Ten year old Zahra Baker has become well known since she was reported missing on October 9, 2010 by her father, Adam Baker, 33 and her stepmother, Elisa Baker, 42. According to the father, his wife claimed that the last time she saw the little girl was about 2:30 that morning.
Elisa Baker confessed that she is the one that wrote the ransom note asking for $1 million that was found after police arrived and she has since been arrested and charged with obstructing justice for writing the fake ransom note. She is being held on a $65,000 bond after the judge listened to the disturbing and unsettling allegations levied against her.
Yesterday morning authorities in Caldwell County, North Carolina were searching for little Zahra in a heavily wooded area near some waterfalls. They appeared to be extremely interested in the stream located at the foot of the falls near the road. They were there searching from daybreak Monday until about 5:35 pm. Caldwell County Sheriff, Alan Jones said they were following up on leads they get in their county and they have received several.
Apparently they brought Elisa to the search area but was not allowed to get out the car she was brought there in. She was later returned to jail around 6:00 that evening. Jones made the statement saying, “We always like to be hopeful… We’re not going to rest until we find the little girl.â€
Also on Monday Adam Baker was arrested on charges related to bad checks and is currently being held on a $7,000 bond. The Sidney Morning Herald paper is reporting that he was arrested at the Charlotte-Douglas Airport. They believe he was at the airport to pick up some relatives that was flying in from Australia. Baker is now facing 5 counts of communicating threats, one count of assault with a deadly weapon and one count of failure to return rental property.
I hate to think of this case turning into a circus with non-related problems to take the focus off of what is the more important problem of all, that is of finding little Zahra. Police are calling this a homicide case now unfortunately. Zahra has been through more than your average 10 year old child has been through. She has had bone cancer which she lost one of her legs from. She was wearing a prosthetic leg and she wore a hearing aid, which were both found at her home after she was reported missing. Still the mystery remains, what happened to this child? Where is she? What could she possibly have done to make someone harm her in anyway whatsoever?
She needs to be found and brought home. Just like the other missing children out there. Little Adji Desir has been missing since January 10, 2009. Haleigh Cummings has been missing since February 10, 2009. Masaraha Ross and her mother Ronkeya have been missing since October 18, 2009. There are so many more that I can’t begin to list here as well. Where are all these children? Why haven’t they been found? They have disappeared without a trace. Someone has answers but yet no one is talking. Someone in all these cases needs to start talking so these children can be brought home, they deserve to be found and brought home. My prayers will continue for each and every one of them.
Jan Barrett
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I have been following this case and I can not understand how these so called parents could abuse this freckle face angel after all she has been threw and how hard she fought to live just to be killed. so very sad.
may she be found soon and given a proper buriel and may Justice soon be granted.
WHERE IS ZAHARA, MAY SHE NOW BE RESTING IN PEACE.
This “circus” atmosphere has been one that has been seen on several other high profile cases — specifically Caylee Anthony, Kyle Horman, and Haleigh Cummings. It is no wonder that these angels go missing (or worse) considering the misfits and losers they have for sperm and egg donors.
It is surprising that more children don’t meet an early demise due to their dysfunctional families.
God bless these children who are born into families that don’t want, need or deserve them.
i live in Hickory, where Zahra and her family live. It has been a circus, not because of the law enforcement or the media, but because of a scam-artist minister who is trying to raise funds in Zahra’s name. His criminal past (financial fraud) and his fake counseling service has taken the community’s focus off of the search and put it on him. It’s a shame. Many people here have said they are tired of hearing about the case due to his name being connected with it locally. It’s a shame because it is at times like these we need to draw together and be supportive of each other, and those trying to solve the case.
27/10/2010
jaceesmom……you spelt Zahra’s name wrong and no body has been found. Until her body is found, I will not accept Zahra is dead.
Zahra needs to come back home to Australia to her family who love her deeply.
I would appreciate PCSO coming out and letting us know if they are stll working HaLeigh Ann Marie Cummings case. Do not give up on HaLeigh!!!! She needs to come home NO MATTER WHAT!!! I do not care who comitted this crime against her they need to be bought to Justice!!!
I appreciate the LE there keeping us updated on Zaras case. This is so horrible! What peeves me off so bad in her case is that these folks were reported to authorities on more than one occassion and noone from one of the authoritative branches stepped up to save this child. I hope and pray that these prents serve a very harsh sentence.
May God shed a light on where all these children are and may LE never give up trying to find them and bring them home. JMO
Thank you Jan for this article. You have a great heart! Thank you for continuing to use your voice for the missing children and allowing us a place to use ours.
LFJ~
I will never give up on haleigh.
I pray daily she is found. and now this freckled face Angel( Zahara) she deseves justice.
why do people hurt and kill the babys?
JAN – THANK YOU SO MUCH for doing this article and answering my plea for this case to receive coverage! You are an ANGEL! MSNBC is reporting they think they have the mattress (although I read that yesterday too but then other news agencies denied it had been found so I don’t know what to believe). Supposedly they are doing DNA testing on the mattress now.
I was trying to give the dad the benefit of the doubt in the beginning but after hearing his 911 call and his chuckle while reporting a possible kidnapping of his child, I KNOW he’s involved. And that stepmother has the eyes of the devil himself. TRULY frightening!
God Bless you Janny and God Bless Zahra! I pray LE finds her and brings her home so she can receive justice and a proper burial!
Thanks Again Jan! You are Da’ Bomb!
One can not fathom what makes anyone kill children, let alone someone who was fighting valiantly to live. What on God’s earth could possess someone to kill a deaf child, with two hearing aids and a prosthetic leg after she survived lung and bone cancer? Words defy their heinous and cruel, inhumane behavior.
I hope those two older Bakers fry. I’d like to bring back the firing squad, shoot them but not kill them, pull their nails out one by one, then have a public hanging in the very same area where Kahra still lies, unfound, in abject exile. Her soul cries out for justice.
Jan, I live in Granite Falls and I will tell you that the police are not trying to focu on worthless checks! Please dont judge them…. they had to arrest the dad because they feared he was about to leace the country they have known of the charges the entire time but he was cooperating at first so they didnt feel the need to arrest him yet. I will say that they have found the mattress and the rumor in the area is they found the body as well they just havent released the information yet. They are saying that the stepmom turned on the dad. Unlike the Haleigh Cummings case there will be a resolution to this case!
I have never once judged the parents of these missing children. Well, outside of Casey Anthony. I’d like to think I’m wrong about that, but everything points straight to Casey Anthony alone.
But, this has not been right from the beginning. The 911 call did not sound right. Seriously, he ask the operator how she was doing? Who does that?
I know some people tend to laugh inappropriately when nervous, I’m one of them. But I feel with everything in my heart that this Father is involved up to his neck.
What kind of people hurt any child, muchless after what this child went through. This baby beat cancer.
I hope this is resoved fast and the guilty parties pay for this big time. The death penalty is just too easy. They need to spend the rest of their lives in torment. But of course they will have a private cell just like the rest of the child murderers. Put them all in general population! Why should we protect them? Who protected the children?
Storm you are right put them in GP! Let them be tormented every day as they abused Zahra! Let the punishment fit the crime!
JaceesMom I also will never give up on HaLeigh or any of these missing children. It was exactly one month in between Adjis and HaLeighs disappearance.This is trely heartbreaking.All missing cases are tragic, but when a child is harmed by someone they know and trust it makes it even more tragic !
Denise it did seem like the dad was trying to flee. I thought from the beginning he was involved.jmo
Hello JB!
Poor little girl,seems she had a hard short time on this earth.With the health issues.As well as the alledged abuse,an now this.What a horror.An the bad thing is Jan,many say they saw issues of abuse.But they had a chance to try to report,or bring awarness to it,little late for it now.They will have to live with not telling.This is what they would call a wicked stepmom, for sure.An seems to be a sorry father to.But i dont know them so im only going by whats in the news.
I pray shes found,an laid to rest.Im believing she with Jesus now,along with all the others.Such sad lives some of these precious children live,unill there murdered.Lord have mercy on all those who are still living in these type situations.Report what you see,let it be checked,it really may be a issue like this.
Thanks for the update.Mrs Jan,an i hope your doing well.
Her pretty little freckled face,who could harm her.I use to tell my little nieces who had freckles.That God took Gold dust in his hand an blew it,an it landed on there cheeks-an thats where freckles came from.Oh someone would have loved to have had this little girl,to love.Its just sad ,i cry many nights reading about the sorrows,an pain these little ones suffer.I pray this ones found,she deserved so much more.
DP case anyway it looked at,if shes found murdered.I feel nothing for people who harm little ones,to me they dont deserve to draw another breath, if they take the breath from a child.
Jan57 I agree with you. I have heard freckles referred to as Angel Kisses. God did not take Zahra.
oops I hit enter before completing. God did not take Zahra home. He healed her. These two parents sent Zahra home before her time and they must pay.jmo
Denise, you were right about those rumors. The way they were searching for the mattresses made me feel as though she’d be hidden inside of one. Just gets sadder n’ sadder. Hopefully they will make an announcement today and let us know that poor child was found and will soon be returned to her loving family abroad.
I was thinking how Adam Baker just seemed totally removed from the whole reality of the situation. Besides his non-essential, backhanded background information on the 911 call (“Brooding stage,” etc.) when someone asked him “Why is Zahra so special?” all he could answer was to say “Small. Nothing ever bothered her.” (Small?) Wouldn’t a normal father say his daughter was “smart as a whip,” “resilient and brave, a fighter,” (for her cancer battles) and maybe she “loved animals, dancing, fashion, music, drawing? She doesn’t seem to have been a fully fleshed out person with her own interests in her father’s eyes. His fake sobbing at one point (the authority standing next to him just stepped back and did not offer a comforting hand, no “there there, hang in there man”)was so contrived, it made Ronald Cummings fake wailing look sincere.
It makes me wonder, why, if she was so happy living with her grandmother in Australia, was she torn from her loving home and other family members? Did her father and his subhuman wife just use her for a monthly Social Security check? Why didn’t the father protect her and tend to her?
Iketa – I really truly tried to give the dad the benefit of the doubt in the very beginning but as soon as the daily abuse by the stepmother came out I had my doubts. I didn’t understand how a father would allow that treatment of his child. She had black eyes and bruises so he HAD to know. THEN the 911 call which blew me away! I listened to that call and was like “WHAT THE FRIGG IS WRONG WITH THIS MAN?”. I knew right then he knew what happened to Zahra and was in on it. For all of us who pray, let’s pray especially hard today that LE is shown the way to Zahra (if they haven’t found her already) and that they get ALL the evidence they need to convict these two. JUSTICE FOR ZAHRA!
HELLO LFJ! HUGS MY FRIEND! 😀
watching the news conference on Zahra Baker now and they are saying that they found the prosthetic leg yesterday they received tips that took them to the site in Caldwell County and thats where they found the leg in a wooded area
watching the news conference on Zahra Baker now and they are saying that they found the prosthetic leg yesterday they received tips that took them to the site in Caldwell County and thats where they found the leg in a wooded area
JB~ I’m with ya. I tried to give Daddy Dearest the benefit of a doubt (like Kaine Horman) but he just didn’t pass the (what I call)”bullspitometer” test. Sure am praying as hard as I can for Kahra’s discovery. LFJ, your poignant observation (at 724am)that God did not call Kahra home, he HEALED her, really resonated with me. Sniff. 🙁
Iketa – I knew when a DP qualified atty jumped on board for the stepmom that LE had something. Looks like they have Zahra’s prosthetic leg…..surely soon they will have her little body too. I am 100% sure the dad knows what happened and helped to cover it up. They got rid of her mattress BEFORE they reported her missing. What was she supposedly sleeping on while she was in her room “Brooding” and “Going through puberty”? I always want to believe that parents would NEVER intentionally hurt their child as I cannot fathom it myself. But time and time again it is proven that children appear to have MORE to fear from those who SHOULD protect them than they do strangers. Our world is deteriorating faster than any of us care to admit.
Elisa’s biological daughters are probably the “source” for the prosecuters. They testified for the state at the mothers bond hearing. They said they feared their life if Elisa got out of jail.
Denise – and what does that say that Elisa’s own children fear for their lives at the hands of their own mother?! That speaks volumes and doesn’t bode well for Zahra. Adam needed to think with his brain and not other parts of his anatomy! He needed to protect his child and put her first. Ripping her away from her Austrailian family for a woman and then allowing that woman to abuse his child. He needs to be strung up by the part of his anatomy he was thinking with and flogged with a prosthetic leg! CREEP! GRRRRRR 👿
Adam Baker should be more than ashamed, he was so taken in, this stepmom shopped him on the internet and he fell for it. He could have cut his losses, left her and admitted and accepted his own error but no …
That evil medical/money scam resulted, in combination with his extreme weakness, to be the reason this child doesnt get to complete her earth life with us here. I do pray she is in safe arms now.
pozelenore – what medical/money scam? I don’t guess I heard about that!
It’s time to look somewhere besides Adam and Elisa’s backyard and the local dumpsters for Zahra Baker. Maybe tell us a little bit about their background -tell us about people that pay Elisa $10K(thousand) dollars from London and for what?
Adam and Elisa didn’t have a motive to kill and bury Zahra… Did they? if they did kill her, it was more than likely an accident and even then they would probably have just called the police and reported that she was having cancer problems?
Listen to the father Adam’s 911 call to Hickory Police – What if…..Adam was going to set up his boss’s daughter but something went wrong? What if Zahra was taken for Adam and Elisa’s mistakes and inability to produce ‘their end of a deal’ and who knows what kind of deal it could have been. Maybe they owed someone money? Adama and Elisa know what happened. Elisa wanted to hide it so bad that she wrote the randsom note – Adam (Zahra’s Father)and Elisa’s association with a child prostitution ring/ or a drug deal would earn them lots of jail time, so maybe they thought -reporting their daughter kidnapped would be a better idea than calling the police and telling them that these people you were working an illegal deal with took your daughter and you’re not sure where they took her – Only five people have been convicted of murder in NC when the police were unable to produce the body. Is she dead or is she alive? Did they kill her or did someone, excuse me… did ‘they?’ As Adam likes to refer to THEM.
If you can figure out who THEY is – you can find Zahra.
ACCORDING TO WIKIPEDIA – “In the 21st century, women, mostly from South America, Southeast Asia, and the former Soviet Union, are trafficked into the United States for sexual slavery.[91] Contrary to some existing misconceptions, American citizens are also coerced into sex slavery.[92]
Today the United States State Department estimates that 50,000 to 100,000 women and girls are trafficked each year in the United States. Many times these girls are some of the most vulnerable that are thrust into this industry. According to Girl’s Education & Mentoring Services (GEMS), an organization based in New York, the majority of girls that are thrown into this industry were abused as children. Poverty and a lack of education play major roles in the lives of the women in this industry. According to a report conducted by the University of Pennsylvania, anywhere from 100,000 up to 300,000 American children are at risk of commercial sexual exploitation at any given time.[93]
AGAIN, ACCORDING TO WIKIPEDIA ON LINE ENCYCLOPEDIA
theorist – hey, I’m open to any ideas but lets review what we know so far…
1. Elisa physically and mentally abused Zahra (black eyes).
2. This year they called the school and said they would home school her but didn’t obtain any of the materials to do that.
3. They disposed of Zahra’s mattress days before they reported Zahra missing.
4. LE has stated there is DNA on the mattress – the obvious DNA that would be noticeable just by looking is blood.
5. Dogs hit on the vehicles and the chipper for decomp.
6. Elisa admits to writing the ransom note.
7. The father knew that Elisa was mean and abusive to Zahra but did nothing to stop it.
8. No one had seen Zahra for many days prior to her being reported missing.
9. The father in the 911 call is not freaked out, upset and even chuckles. He also lays out their “kidnapping” story to the 911 operator. He was laying the groundwork on that call.
10. The father obviously cares more about the women in his life than he does his child. He uprooted his child and drug her halfway around the world for some evil wretch (Elisa) and allowed her to be mean to Zahra without stepping in or leaving.
11. Elisa is a criminal and it appears that Adam is no better. They both have had brushes with the law and continue to do so.
12. Zahra’s prosthetic leg was found on property next to where Elisa used to live.
13. Zahra’s hearing aids were not taken with her and obviously neither was her leg. If someone truly kidnapped her they would have taken both – the hearing aids so they could communicate with her….the leg so she would be mobile.
14. Elisa’s own children fear their mother and fear for their lives. Sounds like Elisa is violent.
15. Something LE found out or FOUND early on told them Zahra was deceased. We don’t know what they have but they found it at or around the home. Zahra died in that house (doesn’t sound like a kidnapping).
16. There was gasoline IN the vehicle but the ransom note was on the windshield of that vehicle. The kidnapper would NOT have put gasoline in the vehicle planning on torching it if they were going to put a ransom note on the windshield. The gas in the car was a cover – either to help substantiate their kidnapping story and/or to cover up the dna/decomp evidence in the vehicle…which didn’t work by the way.
To me it stinks to high heaven and Adam and Elisa are at the center of that stink. I think Adam would do anything for Elisa….she wears the pants in that family. She could have beaten Zahra in one of her rages. She wouldn’t get help for Zahra (and neither would Adam the P-whipped loser) so Zahra died. They came up with this kidnapping story to CYA. They got rid of the mattress to get rid of the smell of death and any blood evidence from Zahra’s injuries. They threw the leg in the brush to throw LE off (which didn’t work). They transported Zahra’s body in the vehicle(s) which is why the dogs hit on them. To me and this is JMO, the murder of Zahra happened in that house by Elisa (and Adam by way of not seeking assistance for her). They both were involved in the cover-up. The 911 call made by Adam speaks VOLUMES.
Elisa is a con and the $10,000 I believe was just money she conned out of some more Smuck from the UK. She probably told him she had an illness, or needed money to move to where he was, or used Zahra’s illnesses to get money. Who knows?! She’s never worked. She cons to make a living. She writes hot checks and does whatever she has to survive without having to actually work. She uses men. She used Adam. Perhaps she was lining up her next victim.
JMO.
Dang! 😯 Sorry for the long post! Yikes! 😳
That is because it is one thing to be dysfunctional. It is a whole other thing to be evil! Casey is evil Elisa and Adam are evil, Misty Croslin is evil!
THEY HAVE FOUND HER MATRESS AND HER PROSTHETIC AND A BONE THAT MIGHT BE HERS!
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