Bulls, 27, told the jury that Matt Baker spoke harshly of his wife and their life together and considered several methods of killing her. His options included tampering with the brakes on her car, a drive-by shooting, and hanging her and making it look like a suicide, she said. But he told 19th State District Judge Ralph Strother he anticipates defense testimony will begin and end today. Baker is on trial for murder in the April death of his wife.
He has repeatedly denied he killed her. So he decided that making her death appear to be an overdose of sleeping pills was the way to kill her, because people already knew that she had been depressed after the death of their daughter, Kassidy, Bulls said. She said she was granted testimonial immunity before her grand jury appearance. During his cross-examination of Bulls, Gray focused on her past inconsistent statements and other details that were not included in her grand jury testimony.
Bulls, whose father is a music minister, said she met the Bakers in September , when she started attending Crossroads Baptist Church in Lorena, where Baker was pastor. About three months later, she said, Baker spotted her sitting alone in the sanctuary before the service started and asked about her divorce. He told her that whoever found her is going to be a lucky man, Bulls said, adding that his flirtations grew more obvious as the months wore on.
He later told her that he had gotten a vasectomy and was free from sexual diseases, she said. She said Matt Baker started counseling her after her divorce. Their relationship grew into an affair beginning in March , she said.
As their relationship progressed, Baker continued to talk negatively about his wife, saying he should have let her kill herself the first time she reportedly tried, Bulls said. Baker winked at her, she said. Five days later, she went back to the Baker home, and Baker recounted how he killed his wife, she said. Because you know about it and are just as guilty as I am?
