Blayne Alexander
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They look at her boyfriend, Chris Melton, who now we know was not Tara's killer.
They look at the maintenance man.
They look at one of her law school classmates.
All of these people are under the suspicion of police until finally, more than two decades later, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation is able to go back, re-examine DNA evidence that was pulled from her sexual assault kit and ultimately get a name, Edrick Fost.
And so 25 years after Tara Baker was killed,
And the other piece that I thought was interesting, and this is something that we heard from one of the investigators on this, was that none of the items, none of them were actually brought in by the killer.
And so the knife was from the knife block in her kitchen.
The cord around her neck was her own printer cord.
They were all taken from there in the house.
That's what one would think, right?
And that's why I think so many times it came back to Chris Milton, the boyfriend, right?
Because a lot of people, investigators would look and say, okay, this is what makes sense.
And I mean, you know this from our Dateline stories, that's always who police look at first, the romantic interest, the partner, whoever it is.
That's always going to be the first focus.
And that's not something β I've got to say in my time at Dateline, that's not something that I think I've done to actually be able to go inside the crime scene where something happened.