When One Tragedy Solves Another - September 7 2025

Morning Cup of Murder

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

4.7 • 723 Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Subscribe on Youtube for special episodes: https://youtube.com/@morningcupofmurder?si=y6y52dP-CUcPBEaW Stay Safe - A Morning Cup of Murder Podcast Coming Soon! Have a close call with something horrifying? A dark family story you've been needing to share? What about an unexplained encounter? Share your stories with us by emailing them to [email protected] and they could be read on a future episode! Join us on Patreon! For as little as $1 get amazing bonus content you can’t hear anywhere else! https://www.patreon.com/morningcupofmurder Looking for Merch? Get exclusive designs on Teepublic and Bonfire! Teepublic: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/morning-cup-of-murder?ref_id=35179&utm_campaign=35179&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=Morning%2BCup%2Bof%2BMurder Bonfire: https://www.bonfire.com/store/morningcupofmurder/ Want to drop us a line or see what else we have going on? Find all things Morning Cup of Murder at our website: morningcupofmurder.com Want kid-friendly chills? Check out our show The Cryptid Catalog where my son Killian and I weave a biweekly cryptid creature feature. https://open.spotify.com/show/7vwn8JNkTPOmxwRoHsVDc1 Information on today’s episode:September 7th: Brook Baker Found Dead (1997) Sometimes it takes one tragedy to solve another. On September 7th 1997 a young girl was found dead inside of her apartment. A case that would have stayed unsolved had it not been for the unfortunate tragedy suffered by another victim. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	There were two more murders, 15 miles away.
0:02.6	When police arrived, they found the telephones and electricity lines.
0:06.0	We have a weird homicide.
0:08.8	A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird...
0:12.0	A cup of murder.
0:15.0	Sometimes it takes one tragedy to solve another.
0:19.6	On September 7, 1997, a young girl was found dead inside of her
0:24.3	apartment. A case that would have stayed unsolved had it not been for the unfortunate tragedy
0:29.7	suffered by another victim. So if you like your coffee hot but your bones chilled, sit back
0:36.3	and start your day with a morning cup of murder.
0:39.9	Brooke Elizabeth Baker always had big dreams. Growing up in the small town of Vincennes,
0:46.3	Indiana, in a low-income family, Brooke was the first in her family to attend college.
0:52.5	Wanting nothing more than to be a writer, she worked for her high school's newspaper,
0:57.5	started a two-year journalism program at Vincent's University, wrote for their newspaper,
1:03.5	and seized every opportunity she could to make sure her dream became a reality.
1:09.0	Though she made sure to make some friends along the way, doing so easily,
1:12.9	she focused way more in her budding journalism career than on things like dating,
1:17.5	though she did see a boy from time to time.
1:20.7	She wanted to focus on harder-hitting stories
1:23.7	and became fascinated by the fraternities on campus. More specifically, the power they held
1:30.7	despite their less-than-cellar reputations. She learned about years' worth of sexual assault
1:37.2	and cover-ups, and though several of her friends were members of these fraternities, they were
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Morning Cup of Murder, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Morning Cup of Murder and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.