The murder trial of a man accused of killing a UGA student 24 years ago has been rescheduled from October to January.
Edrick Lamont Faust is charged in a 12-count indictment with the murder, rape, and assault on Tara Baker at her home in east Athens on Jan. 19, 2001. She was a first-year law school student.
The case was a cold case for more than two decades until DNA evidence led authorities to file charges in May 2024 against Faust, who once lived in the same neighborhood as Baker, but was never identified as a possible suspect.
The prosecution and the defense did not oppose the continuance, both citing the massive amount of case files, totaling more than 25,000.
