Digging for the Truth: The Final Resting Place of Jimmy Hoffa by Hansen Jeffry Scott

Author:Hansen, Jeffry Scott [Hansen, Jeffry Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Spectre Publishing
Published: 2009-08-31T16:00:00+00:00

BOB AND JANET BAKER INTERVIEW

Hansen: Mr. Baker, what year did you begin working at Grand Lawn Cemetery?

Bob Baker: 1958.

Hansen: Until when?

Bob Baker: Around 1988, nearly thirty years.

Hansen: Mrs. Baker you began working here?

Janet Baker: 1964 to 1969 or 1970, then a part time basis in 1982.

Hansen: When were the mausoleum/chapels built?

Bakers: Between 1969 and 1970

Hansen: And the building was dedicated in 1973 as the Holden and Burton chapels, with the Burton chapel being the one on the north side, correct?

Bakers: Yes.

Hansen: When the building was built, was it equipped with electric, gas and water?

Janet Baker: Oh, yes.

Hansen: Now, the cremation ovens, in the middle when were they installed?

Janet Baker: The cremation retorts, the one against the wall is a metal one, was put in 1970, 1971.

Hansen: And the second one went in?

Janet Baker: A few years after the first one, around 1979, a man and his son from Canada installed that one.

Hansen: Who installed the first one?

Bob Baker: That was from Anaheim, California. The second one was put in around eight years after the first one.

Hansen: So that first one was there, and being used in 1975?

Janet Baker: Oh, yes.

Hansen: How many employees had access to the cremation room?

Bob Baker: I used the men as they were needed, so there was never just one person with access.

Mrs. Baker: There were probably around nine.

Hansen: Who owned the cemetery in 1975?

Bakers: That was a group of attorneys. They had offices in Grosse Pointe.

Hansen: Were there any rumors that you heard of anyone at the cemetery being involved in Organized Crime?

Bakers: No, not at all, never.

Hansen: If a funeral home had a burial transit permit to bring a persons body to the cemetery in a cremation box, would you have any reason to look inside the box?

Bakers: No, there would be no reason to do that.

____________________________________ During the rest of the interview, the

Bakers told me the names of former groundskeepers that worked for Mr. Baker at Grand Lawn and a few days later, I spoke to the two gentlemen separately on the phone. They were not aware of what I was contacting them for. The two recalled that Grand Lawn had at least one cremation oven in use in 1975 and that the process for cremation was as simple as having a burial transit permit and flipping a switch. When I was finished speaking to them, I checked my picture files and found that

I had indeed taken a photo of the first oven. All this time, since finding the two ovens at Grand Lawn, it was the second one that was installed in 1979 that was getting all the attention. It was the one that was opened on my original video and the one I had my picture taken in front of by Joel Thurtell.

The first oven next to the wall, which does look different from its partner, according to the Bakers and their former employees was at the facility in 1975. To have that recollection by five different sources was very important to say the least.

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