Episode 22 - Matt Baker: My Milkshake Brings All the Cops to the Yard

On April 8, 2006, Pastor Matt Baker called 911 after discovering his wife, Kari, lying unconscious in the couple’sbedroom. EMS providers and firefighters raced to her side, but Kari was already gone. Once police told a McLennan County Justice of the Peace about finding a container of the sleep aid Unisom beside a typed suicide note on the bedsidetable, he ruled Kari’s manner of death a suicide. However, when Kari’s family began to push back on that hasty ruling, an investigation was launched that revealed Matt’s long history of sexual assault and misconduct and the woman who would finally bring him down.Sources: https://www.tdcaa.com/journal/the-murdering-minister/ https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/immunity_from_prosecution#:~:text=Use%20immunity%20protects%20the%20witness,evidence%20obtained%20from%20independent%20sources. https://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=4408157&page=1  https://abcnews.go.com/2020/texas-pastor-matt-baker-trial-wifes-murder-jury/story?id=9616881  https://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=7252064&page=1  https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna34983893  https://www.oxygen.com/prosecuting-evil-with-kelly-siegler/crime-news/texas-minister-matt-baker-murdered-wife-kari-baker https://www.cbsnews.com/news/murder-or-suicide-the-death-of-the-preachers-wife/https://cases.justia.com/texas/tenth-court-of-appeals/10-10-00049-cr.pdf?ts=1370478213 https://abcnews.go.com/US/wacos-beloved-minister-after-20-years-claims-guilty/story?id=119811804 https://abc13.com/archive/7235344/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/48-hours-mystery-dirty-little-secrets/  https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/Killer-s-in-laws-win-custody-fight-1468405.php https://baptistnews.com/article/former-pastor-plans-to-appeal-murder-conviction/  https://www.kathryncasey.com/deadly_little_secrets_90667.htm https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dirty-little-secrets-revealed-in-preacher-matt-bakers-murder-trial/ https://abcnews.go.com/2020/texas-pastor-matt-baker-convicted-wifes-2006-murder/story?id=11092046 https://abc13.com/post/former-preacher-admits-cheating-wife-denies-killing-19-years-later/16063284/ https://wacotrib.com/news/prosecutors-allege-former-central-texas-pastor-killed-wife-made-multiple-advances-toward-other-women/article_6a42336a-191b-59d1-84b2-4d4f62920745.html https://moviedelic.com/matt-baker/ https://moviedelic.com/kari-baker-family/ https://www.southtexasnews.com/refugio_county_press/news/obituaries/james-jim-emmett-dulin/article_af4e71ea-3738-50c3-ab7e-fb45763f5b60.html https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13897110/kari_lynn-baker#:~:text=Kari%20Lynn%20was%20born%20in,Degree%20from%20Dallas%20Baptist%20University. https://www.cityofhewitt.com/85/Location https://www.bestplaces.net/compare-cities/lorena_tx/hewitt_tx/overview https://www.baptistpress.com/resource-library/sbc-life-articles/divorce-an-interpretive-maze/