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Breakdown

S02 Episode 1 - Death in a Hot Car: Mistake or Murder?

Breakdown

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Politics, News, True Crime

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2016

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

The evidence against Justin Ross Harris, accused of murder in the hot-car death of his son, and how it just seems to keep piling up.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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We're listening to season two of Breakdown, a special podcast by the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

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This season's program, death in a hot car, mistake or murder.

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Go to my AJC.com slash breakdown for photos, videos and additional background.

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Justin Ross Harris killed his son Cooper, just 22 months old.

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He left him in the back of a hot car for hour upon hour, until the intense heat destroyed his body, system by system.

1:31.0

It was a horrific death for when so small, so young, so innocent.

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And Cooper's passing seized the attention of the world, which instantly passed judgment on Ross Harris.

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When the shocking revelations began to come out, the news that Harris was cheating on his wife,

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that he was sexting with multiple women even as his son was dying, that all but sealed his fate in the minds of many.

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