First cold case trial will be in Tenn.

Tennessee will get the first crack at a trial against Clark Perry Baldwin, the man accused of killing two unidentified women in Wyoming.

“We decided that since Tennessee has a known victim, and known victim’s family, that he will be tried there first,” Sweetwater County Attorney Dan Erramouspe said. “After that he will come to Wyoming to face charges.”

Baldwin faces two counts of first-degree murder in Tennessee in the 1991 death of Pamela McCall and her unborn child. Erramouspe said this would also mean Baldwin would serve a potential Wyoming sentence after a potential Tennessee sentence is completed.

He said his understanding of the law in Tennessee is a life sentence in this case may not be the full-life sentence applied in Wyoming first-degree murder situations.

In Wyoming, he is charged with two counts of first-degree murder related to the deaths of a woman known as “Bitter Creek Betty” and a second woman found near Sheridan known as “I-90 Jane Doe.” Both bodies were discovered in 1992, but have since been unidentified. Bitter Creek Betty was found east of Rock Springs on Interstate 80.

Baldwin was arrested at his home in Waterloo, Iowa earlier this month on an operation including the FBI and law enforcement from Tennessee and Wyoming. His arrest was made after an investigation using DNA collected from the victims.