Breakdown: Death in a Hot Car

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🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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He left his child in the backseat of a hot car. He said it was a tragic accident - the police said it was a calculated murder. We’ll go back to our 2016 discussion of “Breakdown” season two from host Bill Rankin and the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

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0:00.0	To get the Crime Writers on After Show right now, go to patreon.com slash partners in crime media.
0:06.6	I'm Rebecca Levoy, and this is Crime Writers On.
0:25.9	Crime Writers On. Crime Writers On is the original True Crime Review podcast that digs in a true crime,
0:27.6	pop culture, other podcasts.
0:32.0	And on this episode, he left his child in the back seat of a hot car.
0:34.2	He said it was a tragic accident.
0:36.9	The police said it was calculated murder. We'll go back to our 2016 discussion of breakdown from host Bill Rankin and the Atlanta Journal Constitution. Joining me to get that done and more is true crime author, TV journalist, and host of, these are their stories podcast, my husband and the love of my life, Kevin Flynn. Hello, Kevin. Hello, Rebecca. So, Kevin, what are we about to hear on today's CWO Classic Rewind? Okay, well, on Mondays, you know, we're going to be talking about season 11 of breakdown, which just happens to be the swan song for Mr. Bill Rankin. So today we're going back to our May 7th, 2016 discussion of season two of breakdown, death in a hot car hot car now I just want to point out
1:12.3	that like we first of all there was this delay in the trial which threw off the
1:16.5	release schedule for the podcast and we did talk about breakdown a couple different
1:21.1	times on crime writers on but this was our most extensive discussion.
1:29.9	You can see the episode is not terribly long here.
1:36.7	But I think you'll see, you know, where we came in on these early podcasts of breakdown from the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
1:39.7	All right.
1:39.9	Let's take a listen.
1:45.9	So big news yesterday.
1:48.1	There was a big breakdown on the podcast, Breakdown, an unexpected twist in the Atlanta
1:53.3	Journal Constitution's podcast about the Justin Ross Harris case.
1:57.2	Kevin, do you want to, like, tell us what happened there?
1:59.3	Yeah, well, as you know, if you've been following the podcast, that right now they are in jury selection for the Harris trial. This is
2:06.4	the guy who was accused of leaving his son to die in the back of his hot car while he was
2:12.1	distracted, sexting and doing other things. And there's the allegation that he wanted to be childless
2:18.3	and left his son alone to die in the car on purpose.
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