Barbara Baker was 35 when she was found severely beaten in her bedroom at her home on Socrates Place in Akron, Ohio, on November 17, 1979. Her son discovered her unresponsive and she was taken to hospital, where she remained unresponsive for several years before dying on November 20, 1995. Her death was ruled a homicide caused by the injuries from that attack.

The case remains unsolved and is listed in the Ohio Attorney General’s unsolved homicide database. The Akron Police Department and the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation continue to list the investigation as open and are asking anyone with information to come forward to help provide closure for Barbara’s family and to identify those responsible.

Does anyone have information about Barbara, her home on Socrates Place, or those who might have been in the area in November 1979?