Medical Examiner Reveals Tara Baker Was Still Alive When the Fire Started | GA v. Faust

Описание: She was strangled so hard it broke a bone in her neck. She was stabbed through her jugular vein. And when the fire started, she was still breathing.

Tara Baker was 23 years old, a first-year law student at UGA, when someone attacked her in her own bedroom on January 19, 2001. Twenty-five years later, the medical examiner who performed her autopsy finally tells a jury exactly what was done to her. Dr. Andrew Falzon walks through every injury: the ligature marks from the cord wrapped around her neck, the stab wound inflicted from behind, the sexual assault evidence, and the proof that Tara survived the initial attack only to die as flames consumed her room.

The defense challenges the chain of custody on the sexual assault kit, pointing out that swabs may have been mislabeled by a technician and no one verified the work. If the DNA evidence is unreliable, does the state's case fall apart?

⏰ KEY MOMENTS

00:00 - Pre-testimony motions
03:16 - Dr. Andrew Falzon takes the stand
15:55 - Stab wound and ligature mark described
20:21 - Broken hyoid bone from strangulation
36:13 - Sexual assault injuries documented
44:30 - Rubber knife demonstration of attack
48:25 - "She was still alive when fire started"
1:31:45 - Defense cross-examination begins

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📖 CASE BACKGROUND

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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