Pasco Sheriff Makes Arrest In 2013 Double Murder

HUDSON, FL -- A 31-year-old inmate in a Michigan prison will be extradited to Pasco County to face trial for the 2013 murders of two Hudson women.

Pasco County Sheriff's detectives have charged Zachery Baker with the Feb. 3, 2013, shooting deaths of Jessica Keith and Amber Johnson, both 23.

Both women were found dead at a home at 14235 Pine Street #13 in Hudson after the home caught fire. An autopsy showed they died of gunshot wounds.

Baker and Richard Morris, 49, were identified as suspects but both fled to Michigan. On Feb. 17, 2014, Pasco Sheriff's detectives were contacted by the Bartholomew County Coroner's Office in Columbus, Indiana, and told that Morris had taken his own life during a standoff with Indiana State Police. Both Morris and Baker were suspects in several home invasions in Michigan.

Detectives traveled to Michigan and attempted to speak to Baker who was being held in a Michigan County jail on home invasion charges but Baker refused to speak. Detectives, however, did obtain statements from people who said Baker had made incriminating remarks about the Hudson deaths.

On April 11, more than six years after the double murders, a grand jury indicted Baker.