Examiner- The owner of a crime memorabilia web business known as Serial Killers Ink, has gone public with letters he says were written by the stepmother of missing North Carolina girl, Zahra Baker. Eric Gein began corresponding with Elisa Baker shortly after she was arrested on unrelated charges.What follows is an excerpt from one of those letters: “We really didn't kill her, but what he did after the fact is kinda horrifying,” wrote Elisa Baker.
On Wednesday, the Hickory Police Department announced that they have discovered a bone that may be the remains of the missing 10-year-old girl. The bone, which was discovered in a house in Caldwell County, where the Bakers lived until mid-September was sent to the Medical Examiner's office in Chapel Hill for examination.
A few days ago, police determined that a prosthetic leg found in western North Carolina belonged to Zahra.
According to Hickory Police Maj. Clyde Deal, the leg was discovered at a home where Zahra's stepmother once lived. A scanner was used to read the electronic serial number inside the leg, which was matched to the girl’s medical records.
Zahra lost her own leg during her bout with bone cancer.
Elisa Baker was arrested a few days after she told police that her stepdaughter had disappeared from her Hickory, North Carolina home in the middle of the night. She was charged with obstruction of justice, after admitting that she wrote the bogus ransom note found at the scene, as well as several other unrelated charges.
An Amber Alert was originally issued for Zahra, but the investigation soon shifted from a missing person’s case to that of a homicide.
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