Bradley Bakker (Child)

I didn't give them any information that they wanted.

He took me, my brother, and my sister. We all went to church. Oh, while we were at the church, they would have us doing just a bunch of little fun activities, which also involved praying.

I said, wait a minute. Are you charging me with murder? And he said, yes. And I went, wait a minute. Wait a minute here. Wait a minute.

After I was given immunity for my testimony, I just told him everything, everything I knew.

They had my neighbor involved in it. He's going to shoot her and kill her.

He told me that Bob was going to take his children on Wednesday to church, and that's when they were going to wait for her, and that's when they were going to kill her.

I could have. I really just didn't want to deal with it, to be honest with you. You know, there's, and that sounds disgusting, but it's easier just to not do anything than it is to confront it and say, okay, this is going down. I didn't want to be a part of it.

I was watching, at that particular time, I was watching ice skating.

I asked him if she was dead. That was the only thing I asked.

And he said yes. And I said, how do you know? And he said, because I was there. And I saw her.

I took all the information off of the gun and wrote it down on a blue sticky pad. What information? The information on the serial number. Anything that was on the side of the gun, I wrote down.

I don't know.

I don't think I really believed it at that time that he did it. Even to this day, I myself, I'm not 100% sure that he's the one that did this.

I just remember arriving there and my dad acting very surprised as to what was going on.

Whoa!

I do believe that he is guilty, and he was found guilty twice for a reason, but I physically haven't gotten that chance to ask my father face to face, and I would like to do that.

I still pray every single night to her. Dear mommy, I love you and I miss you and I'll never ever forget about you and I will continue praying for you every single night as long as I live.

I remember the last day quite well, the day that it happened. Memories of her voice are definitely in my head.

Say bye, Bradley. Say bye-bye.

I had no idea really what was going on. All I know was my mother was in danger and something wasn't right.

When my mother was murdered, I was about 7 and 1 half years old.

I just remember crying for hours.

Why did this happen to me? Why has this happened to my mother?

For like five years after it happened, I thought every day I was going to wake up and it was going to be a dream. I cried for weeks and weeks afterwards.

Yes.