The Trail Went Cold - Episode 251 - Sandra Kay Baker

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

May 25, 2000. Mercer County, Pennsylvania. After last being seen at a convenience store, 46-year old Sandra Kay Baker supposedly phones her fiancée, Billy Crea Jr., to say that she is in danger and cannot return home, but she is never heard from again. Five years later, Billy is named as a suspect in Sandy’s disappearance after a private detective he had once hired named Clifford Aley is charged with lying to law enforcement. Aley reveals that he heard Billy confess to Sandy’s murder, but there are a number of credibility issues with his story, so without a body or any other corroborating evidence, no charges are ever filed against Billy. Was Sandra Kay Baker murdered by her spouse? If so, did Clifford Aley have direct involvement in the crime? This week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold” explores a controversial missing persons case which has yet to reach a conclusive resolution after two decades. If you have any information about this case, please contact the Pennsylvania State Police at (724) 662-4200. Listen and follow along to Toxic: The Britney Spears Story on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Pandora or wherever you find your podcasts. Additional Reading: https://charleyproject.org/case/sandra-kay-baker “Who Killed? Pittsburgh, Pa” by Jack Swint https://www.post-gazette.com/uncategorized/2008/02/09/Missing-woman-declared-dead-after-7-years/stories/200802090129 http://www.sharonherald.com/news/local_news/children-seek-ruling-of-sandra-baker-s-death/article_4dbdde34-1c0a-5a89-a089-cfc6ad40cd8b.html https://www.sharonherald.com/news/local_news/suspected-killer-is-dead/article_d3f95f57-e47d-544e-bcc4-9f494dfaa540.html https://www.sharonherald.com/news/local_news/private-eye-aley-waives-hearing-on-threat-charges/article_34aace7f-57b5-538b-ac43-9e6bb411a0ba.html https://www.sharonherald.com/news/local_news/update-aley-pleads-guilty-to-federal-gun-charges/article_9e6f2176-2ef1-5659-9499-413cbcea8d9d.html https://www.ncnewsonline.com/news/judge-finds-new-castle-private-investigator-guilty-of-lying-to-cops/article_196c7429-85f1-51bc-a8f1-425241d0f5a7.html https://www.newspapers.com/image/96571682/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/96571696/ “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	We would like to send out a special thanks to Toxic the Brittany Spears Story Podcast for sponsoring the Trail and Cold.
0:06.0	Listen and follow along to Toxic the Brittany Spears Story on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts Pandora,
0:12.0	or wherever you find your podcasts.
0:14.0	Thank you and enjoy the show.
0:16.0	May 25, 2000.
0:20.0	Mercer County, Pennsylvania
0:22.0	After last being seen at a convenience store,
0:24.0	46-year-old Sandra K. Baker supposedly phones her fiance Billy Crete Jr.
0:29.0	to say that she is in danger and cannot return home,
0:32.0	but she has never heard from again.
0:34.4	Five years later, Billy is named as a suspect in Sandy's disappearance after a private detective
0:39.8	he once hired no murder charges are ever filed and Sandy remains a missing person.
0:54.4	After that the trail went cold. Oh, uh, uh, uh,
1:04.0	uh,
1:05.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
1:07.0	uh,
1:08.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of the Trail Went Cold.
1:36.4	I'm your host Robin Warder and today we're going to be exploring an unsolved
1:40.3	missing person's case, the 2000 disappearance of Sandra K Baker.
1:45.7	This case was originally suggested to me over two years ago by a listener named Katie, and
1:50.2	I have to admit that I had never heard of it before.
1:53.0	On the surface, this might sound like one of those stories where a woman goes missing
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