Zahra Baker

Zahra Clare Baker was a 10 year old, 2 time cancer survivor and amputee when she was brutally murdered in her Hickory, North Carolina home that she shared with her father, Adam, & new step mother, Elisa. Zahra was reported missing by her father on October 9, 2010. However, after some of Zahra’s remains were found, including her prosthetic leg, in late October/early November of that year, it was apparent that she had been dead much longer.

When questioned, Elisa Baker told police she found Zahra dead of “natural causes” in her room around September 24, 2010, & following the discovery, Adam dismembered her body and the couple scattered her remains in various wooded areas around their community. However, cell phone records were only able to Elisa to the murder. Elisa Baker was charged and sentenced to 18 years in prison for the 10 year old’s murder.

Adam Baker has never been charged.