Kari Baker and her preacher husband - suicide or murder? | Ep 213

Crime and Coffee Couple - True Crime Podcast

Bleav + Allison and Mike

Married, National, Halloween, Crime, Murder, Documentary, Society & Culture, History, Husband, Truecrime, Couple, Coffee, Wife, True Crime

4.6 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

A preacher calls 911 to report his wife’s suicide, but there's more to the story. Kari Baker’s death looked like a tragedy until her mother started asking the right questions. Allison tells us the rest of this story.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone. Welcome back to another episode with the crime and coffee couple. My name's Allison. And my name's Mike. Hi, Mike. Hey, darling, baby boo-skers. How are you doing? I'm doing pretty good. How are you? Good, good. We are a husband and wife couple that have been doing this podcast thing for like years, a few years now. So you're still on the ground floor. Just so you know, Allison tells me a new episode every single week about some kind of crime, some kind of murder, some kind of something. I have no idea what she's about to talk about for the most part because I hate crime and she delivers them. And I try to make some commentary here and there. And we just have a good time. And before we usually talk, we like to just kind of start into ease into of things with a little bit of coffee talk, a little bit of how things are going. A little bit of chit chat. Yeah, yeah.
0:37.6	You know, we like to just kind of start into ease into things with a little bit of coffee talk, a little bit of how things are going.
0:39.4	A little bit of chit chat.
0:40.4	Yeah, yeah.
0:41.0	You know, we're coming up on our fourth anniversary of doing this. Really? When did we start? 2021. September 30th, somewhere around there. Yeah. How about that? I know. It's kind of crazy. You just came home. and a snap.
0:51.7	Yep, you just came home one day.
0:52.8	You're like, you know what?
0:53.4	I think we could do this.
0:54.2	And I was like, well, I love broadcasting.
0:55.7	I hate true crime.
0:56.5	But, you know, if I can get half of those things, that'd be pretty
0:58.3	great. It's gone by in a snap. Yep, you just came home one day. You're like, you know what? I think we could do this.
0:54.2	And I was like, well, I love broadcasting.
0:55.7	I hate true crime.
0:56.5	But, you know, if I can get half of those things, that'd be pretty good.
0:58.6	Yeah, it's been a fun ride with you.
1:00.1	Yeah, so what's been going on?
1:01.6	The typical stuff. It seems like every time we sit down to do this podcast,
1:05.6	I always have to, like, clear my throat or burp or some kind of disgusting thing that us ladies just apparently don't do.
1:14.2	I have to live with this. clear my throat or burp or some kind of disgusting thing that us ladies just apparently don't do.
1:14.2	I have to live with this, unfortunately.
1:15.8	This whole Allison thing right here, that's unfortunate for me.
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