Monday, May 28, 2007

Sandra Baker now missing 7 years, Delaware Township, Mercer County, Pennsylvania

The good news is that Sandra K. Baker is obviously not forgotten, not even by area media.


Published May 24, 2007 08:35 pm - Sandra Kay Baker went missing seven years
ago today, but her best friend Linda Henry hasn’t given up hope that the case of
her disappearance will be solved.
Friend of Baker marks 7th year of disappearance
By Monica Pryts
Herald Staff Writer
DELAWARE TOWNSHIP —
Sandra Kay Baker went missing seven years ago
today, but her best friend Linda Henry hasn’t given up hope that the case of her
disappearance will be solved.
“Every year when it’s unresolved it gets
harder, but I try to do positive things,” said Mrs. Henry of
Greenville.
Today she plans to think of the good times she spent with her
friend and hang new posters in the Greenville area that show Ms. Baker’s smiling
face and list information about her disappearance.
“I’m still trying to keep
it in the public eye,” she said, adding she thinks about Ms. Baker every
day.
Ms. Baker, who was 46 and lived in Delaware Township went she went
missing May 25, 2000, is presumed dead, state police said. Her fiancé, William
T. Crea Jr., whom she used to live with in his parents’ home, has been named a
suspect in her disappearance. Crea, who now lives in Ellwood City, hasn’t been
charged.
In January 2006, Clifford Stephen Aley Jr., 49, a private
investigator from Ambridge who performed a background check on Ms. Baker for
Crea, was found guilty of lying to police about her disappearance.
Aley was
sentenced in March 2006 to 18 to 48 months in prison and is serving in
Frackville. Aley appealed the conviction but it was denied in February in state
Superior Court. He’s also serving a 4-to-12-months sentence for threatening
Mercer County Sheriff’s deputies and Mercer County Jail guards.
While Aley
was on trial, he testified that on May 28, 2000, Crea told him he strangled Ms.
Baker May 25 after accusing her of having an affair. Crea told Aley he buried
her body in a container where no one would trip over it, about five to eight
miles from his parents’ home at 62 Folk Road, Delaware Township. Police have
searched that area but found nothing.
Aley admitted he lied to police about
Ms. Baker’s disappearance because Crea told him he would have Aley’s children
killed if he told police Crea confessed to killing Ms. Baker.
Mrs. Henry said
she believes Ms. Baker is dead and there may be someone out there who knows more
about her disappearance. She urges anyone with information to come
forward.
“Fear keeps them from coming forward. Realize even if you’re afraid,
that to think of the fact if you had a loved one missing, wouldn’t you want
someone to come forward and help you?” Mrs. Henry asked.
Police said Crea
reported Ms. Baker missing May 31, 2000, and that he last saw her May 25 at the
Sheetz in Pymatuning Township.

If you happen to be someone who has any additional information on the disappearance of Sandra Baker, please call the Pennsylvania State Police at (724) 662-4200 or (724) 662-6162.

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