The cousin, Bessareen Gonzalez, agreed to let Trooper Ching record a follow-up conversation with Charlie. She said Charlie had confessed and said again that she wanted to kill herself.
The troopers' investigation continued for more than two months without any arrests until this week, when Charlie's cousin in Anchorage called them on Tuesday. She told the troopers she wanted to be with Baker and that "T. Later that day, after the interview, Charlie stabbed herself in the stomach. Charlie went inside and found Baker dead, she said. He bent down and picked up something, then continued to walk away. She said she came back about an hour later and saw Frank leaving with the hood of his sweatshirt pulled over his head. Frank." Baker said he wanted to be alone with the man, Charlie told the troopers, so she left. She was "covered in blood."Ĭharlie said she was at the Front Street home earlier that morning with Baker and a man described in the charges as "T. The troopers tracked down Charlie to talk to her. There was a knife in the snow near the home, and because the snow around it was undisturbed, it appeared to have been thrown there, Ching wrote. "Further investigation revealed there were bloodstains leading outside." lying on the couch deceased with apparent multiple stab wounds to his upper torso area," Ching wrote. Baker's body remained at the scene, the home of Galen Frank. The health aide called troopers about 6:30 a.m.Ĭhing and another investigator arrived about 11:30 a.m. Baker's mother told the village health aide, who went to the scene of the homicide and confirmed Baker was dead and appeared to have been stabbed. Trooper Henry Ching's affidavit, part of the charging document, explains why troopers arrested Charlie:Ĭharlie called Baker's mother early May 2 and told her that he had been stabbed to death. The assault in the Interior village occurred May 2.Ĭharlie allegedly told the cousin that Baker's last words were, "Why do you love me so much?" Charlie had earlier tried to pin the murder on another man. A woman jailed on murder charges Tuesday in the May slaying of a man in Minto admitted in a secretly recorded phone call that she stabbed him, according to a charging document.Īn Alaska State Trooper listened as Carleen Charlie, 24, told her cousin she stabbed Jordan Baker, 26, the charges say.