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At a little after 9 a.m. on Friday, November 8, 1985, in West Harris County, just two

miles north of small town Katie, Texas, a couple rice farmers on their way to harvest

the day's crops noticed black smoke billowing high into the air.

In their vehicle, they followed the smoke to its source and discovered a car smoldering

from what had obviously been a terrible fire not long before.

The men sped away to call police.

Authorities and firefighters arrived quickly, but weren't prepared for what they found.

Inside the smoldering vehicle in the front passenger's seat was a body.

The body, of course, was charred.

It was so charred, in fact, so disfigured from the blaze that Harris County Sheriff's

deputies couldn't tell if the body was male or female.

Identifying these remains wasn't going to be an easy task, but at least they could

identify who the car belonged to.

Later that afternoon, Sheriff's investigators did just that, and the vehicle, a 1984 Jaguar,

was registered to a familiar name, 52-year-old millionaire oilman Edward Gerald Baker, known

to most as simply Ed.

The Houston Police and the Harris County Sheriff's Department, in fact, had been on the lookout

for this very car since the day before, Thursday, November 7, 1985.

At 9.15 that morning, Ed and his wife Sandy Baker's gardener saw that a window of their

northwest Houston home was broken, and inside were signs of what looked like a burglary

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