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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Monster Dad Leaves Tot Son to Bake in Car, Then Whines Law 'Unfair'

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

News, True Crime

4.28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Five years after Justin Ross Harris left his toddler son inside a hot car for eight hours, he's asking for a new trial. His lawyers calling the first 'unfair.' The little boy experienced a horrific death, slowly dying inside a scorching hot car on a summer day. 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. Was it a tragic accident, or a calculated killing? 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

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0:06.6

and over 12,000 healthful products. Founded by organic pioneer and farmer David Stelser,

0:14.0

Azure's goal is to provide healthy, affordable food that's organic, non-GMO, and free of harmful

0:21.3

chemicals. Go to azurestandard.com. Membership is always free and it's so easy to get started.

0:29.5

Thank you, azurestandard, for being our partner.

0:38.8

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.

0:58.9

We're having bad weather.

1:21.6

A baby on the ground. 9-1-1 coming as fast as they can. I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime

1:28.5

Stories. Thank you for being with us. That baby, little Cooper Harris, just 22 months old.

1:35.9

How did a baby, that precious? I mean, aren't all babies precious? At that age, end up on an

1:42.8

asphalt parking lot near a mall with 9-1-1 being called to save his life. I'm a little overwhelmed

1:49.5

just hearing it because I know that area so well. There's cars flying by, red lights. There's a

1:57.4

huge mall near where this call was made and a tiny little baby lying on the ground. Let's hear more

2:07.6

of that 9-1-1 call.

2:27.4

Who in the hay had the baby? Who had little Cooper? Who was in charge of him? How did he get

2:47.2

there? Why is 9-1-1 being called? Well, where's daddy? Daddy was driving him home.

2:54.8

From daycare, or at least that's where he should have been. But listen to our friend Amy Robock

2:59.4

at ABC's 2020. Despite Ross's apparent initial distress, the cops and tenas immediately go up.

3:05.7

I think that's what police were suspicious so quickly because of his behavior at the scene.

3:09.2

Christian Boone covered the story for the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

3:12.5

When they arrived, someone else was doing CPR to Cooper. He was talking on the phone to somebody.

3:16.8

Officer came up and yelled at her.

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