The fact that Donald Baker Sr.’s second wife Stephanie Spitser, and her friend Susanne Baker (both of whom appeared to be contemptible people) had deprived Scotty from riding in a Class 8 Truck by abducting, and then murdering him around Thanksgiving Day, November, 1992; is heartbreaking, to say the least.

Donald Baker Sr. had probably thought that the Ford Class 8 Truck that he drove as part of the Fleet that the Trucking company that he worked for had owned; provided more driving excitement than a Ford Passenger Car or Light-Duty Truck. Donald Baker Sr. had probably also thought that a Chevrolet or GMC Class 6-8 Truck had provided more driving excitement than a General Motors Passenger Car or Light-Duty Truck, that a Dodge Class 6-8 Truck had provided more driving excitement than a Passenger Car or Light-Duty Truck manufactured by the Chrysler Corporation, that an International Harvester/Navistar Class 6-8 Truck has provided more driving excitement than an International Harvester Class 1-3 Pickup Truck, a Travelall, and a Scout; and as far as the North American market is concerned, that an Isuzu Class 4-6 Truck had provided more driving excitement than a Mu/Wizard/Rodeo/Amigo, a Bighorn/Trooper, and a PUP/Isuzu Compact Pickup Truck; that a Mitsubishi Fuso Class 4-6 Truck had provided more driving excitement than any Passenger Car, Light-Duty Truck, or SUV manufactured by Mitsubishi Motors; that a Hino/Toyota Class 4-6 Truck had provided more driving excitement than any Passenger Car, Light-Duty Truck, or SUV manufactured by the Toyota Motor Corporation; and that a UD/Nissan Class 4-6 Truck had provided more driving excitement than any Passenger Car, Light-Duty Truck, or SUV manufactured by the Nissan Motor Corporation.

And, if Donald Baker Sr. had done any research on Trucks that Isuzu, Mitsubishi Fuso, Hino/Toyota, and UD/Nissan sells in markets other than in North America; Donald Baker Sr. might have found out about the additional amounts of driving excitement that the Class 7-8 Trucks that Isuzu, Mitsubishi Fuso, Hino/Toyota, and UD/Nissan each sell in markets other than in North America provide more driving excitement than what the Class 1 vehicles manufactured by each of these Japanese companies can provide.

At the time of committing this heinous act, Stephanie Spitser was pregnant with a child that she had as a result of her having sex with Donald Baker Sr. Authorities were highly perplexed over how a pregnant woman could and would possibly want to endanger a child at the time she and Susanne Baker had kidnapped and murdered Donald Scott “Scotty” Baker Jr.

Stephanie Spitser, jealous of how close her new husband Donald Baker Sr. was to his biological son Donald Scott “Scotty” Baker Jr. , and much time Donald Sr. had spent with his son, especially when Donald Sr. was on the road in his Class 8 Truck; desperately wanted Scotty out of their realm, and wanted to replace Scotty with the child that Stephanie was pregnant with.

Stephanie Spitster was growing increasingly furious with how close Donald Sr. was to Scotty with each passing day. Stephanie also did not get along with Scotty’s biological mother and Donald Sr.’s first wife Ruth Baker. Whenever Stephanie and Ruth would come across each other while out in public anywhere within the area of London, Kentucky; Stephanie would argue with Ruth over how jealous Stephanie also was over Ruth being as doting, caring, and attentive towards Scotty as Donald Sr., himself was.

As you, the reader of this post may have figured; Scotty did not get along with, and had highly resented Stephanie Spitser. Scotty would not want to go over to his father’s house if his stepmother Stephanie was home, and in the company of his father.

As Stephanie Spitser had grown increasingly furious with how close Donald Sr. was to Scotty with each passing day, on one day in November, 1992; when Stephanie Spitser and Suzanne Baker had stayed home all day, doing each other’s laundry at one or the other’s house (meaning that Suzanne came over to Stephanie’s house that day to do each other’s laundry, or Stephanie came over to Suzanne’s house that day to do each other’s laundry); Stephanie had fumed to Suzanne about how close Donald Sr. was to Scotty, and Stephanie had asked Suzanne if as Stephanie’s best friend; the two of them could hatch a plan to silence Scotty once and for all, and successfully replace Scotty with the child that she and Donald Sr. are pregnant with.

As a result, both Stephanie Spitser and Suzanne Baker had jointly hatched a plan where they would kidnap Scotty, kill him; and dispose of his body in a remote location. Stephanie had disclosed to Suzanne where in the area within Kentucky the Elementary School that Scotty had attended, Paces Creek Elementary School is located; what time school would be dismissed on this Half-Day of School just prior to Thanksgiving Day, 1992, and where Donald Sr. would be waiting for Scotty with his Class 8 Rig (Truck). The two had also decided that Stephanie would wear a wig, would impersonate herself as Donald Sr. and Scotty’s distant relative Patricia Smith; and would attempt to take Scotty out of school while impersonating herself as Patricia Smith.

The original plan was for Scotty to ride the School Bus (a Conventional-style School Bus in the Fleet of the Clay County School District’s School Buses), the Driver of the School Bus would drop Scotty off at a Bus Stop on any given corner, and not in front of his biological mother or his paternal grandmother’s house; and Scotty would walk to his paternal grandmother’s house, were Donald Sr. would retrieve Scotty, and the two would then head out on the road in Donald Sr.’s assigned Class 8 Truck.

The finite plan had changed a little bit, where Ruth Baker and one of Scotty’s sisters had jointly attempted to pick Scotty up from school; instead of Scotty riding the School Bus to a Bus Stop near his paternal grandmother’s house, and Scotty would instead wait for his father to retrieve him at his biological mother’s house. When Ruth had sent her daughter (a pre-teenaged or teenaged gal) into the school to seek for Scotty, the gal found out that Scotty wasn’t there.

Initially, Ruth Baker had thought that Scotty had rode the School Bus to a Bus Stop near his paternal grandmother’s house as originally planned. When Ruth had visited his paternal grandmother Dorothy Baker at her home, Dorothy had stated that Scotty had never been to her house at all that day.

Red flags begin to appear in the minds of Ruth Baker and each of her daughters, they visited the homes of each of Scotty’s classmates in the Fourth Grade; most of them stated that they haven’t seen Scotty ever since school was dismissed early that day, and one of them had stated that he saw Scotty being picked up in a Blue Car.

That Blue Car was a 1981-1987 Buick Skyhawk 2-Door Sedan on the General Motors J-Platform, in a Two-Tone Blue and Silver Paint Scheme, and appeared to be fully optioned out; including having the Aluminum Wheels that General Motors had offered as an option on this Car.

In the evening of November 25, 1992; Ruth Baker had stormed into the Elementary School, made her way over to the Main Office, found that the Principal was one of the skeleton staff who were presently at the School; as much of the other staff had already gone home for the Thanksgiving Holiday. The Principal, Caleb Collins; had called his Secretary, Charlotte H. Smith at the local or regional Hospital where Charlotte Smith was visiting a sick relative. Caleb Collins had asked Charlotte Smith if she had released Donald Scott “Scotty” Baker Jr. from school even earlier than the Half-Day Dismissal Time, and Charlotte Smith had confirmed that she had indeed released Scotty from School earlier than the Dismissal Time. Caleb Collins had relayed the news to Ruth Baker that his Secretary had indeed released Scotty earlier from School than the Half-Day Dismissal Time. Ruth Baker then opened the Sign In-Sign Out Book on the Reception Desk in the Main Office, and discovered for herself that Scotty had been signed out by a woman named Patricia Smith. Ruth was alarmed that a person who was not on the ‘Additional Contact’ list required for Scotty’s registration for School had signed him out, and was allowed by the individual School and the entire District to do so. Ruth then demanded that the Principal, Caleb Collins; call the authorities, and report her son missing. Mr. Caleb Collins had cooperated with Ruth’s request, and called the local authorities, but not the FBI.

Because this crime involved a missing and/or abducted child, the FBI was also notified by the Local and State Authorities, and as a result, the FBI, too was dispatched to handle the missing and/or abducted child case of Donald Scott “Scotty” Baker Jr.

During the investigation of this case, Stephanie Spitster was exempt from taking a Polygraph Test administered by the Local and State Authorities, because the State of Kentucky’s Polygraph Policy exempts pregnant women from taking a Polygraph Test.

The FBI, in addition to the Local and State Authorities; had each administered Polygraph Tests to Donald Sr., Ruth Baker, and Suzanne Baker. Donald Sr. and Ruth had passed their Polygraph Tests, while Suzanne had failed hers.

In the meantime, Donald Sr., Ruth, Donald Sr.’s mother and Scotty’s paternal grandmother Dorothy, and all of Scotty’s siblings had each spent the Thanksgiving Holiday pouting over, and bewailing the absence of Scotty.

As this case continued to progress, with the FBI having caught wind of Suzanne Baker and her husband having both driven in her husband’s Class 8 Truck to the Miami area in Florida; Agents from the Miami Field Office had apprehended Suzanne Baker and her husband at the Truck Stop in the Miami area. Not only did they find Suzanne asleep in the Sleeper Cab of her husband’s Truck; but they made a deal with Suzanne’s husband to open the Rolling Door on the rear of the Trailer to search for any possible living or dead bodies in the Trailer; under the condition that the Agents re-tag the Rolling Door of the Trailer so that the recipient does not refuse the goods that Suzanne and her husband had transported, if the recipient had noticed that the Tag had been broken.

The FBI Agents stationed at the Miami Field Office had lured Suzanne out of her husband’s Truck, into their Government-owned Car; and over to the Miami Field Office to question Suzanne. Suzanne had divulged to the Agents in Miami all of the information regarding hers and Stephanie’s involvement in the kidnapping and abduction of Scotty, including why they did it, and exactly how they did it. Including the abandoned Mine in Kentucky where she and Stephanie had disposed of the body (or, in other words; abused the corpse).

The Agents in Miami had made Suzanne sign her name on a blank piece of paper, so that Forensic Document Examiners can compare Suzanne’s cursive handwriting to that of the cursive handwriting on the page of the School’s Sign In-Sign Out Book.

At the same time, because Federal Law Enforcement (including the FBI) policy does not exempt pregnant women from being subjected to a Polygraph Test, in Kentucky; the FBI had administered their own Polygraph Test to Stephanie.

Eventually, with the information that the authorities have pressured both Stephanie and Suzanne to divulge; Law Enforcement personnel and Medical Examiners have found the burned and charred remains of Scotty’s body situated in an abandoned Mine in Kentucky. Authorities have found out from both Stephanie and Suzanne that after Scotty had been choked to death by Suzanne reaching from the backseat of the Buick Skyhawk, that the two women had dumped Scotty’s body in the abandoned Mine; went and purchased Gasoline in a Fuel Can, returned to the abandoned Mine approximately an hour later, doused Scotty’s body in Gasoline; and had set Scotty’s body ablaze.

With Suzanne’s J-Platform Buick Skyhawk having been towed to an impound lot, for the Authorities to examine the Car; Authorities have discovered foot prints and claw marks on the Dashboard, and on the Interior Door Panels; evidence that Scotty had fought, kicked, and scream for his life as Stephanie had reached from the backseat to choke Scotty to death.

Due to the intense media coverage of this particular FBI case, the Trials of both Stephanie Spitser and Suzanne Baker were moved to another County within the State of Kentucky.

Stephanie Spitser was sentenced to life in prison without any chance of parole. Suzanne Baker would be sentenced to 25 years, only to be released 9 years early in 2008.

Donald Sr. would divorce Stephanie following her sentencing, and Stephanie would give birth to the child that she had with Donald Sr. while incarcerated, only for the child to be adopted by Stephanie’s parents.

Below is a link to a website with information on Donald Scott “Scotty” Baker Jr.’s gravesite, including his Date of Birth, Date of Death, which Cemetery in Kentucky his body is buried at, his cause of death; and also includes a photo of Scotty’s gravestone. Scotty’s gravestone happens to have one of the more recent photographs of Scotty to have been taken prior to his kidnapping and murder, his School Photograph that was taken either during the 1991-1992, or the 1992-1993 school year; embedded on his gravestone.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36842014/donald-baker

May Scotty be with his parents Donald Sr., and Ruth in Heaven, the Afterlife, and in other Universes.

A Transcript from the Court Session that had taken place in 1994 due to a lawsuit that Donald Baker Sr. and his ex-wife/Scotty’s biological mother Ruth Baker had jointly filed against the Clay County, Kentucky Board of Education; for not only releasing Scotty to Susanne Baker donning a wig and impersonating Donald Sr. and Scotty’s distant relative Patricia Smith; but also for having not enacted since an earlier time, stricter and punctilious rules and methods for releasing students from school earlier than the time of dismissal to parents or other listed and trusted contacts. In the time since the kidnapping and abduction of Donald Scott “Scotty” Baker Jr., the Kentucky State Legislature has passed laws requiring stricter and punctilious rules and methods for signing a student out of any School within the State of Kentucky; whether it be Public or Private.

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/871/930/1685387/

A Transcript from yet another Court Session that had taken place in 1996 due to an appeal that Donald Baker Sr. and Ruth Baker had attempted to settle with the Clay County, Kentucky Board of Education:

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F3/78/584/504916/

An Article published in 2008 by the Sentinel-Echo, a Newspaper with circulation in Kentucky; about the early release of Susanne Baker from incarceration; after only serving 15 of her 25 year prison sentence:

https://www.sentinel-echo.com/news/local_news/susanne-baker-walks-free/article_061c4d8b-57d3-55c4-a4f7-beaabb65b6a2.html

This FBI Case is the subject of an episode that had originally aired in March, 2002; of the Television Program “The FBI Files”, produced by New Dominion Pictures in the Norfolk suburb of Suffolk, Virginia:

Ironically, even though this trivia is moot as far as this FBI Case is concerned; the kidnapping and abduction of Donald Scott “Scotty” Baker Jr. happened just a day after HM Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain and The Commonwealth had delivered her infamous speech at Guildhall that marked her Ruby Jubilee on the Throne on November 24, 1992; where she had stated that one of her more sympathetic correspondents (Elizabeth II’s Assistant Private Secretary Sir Edward Ford) had described the year 1992 as an “Annus Horribilis” (the Latin-language phrase for the English-language term ‘horrible year’).

On one personal note, the year 1992 was a good year for yours truly, the owner of this very Blog; even though it understandably was not a good year for the Crown and HM Queen Elizabeth II; and the kidnapping and abduction of Donald Scott “Scotty” Baker Jr. had understandably soured the year 1992 for the families of Donald Sr. and Ruth Baker.

On another personal note, Donald Baker Sr.’s second wife Stephanie Spitser, and her friend Susanne Baker both appear to be as contemptible people (a kinder and more polite way of stating that both of these women are bitches) as Shari Lewis’s daughter Mallory Tarcher-Lewis (whose personality is in sharp contrast to that of her mother’s), and Warren Consolidated Schools Teacher Julie Stanaway: