Tulsa Police Search for Remains

Area where bones found due search

By DEON HAMPTON World Staff Writer
3/24/2008

SAPULPA -- Creek County sheriff's deputies and Tulsa police will start a search Monday morning for additional portions of a body following the discovery of human remains Friday in Creek County, authorities said Sunday.

Creek County Sheriff's Capt. John Cooper said the search by about 10 deputies, Tulsa officers and search dogs would begin at 8 a.m.

Authorities said they would set up a command post.

Creek County deputies were called at 5:15 p.m. Friday to a wooded area behind Paintball Adventure Games Inc., where human remains had been found, authorities said.

The business is north of the Creek Turnpike near South 49th West Avenue.

Cooper said patrons found a jawbone and a piece of vertebrae after they went out of bounds during a game.

Some have speculated that the remains are of Cori Baker, 13, who has been missing since Nov. 9, when her older sister's boyfriend, Marquis Bullock, picked her up from Union Alternative School, 5959 S. 129th East Ave.

Cooper, however, said, "There haven't been any indications that lead us to believe that it is her."

Phone calls placed to Daniel Baker, Cori's father, were not immediately returned Sunday.
Creek County deputies were guarding the site Sunday, preventing visitors from entering the business.

Authorities said the state Medical Examiner's Office determined Saturday that the remains were human.

The remains belong to someone younger than 25, but the person's sex had not been determined, authorities said.

A Tulsa County judge ruled March 17 that Bullock must face trial on a charge of first-degree murder in Cori's disappearance.

Bullock, who turned 19 in January, was arrested late Nov. 12. He was booked on Nov. 13 into the Tulsa Jail, where he is being held in lieu of $1 million bail.

Deon Hampton 581-8413
deon.hampton@tulsaworld.com

Source: Tulsa World

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i question the fact that this is Cori Baker...the fact that Bullock had been to this place was probably on in his report from the first time he presented an alabi....and when have we ever been able to prove dental records in 3 days.....sign me too convenient and not convinced...