Fairground Murder-Suicide: Couple Had Problems

Murder Mobile Police  Mobile Police are trying to figure out why a man shot and killed his wife then burned her body inside a car....all before turning the gun on himself.
by Kesshia Peyton
Published: Thu, August 21, 2008 - 4:34 pm CST Last Updated: Thu, August 21, 2008 - 4:38 pm CST
Mobile Police are trying to figure out why a man shot and killed his wife then burned her body inside a car....all before turning the gun on himself.
Thursday morning officers thought they were responding to a car on fire at the Greater Gulf State Fairgrounds on Ziegler Boulevard.
Once the smoke cleared, they found April Baugh dead inside the vehicle and her husband, D'Haiti Baugh a few yards away from the car.
Police say D'Hati went to April's Saraland home and forced her to leave.
Friends and family say the couple had problems and separated.
"My wife and I talked with them a few weeks ago. They were having problems. We thought our talk with them did some good but evidently it didn't," said Rev. Norvell Glover.
Police say they don't have a motive in the case.
The couple had three children.
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Friend for U:  Thanks for posting.  So often news reports do not make clear the situation, sometimes by accident and sometimes for sensationalism.  After reading the article I had so many scenarios running through my head, the most fearful one was if her children had seen her abducted and quite frankly didn’t know what they should do.  My heart breaks for the family and friends of this couple, their children are God’s children and I hope that someday they will find peace over this.  I cannot imagine something so bad that would cause me to hurt my spouse and myself and leave our children without us.  We may never know, but I am thankful that the children were not hurt during this horriffic crime.  My prayers are with all of you during this time and the days and months to come.

mustuknow as far as noone reporting her missing she was taken in the early hours of the morning and as soon as the kids were off to school is when we found out she wasnt at work and immediatly starting looking for her . thank you to everyone for your prayers we do need them.

there was no nicer looking couple than oj and nicole simpson and look what happened. my heart goes out to the children and the family of both, but not to the husband.

My heart breaks for all those involved, directly and indirectly.  And BamaBob you are correct this is a sad story of a nice looking young couple.

this goes on quite often. he sounds like a woman abuser. its sad only for the wife. no telling what she went thru. she could have left him before and went back, so the friends or family were use to it. its called battered wife syndrone or something like that. i was always told never to get involved in situations like this. this happened a couple of weeks ago in west mobile. the wife left and he broke into her apartment and killed her.

OKAY something that I do not understand is that she was taken against her will in the middle of the night and family did not become alarmed or concerned until she didn’t return home to take her son to school and didn’t show up for work???  Dear God I hope that if I am taken day or night against my will that SOMEBODY WILL CALL 911 IMMEDIATELY.  Please WKRG clarify who knew she was taken against her will.  Was it only her minor children who didn’t know what to do or was there another adult in the home who knew that she was kidnapped???  My heart goes out to all of the friends and family of this young couple.  May these poor chilren have some peace in their lives and are surrounded by love from our Good Lord Above.

What a nice looking couple and what a horrible ending!
. People can get so enveloped with the immediacy of a relationship gone bad, but time and distance does heal many of the wounds.  If he had only stepped back from the situation and thought of his children’s future.
. Sad story…....

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