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True Crime All The Time

Jean Harris

True Crime All The Time

Emash Digital / Wondery

True Crime, Truecrime, Podcast, Documentary, Murder, Exhibit C, Serial, Killers, Society & Culture

4.713.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2020

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

In 1980, Jean Harris shot and killed her lover Herman Tarnower. She was arrested and charged with murder. The case made headline news all over because Jean was the headmistress at a prestigious school for girls and Tarnower was a cardiologist who co-authored the best-selling book, "The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet Book". But what exactly happened that fateful night of March 10, 1980? Did Jean Harris commit murder or was Tarnower shot in a tragic accident?

Join Mike and Gibby as they discuss this infamous case. Tarnower had become a household name after his best-selling diet book began filling household's all over the country. He and Jean had a 14-year relationship that ended in his death. What had gone so terribly wrong during that 14-year period? Jean's side of the story is that she was trying to end her life when Herman was shot accidentally after wrestling for the gun. But would a jury believe her?

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0:30.0

Hello everyone and welcome to episode 186 of the True Crime All the Time podcast.

0:39.7

I'm Mike Ferguson and with me as always is my partner in True Crime Mike Gibson.

0:44.0

Give me how are you?

0:45.0

I'm good man, how about you?

0:46.0

I'm doing great.

0:47.0

Good.

0:48.0

I am actually having a very good week.

0:50.3

That's good.

0:51.6

About ready to get my taxes done, which I've put off for a very long time.

0:56.1

You're like, hey they extended it to July 15th.

0:59.4

I'm going to take it all the way.

1:00.8

I've taken a big chunk of that extension, but I'm finally just about ready to get that

1:05.0

done.

1:06.0

So that'll be a kind of a weight off my shoulders.

1:08.6

Yeah.

1:09.6

Been out riding the motorcycle a little bit.

1:11.6

Did you?

1:12.6

Yeah, because the weather's getting nice and that's always a happy time for me.

1:18.0

Think about getting my bike out as well.

1:19.4

I think you keep threatening to buy ones that we can go on a road trip and I think it

1:25.4

would be awesome.

1:26.4

And we'll go cross country.

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