Kari Baker and her preacher husband - suicide or murder? | Ep 213
Crime and Coffee Couple - True Crime Podcast
Allison and Mike
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
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When Kari Baker was found dead in her bed, her husband, a respected Baptist preacher, told police it was a suicide. A typed note, a bottle of sleeping pills, and a tragic history of loss all seemed to confirm his story. But Kari’s mother couldn’t shake the feeling that something was deeply wrong, and when she started digging, things didn’t add up. What began as quiet suspicion turned into a full investigation that uncovered a disturbing past, a hidden relationship, and a plan far more sinister than anyone imagined. Allison tells us the rest of this story that starts with grief and ends with one of the darkest betrayals a family can face.
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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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