NC girl's father denies role in her death

HICKORY, N.C. (AP) — The father of a disabled girl who North Carolina police say was killed said he had nothing to do with her death and did not dismember the child.

"There's no way I would do that to my baby," Adam Baker told WBTV in a Tuesday interview. "There's no way in the world I would hurt my daughter."

Adam Baker said he avoided a public vigil Tuesday night on what would have been Zahra Baker's 11th birthday because he didn't want to take the focus off his child. He watched over the Internet along with his mother and lawyer.

Adam Baker said he's been called a murderer since his daughter's disappearance last month became a homicide investigation. The Hickory home …