Welcome, welcome, welcome back to week 18 of classic city crime as we continue our long,

but thorough journey of justice for Tara and her family.

Now before we go any further into this episode, I wanted to take a moment to re-center

on Tara and who she was. You know, when I started this podcast, that's what I wanted for it to be

Tara centered. And after all, she is the reason we're all here and why we've built this community

together. We did that really well in the beginning, but I think we all have, for good reason, of course, gotten caught up in the who done it and the theories, that we forget we are not only speaking about a victim here, but we're speaking about someone's child, someone's sister, and many of our listeners' friends. If you haven't seen Miss Virginia's letter to all of you, be sure to find it on our Facebook,

or if you're on our email list, it should be in your inbox. I want to say, before I move on,

to please hang on for this episode, because in the end, we're reviewing the highly anticipated phone records of Tara Louise Baker. I recently uncovered a memorial that was held at the

University of Georgia School of Law a couple

of months after Tara's death, where one of Tara's roommates, Ashley, who you heard from

in prior episodes, really spoke to who Tara was and how her death not only impacted her, but

those around her.

I want you to listen in and take a moment to remember Tara Louise Baker, gone far too soon.

And I want you to remember that her killer is still out there, still walking free, perhaps listening right now.

Ashley's words are full of emotion as she remembers her friend and the tragedy that occurred in her home in 2001.

Now I will say I have decided to clip this down just a bit, so it's not to keep you here all night.

As many of you know, uh, Friendswood held a special place in Tara's Heart.

Was you or her friend? It didn't matter. She hadn't seen you for a weekend or year. When she saw you again, she'll act like it was the happiest moment in her whole life.

We were roommates in Georgia College and grew to be extremely close friends.

We had all spats like girls do, I guess, and we'll just walk off and then after a few minutes we'll come back and

just say, hey, let's go run the air and just start gossiping about little things that girls do.

I don't know if we did this because we both knew we were sorry or we're both just too hard-headed to say, I'm sorry.

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