Dad charged with killing wife; son "was with" dad at the time of the murder (Crucible, Pennsylvania)

Dad SCOTT BAKER has been arrested in the murder of his "estranged" wife. It seems that Dad's son (from another relationship?) was with him at the time of the murder, and that an 18-month-old son was at home as well. Isn't it child neglect and abandonment, along with murder, when you kill somebody, and leave toddlers and babies at the scene?

http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/news/state/pennsylvania/20091123_ap_policemankilledwifewhowaspajailguard.html

Posted on Mon, Nov. 23, 2009

Police: Man killed wife who was Pa. jail guard

The Associated Press

CRUCIBLE, Pa. - A man allegedly killed his estranged wife, a guard at a county jail in southwestern Pennsylvania, then tried to make it look like a robbery gone awry.

Thirty-seven-year-old Scott Baker, of Nemacolin, is in the Greene County Jail where his wife had worked.

State police say he killed 30-year-old Melissa Baker, of Crucible, sometime between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Friday. Police say the suspect's young son was with him at the time and that the couple's 18-month-old child was also at the home when she was killed.

Police aren't saying how old the suspect's son was, but he told them his father was on top of his stepmother on the floor. She had throat injuries, but autopsy results haven't been released.

Two county guards found the victim when she didn't show up for work Friday afternoon.