Nurse Suspected of Murdering Former Schoolmate Because of 30-Year Grudge

Sept. 25, 2006 — It sounds like a plot straight out of a soap opera: A nurse crosses paths with a former schoolmate in a recovery room, and the patient winds up dead.

Was it an accident or was an old high school grudge a motive for murder?

Right now, investigators in Charlotte, N.C., think it may be the latter.

Looking at Olympic High School yearbooks from 1972 and 1973, it would appear that Sandra Baker and Sally Jordan had everything going for them.

Both were extremely pretty and moved in the same circles. They even reportedly dated the same young man.

But Baker was the queen bee — the popular head cheerleader — while Jordan remained in her shadow.

She didn't make the cheerleading squad and had to settle for the flag corps, a less prominent status.

The two women's paths didn't cross for 30 years, until Baker underwent a mini-facelift at a Charlotte, N.C. clinic.

Jordan, in a surprising twist of fate, was her nurse...

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