Kimberly Zeman, 57, was in the jury box in 2010. That jury deadlocked 6-6, according to the court file.

“I don’t think anybody on the jury thought he wouldn’t do it again if he got out,” Zeman said in an interview. “But if we went based on the law, he passed every test, and I think that was a problem for a lot of people. We had to go by the law, not by what we thought.”

The second trial was closer. Nine wanted to turn Baker over to mental health authorities; three voted to free him, including Richard Herbert, 76, a retired trucking company supervisor.

“He served his time. He should be released,” Herbert said. “Of course all the females, they said he should be incarcerated. They all had kids.”

Herbert said the jury wanted to know more about what commitment would entail, but those details weren’t shared.

Dan Kapsak, 40, was the jury foreman of that trial. Before he agreed to be interviewed, he said his comments were not associated with his job as a federal prosecutor in Illinois. He said the three dissenters on the hung jury seemed to base their decision on public policy arguments, not the evidence.

He was in disbelief that the third jury also failed to get a verdict and that a new one was being seated.