This week, in Westport, Connecticut, it's a race against time, when a man horribly murders a woman, in her own beautiful home, before abducting her teenage daughter, and driving away. Police frantically search, trying to fing the young woman, before it's too late. Even if she's found alive, will this horrible person ever be caught? It's a heart pumping story, that is later called "12 hours of hell"!Along the way, we find out that you don't want to name your band after a food that will make you sick, that no matter how exclusive & leafy your neighborhood is, anything can happen, and that people are sometimes way more capable than they think they are!!New episodes every Thursday!Donate at: patreon.com/crimeinsports or go to paypal.com and use our email: [email protected] to shutupandgivememurder.com for all things Small Town Murder & Crime In Sports!Follow us on...twitter.com/@murdersmallfacebook.com/smalltownpodinstagram.com/smalltownmurderAlso, check out James & Jimmie's other show, Crime In Sports! On Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Wondery, Wondery+, Stitcher, or wherever you listen to podcasts!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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It's crazy. Yeah. Especially when it's like old timey, like the Molasses River that happened in Boston. That was wild.
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Chapter 2: What is the context of the Westport, Connecticut murder case?
You got that shit. It got a reputation as an art center, and people were calling it a creative heaven at that point.
All right.
And then in the 20th century, there's industrialization and all this in New York. All this industrialization everywhere else made fashionable people come here. And it became Westport very fashionable. More writers and artists came. Farmers were selling off their land for housing developments and shit like that. And it changed from farmers to the suburbs at that point. Wow.
Then, famous people started moving here. In 1960, Paul Newman moved in and lived there until he died. How about that? I'm sure he had five houses, but he lived there.
Just being handsome. Hell yeah.
Just being handsome until he's dead. And his wife, Joanne Woodward, the other actress, she still lived there after he died, even, so stayed there, liked it. Here's reviews of this town. Got a couple reviews here. Five stars. I appreciate the location of the town and what the town has to offer.
It's an hour from New York City, making the city very accessible and contains a beach, a nice downtown area, a public pool, the public sports courts and fields. The high school is very intense but contains amazing sports theater and music facilities and programs. These are rich kids. Smart kids, yeah. The parents are monitoring. They're not necessarily smart but rich. Yeah.
All rich people think their kids will be smart no matter if they're dumb or not. That's what rich people think.
We can buy them being smart.
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Chapter 3: How did Westport, Connecticut become a wealthy suburb?
Yeah. So then he started choking her after that. After she said, why do you hate us? And he choked her unconscious again. So now she's been choked unconscious twice now, Gail. When she regained consciousness, she was on the floor with her hands tied, hog tied basically, hands and feet bound. And her mother was on the floor beside her with a rope around her neck, unconscious and breathing heavily.
So he like left her there. Um, so Gail said, I kept fainting and waking up, fainting and waking up. When I came to, he was choking my mother again and I screamed, stop, stop. The man then ran over to Gail. Harless does picks her up, drags her in her own bedroom.
Yeah.
Um, he tied her hands and feet here again, cause this was, she was untied and then whatever the, I, uh, the mom was tied. Um,
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Chapter 4: What makes Westport, Connecticut unique?
Uh-huh.
So that's interesting. Yeah, that wouldn't be great. But she's standing there right there going, that guy did this. Right. Period. Yeah. Yeah. The defense in closing recounted the events, and they said Miller came up here. He gave you his best effort to recount the events. Mm-hmm.
He said that his client was upset because of the argument he had with his wife the night before, and he said no one can recall what he did every minute of every given day, which is true. That's true enough. Wow. They call her Lucille Harris and Rosalie Millage interchangeably, his wife, by the way.
Yeah.
Don't get it. So the lawyer says you must examine every detail because a man's life is at stake. He said his summation required more than 20 minutes, and the defense was very dramatic. He said, in this case, many questions have arisen as to who, how, and when. The state has attempted to prove by one witness all these elements. Yeah, one witness who you held hostage for hours.
Right.
Wow. He said it was difficult to even cross examine Gail. It was difficult to ask her questions about the thing that happened to her mother. The question is whether Gail told the whole story, he says, alluding to several times during her testimony when she didn't remember something or didn't know, you know, because it was the most traumatic thing that's happened to a 14 fucking eighth grader.
Yeah. The state had failed to prove premeditation, he said also. He said the excitement described in the home that day was a continuing thing. There was no time to reflect. None. Okay. Yeah. Pointing out there were two telephones that were not used in the home, the public defender said this fact proves that this was an excitable period of time.
They didn't even call the cops because they were getting strangled intermittently.
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