Vernon Hills murder suspect ‘felt like I was possessed’

The night his girlfriend’s mother was murdered “felt like a dream” to the man accused of her death, according to statements he made to investigators days after the murder.

Daniel Baker, 23, of Deerfield said he didn’t recall everything that happened the night Marina Aksman, 50, was bludgeoned to death with a baseball bat in her Vernon Hills home according to a recorded interview with investigators.

“I don’t know what I was thinking. The whole time, I wasn’t thinking ... It was simply emotions. It felt like, I mean if you’re religious at all, I felt like I was possessed,” Baker told Waukegan Police Department investigator Charles Schletz, a member of the Lake County Major Crime Task Force, in the recorded interview.

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