05 Mar Rogers County Jury Says a Man Should Spend Life in Prison for Brutal Murder
Anthony Blue Thomasson DOB: 10/18/83 CF-2023-300
Claremore, OKLA March 5, 2025 – Members of the jury find Anthony Blue Thomasson guilty of first-degree murder and sentence him to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
During a six-hour period on September 2, 2023, Thomasson beat, strangled, and smothered then 44-year-old Heather Baker in what one investigator called an evil, violent attack. Thomasson later tells investigators “She wouldn’t die”.
Heather caught Thomasson cheating and confronted him. He responded by beating her more than a dozen times with the handles of a bicycle, strangling her to the point he broke her thyroid cartilage and smothered her with a roll of paper towels before Baker finally succumbed to the massive injuries.
Heather Michelle Baker
Thomasson confessed to investigators saying Heather begged repeatedly for an ambulance and said “Tell them you found me like this. She wanted me to leave.”
Baker’s family and friends cried as they listened to the recounting of the horrifying final hours of Heather’s life.
Thomasson packed a bag and once confirming Heather had died, he fled in her car, intending to return to California. Instead, the car broke down within 20 miles of Baker’s apartment at the Osage Casino.
The jury heard from the defense attorney multiple times that Thomasson was guilty. The defense argued giving a life with the possibility of parole sentence would tell Thomasson to “do better”.
The jury instead told him he’d spend the rest of his life in prison with no possibility of parole.
Thomasson remains in the Rogers County jail awaiting formal sentencing by the judge, scheduled for April 4, 2025.
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