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Remains Positively Identified as Travis Lee Baker

By David Lohr

According to authorities in North Carolina, remains found in a Catawba hay field yesterday have been positively identified as Travis Lee Baker, a 19-year-old man who went missing on April 14, 2007. As was previously reported, 46-year-old John Mitchell Jr., a resident of Orange County, Florida, was booked late last night and placed into a county jail after a tipster provided police with information that implicated Mitchell and led to the discovery of Travis's remains. According to Lt. Joel Fish, of the Catawba County Sheriff's Office, Mitchell got into an argument with Travis and shot him. A motive in the shooting has not yet been released; however investigators believe at least two other people were present during the incident. Charges against those individuals could be forthcoming, as well as charges against the owner of the property where the remains were found...continue to full post

Full post as published by Criminal Report Daily on June 25, 2009 (boomark / email).