Amy Baker /// Part 1 /// 619 | Forensic Files

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now Virginia has not been a frequent stop for us here at True Crime garage in fact in the first six or so years
that we have been covering cases I can only think of a few times that we dropped by this state that is home to
the Blue Ridge Mountains and Chesapeake Bay rather we have spent a great deal of
time in other states larger States and sadly states that we're home to some strange and unsolved murders
States like Texas California Florida and of course we've spent a good deal of time in our own State Ohio
but that does not for one second mean the Virginia or its people are immune to the tragedies that befell others in
other states nor should one think that Virginia is without its share of some strange and
unsolved murders why one would only need to look to the Colonial Parkway murders and the still
unsolved Shenandoah murder cases to see that sadly that is not the case both factually and unfortunately none of
our states of 50 are immune to any of this madness recently we have seen an increase in cases
covered here in the garage coming out of Virginia we covered the short family murders the
murder of socialite Danita cuts an Emma Compton Lane all still unsolved this is not to suggest an uptick in
murders and crime in Virginia no we covered the short family case just this last August on the 20th anniversary of
the crime a sad reminder that Justice is still needed danita's case dates back to the late 70s
and unfortunately Emma's case is now over five years old we are still holding out hope here in
the garage on all of these cases the cases we cover are suggested to us from our fine listeners and that is
because we are kind enough to allow them to steer this ship more than one person emailed us about
the still unsolved case of Amy Baker a quick internet search turned up a short news piece from ABC 7 News on your
side wjla.com if you would like to read it for yourself Timothy Barber from back in August of
2020. and it's titled murder victims family hopes Fairfax County Cold Case website will provide answers
the title is in bold squatty little letters I'm unsure of the font and just below there's a very nice
picture of the young lady it may even be a high school senior portrait she has a pretty and somehow familiar
face her smile is confident in her eyes and expression are both full of promise sometimes it might be okay to judge a
book by its cover this cover tells me she was a good kid the picture also tells me that she is
missed dearly the story references a one Sue Baker she's the victim's mother and angel here
on Earth still fighting for her daughter the story gives a few details about the
case but it is more about introducing a new website for the public one put together by the Virginia Fairfax
County Cold Case Squad unfortunately Amy Baker's 1989 case is just one of dozens that are featured on
the website the story ends by saying click here to learn more about Amy's case and other
cold cases one click of your mouse will take you to a spreadsheet of Unsolved Cold Case
homicides from Fairfax County spanning from 1980 to 1989. Amy Baker's case and that same nice picture are found at
the top of page five I am not happy to report that when I scroll through the pages
there are a couple of other names and photos of victims that I recognize in a column to the right of Amy's
picture the spreadsheet cell provides a brief description of her case that reads
18 year old Amy Baker was last seen leaving a relative's house and Falls Church the evening of March 29 1989.
her vehicle was located on the side of Interstate 95 by Blacklick Road later that evening
on March 31st 1989 Amy's body was found in a wooded area off the interstate personally
I don't feel that Amy Baker's case has received enough media attention over the years
and that is why we are covering it here today this is True Crime garage [Music] on the evening of Wednesday March 29
1989 18 year old Amy Baker got in her car she had just wrapped up a several day visit to her aunt's house this is her
mother's sister as she was visiting some friends as well in Falls Church a Virginia suburb of Washington DC that is
quite developed and populous Amy was heading home to Heartwood in Stafford County where she lived with her parents
the drive was not far and consisted mostly of highways that are busy at all hours of the night and then notoriously
congested area Amy headed south on I-95 Interstate 95. unfortunately she never made it home and
by 11 pm Sue Baker Amy's mother was starting to get worried she knew that Amy had left false church around 8 20
p.m even in DC's crazy traffic it would not have taken her two and a half hours to get home to Fairfax
the trip should have taken under an hour Sue managed to catch a few hours sleep but in the morning the first thing she
did was call her sister to confirm that yes Amy had left the night before Amy's frantic parents reported her missing
Thursday morning in the age before cell phones there was no tracking their daughter's location to
see where she was but they also knew Amy and that she wouldn't have likely have deviated from her route there was no
reason to she was 18. if she wanted to go somewhere else rather than coming home she would have just told her mom
that's what she was doing but no Amy had said that she was coming home in fact she said I'm coming home I'll be
there soon and Sue Baker didn't know this at the time but the state police had already found Amy's car that's right
Captain the vehicle was spotted by a Virginia state trooper on that Wednesday night it was found abandoned on the
shoulder of Interstate 95 southbound the massive eight Lane Highway it runs the length of the East Coast it was just
south of the Newington interchange which is a major commuter area according to the Newport News Daily Press police said
Amy pulled over on the shoulder of Interstate 95 near the Blacklick Road exit in Springfield this was less than
30 minutes away from her parents home her light blue 1970 Volkswagen Beetle was Amy's first car and it was her pride
and Joy Amy's vehicle was found with its flashers on by a passing officer this is
sometime after 10 pm on that Wednesday night the police seeing that it was abandoned
and was a safety hazard radioed to have it towed to an impound lot that was about 2 45 a.m Thursday morning all
right so just to be clear on a couple things because the timeline with all of these cases is one of the most important
things that we will discuss here today Amy's 1970 Volkswagen Beetle was spotted sometime after 10 pm by the
state police so that is fact that's nothing that we can call into question there right also what is fact is that
state police called in to have it towed at 2 45 a.m we've talked about this in other cases Captain where and when a
vehicle spotted by law enforcement especially Highway Patrol they're going to Mark the vehicle they're going to
note the license plate the description of the vehicle the time that they see it abandoned on the side of the road
especially we're talking about a busy major commuter area a congested traffic area this interstate 95 Southbound
they're going to note all of these items and they're going to allow a certain amount of time for the motorists whoever
they may be to return to the vehicle and get the vehicle themselves off of the side of the road whether it be to drive
it away or have it towed so in this situation the vehicle is spotted by State Police a
little after 10 pm that Wednesday night and then so we fast forward to about four four and a half hours later at 2 45
a.m technically Thursday morning is when it's radioed in to have the vehicle towed away well and that time is going
to vary depending on how much of a hazard the vehicle could be how much of the vehicle is obstructing the
road correct and in this case the vehicle is cleanly off of the road and this is probably why the why they
allowed so much time for someone to return to it the interesting thing here too though in the notations made by the
state police will be that obviously it said that the vehicle was found abandoned so this is not a situation
where they come upon the vehicle and Amy Baker's inside or standing near the vehicle this vehicle was abandoned
meaning the motorist the driver in this case it's Amy Baker is not present when the state police find the vehicle
shortly after 10 pm well very scary situation when your daughter does not come home after she says she's coming
home and then two even more of a red alert situation when you find her car abandoned also of note here Captain it's
important to mentioned that the vehicle was found unlocked I'm a little unclear as to what this means does this mean
that the state police found the vehicle unlocked when they first located at 10 pm or was the vehicle discovered to be
unlocked when it was eventually towed away at 2 45 a.m it sounds to me if I had to guess that likely the locks the
doors were probably not checked until it was time to tow the vehicle away but what is of importance here is that one
the vehicle was found unlocked but it also sounds like they didn't do too much or go to too much effort to figure out
who owned the vehicle or to search the the vehicle itself before having it towed away well you stated that the
flashers were on correct see I'm going to disagree with you on this because the flashers were on I would assume that law
enforcement when they come up upon the vehicle wanted to turn the flashers off and that's probably when they noticed
that the doors were unlocked before having it towed away yeah because if you leave the flashers on you run the risk
of having the battery die and if somebody is coming back for the vehicle obviously they're not going to
be able to move it if the battery is dead that's interesting and that's something that I would like to learn
more about because it from my understanding you would you would leave the flashers on as a this is night time
right so that nobody smashes into this vehicle the what I'm curious about is if in fact that is the case if they spot
the vehicle and it's found a little after 10 flashers on they leave the flashers on is that the indicator to
the state highway patrol that the owner never returned to the vehicle and now it's time to tow it away and again I'm
not a mechanic but I'm guessing if you leave those flashers on for four hours that your battery is going to be drain
dead the thing that I think is interesting here though is that the car is found unlocked again I'm pointing out
that I don't think that they took the time to check to see one the contents of the vehicle but more importantly who
owned it right you check the glove box or you check something inside the vehicle and you're likely going to
figure out who owns this vehicle and the reason why I think that that's a bit of
a misstep here and I know that we've discussed this before they're finding an abandoned vehicle
that's one thing completely different that's a completely different situation than what this situation is going to
lead us to right I don't know it's frustrating looking back on this in hindsight because
you would think that if they did figure out who owned the vehicle that they would be concerned that a young woman
who had just turned 18 years old two weeks before and inside the vehicle we have a backpack her purse containing her
wallet a paycheck her clothing her glasses are also found inside the car so to me if I happen upon this vehicle I
find those items in there as an officer I'm going to be concerned about finding these items in there and just a little
rant because I I know this is 1989 correct correct now of days with the technology
that we have just on our smartphones law enforcement when they see a abandoned car could go on there do a voice
recording of what they found and then snap a couple pictures and then send that to a file so then if the
person goes missing and the person's missing for 10 years or 15 years or whatever it is we have that documented
from the moment that they found the car that's correct in my opinion here Captain all of these items being found
in the vehicle is a very bad sign and likely that I mean really this is a bad sign that's going to turn into a very
bad Omen rather quickly question for you the tires were okay correct so what what
we have here is we have mom who calls in and reports her daughter missing the Amy
Baker's family reports her missing that Thursday morning now they didn't know that the vehicle had been found the
night before they didn't know that the vehicle had been towed away it's once they report her missing that the family
is informed that a vehicle matching remember because they didn't check to see who the owner of the vehicle was
that they found right but they're saying hey by the way a vehicle that matched the description of your daughter's
vehicle we actually spotted that on Interstate 95 and we had it towed away early this morning and they were told
that the determination was that Amy's car had run out of gas and sad when you think about that because just a simple
mistake and now we have a missing teenager well yes and this is one of those situations that you really hate to
hear about you know this is something that I experienced in a vehicle that I owned at one time it had a bad gas gauge
and that was the same thing with with Amy's beetle it had a bad gas gauge look her vehicle was 19 years old and
so this wasn't a terribly uncommon thing back then for older especially people driving vehicles that are of the older
state and from my understanding the way that the family has reported this they said
that the gas gauge at times worked and at other times did not work so this would be and that's even worse than it
just not working all the time because at least if it doesn't work all the time then you can calculate the
mileage and all that kind of stuff and but sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't work but you've you've been in a
old Volkswagen even going to high school in the 90s there were kids that had Beatles from the 70s that there were
their prized possession and it was kind of a iconic car but those are like basically
driving around a golf cart or a little go-kart well and not to get too far off on a Side Story here but a
gas gauge that works sometimes and sometimes does not work is the same thing that happened to Leonard Skinner
so this is not a terribly uncommon thing here it's really unfortunate she's traveling alone runs
out of gas in the middle of the night and then would be forced to pursue getting gas or getting help on foot
because of it being 1989 and as you pointed out no cell phone for for Amy Baker it's also should be noted that
this was not the first time that this gas problem had occurred she probably knew what to do anybody that's
ever run out of gas the the car behaves in a certain way and vehicles behave differently when this occurs but she
clearly recognized the issue once the gas was out and was able to cleanly get the vehicle off of the road
and she must have been awfully frustrated maybe even a little scared she's in the dark far from home probably
one thing that makes her feel a little better that's a little more comforting in this situation it is a congested area
there's a lot of people a lot of vehicles flying around that I I would think one would feel
somewhat better not being alone out there even though she is trekking it alone on foot and so she would have to
have decided to get out of the vehicle and pursue help uh which would be in this case means walking to a nearby gas
station well it's dangerous not just because there's humans that become Predators out there the fact that she's
walking in the dark on the highway so after receiving this report the family is told about the vehicle that was towed
away Amy Baker's vehicle the mother Sue she immediately demanded to check out her daughter's vehicle per the Newport
Daily News at the impound lot Sue found Amy's purse wallet and backpack inside the car the car keys were not located in
the vehicle actually here Captain the car keys have never been located never been found their absence remains of
mystery to this day it's part of the larger mystery of what happened to Amy Baker The Bakers feel strongly that the
items left behind in the car should have suggested to law enforcement that a crime had been committed
they say after all what you know woman would leave her unlocked disabled car without taking her person ID she never
makes it home that night I agree with the family here we don't know when an abduction occurred of Amy Baker
but we do know that it did take place to me this is a little more terrifying than
I than I would think or or to to picture this situation because this points out to me
and again we'll we'll stay water as we go through this timeline and stay fluid of the situation but when I look at the
early findings in the situation it looks to me like the abduction may have occurred at the vehicle itself or
for some reason whoever took her decided to return an item or two to the vehicle I cannot see her
getting out on foot leaving the vehicle unlocked and not at least taking her purse or her wallet but again we'll stay
water as we go through this timeline well just you know to throw out some hypotheticals she could have assumed
because this happened before that she just ran out of gas put on her flashers stood outside her car
and then she's abducted like you said outside of her car leaving her valuable items behind so the family is
immediately concerned and they are really worried that something horrible has happened to their daughter but on
the other hand the police were not so quick to embrace a foul play situation as the operative Theory but come on are
they ever I mean that you get missing person cases they'll lean towards suicide or running
away to start a new life before they ever lean towards Foul Play this is from a Washington Post interview with the
mother of the victim Sue Baker says quote I was beside myself and I was trying to get the Fairfax County Police
to do something but because Amy was 18 they considered her an adult and proceeded accordingly they asked us if
she might be running away from something and whether she might have abandoned her
car they later told us that they had sent a patrol car to drive along the shoulder where her car had been and that
a helicopter had taken a look but no one saw anything suspicious but Amy's family
is left wondering where is Amy [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] we are back to the windows to the walls
love you all cheers everybody cheers to you Captain before we get too far into the weeds here and the details of this
case let's take a quick look in a few minutes to talk about Amy Baker and we learned a good deal about Amy this all
from a local paper the Fairfax times that said the baker family had moved only months before from Falls Church to
the small community of Heartwood in Stafford County remember we had said that Amy was visiting friends and
relatives in false church so it makes sense that she would want to go there and visit these people
for several days as she is relatively new to where they are living now the family the baker family composed of
Sue and Mark who are Amy's parents and her younger brother David and the family says well Sue says we
wanted a larger home with some land and to get away from the urban mess in Fairfax County Amy's Father Mark told
the newspaper we wanted a larger home with some land and to get away from the urban mess in Fairfax County Amy Baker
attended both Falls Church and J.E.B Stewart high schools she played varsity field hockey loved photography and had
plans to attend art school in Savannah Georgia she worked at the local mall as an event photographer taking shots of
children with the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus for example Sue Baker her mother said that as worried as she was when Amy
didn't come home that night she tried to tell herself that her daughter was now 18 and that as a mother she had to start
thinking of her daughter that way as an adult and not to be so overly protective
but when Amy failed to come home by 6 a.m she said that she knew something was terribly wrong so Mom started calling
everyone that she could think of she called the hospitals towing companies relatives and the police she called
everyone and that is when after speaking with police that she learned that the vehicle was spotted and found the night
before when we see this a lot with missing person cases where the family doesn't believe law enforcement is
taking the case serious and like we said law enforcement tends to lean towards these ideas of well is there some
conflict in the family and did Amy decide to start a new life my big issue with the with Amy's case and you you
kind of you kind of leaned on this idea her valuables her purse her identification all the stuff she left
behind and the location of the vehicle itself seems like an odd place meant for somebody that's choosing to run away as
police were hinting at in the early stages of this case again Amy is 18 she's a legal adult so
they they do have some grounds for that argument but with everything I'm seeing I think that that was a misstep here by
law enforcement the mother Sue Baker she wasn't going to wait around the family the baker family was not going to wait
around to have police come to their side in their way of thinking in the police's
defense they did send a car they did send a helicopter to kind of look around the area but we're gonna find some
issues with that as well as we will get to here in this next part not to come off as a boot licker but law enforcement
deals with thousands of missing person cases where the next day the family is calling and saying we we found Amy we
found whoever that was missing and they're home now and they're safe Sue Baker and her sister-in-law Mary
bellette quickly threw together missing persons posters and getting ready to put
them up saying quote have you seen Amy Baker and keep in mind this 1989 so this is no small feat back then
it must have been a terrible feeling to be putting those posters together that of your child asking strangers and
posting them at spots near her vehicle hoping that a stranger calls with some type of information about your missing
child be it an adult child or otherwise they distributed these posters all over the Newington area of course they're
also praying that Amy was somewhere safe and someone had seen her and has information to pass along to the family
the police said that they were taking appropriate steps to look into Amy's whereabouts according to the then
Fairfax police spokesman Warren Carmichael who gave a statement to The Washington Post
he said in addition to a police Lookout a uniformed officer an officer with a police dog and a homicide investigator
were sent on Thursday to a section of Interstate 95 just south of Blacklick Road where Amy Baker's vehicle was found
by a Virginia State Police Trooper a helicopter also searched the area he said well this exit area would make more
sense if you saw a picture it'll be on our Facebook our Twitter and Instagram page this and kudos to Amy Baker's
family this was not enough this was not good enough for Amy's mother in particular so on March 31st
Sue insisted that an officer meet her at the location where the car was found and
that they would search the area together so she's offering to help law enforcement and requesting that they be
there when she is out there actively searching boots on the ground for her own daughter right so here's what she
told the Fairfax times she says a police officer was supposed to meet us at noon
that day but they had gotten a call so that officer that was scheduled to meet her at noon got called away to a
different situation a different unrelated scenario and so no one ever showed up so mother Sue Baker says well
me and my sister-in-law we waited around about 45 minutes and then we decided to
start walking the area ourselves you know they weren't going to go out there for nothing and so her and her
sister-in-law Mary started walking the wooded area near the abandoned car's location
this was on Good Friday and unfortunately we will see why this will never be good for the Bakers
ever again Mary the sister-in-law told the Fairfax times we were walking around inside the Clover Leaf area of the exit
ramp when I saw some bright colors among all of the brown leaves and twigs I saw
blue and white and then I saw Amy devastating I saw her but my brain didn't register what I was seeing until
Sue put her hand on my shoulder and screamed that sort of brought me back to reality end quote
Amy lay on the ground just about 200 yards from where her car had been found her body was covered with leaves this
was right near the Blacklick road bridge over Interstate 395 in Newington do you find it odd that
law enforcement didn't find her first yes yes that's why I think it's important and the the telling of this
story of this True Crime Story to point out that law enforcement is saying hey we we did do a brief search of the area
given the description of how the body was found I don't find it terribly weird that the
the helicopter above didn't spot Amy it what it points out to me more so Captain
is that I I don't think a lot of effort was made in that search I agree with you now a
lot of our listeners and I was doing this myself when I was looking into Amy's case we like to get on the
different map applications and really kind of scour the area and we gave a great description of where the vehicle
was found keep in mind that was Interstate 95 just south of Blacklick Road what all reports that I've seen
captain and from what I've been told is that this area especially the Blacklick Bridge
that we just discussed where she was found this area has changed drastically over the years so if if anybody were to
try to to look on some map applications today just be just know that this area is not laid out the same that it was
that's 33 years ago now Sue went on to tell the Fairfax times in her interview I knew right away what I was seeing it
was my daughter she was covered in leaves but I saw the new tennis shoes she had just gotten for her 18th
birthday sticking out and I knew it was my daughter so the two women they flagged down a passing ambulance and
within 20 minutes the area was corded off with crime scene tape and with officers and
investigators on the scene Mary told the Washington Post that the whole thing left a bad taste in her mouth she was
married to a policeman herself but the family did not like the way that the Fairfax police handled this whole thing
quote I'm mad because her mother and I had to find her it took us half an hour the police department couldn't do it in
two days she said Amy was a very sweet girl Mary said her assailant didn't murder one little girl
he murdered a whole family well I think the big word I would use to describe law enforcement in this search
effort would be pathetic and then obviously now we go from a missing person case to a homicide the
determination was that Amy had been beaten sexually assaulted and strangled this according to the autopsy she had
been dead for two days which was sadly as expected her mother told the Fairfax times they
found change in the pocket of her khaki shorts and a Coroner's report estimated that it all happened
within 30 minutes to an hour of when she left her car so not a whole lot of time takes place
between the time that Amy finds herself on the side of the interstate and when she is actually killed again according
to the corner 30 to 60 Minutes roughly after Amy left her vehicle now I do want to State the other problem with their
pathetic search is once you find her don't you believe that this is where the crime actually took place so not only
are you finding this missing person and now you know it's a homicide but now you
can preserve this scene which is outside you can do your best but she's been out
there for approximately two days right no but what I'm saying is if they would have done the search correctly they
would have found her probably two days earlier that's correct yes they did that cursorary search earlier and had they
spotted her and found her then they would have had a better more preserved crime scene to be investigating and and
you can't blame the baker family for for they have to be furious with this yeah I mean her body's located 200 yards
from where the vehicle was originally spotted so we're not talking like a a great distance here
now this is real interesting to me here captain and these are potential leads and this is based off of the police
requesting information in Amy's case so interestingly police asked the public to
call in any information they might have about two possible vehicles that were seen in the area so a statement said
that police were seeking two cars the state trooper spotted quote near the Volkswagen
and this was a one was a dark colored early 80s Buick and the other was a blue Ford Escort now whether they received
any calls about these pretty generic vehicles in their description is unknown once there was news reports that Amy has
been murdered there was a flood of tips so one of these was a caller referencing
an article about Amy in the freelance star of Fredericksburg this caller was a female caller and she
called Crime Stoppers on April 3rd police believe the caller was from the Fredericksburg area
the caller was assigned identification number 6125 but has never called back again now we don't
know what this tip involved we don't know the details of this tip but the reason why this tip is important here
Captain Captain is in 2005 police said that they were renewing their plea for this person to call back quote we
believe there is somebody out there who knows about this case and quote this is according to the spokesperson Warren
Carmichael right for the Fairfax police who goes on to say quote we hope that person will come forward and quote so it
sounds to me like this woman the the caller who called in way back in April 3rd of 1989
that this caller hinted that she had some significant information about the case but
police received this information they beg they plea for her to call back and according to everything I can find
she never called back and that's easy to believe one because we have a second plea public plea in 2005 requesting that
she called back while some people are so scared to call in in the first place so
you feel for law enforcement and you feel for the baker family because this individual look they they might have got
scared they might have gotten scared the other thing that I worry about too is is this person we're talking about a
significant amount of time in this case right we had just said 30 three years roughly in this case and in
2005 they're requesting that this caller call back in this is after several previous requests but
2005 still would have been 16 years after the fact so if this person if this female caller
did have intimate details of the case or knew who was responsible for Amy Baker's
murder there's a chance that that person was not still with us or still around in
2005. be it alive or in the area or the region at all well this case definitely has some interesting points to it
there's a lot of things that are very interesting to me here in this case Captain I feel like even though we're
sitting here 33 years later that there's still a possibility that this case could
be solved and there are some things that we're going to get into that are of evidentiary value that will point to the
possibility of still finding Amy Baker's killer all of these years later but even
in the early stages of this investigation look we can't go back in time and make the
police find Amy's body any sooner than it was eventually located we can't go back in time and and erase
the two days that that took place between the time of her death and when the body was found and then preserved
that crime scene even better but we can take the things and the items that we know to be fact
in this case and hone in on those and see what can be made of those so one we have
police asking the public for help on these two vehicles that were spotted the two vehicles that were spotted are very
important to me for a couple of reasons right one one of the vehicles could in fact belong to the killer or we have a
situation where both vehicles do not belong to the killer but could be potential Witnesses or eyewitnesses to
something even if they call in and talk to police and say that they didn't see anything at all
that is of value to the police because that goes into their timeline to say well these vehicles were Within
plain sight of Amy's vehicle and they didn't see Amy they also didn't see uh the perpetrator so we know that the
perpetrator was a male it was whoever's responsible for this is a male now the two vehicles yes
is there a chance that the tip that comes in that they were so concerned about that they were asking and begging
the caller to call back and speak with investigators another time is there a chance that that caller was the owner or
has information based off of one of those vehicles that was spotted because the vehicles that they're they're asking
the public about these aren't some random Vehicles yes they're pretty vague descriptions of the
vehicles but these are vehicles that were spotted by the patrol officer who was the one that noted the abandoned
vehicle in the first place and then factor in the situation of this female caller calling into Crime
Stoppers look that in itself points out that this caller likely wanted to remain anonymous
because Crime Stoppers is a great way to provide a tip to law enforcement and remain anonymous but this tip comes in
on April 3rd Amy Baker was driving home on March 29th so five days later is when
this tip is phoned in and it's not even five days later when you think about it because she's not found until the 31st
so we really only have about three days between now we have a known homicide to when this tip comes in how long did it
take from the time that we have a known homicide and Amy Baker is identified as the victim that between between that
information going out to the public and this call coming in on April 3rd I'm with police here I feel like this tip
whatever was that was stated in the information that this female caller gave to Crime Stoppers was important to the
investigators at the time and has remained important to the investigators for 33 years I'm with them I I don't
know what was said in that tip but it this tip is of of high priority in this investigation well it seems like this
tip was priority to the witness but then maybe they changed their mind or maybe they just don't want to be involved
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Amy Baker /// Part 1 /// 619 Part 1 of 2

www.TrueCrimeGarage.com This week we review a cold case out of Virginia. One that sadly sounds familiar. On March 29, 1989 - 18 year old Amy Baker was driving home from a relative’s house. Her blue 1970 Volkswagon Beetle ran out of gas and sputtered to a stop alongside Interstate 95. Amy was traveling southbound on the interstate. Her vehicle was found a short time later by police near Blacklick road. Amy was killed by an unknown individual a short time later. Police asked for the public’s assistance in this case early on and are still seeking the public’s help to this day. If you saw something that night, if you have heard information about the perpetrator or the events of that night, please contact the Fairfax County Police Major Crimes and Cold Case Bureau at 1-703-246-4525.

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Brief Summary

The episode discusses the unsolved murder of Amy Baker in 1989 Virginia, highlighting police missteps and the family's search for justice.

Key points

Oktoberfest Celebration. The hosts celebrate Oktoberfest with a festive beer recommendation.
The Case of Amy Baker. A deep dive into the unsolved case of Amy Baker, who disappeared in 1989.
The Discovery of Amy's Vehicle. Amy's car is found abandoned, raising concerns for her safety.
A Mother's Desperation. Sue Baker's emotional plea to the police highlights the challenges faced by families in missing person cases.
The Search for Amy Baker. Amy Baker goes missing after leaving her vehicle, prompting a frantic search by her family.
Tragic Discovery. The heartbreaking moment when Amy's body is found by her family.

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Virginia is not immune to the tragedies that befell others.

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