Georgia man charged with murdering regulation scholar in 23-year-old chilly case denied bond

Harris Marley

World Courant

A 48-year-old Georgia man charged with murdering 23-year-old first-year regulation scholar Tara Louise Baker and setting fireplace to her residence 23 years in the past has been denied bond in Athens. 

Edrick Lamont Faust has been charged with homicide, two counts of felony homicide, one rely of aggravated assault, concealing the loss of life of one other, arson, possession of a knife through the fee of a felony, tampering with proof, and one rely of aggravated sodomy, in response to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI). 

He was booked into the Athens-Clarke County Jail.

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“Tara Louise Baker was a hardworking scholar with a shiny future forward of her,” GBI Director Chris Hosey mentioned in a press release. “Tara’s life was stolen from her in a horrific act of violence. Whereas this arrest doesn’t convey her again to us, I pray that it helps convey closure to the Baker household as they proceed their therapeutic journey.”

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Baker, who would have celebrated her twenty fourth birthday the day after she was discovered, graduated Cum Laude from Georgia School in Milledgeville in 1998 with two bachelor’s levels, in response to FOX 5. 

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