The Trail Went Cold - Episode 201 - Erica Baker

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

February 7, 1999. Kettering, Ohio. Nine-year old Erica Baker leaves her family’s home to take their dog for a walk. While a pair of eyewitnesses see Erica in a nearby park, she soon vanishes without a trace and the dog is found unattended. Six years later, a suspect named Christian Gabriel is indicted on the charges of evidence tampering and abuse of a corpse after confessing that he was in a van which fatally struck Erica in a hit-and-run accident before the responsible parties disposed of her body. Even though Gabriel recants his confession, he winds up being convicted on these charges and serves nearly six years in prison. Numerous searches fail to turn up Erica’s body and following his release, Gabriel still does not divulge the location of her remains. Was Gabriel being truthful in his original confession or did something else happen to Erica? On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore one of the most frustrating missing children’s cases you’ll ever hear about. If you have information about this case, please contact the Kettering Police Department (937) 296-2555. Additional Reading: http://charleyproject.org/case/erica-nicole-baker https://caselaw.findlaw.com/oh-court-of-appeals/1469914.html https://mercercountyoutlook.net/2018/02/08/the-mystery-of-erica-baker-continues-after-18-years/ https://www.whio.com/news/erica-baker-what-the-missing-girl-would-look-like-today/vskS120C1pVST5CqE8k6iI/ https://apnews.com/article/6286840462bb1738eead57e7de25f209 https://www.newspapers.com/image/409877651/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/409877927/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/410119613/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/410119738/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/410813727/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/410813770/ “The Trail Went Cold” is on Patreon! Visit www.patreon.com/thetrailwentcold to become a patron and gain access to our exclusive bonus content. “The Trail Went Cold” is now doing a weekly livestream show on GetVokl every Thursday from 7:00-8:00 PM ET as part of their “True Crime Thursday” line-up. For more information, please visit their website. The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote. All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

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0:00.0	February 7th, 1999.
0:04.0	Kettering, Ohio.
0:06.3	Nine-year-old Erica Baker leaves her family's home to take a dog for a walk.
0:10.8	While a pair of eyewitnesses to see Erica in a nearby park, she soon vanishes without a trace, and the dog is found unattended.
0:18.0	Six years later, a suspect named Christian Gabriel is indicted on the charges of evidence tampering and abuse of a corpse
0:24.9	after confessing that he was in a van which fatally struck Erica before the responsible parties disposed of her body.
0:31.9	Even though Gabriel recants his confession, he winds up serving nearly six years
0:36.0	in prison, but numerous searches fail to turn up Erica's body and she continues to remain a missing
0:42.2	person.
0:43.0	After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, I'm not.
0:53.0	Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
1:05.0	uh, and uh, and uh,
1:07.0	uh,
1:08.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of The Trail Went Cold.
1:25.0	I'm your host Robin Warder and we've got a unique missing children's case to cover today.
1:30.0	The 1999 disappearance of 9-year-old Erica Baker.
1:35.0	Cold cases involving children are always difficult to cover, but last year,
1:40.0	I actually received separate requests to cover this story from listeners named Art and Clay,
1:45.4	so I thought it was about time I did an episode. What really makes this story stand out
1:50.0	from other missing children's cases is that even though Erica's body has never been found,
1:54.9	a suspect named Christian Gabriel was indicted and convicted for his role in Erica's disappearance
2:00.7	and served nearly six years in prison before his release.
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