Monster Dad Leaves Tot Son to Bake in Car, Now Walks Free
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 29 June 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Justin Ross Harris leaves his toddler son inside a hot car for eight hours.
The little boy experienced a horrific death, slowly dying. Harris even returned to the car during lunch to place some items inside, yet he claimed he didn’t notice his son strapped inside a car seat in the vehicle.
Now after serving just ten years, Harris walks free.
Nancy's expert panel weighs in:
- Kathleen Murphy: North Carolina Family Attorney
- Vincent Hill: Private Investigator
- Dr. Jolie Silva: Forensic psychologist
- Dr. Michelle Dupre: South Carolina Medical Examiner
- Robyn Walensky: Crimeonline.com Investigative Reporter
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| 0:00.0 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:05.0 | Imagine in the back of an extremely hot car |
| 0:11.0 | with the windows completely rolled up. It gets hotter and hotter with every 15 |
| 0:16.9 | minute segment and the air is stifling. That's exactly what happened to baby Cooper. |
| 0:25.0 | 22 month old, baby Cooper left in a hot car to die. |
| 0:31.0 | And in the last days days a metro Atlanta man accused of putting him there |
| 0:36.8 | walks free from behind bars. That's right Justin Ross Harris released from Macon State Prison after serving only 10 years. |
| 0:48.4 | He was originally given a life sentence for the death of Baby Cooper, but in 2022 the Georgia |
| 0:54.9 | Supremes decide to overturn that murder conviction. Why? Because evidence came in |
| 1:01.3 | that at the time he leaves his baby boy, his top boy in the car to die, |
| 1:06.7 | he's sexting multiple women, of course behind his wife's back. That's what he's doing as he gets out of the car and |
| 1:17.2 | as he goes inside to work as baby Cooper dies. |
| 1:23.0 | This is Crime Stories. |
| 1:24.8 | I'm Nancy Grace. |
| 1:25.8 | Thank you for being with us. |
| 1:27.8 | There are two one-year sentences left for misdemean misdemeanor for distribution of obscene |
| 1:35.4 | material to minors. |
| 1:38.8 | Prosecutor said and a jury agreed that Harris left his son in a hot car back in June 2014. |
| 1:46.0 | He was taking Cooper off to daycare and then on his way to his job at Home Depot corporate, but he didn't do that. |
| 1:54.8 | Seven hours later, Cooper's found in the backseat. |
| 2:01.1 | The dad, Harris, claimed it was all an accident and blamed sleep deprivation. |
| 2:07.0 | Prosecutors claim Harris wanted out of his marriage and had his sight set on having sex with as many women as possible. |
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