GUILTY: Dentist 'Sleepovers' With Beauty Queen Ends in Murder
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 2 December 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Sara Jane Harris and Dr. James Michael Ryan meet at his dental practice in the Fall of 2020.
By the Summer of 2021, Harris is not only working for the oral surgeon but also living with him. Sarah Harris’ family members began to notice a change in her physical appearance. The family says Harris did not look healthy, and in the following months, Harris' growing drug addiction became evident.
What's more, the family believes Ryan was giving his girlfriend drugs from his practice. First responders rush to Ryan's home after an overdose call. Inside, paramedics find Sarah Harris, unresponsive. Various vials of controlled substances, like Ketamine, Diazepam, and Propofol are nearby. Davis weighs just 83 pounds.
Ryan is charged in Harris' death, accused of providing the drugs that killed her. According to court documents, text messages between Ryan and Harris show Harris asking for different drugs. Ryan has now been convicted of murdering his girlfriend after she overdosed. The jury's verdict was rendered in less than three hours.
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- Dr. Angela Arnold – Psychiatrist, Atlanta, GA; Expert in the Treatment of Pregnant/Postpartum Women; Former Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Obstetrics and Gynecology: Emory University; Former Medical Director of The Psychiatric Ob-Gyn Clinic at Grady Memorial Hospital; Voted “My Buckhead’s Best Psychiatric Practice of 2022”
- Dr. William Morrone – Chief Medical Examiner, Bay County Michigan; Author: “American Narcan: Naloxone & Heroin-Fentanyl Associated Mortality”
- Robert Crispin – Private Investigator, Former Federal Task Force Officer for United States Department of Justice, DEA and Miami Field Division; Former Homicide and Crimes Against Children Investigator, “Crispin Special Investigations;” Facebook: Crispin Special Investigations, Inc.
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| 0:00.0 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:07.0 | Nancy Grace. |
| 0:08.0 | You know, a lot of people are really afraid of going to the dentist they don't like |
| 0:18.4 | the dentist many people dislike the dentist even more than they do the doctor. |
| 0:25.0 | They'd rather have a physical exam than a dental exam. |
| 0:28.0 | I'm not sure the psychological reasons for that, but after you hear this you may agree an upstanding dentist named |
| 0:35.2 | James Ryan just convicted of killing his girlfriend by plying her with anesthetics. |
| 0:45.0 | What? |
| 0:46.7 | I'm Nancy Grace, this is crime stories. |
| 0:48.8 | Thanks for being with us here at crime stories |
| 0:51.3 | and on Series XM 111. |
| 0:54.0 | That's right, a Maryland dentist guilty of murdering his girlfriend |
| 0:59.0 | after he ODied her on anesthetics delivered by an IV station he rigged up in their own home. |
| 1:09.0 | It took a jury less than three hours to deliberate and then convict Dr. James Ryan of one count of second degree |
| 1:15.2 | depraved heart murder and one count involuntary manslaughter and the death of |
| 1:20.1 | a gorgeous young girl 25 year old Sarah Harris. |
| 1:24.3 | What is this 50 year old dentist doing with a 25 year old girl? |
| 1:28.2 | Okay, question one, but what happened in this case? It's so bizarre. |
| 1:35.7 | Take a listen to this. |
| 1:37.0 | First responders rushed to the 13,000 block |
| 1:39.7 | of Godwit Street in Clarksburg |
| 1:41.9 | after reports of an overdose. It's the home of oral. at Ryan's |
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