<p>I also read somewhere that even the area within the shopping center he parked in didn’t make logical sense, as not only was it not the first place he could have stopped but it also wasn’t where he would encounter the most people who might be able to help. Which of course suggests that he wasn’t expecting “help,” but rather a place to act out his feigned horror at what he had done in front of a limited audience.</p>
<p>The discovery aspect also raises questions. If he hadn’t thought ALL DAY about the fact that he left his kid–who he drives every day to daycare–in the car, and he has no sense of smell, why did he all of a sudden think of it when he seems to have? Especially as the daycare had already contacted him about the child’s absence, and the wife was the one to pick him up? </p>
<p>I am also unclear on the timeline of what happened when the wife got to the daycare. Wouldn’t she immediately call him, and then he would (if innocent) immediately race out to the car and check the back seat?</p>
<p>I am pretty sure this guy will not be allowed to testify in his own defense, for obvious reasons.</p>
<p>Obviously we are all just speculating but I think there is much more to this whole story. My instincts tell me he was put up to this by his wife. I will go even further and say I bet she was also involved with the girls he was sexting with. Hard for me to believe he could attract all these young girls on his own. Nothing attractive about him at all, and he is a married man with financial issues. Apparently there were many, many girls he was sexting. Wife did not even flinch in the courtroom when it came out about him sending pictures of his “privates” on the day of Cooper’s death. The camera panned right to her and she just sat there chomping on her gum. No reaction at all.
Evil I tell you.</p>
<p>They probably have video of his leaving the HD parking lot. There are 2 likely routes he would have taken to the movie theater he was probably ( reportedly) heading to. One would have taken him up behind and around the mall (most likely, as it would avoid highway traffic) and the other would have been on the highway but its not any faster. Most likely the route would have been city streets, around the mall. He could have crossed over the big 6 (might even be 8 lanes there) lane road and then the shopping center he pulled into would have been on his right. But it’s a busy intersection with a long light and to go to the movie theater it would have been equally likely he’d have turned right at that light rather than go straight across. </p>
<p>The Marietta Daily Journal - I dreaded how he would look mdjonline.com/.../article--I-dreaded-how…
3 days ago - Justin Ross Harris stares in the direction of Cobb County … to meet friends at the AMC Parkway Pointe movie theater on Highway 41. … He also said Harris bought light bulbs at The Home Depot …</p>
<p>Interesting article. When they old him he was being charged with murder, his response was “but there is no malicious intent”.</p>
<p>Right–I noticed that too. IMO, no genuinely shocked and grieving parent would use a phrase like that in the initial aftermath of the discovery of their child’s death. It also sounds like legalese that this guy would have been unlikely to have ever used if not for having done research on the charges that could come from his actions.</p>
<p>My mother lost her sense of smell completely when she hit the back of her head and “fractured” the nerve in a fall about 15 years ago.</p>
<p>I wonder why he has hearing loss? Possibly an injury could have caused both.</p>
<p>But even without a sense of smell, there is ample reason to think he is guilty of murder. As other have pointed out, the truly accidental hot car incidents seem to happen when routine is interrupted. Not the case here.</p>
<p>This whole thing sounds fishy to me. I was also thinking that a 22 month old would not have fallen asleep in the 2 mile ride from Chik-Fil-A. My kids would have been talking and singing, or at least would have made some sort of noise. I can imagine leaving a sleeping infant, but a squirmy toddler? (And of course, all the other points that others have mentioned)</p>
<p>^^^^^
I think that alone is a huge problem for this guy. Just seems impossible to “forget” in that short of a time after just having breakfast with your child. Just not even remotely believable.</p>
<p>I’m two thirds of the way through the courtroom videos (browser keeps crashing) I didn’t realize that Harris <em>omitted</em> the fact that he went back to his car at lunch when he gave a very detailed account of his day to police. Guess he didn’t realize they had him on video in the parking lot.</p>
<p>The time line makes Home Depot look bad, they need to look into this guy’s supervisor. When did he ever have time to do any work? He arrived at work at 9:25 took a lunch break at 11:30 returned around 12:45 left for the day just at 4:16 and has time to IM coworkers about lunch and movie plans, read email, “sexed” with multiple woman. No wonder he was passed over for promotion.</p>
<p>I agree with others, I’m sure the wife is in this too.</p>
<p>Apparently they are releasing the search warrants today. Not sure what that means. Is it the stuff they found with the search warrants or just releasing a list of the warrants themselves.</p>
<p>Whether the evidence is enough to convict him or not, we’ll see. I doubt anyone believes Casey Anthony was innocent of her daughter’s death, but the evidence to commit her just was not there. A lot of things we are discussing are not really admissible in court and if brought into the picture will be labeled as theory, not fact. We’ll have to see how the case procees.</p>
<p>Seriously, if this guy truly deliberately left a baby in a car to die that way, I think he is a threat to society, as serious one. What kind of monster would do a thing like that? I have a lot of trouble believing that part of it. Though I believe Casey Anthony had a lot to do with her daughter’s death, I am not convinced she is deliberately killed her daughter; that it was just another careless mess up that that woman’s whole life was. There are some signs in this case that the parents really wanted to be rid of that child. People who would do something like that; there are no holds barred as to what cruel tortuous thing they would do to someone else. No conscience at all.The idea of people like that out in society is frightening to me.</p>
<p>The problem will be proving that this was not an accident.</p>
<p>Smell or no smell it is just not believable that you get into a car with your kid in the back seat and don’t notice the baby. I do know someone who had no sense of smell until a surgery to correct sinus issues, though. I think both parents are involved.</p>
<p>There are several things that can cause anosmia. I am more interested in knowing if he got/read/addressed the email from the daycare. What time did they send it?</p>
<p>I dont believe that he could have gone to his car at lunchtime and not noticed his son.
Even if he wasnt the usual parent to drop him off, just seeing the carseat would trigger the realization that he " forgot" to go to childcare.</p>
<p>I read somewhere that the email was sent around 1:30. I wonder what the daycare’s protocol is?</p>
<p>One-fifth of the mile is a couple of blocks, right? I have a hard time believing a parent could be in the drive-through with his child, turn around to give him his breakfast, and then promptly “forget” about him. Imagine the little boy’s confusion and fear at being left like that. Horrible.</p>
<p>Was he in the drive through or did he go inside? The fast food place is on one side of the interstate and HS is on the other. Depending on traffic it might take minute or 2?</p>
<p>“The time line makes Home Depot look bad, they need to look into this guy’s supervisor. When did he ever have time to do any work? He arrived at work at 9:25 took a lunch break at 11:30 returned around 12:45 left for the day just at 4:16 and has time to IM coworkers about lunch and movie plans, read email, “sexed” with multiple woman. No wonder he was passed over for promotion.”</p>
<p>I have to agree with you on that. Plus I have known people who used to work at Home depot in IT and from what they’ve said Salary employees usually have to work a lot of extra hours. While a lot of corporations are like that it seemed HD expects more hours out of their employees. So I’m not sure what Harris was doing but it doesn’t seem like he was working much… I wonder if he knew someone who got him the job. Especially since he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in commerce and business administration not CS or MIS. </p>
<p>He went inside there is video of him and his baby.</p>