Zahra Baker Update: "Chainsaw Massacre" Role-Play Revealed in Warrants
NEWTON, N.C. (CBS/WBTV/AP) An online "chainsaw massacre role-playing" game played by Zahra Baker's stepmother and father was among the subjects probed by police in the case of the disabled girl who authorities in North Carolina say was killed and dismembered, according to court documents released Tuesday.
According to CBS affiliate WBTV, the hundreds of newly unsealed documents show police and prosecutors sought records from a variety of wireless communication providers, including cell phone records for men stepmother Elisa Baker had been romantically involved with before marrying Adam Baker.
One of those men was Aaron Young, who was married to Elisa before she met Adam. The documents say Elisa and Young remained close, although they say she told Adam that Aaron Young was her brother.
Aaron Young was mentioned along with Adam and Elisa Baker in court documents detailing Hickory police's efforts to get records from the Instant Messaging Virtual Universe website. The social networking and gaming site allows users to create three-dimensional avatars and communicate with each other.
According to a Nov. 8 warrant, police were told that an IMVU user had a conversation with Adam Baker and Elisa Baker "regarding their involvement with chainsaw massacre role-playing" that included Young.
"The date of Sept. 22 was given regarding their virtual family 'doing a murder with chainsaws,'" according to the warrant, although it isn't clear from the document what "chainsaw massacre role-playing" entailed.
Police say Elisa Baker gave them information led police to the girl's remains. Elisa Baker said Zahra had been dismembered after she died, and her remains dumped in various sites around western North Carolina, according to police; she also said her husband, Adam Baker, dismembered the girl and helped dump her body.
No one has been charged in Zahra's death, and the warrants don't reveal how she died. Elisa Baker is currently in jail on charges of obstructing the investigation, allegedly by writing a false ransom note. Adam Baker is free on bond after facing charges unrelated to his daughter. Calls to attorneys for both were not immediately returned.
After Zahra's disappearance became publicly known in early October, family friends remembered the girl as constantly smiling, despite her health problems. She had lost a leg to bone cancer, and chemotherapy left her with two hearing aids.
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