evil. this plot to kill him had been going back months. months. there was a seethiing hatred. it was a game. everyone else was just collateral damage. it just destroyed my heart. i m angry now, and i was never a very angry person. hello, and welcome to dateline. in the eyes of his daughter, randy baker could do no wrong. he was her rock and a mentor for countless others. randy dedicated himself to a deeply personal mission counseling others to overcome addiction. it was a battle he, too, waged as a young man, so when randy was found dead, investigators wondered, did someone from his past put an end to his future, or was there trouble closer to home? here is keith morrison with the secret keepers. it was a warm colorado morning on the right side of summer. the road beneath his wheels, the vast blue canopy above, renewed possibilities in his heart. randy baker recovering heart patient cruised through the sun to the job he loved, better now back to sweet routin
the police asked the public for help, and a few days later a tip came in. randy s pontiac had been listed for sale on facebook. and so we followed up on that facebook post and tracked down this female that was trying to offload randy s car. i didn t know, like really don t start don t try the tears. we don t want to get to that extent because it s just falling on deaf ears. oh, my god. and that led to yet another career criminal to another and to another. a motley crue. they brought them in, asked some personal questions like where were you when randy was shot, how d you get the car. and that s when this ragged band of walking felons said they got in the car, they said, from someone close to randy baker, someone not named kelly. coming up cell phone secrets reveal a loved one with no love lost for
she could have her dad s harley. and so it was a shock when her stepmom told her it was gone. she said that he sold it and that it s not in her hands. she knew nothing about the sale essentially is what she told me. odd. why would he sell his prized bike? and then just as the detectives were starting to dig into that puzzle, what do you know, five days after randy baker was murdered somebody found his missing pontiac. this is randy baker s pontiac g-6. this is the one he was driving the day he was murdered. how does it wind up here in the police lot? a citizen actually spotted it in an alley down by the college. it had been abandoned, the plates had been removed. the key was locked inside on the floorboard and the car obviously had been wiped down. who dictched the car? investigators didn t know, but