Debra’s background
Debra Lynn Baker had a nice life. Her early stages in Wichita, Texas were a commonplace out of some lazy screenwriter mind. She was young and good-looking woman that married her childhood sweetheart, Tony Baker in 1975 and remained married for 20 years. They had a son, Charles in 1976 who played football in high school. The Bakers were a nice family.
In 1982 Debra Lynn’s best friend, Lou-Ann married Jerry Sternadel. Jerry was a divorced multimillionaire; he had a plumbing business, was a landowner and investor, and also bred and raced quarter horses with great success. He lived a life of excess; Jerry had a shocking sex life: he was a complete Don Juan and lots of mistresses. Even worse, Jerry had even slept with his stepdaughter,
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as it was revealed later. Debra starts working at the Sternadel ranch As his money grew, Jerry needed some help with his accounting. He needed a bookkeeper available whenever he needed it, at his complete disposal. Lou Ann thought this was the perfect chance to help her best friend. She introduced him to Debra, and even though she did not have any accounting experience, her availability and friendship with Lou Ann were enough for Jerry to give her a try and then hire her formally as his bookkeeper and business manager. She had a great life, maybe a bit cliché and American dream-ish, but he had married the loved of her life, had nice life quality and now worked close to her best friend with a multimillionaire. Jerry did not stop in just offering her the job, as he also gave Debra and her family a house down the road from his ranch to have Debra as available as she could for all the work he needed done. Even with this, Debra was rarely home as she was almost full-time at Jerry and Lou Ann’s ranch working and working. Debra and Lou Ann were best friends, but grew even closer as time passed, maybe a little too close in view of some. They ate each and every lunch together and even worked at the same office in the ranch. They also frequently travelled together. As Debra puts it “we were together 5 days a week”. Lou Ann and Debra were so nail and grime that many people, including Jerry, started to think that the duo was more than “only” friends. Jerry starts getting difficult and founds something funny For the first 8 years everything was, apparently, normal.
But as Jerry was getting richer, he was also getting a more difficult person to treat with. He acted like he was superior because of his money, as his ex-wife Jeannie Walker says “His abrasive manner grew with his wealth”, or as the very own Debra Lynn Baker also declared in tears to the team of the documentary about the case presented on the TV Show “Snapped”, “Jerry was extremely hard on his family, extremely hard on his kids”.
Jerry Sternadel grew to be a truly brutal, insensitive and explosively angry man. He usually treated his workers, and even his family, horribly for no apparent reason. As time passed, and both Lou Ann Sternadel and Debra Lynn Baker got closer, they felt more annoyed by Jerry’s presence in their lives and discussed that frequently. It was a hate triangle. Jerry hated Lou Ann and wished to divorce her. Debra hated Jerry, her boss, so did Lou Ann, but he hated more the possibility of losing her extravagant and spendthrift lifestyle.
Then, one day, the usually-mad and explosive Jerry found a justified reason to be mad: a check got bounced from his account, literally the first time that happened in his life. What could it be? He felt it awfully suspicious so he hired an auditor to go through all of his accounts and
bills. What the auditor discovered was bewildering: 35,000 $ were missing from one account and the money was transferred to… Debra Lynn Baker’s account. Now, certainly Sternadel had tons of reasons to be mad. Was this a mistake or an impudent fraud? “He told me there was over $100,000 that he found real quick. He said he wanted the money back or I’m going to have her arrested for embezzlement” says Jeannie Walker, Jerry’s ex-wife. Jerry felt both Lou Ann and Debra Lynn Baker were acting in complicity so he confronted them both and tells him about his account issues and the missing money, he gives them a deadline: he receives the money back on Memorial Day or he’d called the police for their embezzlement and file for divorce. Deathly ill Jerry promised them he would figure out what happened to his money. Then, on a peaceful as usual spring day, he had lunch with Lou Ann and Debra at his ranch, as he normally did. But, strangely, in less than an hour later and way before he had the chance to put an eye on his finances, Jerry, suddenly started feeling horribly sick, he had lots of stomach aches and pain, astounding amounts of vomiting and diarrhea and strong colonic distress. He was hospitalized, but started having paranoid delusions and slipups, thinking the doctors were attempting to kill him. Something odd was going on. Tom Bradley, a 19 year-old house guest, drinks some cranberry juice -which was curiously Jerry’s favorite- from the fridge and gets as sick as he could imagine in about 10 minutes. He had to rush to the hospital and had the same symptoms that Jerry had. We’ll get back on Tom soon, as he was one of the keys of the case. While Jerry was in the hospital, the doctors simply could not understand how a fine fettled, active and energetic man could apparently be randomly dying right in front of their eyes and they could not do anything about it nor they could found the origin of the disease The day before Memorial Day, the money the money hadn’t been put back into his account. He snapped: in his already third rush to the hospital in the last few weeks, he started telling everyone he got poisoned, someone was trying to kill him. The dying man screamed to each and every person he could that his wife and Debra, his bookkeeper were poisoning him because of the $ 35,000. Jerry’s wife, Lou Ann held that her husband was hallucinating and confused from the drugs the doctors gave to him. "Please help me! Cut me loose! I don't want to die! Those two women are killing me!" were some of the desperate things he told to anyone he could, according to Jeannie Walker, his ex-wife. The tycoon rancher and plumbing businessman agonized in a hospital room while tied down to his bed with cuffs on his hands and feet and tubes in every imaginable cavity of his body. Eventually, he was permitted to go home and within three weeks, on June 12 of 1990, Jerry died. What happened to Jerry Sternadel? An autopsy showed that Jerry did not die from a mysterious virus but he had consumed a more-than-deadly dose of arsenic given to him in a long period of time. Arsenic is not something you might ingest accidentally or find in common products. If you gulped it, it’s because someone wanted you to do so. At a determinate dose, arsenic is lethal: When it enters in your system, there’s no way back, it’s time for your last prayers. His death certificate confirmed Jerry slowly sipped doses of arsenic over a period of time and the levels continued to rise in his bloodstream and got him more and more sick, until the levels finally killed him. If it was arsenic poisoning, it was murder. Everything changed. Another peculiar thing happened. The story now does not feel like it came from some lousy writer but from a Hollywood blockbuster screenwriter. Lou Ann did not show any emotions when her husband died, not a single teardrop. She did not even try to pretend she was sorrowful. Their mutual hate was well-known, but she was just as nothing happened, she did not even try to show some respect. Yet, Debra Lynn’s reaction was curious to say the least: She got eerily anxious and disturbed. When the doctors let her know about Jerry’s death, she ran past everyone through the hospital aisles to the elevator. What made her so nervous? At Jerry’s funeral, Lou Ann was as upbeat and lively as you can get, just like she had drunk a Red Bull 6-pack. Lou Ann was chatting with her friends and laughing. Did she not cared about her husband or was just in shock and wasn’t ready to accept the fact her husband died? Or maybe she was just chuffed as she now was the sole recipient of the ranch, the company and a $350,000 life insurance policy (which wasn’t known by then, but the police got tipped off by an anonymous call). The continuance of her celebrity life was guaranteed.
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