The Tragic Murder of AJ Harden
True Consequences - True Crime
Eric Carter-Landin
4.8 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Merry Christmas from True Consequences productions! We are still hard at work through the end of the year. This case is the one I worked on for Snapped. That is why it's not a traditional advocacy-focused episode. The police records were severely lacking in information about AJ.
I want to thank Jackie Moranty for writing this script. Check out her show here: https://www.causeofdeath100secs.net/
References: Police reports and supplements
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| 0:00.0 | October 15th, 2020, was a bit chilly. It wasn't really cold, but Chad Abeta thought he best wear a jacket. |
| 0:08.8 | He drove his pickup truck to the pit in the backyard and then took two toe straps and put them around the tool chest. |
| 0:15.5 | It was heavy. He thought there maybe were still tools inside. |
| 0:21.4 | After getting the chest secured on the toe straps, he hitched the other ends to his pickup |
| 0:24.7 | and carefully pulled the tool chest out of the pit. |
| 0:27.3 | When he finally got the toolbox pulled out of the pit, it had come about halfway open. |
| 0:31.4 | There were blankets hanging out of it. |
| 0:33.4 | Chad wanted to see what was inside, so he opened it all the way. |
| 0:36.8 | What he found? |
| 0:38.4 | Where skeletal human remains. |
| 0:41.1 | While all this was happening, the family of 83-year-old A.J. Hardin had begun to worry |
| 0:45.0 | about his well-being. |
| 0:46.5 | Things had gotten strange ever since his granddaughter took over his care. |
| 0:49.9 | His family hadn't heard from him in weeks, and they were worried that something bad had |
| 0:53.6 | happened to him. |
| 0:55.6 | Did something nefarious happen to AJ? |
| 0:58.2 | I am Eric Carter-Londine, and this is True Consequences. The |
| 1:13.6 | The Before we get too far ahead of ourselves, I wanted to share what info that I have on who |
| 1:49.3 | AJ was as a person. |
| 1:51.1 | We weren't able to find much on his history, so I'm going to read a bit of his obituary, |
| 1:55.2 | as well as some entries from the guest book on the obituary website. |
| 1:59.8 | AJ Harden, 83, of Lake Sumner, New Mexico, was born April 2, 1938 in Fort Sumner |
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