Sara Jo Mowrey, 82, was last seen at her home in a senior community in Laguna Niguel, California, on the evening of January 12, 2009. She vanished without a trace, leaving nearly all her personal belongings behind, including medication, hearing aids, walker, and purse. The only items reportedly taken were her wheelchair and keys, but the leg supports needed to operate the wheelchair were left at the residence, a detail that raised immediate concern.

Investigators noted inconsistencies in her checking account in the week before she disappeared and quickly treated the case as suspicious.

In September 2014, Baker was charged with his grandmother’s murder and three counts of solicitation to commit murder; authorities alleged Baker killed Mowrey in her home the night she disappeared and disposed of the body in a nearby trash bin, and that he tried to hire someone to kill a witness who allegedly saw him dumping the body. In January 2018 Baker pleaded no contest to reduced charges of solicitation of murder of a witness and being an accessory after the fact to murder. Does anyone have information about Sara Jo Mowrey’s final movements or remembered seeing that Toyota Tacoma in January 2009?