Hear it! Mom fights back, beats up man trying to carjack minivan and kids

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 24 December 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

What would you do if a man suddenly jumped up from the back of your minivan and tried to hijack your car -- with your children inside? Texas mom Dorothy Baker did not hesitate to fight back when it happened to her. Baker was so fierce the man eventually fled from the vehicle, but she wasn't finished with him. She ran over the attacker and held him until police arrived to arrest him. Joining Nancy Grace to discuss the case:Dorothy Baker, Texas momJoseph Scott Morgan, forensics expert Dr. Brian Russell lawyer and psychologist, juvenile judgeAshley Willcott, judge and trial lawyerNicole Partin, reporter

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0:00.0	To all of you joining us at Crime Online and Crime Stories, it is Christmas Eve,
0:07.4	and I want to wish you peace, love, and joy. As this special season enters our life once again,
0:18.4	having you through the years and now is one of my greatest blessings. Merry Christmas.
0:30.7	I am writing a book and I've been pouring over facts and statistics and this name popped up
0:40.8	Dorothy Baker. And when I read her story, I have to share it with you. It could just save your life.
0:52.5	How many times have I walked into the records as I call every single drug store I go into,
0:58.3	whether it's Rydator Walgreens or CVS, I call it all the Eckerd. We were going into
1:03.7	Eckerds, we came out and I realized I had not watched my car and I couldn't believe that I had done
1:10.6	that. How many times moms have you done that, dads? Well Dorothy Baker came out of the CVS,
1:19.6	took off with her two little boys and was attacked.
1:29.1	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
1:36.4	It was just an ordinary Friday afternoon. The mother walked out of CVS with her two kids,
1:42.4	she put them in the back seat of the vehicle, even though her locks didn't always work,
1:47.0	she never even imagined that somebody could be hiding in the back.
1:52.0	You don't come after people with kids and I told them that he messed with the wrong
1:59.2	vehicle.
2:00.0	Which that wrong witch is named Dorothy Baker because of her quick thinking two-year-old Jaden and five-year-old
2:07.6	Xavier are safe tonight. They were all shopping at CVS when police say 54-year-old Ismail Martinez
2:14.8	hidden their unlocked van. He popped up out of the back seat and said that if I didn't want my kids
2:23.3	to get hurt, that I would do exactly what he said. Don't mess with Texas or at least a Texas
2:30.7	mommy. I mean, Nancy Grace, this is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us and with me right now
2:36.4	to tell the story herself. She lived to tell the tale, the mom who not only fought back
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