Blaine Alexander

My dad was so protective of his kids, and he was devastated.

As a six-foot-three, nearly 400-pound man, that he couldn't protect his daughter from the evil that happened.

If you've got, if he was tying his shoe down the street, I want to know.

He did that with more than just Chris.

Nothing was recovered from the crime scene to rule Chris in or out.

No fingerprints, no DNA.

Forensic investigators did find hair in Tara's hand, but testing determined it was her own.

With so little evidence, the investigation was stuck.

and police would return again and again to the same place.

The months were slipping by.

In January 2002, the one-year anniversary of Tara's death came and went with no arrest.

For the Baker family, the unanswered questions were agonizing.

They knew police had to hold back details about the investigation, but they wondered if they were even getting basic facts.

I was getting it very sporadically.

Oh, this happened.

Oh, well, this also happened.

And then this happened.

Every so often, the Bakers would pile into the car

And drive the 80-odd miles to the Athens-Clarke County PD.

I was in the car with them when they would drive up there to make the police talk to them.