Do you know who murdered Jerry Baker? On December 15, 1992, Jerry Baker stepped into Frank's Place Bar in Fairbanks and vanished into the long midwinter night. When Jerry Baker did not return, a missing-person report was filed, marking the start of a case that would soon turn from worry to tragedy.
Early in 1993, searchers discovered a body in a gravel pit off Nordale Road, outside Fairbanks. The remains were identified as Jerry Baker, and authorities ruled the death a homicide.
The quiet pit on the edge of town became the grim fulcrum of the investigation, fixing the last known movements of Jerry Baker to the bar on Second Avenue and the final discovery site off the Nordale corridor.
Decades on, the case remains unsolved. Local listings of cold cases continue to carry Jerry Baker's name, and police materials available to the public do not identify any arrested individual or publicly named suspect connected to the killing. The department has sought community tips through its cold-case outreach, but no resolution has been announced, leaving Jerry Baker's homicide one of Fairbanks' lingering mysteries.
