Then, to get rid of any trace evidence that would lead the authorities back to them, they poured beer over the crime scene and went home to dispose of their bloody clothes and knife in a nearby dumpster. At that point, he said, Nathaniel, in a rage, stabbed their roommate before cutting his throat. They were just walking around when Nathaniel stumbled, leading Ron to make a joke.
But it somehow escalated to murder.Īccording to records, Duncan admitted that he and Nathaniel brought Ron to the tunnel in Chatsworth Park early in the evening of June 21, 1990. He said that the pair had the idea to kidnap their roommate and demand a ransom from his parents after seeing a similar plot unfold on a television show. About two years later, though, Duncan reappeared with an attorney by his side and confessed that he and Nathaniel were both involved in Ron’s murder.
They thus began questioning Ron’s roommates, Duncan Gordon Martinez and Nathaniel Blalock, shortly after which, the former disappeared. Yet, as time passed by and the LAPD found no new leads or concrete suspects, they determined that the calls were just a ruse by the killer(s) to throw them off the track. After all, Ronald’s parents had received a pair of anonymous calls – one before his body was found and one after – wherein the caller demanded $100,000 for his safe return. And that’s when the kidnapping and theft theory came to light. They looked into the possibility of his death being a sacrifice for the regarded holy day but found nothing, especially as the followers of Wicca are strictly against human slaughter. Since Ronald Baker was murdered an hour after the summer solstice, the police thought that the Mystic Circle, a registered UCLA group which Ron was a member of, also known as the Bruins for Metaphysical Inquiry, might be involved.
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However, once Ron and his cause of death were identified, the homicide investigation began in full force. The Los Angeles Police Department had initially thought the body was that of a traveler who mistakenly got hit by a train. Along with that, Ron’s throat was so badly slashed that his head had nearly been severed from the rest of his body. He was wearing a string necklace with a pentagram pendant and had been stabbed a total of 18 times. On June 22, 1990, the morning after the longest day of the year, a pair of hikers found Ronald Baker’s cold body lying near a railroad tunnel entrance at Chatsworth Park.
Yet, when his mangled body was discovered in the said tunnel, it confounded the local community to its core, purely because of the heinousness of the crime. It was also no secret that Ron was studying pagan witchcraft, also known as Wicca, and that he frequently meditated in the railroad tunnel. He was involved in the student ministry on the UCLA campus, where he was an astrophysics major and was also a Methodist church member, which he had attended since he was a boy growing up in Woodland Hills. Ronald “Ron” Baker was a young man who friends and family described as a serious individual looking for spiritual fulfillment.
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