TARA BAKER: Murdered in Athens, GA - 19 Jan 2001 *ARREST*

Watch as this 19 year old case is experiencing a resurgence by 2 very determined men who
remember the murder & seeing her burned home near their apartment.

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TARA LOUISE BAKER

Tara was murdered in a heinous fashion on January 19, 2001 one day shy of her 24th birthday. The epitome of overkill: Tara was beaten, stabbed, and strangled. A sexual assault was not ruled out. The killer even went so far as to set her apartment on fire. Her laptop was stolen.

According to the Augusta Chronicle: "Investigators identified at least three possible suspects after the murder, including a man Baker was dating, a fellow law school student, and an attorney at a local firm Baker worked for. Authorities will not say if the men still are under suspicion or if there are new suspects."




Georgia Bureau of Investigation:
January 19, 2001, around 11:20 a.m., the body of Tara Louise Baker was found by Athens-Clarke County firefighters responding to a fire at her apartment located at 160 Fawn Drive, Athens. Subsequent investigation has determined that the fire was intentionally set and the manner of death is homicide. Tara was a first-year law school student at the University of Georgia (UGA). Tara, 23, was last seen alive by a friend around 7:30 p.m. on January 18 at the UGA Law School Library. The same friend received a call at 9:46 p.m. from Tara, who was still at the library. Tara phoned to make sure her friend arrived home safely and said she planned to leave the library around 10 p.m. Tara was born on January 20, 1977 in East Point, Georgia. She graduated Love Joy High School in 1995 and enrolled at Georgia College in Milledgeville. She graduated Cum Laude in 1998 with two bachelor's degrees. Classmates remember Tara as a caring person who would often champion the cause of the underdog and never allowed serious students to be excluded from study groups or class projects. Anyone who may have information about Tara's death should contact: The Athens-Clarke County Police Department at 706-613-3337 or the GBI's Athens Regional Office at 706-542-7901.

 
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Agree totally!! No sane judge had better consider this. He will be gone, I'd count on it. He should not be in society even WITH an ankle monitor. What's to stop him taking someone hostage, how does an ankle monitor stop that? Or killing someone, does an ankle monitor stop that? NO it doesn't.
 

Bond denied again for suspect in 2001 slaying of UGA Law student Tara Baker​

Bond was denied for the second time in less than four months for the suspect charged with slaying a University of Georgia law school student 23 years ago in Athens.

Western Circuit Superior Court Judge Lisa Lott heard arguments Wednesday from Atlanta attorney Ahmad R. Crews on behalf of his client, Edrick Lamont Faust, by asking for a reasonable bond for Faust’s release from jail.

Faust, expected to go on trial sometime in 2025, is charged with numerous crimes including murder, rape, aggravated sodomy and arson. Baker was strangled, stabbed and beaten in her residence on Fawn Drive in east Athens, according to court documents.
 

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