours into deliberation, the jury in the Matt Baker trial returned a guilty verdict. They found enough evidence to convict the former pastor for murdering his wife Kari Baker, who Matt drugged and suffocated in 2006. As Judge Ralph Strother prepared to read the jury's decision, Kari Baker's family and friends braced, tissues in hand, waiting for the verdict. Nearly all began sobbing upon hearing the word "guilty."