Opinion ID: 1801800
Heading Depth: 5
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Interviews with Baxter

Text: Baxter's name surfaced in the investigation on November 28, 1987. On December 1, 1987, she was interviewed by Detectives Pete Chavez and Frank Martinez of the Fresno County Sheriff's Department while she was in jail on petty theft and drug charges. She was interviewed a second time by Chavez, Martinez and Carla Riba, an investigator for the Fresno County District Attorney's Office. No promises were made to her at either interview. During the first interview, with Chavez and Martinez, Baxter told them about the rings that Urban had offered Holt as payment for the money he owed Holt for drugs. As a result, the detectives recovered the rings from Mark Bryant. During the second interview, Baxter told Riba, among other things, that defendant described Urban's killing to her. She told Riba that defendant told her he and Holt forced Urban to get on his knees, that he pleaded for help, and that both Holt and defendant shot him. Baxter told Riba that defendant and Holt took [Urban] out and they shot him three times in the head. Baxter said specifically that defendant shot the victim. Baxter also said that both defendant and Holt told her they had pushed a vehicle  presumably the victim's van  out of the yard.