Preacher’s Secrets: The Duplicity of Matt Baker
My Life of Crime with Erin Moriarty
CBS News
4.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
On the evening of April 7th, 2006, Matt Baker, a Baptist preacher from the small town of Hewitt, Texas, goes out to get gas and rent a movie for the night. When he returns home, he finds his wife, Kari Baker, dead in bed with a suicide note nearby. Local authorities rule it a suicide and the case is closed. But Linda Dulin, Kari's mother, and her family don't believe it and hire attorney Bill Johnston and his team of investigators to look into the circumstances of Kari's death. Matt maintains he had nothing to do with Kari's death, even as his story seems to unravel. Based on the 48 Hours investigation, “Dirty Little Secrets”.
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| 0:56.2 | It was right at 12 o'clock on Telemated Home. |
| 0:58.6 | I had that eerie feeling when I walked in the room that something's not right here. |
| 1:03.6 | I don't think my wife is okay. |
| 1:05.6 | And I go to her side and I touch her and she doesn't move. |
| 1:08.6 | She doesn't respond. |
| 1:09.6 | And I call out her name and there's no response. |
| 1:12.6 | And I immediately pick up the phone and call 911. |
| 1:16.6 | Okay, it was 911. |
| 1:18.6 | You have an emergency? |
| 1:19.6 | My wife is laying in the bed and her lips are blue. |
| 1:23.6 | There was no pulse. |
| 1:24.6 | There was nothing. |
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