Tag: 2003


  • The man suspected in the killings of five Louisiana women has been eliminated as a suspect in the unsolved 1992 slaying of a University of Georgia student, authorities said Wednesday. DNA obtained earlier this month from Derrick Todd Lee, 34, was compared to DNA recovered from the crime scene where Jennifer Lynn Stone, 22, was…

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  • Until their killers are brought to trial, investigative files related to the unsolved cases of University of Georgia students Jennifer Stone and Tara Baker will remain under lock and key, Athens-Clarke officials said. Meanwhile, authorities cite a new development in the 1992 murder of Stone, a 22-year-old advertising major strangled in her downtown apartment 11…

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  • The Athens Banner-Herald has been diligent about keeping the unsolved homicides of Pamela Crisler, Tara Baker and Jennifer Stone in the public view (e.g., four articles related to the Baker case alone appeared Jan. 19 and 20). No doubt the families and friends of the victims have taken comfort in the newspaper’s continuing coverage of…

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  • The murder of a college student is rare. The unsolved murder of a college student is even rarer, according to an informal survey conducting by the Athens Banner-Herald. The January 2001 murder of 23-year-old Tara Baker, a University of Georgia law student found slain in her burning home, was the first time a UGA student…

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