Defense in Edrick Faust Trial Tears Apart Boyfriend's Alibi With Police's Own Reports

Описание: The crime analyst said it would have been "virtually impossible" for Tara Baker's boyfriend to have killed her. Then the defense pulled out the police reports.

David Griffith spent nearly 15 years as a crime analyst for the Athens Clark County Police Department. He was assigned to the Tara Baker cold case in 2005, built the analytical timeline, and presented the case at the FBI Academy in Quantico. On direct, he told the jury that based on interviews with Chris Melton, his parents, a coworker, and bank employees, Melton could not have been in Athens the morning of January 19, 2001. The prosecution needed this witness to close the door on the boyfriend as a suspect.

Defense attorney Ahmad Cruz had other plans. Watch what Cruz does with Detective Ricketts' own reports. He walks Griffith through the timeline piece by piece, and contradictions start surfacing. Pay attention to what happens when Cruz asks about Nash Plumbing, about who actually confirmed Melton's whereabouts, and about an FBI recommendation that was never followed through.

⏰ KEY MOMENTS

00:00 - Griffith takes the stand and walks through his credentials
04:55 - Cold case training at GBI, FBI Academy, and NCIS
06:50 - Assigned to the Tara Baker case and his first contact with the file
11:25 - The case is submitted to the FBI's violent criminal apprehension program
18:39 - Griffith delivers his assessment of Chris Melton's alibi
19:10 - Cruz begins cross-examination and starts pulling the timeline apart
35:27 - Detective Ricketts' reports reveal a contradiction in the alibi timeline

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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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