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more than three years after Amy Harwick was killed her parents Tom and Penny sat
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through Gareth pers House's trial even the most graphic moments but the Harwick were not alone a small army of Amy's
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friends including Rudy Torres were also in the courtroom this is the last thing I could ever do for her in their opening
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statements prosecutors told jurors what they believe happened in the early morning of February 15
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2020 Dr Amy arck was murdered by defendant g p house because he was obsessed with it he strangled her lifted
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her up over the balcony and dropped her to her death I just pray that Amy was unconscious when she was when she went
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over the balcony nothing could prepare the Harwick to hear for the first time ever Gareth pers House's explanation
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about what happened the night Amy died defense attorney Evan franzel claims that running into Amy in January 2020 at
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an award show had allegedly sent purse house into a deep debilitating depression and the only way out of it
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was to talk to Amy on Valentine's Day 2020 what was your reaction to that bull to put it bluntly they're making up
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stories because they have no defense the defense tells the jurors they will hear
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from an Accident Reconstructionist who will show that Amy fell on her own franel then shows the jury two images a
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screenshot of the Reconstruction showing an animated figure hanging from the balcony and an undated photo of Amy
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posing on top of a balcony railing you'll see that she had a certain Comfort level with the balcony railing
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beautiful young lady wasn't she she looked glorious what was your reaction ridiculous I couldn't take it seriously
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it was just so far-fetched to me she's been strangled she's debilitated so for her to then walk
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climb over a 3-foot rail do all that it doesn't seem seem reasonable it seems actually unreasonable the defense's
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opening concludes with this damning admission yes gar first house was waiting in her home he broke into her
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home had he not been there she wouldn't have died that night that is not in dispute he set a chain of actions into
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motions that led to her death but the evidence will show that he never intended on killing
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her the prosecution then presented its evidence to prove that Gareth pous did intend to kill Amy Harwick dozens of
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witnesses testified for this date including Amy's roommate Michael Herman who was in Amy's house the night she was
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killed Michael described for the jury how after Gareth pers house confronted Amy about a month before her murder Amy
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had been concerned about French doors that pers house would later use to break into her home Amy had met with
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a handyman I remember uh they were over by the the glass doors and Amy was pointing it out and telling him we need
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to secure this prosecutors also played this tape jail conversation between pers house and his friends after his arrest I
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guess I'm officially a bad boy now right I've always been kind of just a couple of weeks after he's been arrested for
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murder he's laughing with his friends you never hear any moment of concern for Amy during that call yeah so it's not
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great I'm not getting out of here why was that important I think that's one piece of evidence to show a
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consciousness of guilt so he knows what's coming because the evidence shows what he did it proves what he did during
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the state's closing arguments it was Amy Harwick herself who had the last word prosecutor Mariano read an email Amy
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wrote to herself hours after the January 2020 encounter with pers house tonight I
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felt very scared G came up behind me and started screaming I'm pretty nervous that I'm more on his radar now it
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terrifies me that he's obsessed with me for 9 years thinks about me every day he's focused on harming me that's the
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closest we've ever had to to a victim testifying in their murder I thought it was extremely
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devastating