Jurors heard accused killer’s voice during trial
WAYNESBURG – Greene County jurors heard the voice of Scott Baker for the first time Friday in a recorded call to 911 in which he tells a dispatcher that he heard on the scanner that his “wife was murdered.”
The audio tape was played during the second day of testimony in Baker’s homicide trial. Baker is accused in the Nov. 20, 2009 death of his estranged wife Melissa Baker, who was found dead inside her Crucible mobile home after she failed to show up to work the 4 p.m. to 12 a.m. shift that day at the Greene County Prison.
The prosecution is alleging that Scott Baker strangled and then slit the throat of Melissa Baker in an attempt to make the death look like a robbery gone awry. District Attorney Marge Fox also said in the opening that she intends to prove that Scott Baker recruited his elder son, Nathaniel Baker, who was 12 at the time, to give him an alibi for the killing. Scott and Melissa Baker’s son Brett was 18-months old at the time of Melissa’s death.
The trial will continue at 9:30 a.m. Monday in Greene County Court before President Judge William R. Nalitz.