Timeline Of Events In Erica Baker's Disappearance
Posted: 4:35 pm EST February 4, 2005
DAYTON, Ohio -- It has been six years since Erica Baker disappeared. She vanished on Feb. 7, 1999, while walking her dog.The next day, on Feb. 8, police drained a pond near the location where she was last seen. Also, dozens of volunteers searched for her.Two weeks later the Erica Baker Recovery Center opened in Kettering and then later moved to the Van Buren Shopping Center.In May of 1999, Erica's picture was featured in People magazine and actress Sarah Jessica Parker appeared in a public service announcement to help find Erica.In 2002, prosecutors requested that attorney Beth Lewis testify before a grand jury about what a deceased client, Jan Franks, may have known about Baker's disappearance. However, Lewis refused to testify, citing attorney-client privilege.In 2004, Frank's husband signed a waiver allowing Lewis to talk, but once again she refused. The case then went to the Ohio Supreme Court, where the court ordered Lewis to talk. She appealed that order.In December 2004, A Montgomery County judge ordered Christian Gabriel to be brought to Kettering from the Southern Correctional Institute. He was serving a nine-month sentence for a felony in Clark County. Once in Kettering, he testified as a witness on behalf of the state of Ohio.
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