Please discuss possible suspects and official POIs here.
However, PLEASE NOTE, do not accuse anyone of things without proof or reason. You may bring up possible suspects based on convictions and official suspect/POI status, but you must back this up with links to MSM or LE documents.
We do not sleuth non-suspects, victims or their families here at WS. We do not attack, call people names, or seek to ruin anyone's lives.
This thread is to be a calm, non-abusive place to discuss theories. It is not a witch hunt.
Please remember that an accusation of crimes like these can last forever in the public mind and memory.
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Convicted Murderer Jerry Baker, 100 Mile House, BC
http://www.globaltvbc.com/world/Possible+Highway+Tears+suspects+haunt+detectives/2336915/story.html
http://www.canlii.org/en/bc/bcsc/doc/2003/2003bcsc400/2003bcsc400.html
However, PLEASE NOTE, do not accuse anyone of things without proof or reason. You may bring up possible suspects based on convictions and official suspect/POI status, but you must back this up with links to MSM or LE documents.
We do not sleuth non-suspects, victims or their families here at WS. We do not attack, call people names, or seek to ruin anyone's lives.
This thread is to be a calm, non-abusive place to discuss theories. It is not a witch hunt.
Please remember that an accusation of crimes like these can last forever in the public mind and memory.
~*~
Convicted Murderer Jerry Baker, 100 Mile House, BC
Leibel said he got excited again when he began investigating another likely suspect, who lived outside of 100 Mile House in the 1970s.
“Somebody came to the detachment and said a man had tried to abduct them and they took down the licence plate,” Leibel recalls today.
Police ran the plate and saw that the man, Jerry Baker, had a history of sex offences, had done time in prison and had returned to the Williams Lake area around the time MacMillen was killed — the teenager was last seen hitchhiking to a girlfriend’s house about six kilometres away in Lac la Hache.
At the time, Leibel felt the man could have been responsible for other murders as well. His name had surfaced in several other investigations, including the murders of Pamela Darlington in Kamloops in 1973 and Gail Ann Weys in Clearwater in 1974.
He tried questioning Baker about MacMillen’s murder, “but he was extremely nervous and denied it.”
Fifteen years later, Baker became the prime suspect for the murder of a young girl named Norma Tashoots, 17, whose body was found on July 10, 1989 in a wooded area near 100 Mile House. She had been shot.
She was last seen about a month earlier being dropped off near 100 Mile House while hitchhiking to Vancouver.
A local resident suggested Baker was responsible for the Tashoots murder.
Baker, who had reported his Ruger handgun stolen to police the day after Tashoots was last seen, was interviewed and denied being involved. The investigation eventually dead-ended.
But it was re-opened in 2001 after a complete file review and a decision to try an undercover operation.
Baker eventually confessed to murdering Tashoots to an undercover officer and confided where he had disposed of the murder weapon — the gun he had reported missing — which was recovered. He was convicted in 2003 of the murder.
“Is he responsible for four or five [murders] or one? I don’t know,” Leibel said of Baker.
http://www.globaltvbc.com/world/Possible+Highway+Tears+suspects+haunt+detectives/2336915/story.html
http://www.canlii.org/en/bc/bcsc/doc/2003/2003bcsc400/2003bcsc400.html