![]() ![]() Police said Harris behaved strangely in the days before and moments after the death of her son.įor example, one detective testified that she asked her husband, “Did you say too much?” in a police interview room after he was arrested, and that she also insisted to employees at her son’s day care that “Ross must have left him in the car,” when they told her Cooper had not been dropped off that morning. Cooper meant the world to him.”įor the most part, Harris stood by her husband’s side throughout the entire eight years, which caught the attention of police in 2014. Ross is a wonderful daddy and leader for our household. Ross is and was and will be, if we have more children, a wonderful father. “Am I angry with Ross?” she said at the time. Leanna Harris said during the toddler’s funeral in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, that summer that she was not angry with her then-husband. Mom of toddler who died in car 'absolutely not' angry with husband Investigators seized computers from his office, finding that he searched for information about “child deaths inside vehicles and what temperature it needs to be for that to occur,” according to a sworn statement in the search warrant from a police officer. That is, until information on Harris’ electronic devices revealed a different side of the father. His charges initially triggered a wave of sympathy and a vigorous debate over whether the heartbroken father should be punished. Harris never called 911 and said “f**k you” to a police officer on the scene who asked him to get off his phone, according to Detective Phillip Stoddard, the prosecution’s lead investigator.Īfter being arrested, Harris pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and second-degree child cruelty. Records show that the mercury topped 92 degrees that day, and police say the temperature was 88 degrees when the boy was pronounced dead in a parking lot not far from his father’s workplace. He pulled into a shopping center parking lot, pulling the child’s body from the SUV. But it wasn’t until that afternoon, while he was driving to a nearby movie theater, that Harris claimed to notice his son was still in the car. Harris stopped by the car early that afternoon, purportedly to put away some light bulbs he had purchased. He parked and went inside, leaving Cooper strapped in the car for the next seven hours. Instead of dropping his son off at day care afterward, he went to work at Home Depot, where he was a web designer. On June 18, 2014, Harris strapped Cooper into his rear-facing car seat and drove from his family’s home to a nearby Chick-fil-A. Summer 2014: Toddler dies and explicit messages surface On June 22, the Georgia Supreme Court overturned his murder conviction in a 6-3 vote, saying evidence submitted by prosecutors of Harris’ extramarital sexual relationships, which the state portrayed as the motivation behind his decision to kill his son, had unfair prejudicial impact on the jury. It was also revealed that Harris was sexting multiple women – some of whom were underage at the time – while his son was trapped in the vehicle, according to testimony from an investigator. Since then, the twists and turns in the case surrounding Cooper’s father, Justin Ross Harris, who left the toddler in the car for seven hours, have garnered national attention. ![]() ![]() Meanwhile all along I had known that a couple of weeks before he had been involved in a horrific incident in the Hamptons where he was coked up and drunk and nearly killed a man and then attempted to flee the scene.It’s been eight years since Cooper Harris, a 22-month-old, died in a sweltering hot car. At the time Mr Benedict had proudly approached me at some gregarious social function and gushed that he had made it into the NY Observer. Of course when the Gatsby articlecame out last summer I had to hold myself from not falling off my chair. $25 billion transactions? Spoiled prick? Maybe just prick but then again aren’t most of you? Can we really blame Mr Benedict in playing up to our collective expectations? Can we really blame him for desperately playing up for the cameras, the high jinks and all you silly naive girls desperate to nab a socialite high in the pecking order? “People look at me and they’re like, ‘That spoiled prick,’” Benedict, who says his financial law firm handled $25 billion in transactions, told the paper. ![]()
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