In 2001, Michele Ann Harris was a 35-year-old mother of four who suddenly vanished after finishing her shift at a restaurant in Waverly, New York.
Michele was born Michele Ann Taylor on September 29, 1965. She met her husband, Cal Harris, in the early 1980s. Cal was a Vestal High School graduate who went on to Hobart College where he was a four-year letterman for the men’s lacrosse NCAA Division III champion teams. Cal went on to become a prominent businessman; he was from a wealthy & influential family & his father, Dwight Harris managed a string of car dealerships that his three sons helped him run. Michele went on to earn an associate’s degree from State University of New York Morrisville & when she was newly out of college, she took a job as a secretary at one of the dealerships in Tioga County in Upstate New York. It was here that she caught the eye of Dwight’s youngest son, Cal. Michele was described as a magnetic, beautiful person who was full of life. She was happy & smiled all the time & it didn’t take long for her youth & positive attitude to quickly attract Cal.
By the time Cal was 27, he was a successful businessman & Michele, the older of two children from a working class family, had never met anyone like him. Michele was from a small town & Cal was able to sweep her off her feet, whisking her away to amazing destinations like Hawaii & Europe. Cal & Michele were married in August of1990 & settled on a 252-acre estate outside the village of Spencer in 1993 where Michele had grown up. The relationship began as a fairytale & when Michele married Cal, she could not have been happier.
Cal & Michele’s first child was born in 1994 & by 1999, when Michele was 33, she had four children under the age of six. Cal worked hard & provided for his family to support their expansive estate that sat on a private lake. Michele’s friends, Cindy & Tom Taylor, spent most weekends with the couple & to them, it was obvious that Michele & Cal loved each other very much. They always enjoyed spending time together & there were no signs of any marital issues. Had there been any issues, Michele kept them hidden from friends & family, including her sister-in-law, Shannon Taylor.
Shannon felt that from the outside, looking in, Michele’s life looked absolutely perfect; she was always smiling & laughing. However, when her fourth child was born, Shannon began to see that what was going on within the Harris house was no longer perfect.
Michele began opening up about Cal’s temper & controlling behavior. According to Michele, her husband expected perfection; the house should be in pristine order at all times & Michele was expected to fit & trim. If things were not to Cal’s expectations, he would scream & yell. Michele felt that whatever she did, it was never good enough & she could never please her husband.
Cal told Michele that she was born in Tioga Center, raised in Tioga Center & would die in Tioga Center. He gave the impression that she was from a small town & would always be beneath his level. In 1999 when Michele was pregnant with their youngest child, she discovered that Cal was having an affair with another clerk at a dealership in Cortland County that his brother owned. He justified the affair because he felt that Michele wasn’t keeping the house up as he expected. She confronted him about the affair in the fall of 1999 & he promised that the relationship would end but came to find out that it did not. Their relationship had rekindled when they met in Daytona Beach, Florida in March of 2000.
When the couple’s fourth son was born in October 2000, the relationship began to crumble & the couple no longer shared the same bed, instead, Michele began sleeping on the couch. Despite their efforts to save the marriage, Michele filed for divorce in January 2001 after ten years of marriage.
According to Shannon & Michele’s brother, Greg Taylor, Cal was against the idea of divorce & it ended up leading to a bitter battle as Michele argued with Cal over money, demanding a full accounting of his business. Barbara Thayer, who was the family’s nanny & housekeeper, believed that there was no way that Cal would ever allow Michele to take his family money; she recalls hearing many loud arguments throughout this time.
Cal attempted to get Michele’s family involved, begging them to talk her out of the divorce, believing that she was being influenced by people she was associating with & even speculated that she was using drugs. Michele confided in her sisters, telling them that during an argument in March 2001, Cal told her that he would need a gun to kill her & the police would never find her body. During a visit to the salon in July, Michele also allowed her hairdresser to overhear Cal threaten her over the phone. Her hairdresser could hear Cal threaten, “Drop the divorce proceedings. I will (expletive) kill you, Michele. Do you hear me? I will (expletive) kill you. I can make you disappear. (Expletive), you, (expletive). Drop the divorce proceedings.”
In June, Cal was ordered to pay Michele $400 per week & continue to handle all of the household expenses until the divorce was finalized. The tension was very high, especially because the couple was forced by the courts to continue living under the same roof. Michele had obtained an order of protection from Cal while they continued to live together which prohibited any mental or physical abuse. Michele was fearful of the power that both Cal & her in-laws possessed because of their wealth & prominence. Cal was ordered to relinquish all of his guns to his brothers & his father until the divorce was final & Michele had moved out. It was estimated by the court that Cal’s net worth was $5.4 million. He offered her full custody of the children & a settlement of $740,000 over the next ten years; $200,000 would be paid immediately & $54,000 per year paid over the next ten years which Michele initially rejected.
A month after their son was born, Michele met a man named Brian Earley at a bar in November of 2000 while he was visiting the area for a hunting trip; he was from Philadelphia where he worked as a surveyor. It wasn’t long until Michele & Brian were discreetly meeting in the Poconos, using phone cards to communicate when they weren’t together. Michele was 11 years Brian’s senior, but they had an immediate connection.
Barbara Thayer remembers that on September 9, 2001, while out horseback riding, Michele was in an especially positive mood that day & commented on how happy she was & how thankful she was that she was finally getting her life back. Cal didn’t yet know that Michele had made the decision to accept his financial offer & finalize the divorce.
It was only three days later & just hours before she was set to meet her lawyer, that Michele suddenly vanished.
Michele had been extremely excited about starting over once the divorce was finalized. In preparation, she accepted a part-time waitressing job at Lefty’s, a restaurant in nearby Waverly & started her job in April of 2001. In the meantime, Brian Earley left his girlfriend & relocated to Tioga to be closer to Michele. It was his belief that the plan was to marry soon after the divorce was finalized, however, Michele had told her friends that she was interested in a long-term relationship with Brian, but she did not intend to marry him. Brian gave Michele the keys to his house so she could let his dogs out when he needed to work late. She left some of her belongings at Brian’s house & some nights, she would stay there after work, until as late as 2:30 am.
At the time, Brian was not Michele’s only love interest; for two months, she had been in a relationship with her co-worker at Lefty’s, Michael Kasper, which she had not told anyone else about. An employee of one of the Harris family dealerships also later admitted to having “makeout sessions” in the back seats of cars on the lot with Michele. There was also a man from Texas who Michele was linked to, but little is known of him.
In August of 2001, tensions finally began to dissipate & Cal offered Michele $80,000 annually for alimony & child support as well as custody of the children. Through her attorney, Michele filed for a court-ordered appraisal of Cal’s business which would be charged to him at a cost of $30,000 & the trial for the divorce litigation was set for October 22, 2001.
As summer was coming to a close & Labor Day came & went, Michele had planned to take a trip to New York City to visit a college friend during the second week of September. She also told some friends about the trip, but said the main goal of the trip was to sell or pawn some of her jewelry which included her engagement ring so that she could earn the money for half of the down payment on a home that she & Brian planned to buy in Owego where the kids went to school. At this point in time, it was said that Michele ran up significant debt on her credit card & had been dealing with bounced checks.
On the afternoon of September 11, 2001 which also happened to be the day of the fateful terrorist attacks against the United States, Barbara Thayer arrived at the Harris home at 3 pm to babysit the children. When she arrived, Michele complained of a terrible headache. Because of the attacks on New York City, travel was severely restricted so Michele’s trip was likely going to be canceled so she wouldn’t be able to sell her jewelry as planned. She was also running late for her work shift since her uniform which included a dark blue polo & khaki shorts had yet to dry.
Michele worked at Lefty’s that day until 9 pm when the restaurant closed. Afterwards, she stood in the parking lot discussing the day’s events while having drinks with her co-worker, Michael Kasper who she had an affair with earlier in the year. In addition to Michael, another co-worker, Michael Hakes, also joined the gathering that night & after an hour, Michele left to go to Brian’s apartment in Smithboro where she stayed for another hour, sharing drinks & discussing the terrorist attacks. She told Brian that what happened in the country that day gave her some perspective on her own problems. According to Brian, Michele left his apartment sometime between 11-11:30 pm that night. This was the last time anyone had seen Michele.
The next morning, September 12, Cal called Barbara to let her know that Michele didn’t come home from work the night before & asked her to come to their house to help get the kids ready for school. Michele not coming home was completely out of character for her. Barbara lived only six minutes away so she quickly dressed, canceled a plan that she had that day & left her house eight minutes later. As she arrived at the Harris home, she noticed Michele’s gold Ford Windstar minivan parked on the side.
Barbara got out of her car to investigate, she saw that Michele’s car was on the road, the doors were unlocked & the keys were in the ignition. From there, she got back into her car & drove up the driveway which curved through a quarter mile of woods & fields to the house. Once inside the house, Barbara called out to Michele, hoping that she was there & had walked to the house from her car. Instead of finding Michele, she saw Cal who was dressed for work.
Barbara informed Cal about Michele’s car at the end of the drive & told him that they should go & get it. The two drove down to inspect the car & Barbara wondered if maybe Michele was still in the vicinity, possibly injured or disoriented. Cal explained that Michele had gone to New York City & Barbara said she still didn’t understand why her car was on the road & Cal voiced that Michele may have hitchhiked.
As they stood by the car, Cal noted the items inside which included clothing, mail, magazines, toys & food wrappers & mentioned that the car needed to be cleaned. Barbara found it extremely odd that despite the fact that Michele was missing, Cal was concerned about the cleanliness of the car to the point that he instructed her to drop it off at the dealership so he could clean it from top to bottom. What made things more confusing was the fact that investigators would later that day find Michele’s cell phone with one missed call, a Rolex box with no watch inside & a black bag containing jewelry.
Barbara drove Michele’s van back down the driveway & parked it in the garage while Cal left for work. She then called a friend of Michele’s & asked if she knew where Michele could be. This friend went on to call Michele’s divorce lawyer whom Michele was scheduled to meet with later that day. After finding that Michele left after her shift at Lefty’s the night before & Michele was not answering her phone, they contacted state police & reported her missing. Michele’s sister-in-law Shannon immediately feared the worst. As she left work after hearing the news of Michele’s disappearance, she turned to her secretary & said, “I’m pretty sure my brother-in-law killed my sister-in-law.”
Because of the events of September 11, many of the troopers & investigators in Tioga County had traveled to New York City, the state police in that area had much more limited resources than they normally would for a missing-persons case. Two investigators who remained went to speak with Cal at the dealership at 9:40 am. Cal explained that Michele never came home after her shift the night before. He accompanied the officers back to his home & gave them written permission to search it & then returned to work. He also told them that if they needed to take the minivan they could, but he would need it back because the oil needed to be changed which was something that Michele always neglected to do.
Cal denied having anything to do with Michele’s disappearance & suggested they take a closer look at Michele herself. He suggested to the investigators that Michele may have been using cocaine with people she met in Waverly & that they should “pump the shit out of them.” The investigators described Cal calm & unemotional & it did not appear that he was trying to hide anything or prevent them from doing anything. In the same sense, he almost came across as “too cooperative” & seemingly programmed during their conversation; it was their impression that something just seemed to be missing.
Police went on to search the Harris home & property with use of helicopters, dogs, divers & sonar which searched the pond near the driveway & 29-acre Empire Lake which bordered the property on the east. The search found nothing unusual & found no trace of Michele. While she remained missing, no activity came from her cell phone, bank accounts or debit & credit cards.
Police also spoke with the employees at Lefty’s which included Michael Kasper & his friend Michael Hakes who shared drinks with Michele after the shift. The police became suspicious of Michael Kasper when they learned through a background check that he had a history of cocaine use & a conviction for assaulting a former girlfriend. The other man who had joined them that night, Michael Hakes, had served a 10-year prison sentence in Arizona for rape. As the investigation progressed, Kasper, Hakes & 23-year-old Brian Earley, all passed lie detector tests & were ultimately cleared of involvement. Police searched Brian’s apartment, but nothing of concern was found. Police were initially very focused on Brian since he was one of the last people to see Michele alive; he told them that when she left, he walked her to her van & leaned through the window to give her a kiss goodbye, telling her he loved her & would see her the next day. When she pulled away, this was the last time he saw her.
Brian told investigators that he loved Michele & was hoping to marry her as soon as her divorce was final. Barbara knew that this was not where Michele was; because she had just suffered through a divorce, she was not going to turn around & get quickly remarried. In December of 2001, Brian moved back to Philadelphia & married his former girlfriend & the couple moved to Tioga County in 2002.
Investigators quickly turned their focus back to Cal Harris & forensic specialist, Steve Anderson was sent to the Harris home to take a closer look. Anderson found tiny specks of blood on a kitchen doorway that previous investigators who had been in the home two days earlier had not seen. It was quite obvious to Anderson that this was blood spatter & they may be dealing with a crime scene. Police knew that Cal had a strong motive to kill his wife since they were in the midst of a large settlement.
The findings of blood was used to obtain a search warrant which found similar stains in the foyer & the kitchen near the garage & a presumptive test confirmed that the substance was human blood which was preserved for later DNA testing. There was no way to determine how long the blood had been there. Anderson believed that additional blood had been present but was since cleaned & the house was deemed a crime scene. Cal initially said he couldn’t think of any reason that blood was found in the home, but later remembered that his son had cut his finger & left a few drops of blood in the garage. Blood experts later determined that the small dots of blood were at an angle that proved the victim would have been at below 29 inches.
That same day, Cal met Michele’s family for dinner & two of her sisters confronted him about a threat he made toward Michele in March about killing her & disposing of her body in a way where it would never be discovered. They also referenced something that happened in 1996 when Michele called from a closet & said that Cal was standing outside the door & had cocked a shotgun. Cal initially denied these threats but later admitted that he said these things, but he was only joking.
Police search Michele’s van as well as Cal’s truck & ATV. Fingerprints belonging to Cal & Brian were found in the car as well as a third person, but no blood was found.
Police also monitored Cal’s home & utilized night vision goggles & camouflage. They also attached a GPS tracking unit to his truck for six months in hopes he could lead investigators to where her body had been disposed of though neither method provided useful information. As the initial investigation was complete, the case started to grow cold over the next few years. It was absolutely the police’s belief that Cal killed & then disposed of Michele’s body but they lacked sufficient evidence to solidify a conviction; there was no body & no murder weapon. Beyond the specks of blood, there was not even proof that Michele was indeed dead.
As the years ticked by, Cal quickly began a relationship with an old girlfriend only three weeks after Michele disappeared. Barbara continued to watch the kids for the next year & noted that Cal never asked her if she heard from Michele or mentioned her name. Barbara described Cal as an explosive person who had a temper, yet throughout the time that Michele was missing, he was uncharacteristically calm, cool & collected.
Gary Taylor, Michele’s dad, felt that Cal showed an apparent lack of concern & he never called Gary. Not only that, but he never tried to call Michele when she wasn’t home the morning after her disappearance & in no way did he try to track her down. Police found it extremely strange that the mother of his children, who is there every morning to take care of them, isn’t there & he never once tried to call her. When Cal did attend family events with the children, he avoided all eye contact which made the family’s suspicions of Cal’s involvement grow.
Only days after Michele disappeared, Cal began packing up all of her belongings & instructed Barbara to sell them in a garage sale. This was very alarming to Barbara & she couldn’t understand why he assumed she wouldn’t be coming back when she had only been gone for a week.
After four years, there was still no sign of Michele & on September 30, 2005, Cal was arrested & charged with Michele’s murder. He was not only arrested in front of his employees but his hands were placed in handcuffs while his legs were placed in irons or legcuffs. Defense attorney Joe Cawley was fully confident that because of the lack of physical evidence or a body, Cal would never be convicted as the lack of evidence was a reasonable doubt.
After nearly six years, the trial began on May 21, 2007. Cal had been out on a $500,000 bail & arrived at the courthouse from the home where authorities were convinced that Michele had been murdered. District Attorney Jerry Keene was aware that there was no body, no witness, no murder weapon & he had never been part of a case like this that led to a conviction.
The picture painted by the prosecution in terms of what they theorize happened to Michele was that after she left Brian’s home at 11-11:15 pm on September 11, 2001, she went directly home & parked her minivan in the garage. As soon as she entered the kitchen through the garage, Cal murdered her. He had the rest of the night to dispose of Michele’s body in a way that it would never be found. He attempted to clean the kitchen & then moved Michele’s van to the bottom of the driveway so that it appeared that she never came into the house at all that night. He then cleaned himself up & called Barbara at 7 am to watch his kids so that she could stumble upon Michele’s minivan. This theory is built on premise as there is no proof that Michele entered the home at approximately 11:30 pm on September 11th.
The blood found in the home was the main focus at the trial that included six drops of Michele’s blood on the doorway between the kitchen & garage, more drops on a kitchen throw rug as well as the garage floor. The spots were extremely small & not indicative of criminal conduct according to the defense.
Because the blood evidence was the main piece of the case, the prosecution utilized renowned criminologist Henry Lee who testified on videotape. Lee was best known for his work during the O.J. Simpson trial & indicated that in this case, the blood told the story of what happened to Michele.
Lee felt that based on the pattern of blood in the doorway, Michele was hit twice, the first punch would have knocked her down & the second caused her blood to fly. Red dye was used to demonstrate the spatter, similar to what was found in the Harris home. Based on how the blood source was broken into smaller droplets that propelled horizontally through the air, told investigators that some force had been used. When asked if it was enough to tell Lee if it was a crime scene, he felt that yes, the very potential of a crime scene was there. Defense attorneys maintained that because it was such a small amount of blood, it was in no way indicative of a crime scene.
Investigator Anderson felt that some kind of blunt instrument like a hammer or even a fist, had been used. The fact that the blood was in a spatter pattern isn’t something you would typically find in a house despite that the family housed four children & two adults. If it was a result of a cut or a nosebleed, it would present as dripped blood vs. spatter. In total, there were more than 40 tiny drops of blood in the kitchen & a square stain of blood on the rug that could have been from the murder weapon. Because of the fact that the blood found was red in appearance, it indicated that the blood was fresh. Dr Henry Lee had never been at the crime scene itself & his opinion was based solely on his exam of the photos.
Blood was never found in any of the cars or in the sink traps which led the defense to question how, if Cal murdered Michele, did he move her body & how did he clean the crime scene? The defense also argued that police hadn’t placed enough focus on Brian Earley as his apartment & car had never been searched for the presence of blood. Michael Kasper & Michael Hakes’ apartments had also never been searched. Hakes’ body had also not been searched for signs of injury. Police said that the men were fully cooperative during the investigation & had no motive for murder. They also passed their polygraph tests which is something Cal refused to do.
Cal chose not to testify during his trial & on June 6, 2007, after two weeks of testimony, the case went to jury. After less than four hours of deliberation over the course of two days, the jury returned with a verdict. As the verdict was read, the Harris family, who sat to the left side of the room, held their breath as Cal cried.
Calvin Harris was convicted of second-degree murder of his wife, Michele Harris. Cal’s attorneys were shocked, having been fully confident that due to the lack of evidence, he would be found not guilty.
A male juror indicated that he felt that the evidence was overwhelming & all the little pieces came together as a whole puzzle. Jurors also felt that Cal’s own actions were very telling & the fact that he did not join the search for his wife or stayed home from work that day was concerning. The blood evidence played a large role & told the story of Michele being murdered in her home which would have eliminated other possible suspects.
Two months later & days before Cal’s sentencing, a new witness came forward. 23-year-old Kevin Tubbs, a local farmer, said that on the morning that Michele disappeared, he drove past the Harris driveway slowly at about 5:30 am & saw two cars. There was a man in his mid-20s at the back of the pickup & a woman at the side who had blond hair & appeared to be crying. The man also appeared a little upset & the woman was believed to be Michele.
The man at the back of the pickup was described as young with dark hair & a dark complexion; he wore a white t-shirt. If Tubbs truly saw who he believed to be Michele when he did, Cal would not have had time to kill Michele. However, investigators believe that Tubbs was mistaken & at the time he drove by, the lighting would have been too dark to see what he claimed to see. He responded that his headlights were directly on them but also admitted that he did not get a close look & could not be 100% sure. Tubbs had waited six years before telling anyone what he saw. Another nearby resident, John Steele, also claimed to be driving through the area at 6 am on the same morning when he also saw a truck at the end of the Harris driveway. He thought he overheard the man by the truck telling the woman to, “Get in the car, just get in the damn car.” Steele had given a written account of what he had seen & then died shortly thereafter, so his statement was not offered as evidence.
The judge believed what Tubbs saw & threw out Cal’s conviction; he was allowed to go home on bail for the next two years.
The defense maintained that Michele never entered her home that night. They believe that after she left Brian’s house, she met up with two men, Stacy Stewart & Christopher Thomason who are from Texas & came to the Tioga area in 2001 for steelwork with a local manufacturer. They were staying in a hotel a half-mile from Lefty’s. Multiple sources indicate that Michele met the men while waiting tables at Lefty’s which led to her & her friends socializing with them outside of work. In August 2001, Stewart purchased a home about seven miles from the Harris home & within a few months of her disappearance, both Stewart & Thomason abruptly left the area & relocated back to Texas without as much as notifying their work. Stewart abandoned his home, not bothering to even list it for sale & stopped paying the mortgage.
According to Thomason, on the last night that Michele was seen, she was at the bar with them & when he left & at the time that he departed, she was alive & well & still hanging out with Stewart. He said that Stewart was interested in Michele & when he left, they were sitting at the bar together. It was Thomason’s opinion that Michele had been murdered & Stacy Stewart was responsible; he said that he would have likely buried her in concrete. Stewart maintains that he was actually home alone & without an alibi; he said that he had no interest in her & it was Thomason that had the sexual relationship with Michele. He even made a point of saying that he knew so little of her that he didn’t even know her name.
The man that Tubbs identified seeing near the pickup truck with Michele fit the description of Stacy Stewart. He described the man as white, 5’8”-5’10”, early to mid-20s in age, tanned skin, brown hair, wearing blue jeans & a white t-shirt with muscular build. The truck was described as a dark blue or black Chevy truck & it was confirmed that Stewart owned & was driving a black Chevy pickup truck at the time.
The property that Stewart owned was in a large underdeveloped area with woods & ponds nearby. A number of witnesses indicate overhearing Stewart & Thomason talking about burning evidence, specifically bloody clothing. The burn pit on the property was searched on January 8, 2016 which found various items, including the partial strap from a woman’s bra, a woman’s bathing suit or halter top, two pieces of fabric that had been charred & the clasp & latch of a woman’s handbag. The charred fabric matches that of the uniform Michele wore at Lefty’s though by that time, had no identifiable DNA profiles. When Stacy’s truck was able to be located after it was auctioned off & resold in Texas, the new owner allowed a search & bloodstains were found on the back seats & door panels as well as a diamond earring found behind the passenger side seat belt retractor that Cal said were similar to some he had bought Michele. Because of the age of evidence, full DNA sequence was not able to connect them with Michele.
In July 2009, Cal once again went to trial for the murder of his wife. This time, he took the stand & denied having anything to do with Michele’s disappearance. What he said varied from what other witnesses say happened. Barbara Thayer told the jury that she called Michele’s phone from the Harris home on the morning she disappeared while Cal testified that he made that call. Barbara maintained that this is not true & it was she who made the call.
When it was mentioned that Cal gathered up Michele’s belongings & suggested the garage sale, Cal claimed this was actually Barbara’s idea. Once again, she said that this was absolutely untrue & Cal was simply a liar & a good one.
After a nearly three-week trial & ten hours of jury deliberation, a decision was made & once again, Cal was found guilty. Prosecutor Jerry Keene was exceptionally thankful & felt it was the hardest case he had ever prosecuted.
The decision was bittersweet for Michele’s family; they knew that the four children would be the ones to suffer. But they also realized that Cal was responsible & needed to pay for what he had done. The family continued to hold out hope that one day Michele’s body will be found & she can be laid to rest.
Cal was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison & the four Harris children were sent to live with Cal’s aunt.
Cal appealed to the Court of Appeals & a third trial was ordered because of two procedural errors. In the meantime, Cal was released on $500,000 bail after spending 38 months in prison. The case went to jury in May 2015 & the verdict was not reached & a mistrial was declared after eleven days of deliberations. A fourth trial was set for the following year. During this trial, a witness who was a convicted murderer came forward after being incarcerated with Cal; he claimed that he overheard Cal threaten another inmate saying, “I’ll make you disappear like I made my wife disappear.” In the midst of his testimony, this witness suddenly pleaded the fifth & refused to speak further & his testimony was removed from the record.
On May 24, 2016, Cal was found not guilty which is something that he maintained for 15 years by that point. His four children, who by that time, were estranged from Michele’s family, stood by their father’s side throughout the ordeal. His 20-year-old daughter Cayla said that her father had been gone for four years at one point, which was very difficult on her & her siblings.
The long legal battle has financially drained a large portion of Cal’s fortune so he moved on to sell his 250-acre estate while he & his children look for ways to move forward. As the fourth trial ended, Cal’s children ranged between 17 & 21-years-old & had mostly grown up without their mother which they hoped her memory would not be forgotten. They remember their mom as someone with a smile that would light up a room & they are trying to be the people she would want them to be. Michele Harris’ body nor the murder weapon were ever found.
References:
- CBS News: 48 Hours Mystery: A time to kill
- ABC News: Cal Harris says acquittal after 4th murder trial was ‘total relief,’ how he & the kids are moving forward
- Wikipedia: Disappearance of Michele Anne Harris
- Medium: Four trials, two convictions & the case is still unsolved: What happened to Michele Anne Harris?
- Pressconnects: Burned bra, clothes: New evidence in Harris murder case?
- The Daily Review: Exploring the questions of the Cal Harris trial
- Pressconnects: Cal Harris: What happened?
