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Amy Baker arrested on drug charges

Amy Baker

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Staff Report 6:53 PM Sunday, March 14, 2010

GOSHEN TWP., Clermont County — Amy Baker, the key witness whose testimony led to life sentences for a Union Twp. couple convicted of killing 3-year-old Marcus Fiesel of Middletown, was arrested Saturday on felony drug charges.

Clermont County Municipal Court records show Baker, 28, who now goes by her maiden name, Amy Lynn Ramsey, was arrested by Goshen Twp. police early Saturday morning, March 13, in the 6500 block of Ohio 132. Police charged her with operating a vehicle under the influence and felony drug trafficking.

She is being held in the Clermont County Jail without bond until her court hearing, scheduled for Monday morning, March 15.

Baker’s testimony helped a Clermont County jury convict Liz Carroll on murder and other charges in February 2007. Less than two weeks after his wife’s conviction, David Carroll Jr., pleaded guilty to murder and gross abuse of a corpse. While Liz Carroll’s sentence was 54 years to life, her husband’s plea awarded him 16 years to life in prison.

The Carrolls were charged with Fiesel’s brutal death in late August 2006. Prosecutors said they bound the developmentally disabled child in a blanket reinforced with tape and placed him in a crib in a closet of their Union Twp. home on Aug. 4, 2006.

When they returned two days later, Marcus was dead. Baker, the couple’s live-in girlfriend at the time, said she and David took the child’s body to a secluded spot in Brown County, burned the remains repeatedly and threw them into the Ohio River.

Shortly after the trials ran their course, Baker was charged by Kentucky authorities with tampering with evidence. Those charges were eventually dropped, but not before she spent nearly two months in jail waiting extradition from Ohio.

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