155: Barbara Kelley: A Murder on the California Coast

She Goes by Jane: A True Crime Podcast · Sep 29, 2026 · 1h 3m

On a June night in 1950, seventeen-year-old Barbara Kelley left home for a date with Henry Baird, a 28-year-old World War II veteran she had been seeing for several months. Barbara told her parents she would spend the night at a friend’s house in nearby Eureka.

There was no reason for them to worry.

The next morning, Henry was found nude on a remote beach along the Northern California coast. He had been shot to death. His companion, Barbara, was nowhere to be found.

Henry had been shot in the back of the head. Nearby, his clothes were found neatly stacked. With them were Barbara’s clothes…