Best Friend Recalls Tara Baker's Final Words: "I'll Talk to You Tomorrow"

Описание: "I'll talk to you tomorrow." Those were the last words Tara Baker ever said to her best friend Katie. Tomorrow never came.

Katherine Lonstein met Tara on the first day of law school orientation in August 2000. They were inseparable. On Thursday, January 18, 2001, they studied together at the UGA law library until 9pm. Katie forgot to call when she got home. Tara called her at 9:45pm to make sure she was safe. The next morning, Tara missed their 9:30 property class. That night, she never showed up for her own birthday celebration. Katie found out Saturday morning from a newspaper headline.

The defense did not cross-examine this witness. Katie testified that her impression of Tara's relationship with boyfriend Chris Melton was positive. She would smile when she talked about him.

⏰ KEY MOMENTS

00:19 - Katie Lonstein takes the stand
02:58 - "Like being in the trenches" - law school bonds
07:38 - Thursday night at the library
11:26 - The last phone call: "I'll talk to you tomorrow"
14:00 - Learning Tara was murdered from a newspaper
17:37 - Impression of Tara and Chris's relationship

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Tara Louise Baker was a first-year UGA law student from East Point, Georgia. On January 18, 2001, she was last seen at the law library and called a friend around 9:46 p.m. saying she planned to leave around 10. That was the last time anyone heard from her.

The next morning, firefighters found Baker's body inside her burning off-campus apartment on Fawn Drive in Athens. She had been beaten, stabbed, strangled, and sexually assaulted. The fire was intentionally set. The only item taken was her laptop. She was one day from turning 24.

The case went cold for 23 years. In 2023, the Coleman-Baker Act, named in part for Tara, created a GBI Cold Case Unit. That unit matched DNA from Baker's autopsy to Faust through the FBI's national database. Faust lived in Baker's neighborhood but was never a suspect. Investigators say they did not know each other.Defense attorney Ahmad R. Crews has challenged the DNA evidence and stated he believes Faust will be acquitted.

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