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The Case of Cal Harris
📻 Episode #539
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Aug 21, 2025
About This Episode
Calvin "Cal" Harris was charged with the murder of his estranged wife Michele Harris, who disappeared in September 2001 from their home in Spencer, NY. Despite no body being found, Cal was tried four times and eventually acquitted in 2016. He later filed federal and state lawsuits alleging malicious prosecution and evidence fabrication. His case…
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The Case
Calvin "Cal" Harris was charged with the murder of his estranged wife Michele Harris, who disappeared in September 2001 from their home in Spencer, NY. Despite no body being found, Cal was tried four times and eventually acquitted in 2016. He later filed federal and state lawsuits alleging malicious prosecution and evidence fabrication. His case highlights investigative tunnel vision, suppressed evidence, and ongoing questions about who was truly responsible for Michele's disappearance.
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In Their Own Words — transcript excerpts
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00:05:10“Speaker 1: to Cal, whose once happy marriage by March of two Speaker 1: thousand and one, had devolved, as these things sometimes do, Speaker 1: into divorce proceedings. Cal and Michelle, meanwhile, we're cope parenting Speaker 1: and remained in the home together, but they were living Speaker 1: separate lives. Michelle began socializing more and eventually began working”
00:21:23“Speaker 3: and the judge goes, well, i'll allow it. I'll give Speaker 3: them some leeway. And then it's every single rock that Speaker 3: builds this massive mound that you can't escape from. Speaker 1: When in reality it's nothing but an exhaustive climb straight Speaker 1: up bullshit mountain where you have to dispel this minutia”
00:35:43“Speaker 2: and by the time I turned back, he was gone. Speaker 3: And Cal turned to me and said, what just happened? Speaker 3: Is it not guilty or guilty? Speaker 4: I couldn't even hear. I couldn't hear you. Speaker 3: Yeah, head, but your kids heard it.”
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