A Window of Time

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🗓️ 5 May 2026

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

When University of Georgia law student Tara Baker is found brutally murdered in her home, suspicion falls on someone close to her. For years, her family searches for answers as the case goes cold. Decades later, renewed attention leads to an arrest and a dramatic courtroom twist. Blayne Alexander reports. Keith Morrison and Blayne Alexander go behind the scenes of the making of this episode in 'Talking Dateline' Listen on Apple: https://apple.co/4d5EX9Q Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7in9oF6Hzv54L6aN1WEcxj

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0:00.0	Tonight on Dateline.
0:02.7	She was the light of our family.
0:05.6	I can't tell you the pride I had in her.
0:09.4	Why would anybody harm her?
0:13.0	You just hear there's a house fire, there's a body.
0:16.3	Yes.
0:17.2	Went into the bedroom and she was laying on her back.
0:23.1	I could smell the shampoo in her hair.
0:31.8	They said we're considering this a homicide. I'm just sobbing. I'm saying no terror, no. It was unbelievable that somebody did this on purpose. You're all roommates. You were close. Who were they
0:36.7	asking you about? Just the people in her life.
0:38.7	At the law school, at work. Then, of course, her boyfriend. They take pictures of my body. They take
0:44.2	pictures of my hands. I just lost it. Five or six persons of interest. And nothing quite fit.
0:53.7	More than two decades.
0:55.0	Finally, you have a name.
0:57.0	Like, everybody get to headquarters.
0:59.0	It's painful.
1:02.0	I felt like I was the one on trial.
1:05.0	A young law student found dead in a fire.
1:08.0	Evidence burned in the flames,
1:10.0	but the drive for justice burned far stronger.
1:14.5	I'm Lester Holt, and this is Dayline.
1:21.4	Here's Blaine Alexander with A Window of Time.
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