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The stepmother of a North Carolina girl who was killed and dismembered was indicted on a bigamy charge on Tuesday, the Charlotte Observer reports. Elisa Baker is accused of marrying Adam Baker in Australia before divorcing her previous husband, according to the newspaper. If convicted, Baker could face probation for the low-level crime. The scattered remains of the couple's 10-year-old daughter, Zahra, were found in November after a massive search for the girl. Zahra, a bone cancer survivor with a prosthetic leg and hearing aid, was reported missing by her father on Oct. 9.Elisa Baker was arrested and charged with obstruction of justice after she allegedly confessed to writing a fake ransom note and leaving it on one of the family's vehicles.Elisa Baker allegedly told police that Zahra died on Sept. 24, two weeks before she was reported missing, and that Adam Baker dismembered the girl. She said her husband dumped the girl's body parts in several locations around the state. Family mem...
North Carolina authorities confirm the prosthetic leg found last week was that of missing 10-year-old Zahra Baker.The Hickory Police Department said in a written sta...
A missing North Carolina girl was seen in public as recently as two weeks before she was reported missing, narrowing an uncertain timeline that has hindered the sear...
North Carolina police have released the recording of a 911 call that Zahra Baker's father made to authorities reporting that the 10-year-old girl was missing -- clai...
Zahra Baker, the little girl from Australia with the resilience to smile through painful treatment for bone cancer, would have been 11 years old Tuesday.Instead, the...
A relative of Zahra Baker's stepmother said the woman told her the little girl died of natural causes before being dismembered.Boncetta "Buzzie" Winkler, of Hickory,...
GAFFNEY, S.C. -- The stepmother of the North Carolina girl whose dismembered remains were found in the western part of the state was married seven times, and she was...
A missing skull. An uncertain cause of death. A two-week gap between a little girl's alleged slaying and the time her father reported her missing.The case of 10-year...
A missing skull. An uncertain cause of death. A two-week gap between a little girl's alleged slaying and the time her father reported her missing.The case of 10-year...
Police: Zahra Baker case now a homicide investigation
A disabled North Carolina girl was dismembered and her remains were put at different sites, according to court papers filed Monday by lawyers representing her stepmo...
The stepmother of a 10-year-old disabled girl was indicted Monday on a charge she murdered the child, and officials released the latest gruesome detail in the case o...
Authorities are scouring a brushy area of North Carolina where investigators found a prosthetic leg believed to belong to a missing 10-year-old girl. Hickory Police ...
Mother of Zahra Baker charged with second degree murder
Police are investigating whether the stepmother the of a 10-year-old Zahra Baker who was killed committed bigamy, WSOC-TV reported.According to divorce papers Elisa ...
NEWTON, N.C. -- Zahra Baker's stepmother has told police the disabled 10-year-old girl died more than two weeks before her parents reported her missing.According to ...
Elisa Baker had an uncanny ability to stay ahead of bill collectors, police, social workers and her multiple husbands, The Associated Press discovered in an investig...
The human remains found in North Carolina Wednesday were confirmed to be those of missing Australian 10-year-old Zahra Baker, WCNC-TV reported Friday, citing a sourc...
Investigators combing a creek in rural North Carolina recovered evidence that could provide "valuable information" in the case of missing 10-year-old Zahra Baker.The...
Investigators in North Carolina are searching a landfill Wednesday for a "piece of evidence" in the case of missing 10-year-old Zahra Baker, whom authorities have be...