Isar Harpaz
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Dateline NBC
A "no body" murder trial in Mississippi. A Wisconsin dad fakes his death. Plus, keeping your home safe during the holidays.
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Dateline NBC
A "no body" murder trial in Mississippi. A Wisconsin dad fakes his death. Plus, keeping your home safe during the holidays.
Jay Lee had graduated with honors from the University of Mississippi, was about to enter grad school. He was a community activist. He was also out and proud. You know, somebody who performed in local drag shows. He was unapologetically who he was. Nice. He also was a family person.
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A "no body" murder trial in Mississippi. A Wisconsin dad fakes his death. Plus, keeping your home safe during the holidays.
You know, his mom and him literally talked every day of his entire life since he had been born, sometimes two, three times a day.
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A "no body" murder trial in Mississippi. A Wisconsin dad fakes his death. Plus, keeping your home safe during the holidays.
What trial testimony has revealed. Unlike Jay Lee, Tim Harrington was hiding his sexuality. He was not out. His parents didn't know anything about it. His best friends didn't know anything about that. The grandfather was a bishop at the church that he founded for 42 years. And so his relationship with Jay Lee was fairly secretive.
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A "no body" murder trial in Mississippi. A Wisconsin dad fakes his death. Plus, keeping your home safe during the holidays.
It took the police a while to trace this Snapchat account to Tim Harrington, but they were able to do it. Tim Harrington says, come back. And Jay Lee says, are you luring me in? Are you going to beat me up or something? And Tim says, why would I do that? Come by now.
Dateline NBC
A "no body" murder trial in Mississippi. A Wisconsin dad fakes his death. Plus, keeping your home safe during the holidays.
Yeah, that is correct.
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A "no body" murder trial in Mississippi. A Wisconsin dad fakes his death. Plus, keeping your home safe during the holidays.
So they had some pretty powerful visual and surveillance evidence, right? They get word on July 10th, two days after he disappeared, Jay's car was found at this apartment complex about seven miles away from Tim Harrington's apartment. And so then they say, OK, well, maybe we can see some surveillance video of how this car got there.
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A "no body" murder trial in Mississippi. A Wisconsin dad fakes his death. Plus, keeping your home safe during the holidays.
They could not tell who was driving it. But nine minutes later, a person is seen jogging out of the apartment complex.
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A "no body" murder trial in Mississippi. A Wisconsin dad fakes his death. Plus, keeping your home safe during the holidays.
Could not make out a face, no. But as they were looking at the video footage, they see the same jogger come out into a gas station and get into a car and drive away. So now they have a car that, you know, they try to find the car's owner. Right. And the car's owner comes in and his name is Kazaya Carter. And he says, yeah, yeah, a friend of my girlfriend's just flagged me down.
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A "no body" murder trial in Mississippi. A Wisconsin dad fakes his death. Plus, keeping your home safe during the holidays.
Well, what's the name of your friend? I says, Tim Harrington. Five minutes after he picks him up, he gets stopped by police for speeding. So we actually have body cam camera of Tim Harrington being in that car with him. If he had just not flagged down a ride, right, they would have probably not known who that person was.
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A "no body" murder trial in Mississippi. A Wisconsin dad fakes his death. Plus, keeping your home safe during the holidays.
The defense was trying to say one of his jobs was manage some of the rental properties that his grandfather had. There was no schedule to it. And so this may have been one of those days, although they didn't present any evidence that he actually did that. But remember, there is no physical evidence. They didn't find anything in his apartment. They didn't find anything in Jay's car.
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A "no body" murder trial in Mississippi. A Wisconsin dad fakes his death. Plus, keeping your home safe during the holidays.
They didn't find anything in Tim Harrington's car. There is no sign of a struggle.
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A "no body" murder trial in Mississippi. A Wisconsin dad fakes his death. Plus, keeping your home safe during the holidays.
Yes. I mean, the defense did try to imply some alternate suspects. They always said, oh, we're not saying that they did it and we know they were eliminated, but the police should have investigated further than that. Things moved very quickly after closing arguments. Two hours after they started deliberation, there was a note. What if we can't agree on the verdict?
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A "no body" murder trial in Mississippi. A Wisconsin dad fakes his death. Plus, keeping your home safe during the holidays.
Judge sent them back and said, try it. So another two hours there, they said, I think we're deadlocked. He brought them out. And he said, without telling me whether it's guilty or not guilty, just tell me what's the split. And the jury format says 11 to 1. I confirmed later on 11 guilty and 1 not guilty. The judge sent them back. They were inside for another five hours.
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A "no body" murder trial in Mississippi. A Wisconsin dad fakes his death. Plus, keeping your home safe during the holidays.
And finally they came out and they were totally deadlocked.
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A "no body" murder trial in Mississippi. A Wisconsin dad fakes his death. Plus, keeping your home safe during the holidays.
There wasn't any happiness on his face. There wasn't any relief on his face. Tim has to deal with a lot of, you know, a lot of has been revealed that his family may have not known. And so he has to face that as well.
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A "no body" murder trial in Mississippi. A Wisconsin dad fakes his death. Plus, keeping your home safe during the holidays.
They're definitely going to retry it, but there is a possibility, and some people are speculating on that, that the defense will reach out to see if they can get a plea deal.
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A "no body" murder trial in Mississippi. A Wisconsin dad fakes his death. Plus, keeping your home safe during the holidays.
We appreciate it. Thank you so much, Andrea.