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S02, Episode 13: The State Rests Jul 17, 2025

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Lead Detective Phil Stoddard ended his testimony after four days on the witness stand. Under cross-examination, Stoddard took some punches, but also delivered some blows. On Friday, the state rested its case after calling 51 witnesses to the stand over the course of 16 days of testimony. They presented no eyewitnesses, no DNA on a murder weapon, no irrefutable video. Instead, prosecutors put into evidence a mountain of circumstantial evidence and a pile of filth – being Harris’ deviant sex life. The defense then started presenting its case, trying to show the jury that Ross Harris was thinking of a life with his son Cooper long after the day he was left in his father’s SUV to die.

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S02, Episode 12: From the gutter to the homicide file Jul 17, 2025

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Prosecutors open a new week of testimony by calling one woman after another to the witness

stand. Harris pursued all of them – including two teenagers – over sexually

explicit online chats. Finally, lead detective Phil Stoddard takes the stand

and prosecutors play the detective’s interview of Harris at the police station

the day of Cooper’s death. They also play the recording of Harris’ emotionally

charged meeting with his wife when she comes to see him at police headquarters.

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S02 Episode 4 - Deciding the case before it begins? Jul 17, 2025

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The most important moments of the Justin Ross Harris trial may be unfolding right now - even before testimony begins or the lawyers ever state their cases. Welcome to jury selection, where cases are often won or lost.

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S02, Episode 5: A jury of his peers, with preconceived notions Jul 17, 2025

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Jury selection, which may be close to conclusion, has taken an interesting turn. Nearly a third of the jurors qualified for the final panel – the one from which the 12 jurors and a number of alternates will be chosen – say they believe Justin Ross Harris is guilty.

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S02, Episode 5.5: A change of venue Jul 17, 2025

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The defense in the hot-car murder trial of Justin Ross Harris surprises everyone by filing for a change of venue almost at the of jury selection. But the judge has her own surprise: she grants it.

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S02, Episode6: A sudden change of venue Jul 17, 2025

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The Harris trial was just days away from opening statements and testimony, when the proceedings ground to a sudden and unexpected halt.

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S02, Episode 7 - Harris trial moves to Georgia's Golden Isles Jul 17, 2025

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The Ross Harris trial heads to Brunswick after a four-month hiatus. What sort of jury will Judge Mary Staley Clark find on Georgia’s coast? Here’s why the trial’s new venue could be called a prosecutor’s dream.

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S02 Episode 2: An air-tight case against Justin Ross Harris? Jul 17, 2025

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The state’s murder case against Harris is formidable. The lead police investigator has already testified at length in pretrial hearings: some key testimony seems utterly damning, but some seems totally wrong.

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S02 Episode 3 - Leanna Harris: Once implicated, never charged Jul 17, 2025

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Cobb police insinuated a number of times that Leanna (now Leanna Taylor, since her divorce came through in March) might have helped her husband plan the murder of their son. But those claims faded and then all but disappeared. Taylor was never charged with any crime and is expected to be a witness for the defense in Ross Harris’s murder trial.

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S03, Episode 6: Banishment Jul 17, 2025

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A judge in Georgia signs off on a plea deal for Dr. Narendra K. Gupta, who admits to three counts of sexual battery against patients. No jail time, but he agrees to leave the country, surrender his license and never practice medicine again. Well, two out of three . . .

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