Overview
- A Clarke County jury returned guilty verdicts on all 12 counts Tuesday after resuming deliberations.
- Convictions include malice and felony murder, aggravated sodomy, burglary, first-degree arson, and tampering with evidence.
- Prosecutors said DNA collected in 2001 tied Faust to the crime, and jurors reexamined DNA reports and heard a 2024 interview confronting him with the match.
- Baker, 23, was found dead in her Athens apartment on Jan. 19, 2001, in a fire investigators determined was intentionally set.
- The cold case advanced after a 2024 arrest following a GBI-led review supported by a 2023 law creating a DNA-focused unit, and sentencing is set for 3 p.m. Thursday.