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Dr. Amie Harwick, a sex therapist and former fiancé of actor Drew Carey, is found unresponsive under a balcony in her Hollywood Hills home on the morning of February 15th, 2020. She is rushed to the hospital, but unfortunately, passes away. The evidence at the crime scene and on Harwick’s body indicated signs of a struggle and her having been thrown from the balcony.
In this episode of Body Bags, forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan and Jackie Howard discuss blunt force trauma, the difference between falling/being thrown from a great height, how to tell in what order injuries occur, and why a nicotine syringe became a major factor in this case.
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Show Notes:
0:00 - Intro
1:25 - Background and overview of the case
3:45 - Where do you start with a case like this?
5:10 - Amie Harwick being thrown from her balcony
7:30 - How do we know she was thrown off the balcony?
15:45 - Do the injuries differ depending on whether you are thrown from a great height or fall from one?
19:00 - Blunt force trauma
20:10 - How does the M.E. go about examining all the injuries?
25:50 - Is it possible that Amie was beaten and that caused the injuries to her liver, not the fall?
29:40 - How can you tell what order the injuries happened in?
32:00 - If Amie fell, and was not thrown, would her death still be considered blunt force trauma?
34:00 - Suspects in Amie’s case
34:55 - How investigators suspect the murder played out
36:40 - Finding a nicotine filled syringe and what that signifies
42:10 - Harwick’s ex-boyfriend, Gareth Pursehouse, becomes the prime suspect
44:45 - Pursehouse has been charged with murder, first degree residential burglary, and special circumstance allegation of lying in wait.
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New details are coming out surrounding the death of Georgia mom Debbie Collier, who went missing after sending a bizarre text to her daughter. Body cam footage of daughter Amanda Bearden's on-again/off-again boyfriend has been released after Bearden called the police.
Andrew Giegerich was arrested for violating a no-contact order. Giegerich also reportedly wrote a threatening handwritten message, contained in police evidence files, stating, "If you or your family ever come near me again I will hurt them."
Also made public is Amanda Bearden's own arrest record for battery, and for faking a drug test.
The bizarre message reportedly sent by Debbie Collier to her daughter, Amanda Bearden, along with $2,385 through Venmo says, “They are not going to let me go love you there is a key to the house in the blue flower pot by the door.”
After receiving the message, Collier’s daughter tried to call her mom but could not get through. Collier was found the next day in a ravine, naked, her body burned. Police tracked a rental vehicle Collier was using to a wooded area 60 miles away from the family’s Athens home.
Collier's husband told police that he last saw his wife at about 9 p.m. on Friday, September 9, as he was going to bed. The husband went to work on Saturday morning and told investigators that his wife’s vehicle was still in the driveway at that time.
The New York Post reports that the couple’s neighbor said they heard some sort of commotion going on at Collier’s home the night before she vanished.
Anyone with information on the case should contact Habersham Sheriff’s Investigators Cale Garrison at 706-839-0559 or George Cason at 706-839-0560.
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Electricity usage habits lead to double murder.
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Richard Dabate tells Connecticut State Police that a masked intruder broke into his home, shot his wife, Connie, and tied him to a chair. Investigators say however that data from the Fitbit tracker Connie was wearing contradicts those statements. Police put together a detailed digital timeline. Dabate told police his wife came home during the intrusion. He told her to run and said the intruder chased her to the basement and shot her. Connie's Fitbit, however, logged more than 1200 steps in the house. Richard Dabate, charged with murder, tampering with evidence, and making false statements, now convicted by a jury.
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A 3-year-old Illinois boy is not expected to survive after being thrown off a Chicago pier into Lake Michigan.
Police say the boy's aunt “stole the keys” to the family’s truck before sneaking “out of the residence without anyone knowing that she had left.”
Security footage captured the incident as Victoria Moreno, 34, pushed the child into the water and made no attempts to rescue him. Fire officials said the child was taken to Lurie Children’s Hospital, in cardiac arrest. He’s been placed on a ventilator.
Police added that the child had lung bleeding, a swollen brain, and had to have a heart infusion.
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Dog attack leads to charges. Checker's employees so terrified cops get involved.
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A Georgia mom goes missing after sending a bizarre text to her daughter.
Debbie Collier sends her daughter, Amanda Bearden, $2,385 using Venmo and included a message that read, “They are not going to let me go love you there is a key to the house in the blue flower pot by the door.”
After receiving the message, Collier’s daughter tried to call her mom but could not get through. Collier was found the next day in a ravine, naked, her body burned. Police tracked a rental vehicle Collier was using to a wooded area 60 miles away from the family’s Athens home.
Collier's husband told police that he last saw his wife at about 9 p.m. on Friday, September 9, as he was going to bed. The husband went to work on Saturday morning and told investigators that his wife’s vehicle was still in the driveway at that time.
The New York Post reports that the couple’s neighbor said they heard some sort of commotion going on at Collier’s home the night before she vanished.
Anyone with information on the case should contact Habersham Sheriff’s Investigators Cale Garrison at 706-839-0559 or George Cason at 706-839-0560.
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Homeowners attacked with their own weapon. Physical altercation turns bizarre.
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The family of 21-year-old Allison Rice lays the college student to rest today.
Rice was found shot dead in her car, just three miles from campus. The LSU student was stopped at a railroad crossing for a train when witnesses say the killer or killers walked up to Rice's car and started shooting.
Police say she may have been in the middle of turning around when the shots were fired. Police also say there’s no sign anything was stolen from Rice's car. No suspect has been named.
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