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i've thought about a thousand times the what-ifs and that's kind of nauseating that we
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were that close in my time as district attorney we have had some odd cases this one was a complete roller coaster
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ride towards the end as far as an emotional situation this was by far the toughest one
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tracy harris was a hard-working young mother that disappeared march 7 1990. she was a very sweet friend a very shy
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person and people really liked her and respected her her daughter was a toddler a
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four-year-old named carolyn who she had with carl harris she had been married for several years they
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had recently divorced but had never really split they still lived in the same home they slept in the same bed i did
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hear that tracy was missing and was very concerned something had happened to her
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carl came by our house she'd been missing for a couple days he was genuinely concerned
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and he said you know i can see her leaving me but she would never leave this baby
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her body was discovered about 150 yards further downstream about seven days before she went missing
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based on the autopsy the manner of death was homicide tracy was a kind and loving
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person who did not deserve what happened to her most people did think that carl harris
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had murdered tracy prior to her going missing there had been a confrontation or two
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concerning a girlfriend that carl had carl harris did have a reputation for being very violent in particular
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towards tracy harris there were several instances where the witnesses would say it didn't take anything for him to just
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go off on her he was incredibly abusive to her i never put my hands on tracing never so
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all those people were lying yes ma'am i love tracy she was the love of my life i think from
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the very get-go there was only one suspect in this case carl harris everybody thought i killed her
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everywhere i turned they you know you could hear him whispering in the background there's the man that
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killed tracy a lot of people were waiting for him to be arrested and then surprised when he
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never was ozark police department had created a cold case unit and in 2016 they picked up the tracy harris carl
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harris case they told me they was looking at me as a suspect again after 27 years the evidence was
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circumstantially strong the domestic violence the circumstance with the girlfriend and
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comments he made that she wouldn't be back who else would want this sweet innocent young lady murdered
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jordan and her team had spent a lot of time building a case that i was about to torpedo
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i kept the secret for 30 years