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Episode 651: Jean Harris and the Murder of Herman Tarnower (Part 1)
Thu, 06 Mar 2025 08:01:00 -0000
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When Jean Harris met Herman Tarnower in the winter of 1966, she quickly fell in love the charming doctor. Having just come out of a disappointing twenty-year marriage, Harris was desperate to find the love and stimulating partnership she’d long dreamed of, and believed she’d finally found it in the intellectual Tarnower and the two would live happily ever after. But fourteen years later, Tarnower was dead and Harris was on trial for his murder, her fantasy of happily ever after having crumbled around her.Thank you to the Incredible Dave White of Bring Me the Axe Podcast for research and Writing support!ReferencesAlexander, Shana. 1983. Very Much a Lady: The Untold Story of Jean Harris and Dr. Herman Tarnower. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster.Clendinen, Dudley. 1981. "Jean Harrids as a witness: sad, humorous, cutting." New York Times, January 28: B2.Faron, James. 1980. "'Scarsdale Diet' doctor slain; headmistress charged." New York Times, March 12: A1.Feron, James. 1981. "Defiant Jean Harris sentenced to mandatory fifteen years." New York Times, March 21: 1.—. 1980. "Hard questioning is screening out Tarnower jurors." New York Times, November 13: B2.—. 1980. "Jean Harris jury told of clothing found 'slashed'." New York Times, December 3: B1.—. 1981. "Jurors in Harris trial re-enacted night of murder in deliberations." New York Times, February 26: A1.—. 1980. "Policeman tells how Mrs. Harris described fight." New York Times, December 12: B1.Haden-Guest, Anthony. 1980. "The headmistress and the diet doctor." New York Magazine, March 31.The People of the State of New York v. Jean S. Harris. 1981. 84 A.D.2d 63 (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department, December 30).United Press International. 1981. "Juror says Mrs. Harris's tesimony was the key to murder." New York Times, February 25: B2.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Hey, weirdos, I'm Ash. And I'm Elena. And this right here, you bitches, is Morbid. You bitches, it's Morbid. It's Valentine's Day. It is. I sounded pissed about that. I'm not. It's fucking Valentine's Day. It's Valentine's Day. Yeah, no, I'm happy about the Valentine's Day of it all.
I love Valentine's Day. Not because, like, we do anything, really.
no we're not like we'll do like a little something like i woke up to a cute little like array on the counter this morning oh see that's cute yeah we don't always honestly i i gotta like be real here drew is a lot better at valentine's day than i am like i i usually wake up to something and then i'm like oh fuck i didn't i'm gonna like run out later and get you like discount candy i don't know why i said candy like that
But this year I did really fucking good. Hell yeah. I went a little, I went, I like upped the ante this year.
See, John and I usually like go really hard to like make the kids like a cute little Valentine's thing. I feel like when you have kids, it becomes more about that.
like the holiday yeah and it becomes it becomes like super fun again because like it becomes like super kid again yeah that's always fun i know the magic of all the holidays like yeah obviously like christmas is like insane when you have kids but even just like valentine's day and saint patrick's day even yeah like we so i always um like our bathroom that they brush their teeth in that's like essentially like you know the kid bathroom yeah it like because they've demolished it oh do you decorate it
I decorate it for all the holidays. So like, and I don't go like, you know, it's not like I go nuts. Like I just get stuff like some little banners and like, you know, sometimes I'll throw like a balloon in there. Like that dollar section stuff. Yeah, like the dollar section has a lot of cool stuff. So like it's super easy to be able to do it.
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