IMO these are all the discrepancies I’ve found between Baker’s various stories:
- he didn’t know Viber was an encrypted app (they used it because it was “fun” but it became too “glitchy”); it was just a mere coincidence that both he and Monica deleted the app on the same day of Fabio’s murder
- they switched to WhatsApp because of the “glitches” but they’d used it a bunch before the murder (DA Silverman proved this was a lie by presenting the jury with evidence that they both downloaded WhatsApp and registered their accounts after the murder)
- his plan to murder Fabio started as an “abstract idea” during the middle of 2016 and he started discussing it with Austin in September or October; he didn’t get serious about the plan until December (Austin testified there were multiple three-way calls between Baker, Birdsong, and himself for the sole purpose of planning the murder, as early as the summer of 2016); previously, Baker said he began thinking about killing Fabio in January 2017 but later changed that to November 2016
- he claims Monica never confirmed she planned to live with Robert during her conversations with Sheila and Ricky in Las Vegas (Sheila testified that Monica agreed with the plan and said she was going to buy a house for Baker); in reference to statements he made on Facebook Messenger about planning to live with Monica within 3 months, he dismissed those as “hopes” and “bravado”
- he said Austin was just the lookout and didn’t stab Fabio (Austin testified he and Baker snuck up on Fabio and held him down while they stabbed him)
- he said he and Austin entered the home by going around the side of the backyard and using the sliding glass door (Austin testified they entered through the front door)
- he said he found the gold coins in an envelope on a patio table next to Fabio (Austin said the gold coins were in a safe that Monica had opened for him)
- he said he didn’t communicate with Monica for “weeks and weeks” after the murder and didn’t give her the burner phone at Fabio’s wake, yet Monica used the burner phone to communicate and send pictures to him while she was in Canada
- he said he never saw Monica have sex with other men (this was contradicted by sexually explicit photos/videos shown to the jury)
- he said he never discussed the case with Monica while he was in custody after their arrests (this is contracted by the recording in the police car and the multiple recorded “hearovers” prior to pretrial hearings — the two discussed coming up with a story about the burner phones, their concern about the thousands of texts/calls prior to the murder being considered overt acts, and how they could explain his DNA at the murder scene)
IMO there is more than enough evidence to show that Monica was involved in the planning of this murder when you consider all of the above — not to mention the fact that she met up with Baker at Target minutes before the murder occurred, the false GPS narrative, the fact that she accessed the security system while she was supposedly shopping inside Target (and while Baker was killing Fabio), the open/unlocked safe, Baker’s prior knowledge about the location of the security footage, etc etc etc.
I could maybe accept one coincidence but no one could possibly believe the sheer number of coincidences required for Monica to be innocent here.
