The ABC News magazine show “20/20” will feature a report at 9 tonight on former Central Texas minister and convicted murderer Matt Baker.

The ABC report will include a prison interview Baker gave to Jim Avila on June 2.
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The report will include a prison interview Baker gave to “20/20’s” Jim Avila on June 2.

Baker, 38, who is serving a 65-year prison term near Livingston, did not testify at his trial. But in media interviews, including with the Tribune-Herald , he continues to deny killing his wife, Kari, a teacher and the mother of his two daughters.

He claims she took her own life with a lethal combination of sleeping pills and wine coolers.

A 19th State District Court jury convicted Baker of murder in January in the April 2007 drugging and suffocation death of his 31-year-old wife at their Hewitt home.

Her death initially was ruled a suicide until her parents, James and Linda Dulin, urged Hewitt police to reopen the investigation.

Baker is appealing his conviction, alleging his trial attorneys, Guy James Gray and Harold Danford, both of Kerrville, did not provide effective defense.