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By Jessica Heffner, Staff Writer 8:43 AM Thursday, March 18, 2010

BATAVIA — More charges were filed Wednesday against the star witness whose testimony sent a couple to prison for the killing of Marcus Fiesel, a 3-year-old foster child from Middletown.

Amy Baker, now known as Amy Ramsey, has been indicted on a total of eight charges following a Saturday traffic stop by Goshen Twp. police in Clermont County.

The charges include aggravated trafficking, two counts of aggravated possession of drugs, four counts of drug trafficking and a count of driving under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs, according to court records.

Baker’s testimony helped a Clermont County jury convict Liz Carroll on murder and other charges in February 2007. Less than two weeks after his wife’s conviction, David Carroll Jr., pleaded guilty to murder and gross abuse of a corpse. While Liz Carroll’s sentence was 54 years to life, her husband’s plea awarded him 16 years to life in prison.

The Carrolls were charged with Fiesel’s brutal death in late August 2006. Prosecutors said they bound the developmentally disabled child in a blanket reinforced with tape and placed him in a crib in a closet of their Union Twp. home on Aug. 4, 2006.

When they returned two days later, Marcus was dead. Baker, the couple’s live-in girlfriend at the time, said she and David took the child’s body to a secluded spot in Brown County, burned the remains repeatedly and threw them into the Ohio River.

Shortly after the trials ran their course, Baker was charged by Kentucky authorities with tampering with evidence. Those charges were eventually dropped, but not before she spent nearly two months in jail waiting extradition from Ohio.

Contact this reporter at (513) 705-2843 or jheffner@coxohio.com.

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