Attorney accused of trying to poison her husband again

CULLMAN, Ala. (WBRC/Gray News) - A woman accused of poisoning her husband was placed back in jail after accusations that she had contact with her husband and tried to poison him again.

Sara Baker, a former Alabama attorney, was arrested in November 2025 after she was accused of putting fentanyl in her husband’s food and drink. She was arrested and later suspended by the Alabama Bar Association.

Shortly after her first arrest, she posted a $400,000 bond. However, in July, she was taken back into custody at a home in Mountain Brook after accusations that she was interfering with her husband’s medical treatment.

Court documents alleged that on June 11, Baker asked one of her husband’s caregivers for an empty medication bottle from the home. Later that month, Baker allegedly gave a caregiver a black bag with instructions to place it inside a safe in Baker’s husband’s home. Authorities believed that the bag contained the medication bottle.

Cullman Police later recovered the medication bottle and found 12 grams of a purple-tinted powder.

Testimony on Friday, July 17, showed photos of the alleged pill bottle with the purple powder inside. Lead investigator Zachary Latham said the powder tested positive for fentanyl in a field test performed by Cullman Police, which is the same substance Baker allegedly used before to poison her husband in his food and drink.

Investigators said the caretakers had taken the bag with the bottle inside and put it in a safe in the garage of the home. The caregivers then reported the suspicious activity.

Baker’s husband, James “Doyle” Baker, testified on her behalf, saying she hadn’t made contact with him since her first arrest in November. He said in the time his wife had been out on bond, he asked both Cullman County District Attorney Champ Crocker and Baker’s attorney for chances to see his wife.

“I have no idea why we’re here today,” Doyle Baker said to the judge. “We kept that clean all the way.”

The judge found that Baker hadn’t made direct contact with her husband, but said she did violate another condition of her bond by committing a criminal act of getting “a weight of fentanyl you don’t see very often” into her husband’s home.

“She poses a danger to our community,” Judge Gregory Williams said as he rendered his decision.

Baker was booked back into the Cullman County Jail following the testimony.

At the start of the hearing, she pleaded not guilty to all charges against her by way of mental disease or defect. Judge Williams told her she would be psychologically tested.