Six days since five Chilean students were shot in Miramar Beach, accused murderer Dannie Roy Baker sits in the Walton County Jail while three families sit in hospitals with their loved ones as Chile prepares to receive the bodies of two slain students.
Sebastian Mauricio Arizaga-Suarez, 27, is in stable condition and Francisco Javier Cofre-Fernande, 25, is in critical condition suffering from a gunshot wound to the face. David Alonzo Bilbao-Meza is in good condition, according to Chilean newspaper La Tercera.
The bodies of Nicolas Pablo Corp-Torres, 23, and Racine Balbontin-Aragondona, 22, are expected to arrive in Chile on Thursday.
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Baker remains a mystery to those who have met him locally.
He has a registered nonprofit organization in Florida called Perfect Heart Ministry. The mission statement in the articles of incorporation filed in 2000 say the corporation is "organized for church ministry of promoting the Gospel through Christian music in the State of Florida."
Baker is listed as the incorporator. Two others, Trina and Jason Myers, formerly of Freeport, are listed as being on the board of directors. Calls to more recent phone numbers for the couple have gone unreturned.
Attorney Bart Fleet said he didn't realize he'd met Baker until the Daily News called him recently to ask about the corporation. Fleet's office is listed as the registered agent for the ministry and had helped Baker file documents with the state.
Fleet said he hasn't spoken to Baker since the fall of 2001.
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When Baker volunteered with the local Republican Party headquarters during the 2004 election campaign, other volunteers remembered that he traveled to Atlanta once a year to help with the Atlanta Fest Christian music festival. But festival organizers said there are so many volunteers that no one remembered Baker specifically.
One person who met Baker on several occasions said she didn't know much about his past, but that he made her feel "cautious and uneasy."
Cheryl Rhoads cleans the town home directly across from where Baker lived at Summer Lake in Miramar Beach.
"He must have been sitting at his window, looking out all the time," Rhoads said.
She said it didn't matter if it was 6 a.m. or 2:30 p.m., Baker would ring the doorbell after she arrived at her job.
"He wouldn't wait to be invited in," Rhoads said. "He would just come in when you opened the door."
Rhoads said sometimes Baker would ask her how much she would charge to clean his home and sometimes he only wanted to talk about religion. He even gave her a copy of his book "Man's Perfection before God."
Rhoads said she discarded the book because, although she is a Christian, the ideas were too extreme for her taste.
On Amazon.com, Baker described his book as "my testimony of being a disciple of Jesus Christ, and by my covenant with God, walking in man's perfection before God."
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