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Norco 80

Chapter 6: The Trial

Norco 80

LAist Studios

True Crime

3.7889 Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

The “Norco 3” face the death penalty in one of the highest profile trials in Riverside County history.

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0:00.0

LAIS Studios

0:12.2

Last week on Norco 80

0:18.5

I was in kind of half a days

0:20.6

you were ready to pass out.

0:22.2

You know, I'm not to sit here in free. I'm going to find Chris. Go to jail. You know, it's nice to walk. When they talk about the arming of police in America, it starts here. It starts with the narco bank robbery. Let's put it this way. I would rather go through the shooting again and have to put up what I had to put up with in court

0:20.1

and what they called me, what they said I was doing. bank robbery. Let's put it this way. I would rather go through the shooting again and have to put

0:37.9

up what I had to put up with in court and what they called me, what they said. I was doing what I was

0:42.0

reading in my newspaper when I got home and I killed Evans. The press referred to the remaining

0:50.4

robbers, Chris Harvin, Russ Harvin, and George Smith as the Norco 3.

0:56.4

The Norco 3 were held at the Riverside County Jail, and about a week and a half after they were

1:02.0

arrested. They had some visitors.

1:06.1

It is 10.01 hours, 51980.

1:11.9

The following will be with Ms. Estrada and inmate Chris Harvin.

1:17.0

The police made recordings of some of these visits, and in them, you can hear it's the first time the robbers had to explain what they did to friends and family.

1:28.3

One morning, Chris Harvin, George's roommate and old co-worker from the Parks Department,

1:33.7

met with his new girlfriend of three months, Olivia Estrada.

1:38.5

I wrote a nice letter explaining everything.

1:40.7

I was going to get out.

1:41.9

I was going to bring you some stamps was stamped. You know, I get stamped envelopes today.

1:46.3

I was going to bring you some stamps, but I didn't.

1:48.6

I love you.

1:55.4

Chris Harvin, who had problems with infidelity in his marriage, according to his ex-wife,

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