Article: TRIAL STARTS IN DISAPPEARANCE\ GIRL, 9, HAS BEEN MISSING SINCE '99.(News)

Byline: Rob Modic Dayton Daily News

DAYTON -- Erica Baker lay face up, her hands crossed over her chest beneath a jacket draped atop her 3-foot, 11-inch body in a shallow grave somewhere in Caesar Creek State Park, a prosecutor told a rapt Montgomery County Common Pleas Court jury Tuesday.

The 9-year-old girl ran in front of a van and was killed on a rainy Sunday afternoon in February 1999 on Glengarry Drive in Kettering, assistant county prosecutor Leon Daidone said in his opening remarks at Christian Gabriel's trial.

Gabriel, driving the van, panicked, picked up the girl's "twisted" body from beneath the vehicle -- there was no blood -- ...

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