CHRISTIAN MINISTER DRUGGED, HANDCUFFED WIFE, SMOTHERED HER WITH A PILLOW UNTIL DEAD
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Vanessa Bulls testifies in 19th District court in the trial of former
Baptist AP . . .
By Angela K. Brown, Associated Press Writer
The Associated Press
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Waco, Texas - A minister drugged his wife, handcuffed her to the bed
under the guise of spicing up their marriage, then smothered her with
a pillow until she died, his ex-mistress testified Tuesday at his
murder trial.
Vanessa Bulls said Matt Baker, then a Baptist preacher, had talked
about killing his wife and making it look like a suicide. His wife,
Kari Baker, had previously attempted suicide, Bulls said.
Bulls told jurors she did not help Baker plan the murder or
participate in it, but she never reported it to authorities because
she was afraid of exposing the affair that she said began about two
months before Kari Baker's 2006 death. Bulls, 27, also said she was
afraid of being arrested for knowing about Baker's plans but not
stopping him.
Bulls said she understood "what he was capable of" but tried not to
think about it as she continued seeing Baker for about three months
after his wife's death. She said Baker told her he was happy with her
so he would not harm her.
"He was and still is a manipulative liar who took me in my vulnerable
state and made me believe everything he said," said Bulls, who has
been granted immunity from prosecution.
Baker's attorney Guy James Gray told jurors last week that Kari
Baker's death, initially ruled a suicide, only became a murder case
after authorities found out about his affair. Baker, who faces up to
life in prison if convicted, has maintained his wife committed
suicide because of severe depression.
Under cross-examination, Gray asked about the account Bulls gave to
several law enforcement authorities over the last four years,
including some details that differed from her testimony Tuesday.
Bulls acknowledged that during those interviews she had repeatedly
denied the affair and knowing anything about whether Baker killed his
wife. She even said she "didn't tell the whole story" to the grand
jury but didn't explain why or when she decided to do so.
"He's never going to admit guilt, even if he's found guilty," Bulls
told jurors. "I'm setting things right."
Bulls said she met Baker in the fall of 2005 at church and that their
affair began in February 2006 after he convinced her to have
counseling sessions because of her divorce. She said Baker disparaged
his wife, making fun of her weight and saying she was a horrible
mother to their two children because she was depressed about the
cancer death of their middle child.
"He said he wanted her out of his life," Bulls said, adding that
Baker told her divorce was not an option because it would mean he
could never preach again and he was concerned that Kari might fight
for custody of their kids.
Bulls said Baker talked of various ways to kill his wife: a drive-by
shooting, hanging her and making it appear to be suicide, and
tampering with her car brakes. Once when Kari was late arriving home,
Baker told Bulls that he "started getting excited that maybe she did
have a wreck and he wouldn't have to do anything," the woman
testified.
Baker even put drugs in his wife's milkshake one night but she
complained that it tasted funny and didn't drink it, Bulls said. He
also told Bulls that he ordered Chloroform online, Bulls told jurors.
He obtained the prescription sleep aid Ambien secretly from his
mother-in-law's house, Bulls said.
She said Baker decided to kill his wife on a night she was trying to
spice up the marriage. Baker said he emptied the casings of sexual
enhancement drugs he referred to as "horse pills" then refilled them
with Ambien, Bulls testified. She said Baker told her that his wife
took the pills, unaware that he had switched the medicine. He took
the real pills.
Bulls said Baker handcuffed his wife to the bed, kissed her until she
fell asleep and then kissed her forehead, telling her to give their
deceased daughter a hug or kiss for him. Baker then smothered her
with a pillow, but she gasped for breath, so he put his hand over the
pillow directly over her nose until she died, Bulls testified.
According to Bulls, Baker said he then typed and printed a suicide
note and rubbed Kari's hands on it in case authorities tested for
fingerprints.
Bulls said she began to feel trapped with Baker because he said he
was a preacher, so no one would believe her if she told. Then she
broke up with him and urged him to turn himself in.
"He became irate. ... He said, 'I killed my wife for you and now
you're leaving?'" Bulls told jurors.
She said about a month later, Baker called to ask how she was, in
what she described as "the creepiest phone call of my life" because
he sounded completely normal. She said she reiterated that she wanted
nothing to do with him.
"He said, 'I miss you.' ... I said, 'You've got to turn yourself in.'
He said, 'God has forgiven me.'"
Bulls' testimony was to continue Tuesday afternoon.
More at:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100119/ap_on_re_us/us_minister_murder_trial
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Om Shanti
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"For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the
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In article <4b566994$0$12423$bbae...@news.suddenlink.net>,
"harmony" <a...@hotmail.com> posted:
>
> what would jesus say?
> Dr. Jai Maharaj posted:
harmony
some say madelina was scared of jesus.
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Jai Maharaj) wrote:
> Ex-mistress says minister admitted killing wife
>
> Vanessa Bulls testifies in 19th District court in the trial of former
> Baptist AP . . .
She might be raised on the third day and she ill be claimed as the
only Daughter of God! At least she was not a bastard child