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[Music] crime woo this week's case takes us back to the great state of Virginia 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 were home to some strange and unsolved
murders States like Texas California Florida and of course we have spent a good deal of time in our own State Ohio
but that does not for one second mean that Virginia or its people are immune to the tragedies that befell others in
other states nor should one think that virgin irginia 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 shann andoa 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 social light Denita cuts and 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 denita's case dates back to the late 70s and unfortunately Emma's
case is now over 5 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 the piece is by 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 and 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 referenc is 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
Bakers 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 in Falls Church the evening of March 29 1989 her vehicle was located on the side
of Interstate 995 by Black Lake 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 29th 1989 18-year-old Amy Baker gotten her
car she had just wrapped up a several day visit to her aunt's house this is her mother's sister and 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 Hartwood 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 in the notoriously congested area Amy headed south on I 95
Interstate 95 unfortunately she never made it home and by 11:00 p.m. Sue Baker Amy's mother was starting to get worried
she knew that Amy had left Falls Church around 8:20 p.m. even in DC's crazy traffic it would not have taken her 2
and 1 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 abandon on the shoulder of Interstate 95
southbound the massive eight Lane Highway it runs the length of the East Coast it 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 1 p.m. 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 1 p.m. 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 motorist 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 1 p.m. 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 they 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 Bakers 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 p.m. well very scary situation when your daughter does not come home after she says she's
coming home and then to even more of a red alert situation when you find her car abandoned also of note here Captain
it's important to mention 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 it 10 p.m. 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 vcle was found unlocked but it also sounds like they didn't do too much
or go to too much effort to figure out who own 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 one they turned 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
nighttime right so that nobody smashes into this vehicle the what I'm curious about is if in fact 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 4 hours that your battery is going
to be drained dead the thing that I think is interesting here though is that the car is found unlocked locked 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 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 dayss 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 for my understanding the way that the family has reported this they said that the gas
gauge at times work 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 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 9s there were kids that had Beatles from the 70s that there were their prize
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 skinnard so this is not a terribly uncommon thing here it's really
very 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 in a
certain way and vehicles behave differently when this occurs but she clearly recogn Iz 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
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 a 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 um 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
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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 Hartwood in Stafford County remember we had said that Amy was
visiting friends and relatives in Falls Church so it makes sense that she would want to go 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 new
paper we wanted a larger home with some land and to get away from the urban mess
in Fairfax County Amy Baker attended both FS church and JB 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 in Santa Claus for example Sue Aker 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 then 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 6:00 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 well 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
ididentification all this stuff she left behind and the location of the vehicle itself seems
like an odd placement 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 and 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 going to find some some issues with that as well as we will get to here in this next part not to come
off as a bootlicker 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 is 1989 so this is no small feet 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 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 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 carmichel 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 if you saw a picture it'll be on our Facebook or 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 may
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 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 cars 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 in 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 helicopter above didn't spot Amy it 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
uh 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 cording
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 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 as salent 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 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 coroner 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 cursor 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 Crim stoppers on
April 3rd police believe the caller was from the Fredricksburg 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 end quote this is according to the spokesperson Warren carmichel right for the Fairfax
police who goes on to say quote we hope that person will come forward end quote so it sounds to me like this woman the
the caller who called in way back in April 3rdd 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 call back well 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 33 years roughly in this case and in 200 five 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 preserve
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 uhhuh or we have a situation where both vehicles do not belong to the
killer but could be potential Witnesses or eyewitnesses to something um 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
cuz 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 Crim
Stoppers look that in itself points out that this caller likely wanted to remain
anonymous because Crim Stoppers is a great way to provide a tip to law enforcement and remain anonymous but
this tip comes in on April 3D Amy Baker was driving home on March 29th so 5 days
later is when this tip is phoned in and it's not even 5 days later when you think about it because she's not found
until the 30 1 so we really only have about three days between now we have a known
homicide to Wi 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 Crim 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
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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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The episode discusses the unsolved murder of Amy Baker in Virginia in 1989 and the police's inadequate response to her disappearance.

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Amy Baker's Disappearance. The case of Amy Baker, who went missing in 1989, is revisited with new insights.
The Disappearance of Amy Baker. Amy Baker's mysterious disappearance raises questions about law enforcement's response.
Family's Desperation. The Baker family takes matters into their own hands after police fail to act quickly.
Tragic Discovery. Amy's body is found by her family, leading to a shift in the investigation.
The Importance of the Tip. A crucial tip was received just days after a known homicide, raising questions about its significance.

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