CHARLOTTE, NC (AP) -- The North Carolina woman accused of killing her stepdaughter is facing new charges.
A Caldwell County grand jury Monday indicted 42-year-old Elisa Baker on two counts each of financial identity fraud and obtaining property by false pretenses.
The indictment says Baker used her daughter Brittany Starbuck's identity to set up phone and utility service last year in her rural home.
Elisa Baker was indicted last week on a charge of second-degree murder in the death of Zahra Baker, a freckle-faced girl whose disappearance and death have riveted communities in North Carolina and her native Australia.
Calls to Elisa Baker's lawyer were not immediately returned. She remains in jail. Her bail was set at $300,000.
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