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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Wife Tammy Harris, 70 lbs., No Hair, Fingernails, Dead of Vitamin Supplement

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

3.97.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Tammy and Dr. Jeffrey Harris had been married for 11 years when Tammy was diagnosed with lupus. Doctors begin a treatment regimen but her health did not improve. Harris was wheelchair-bound, her weight dropped to just 70 pounds, and her hair and fingernails fell out. The couple traveled from Moscow, Idaho to New York in search of a holistic doctor, when Tammy suddenly collapsed in the lobby of the Lotte New York Palace hotel. She died six days later. An autopsy determined that Tammy Harris died from an overdose of the dietary supplement, Selenium. Selenium, a trace mineral is considered safe in small doses, but the city medical examiner found eight times the average amount of Selenium in Harris's system. An investigation revealed that Dr. Harris did not believe his wife had Lupus. He insisted that she suffered from mercury poisoning from working at a dental office several years prior. Dr. Harris kept up the pretense that his wife was taking what she had been prescribed by her doctors, but instead, she was taking Selenium, prescribed by her husband. Joining Nancy Grace Today:Darryl Cohen - Former Assistant District Attorney, Fulton County, Georgia, Defense Attorney, Cohen, Cooper, Estep, & Allen, LLC, www.ccealaw.comDr. Shari Schwartz - Forensic Psychologist, www.panthermitigation.com, Twitter: https://twitter.com/TrialDoc, Author: "Criminal Behavior" and "Where Law and Psychology Intersect: Issues in Legal Psychology"Justin Boardman - Former Special Victim's Unit Detective, West Valley City (Utah), Author: "I Was Wrong: An Investigator's Battle-cry for Change Within the Special Victims Unit", JustinBoardman.com, Twitter: @boardman_train Dr. William Morrone - Chief Medical Examiner, Bay County Michigan, Author: "American Narcan: Naloxone & Heroin-Fentanyl Associated Mortality", RecoveryPathwaysLLC.comNicole Partin - CrimeOnline.com Investigative Reporter, Twitter: @nicolepartin

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0:00.0

I'm Cheryl McCollum, host of the brand new Cold Case Podcast, Zone 7.

0:04.1

We're going to be talking to family members, detectives, prosecutors, and nationally recognized

0:09.1

experts that are in my Zone 7. The group of professionals that I've called on

0:13.6

to help me work hundreds of cases you've heard of and thousands you haven't.

0:18.0

We are going to solve these cases own air together. Listen to Zone 7 on the I Heart Radio app,

0:25.2

the Apple Podcast app, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcast.

0:29.8

I'm Joseph Scott Morgan. I was the youngest medical legal death investigator in the country.

0:34.8

The world that I inhabited gave me insight into things that most of the general public

0:39.6

can't even begin to imagine, always having to view the app normal in the context of the normal,

0:45.7

to make them make sense if you will. When all is said and done, I was the voice of the dead.

0:51.5

Listen to Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,

0:57.2

or wherever you get your podcasts.

1:05.8

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

1:13.1

A gorgeous young wife seemingly collapses out of nowhere. Days later, she's dead.

1:20.4

What happened to Tammy Harris?

1:31.6

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.

1:38.3

First of all, take a look at our friend Tyler at Crime Online.

1:42.2

When Tammy and Jeffrey Harris married in 2007, it was really no surprise. After all,

1:47.6

they had a lot in common. Tammy graduated from Washington State University with a Bachelor of Science

1:52.7

degree in nursing and a Master's degree as a psychiatric nurse practitioner. Jeffrey had her

1:57.5

in the right to use doctor before his name. One of Tammy's three children from a previous marriage

2:02.0

says they had a very loving relationship during their 11 years together. And when Tammy Harris

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