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Jul 2022
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Episode 255 - Who Killed the Harrisons?

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About this episode
In 2013, paramedics were called to a home in Mississauga, Ontario.
There they found the body of 40-year-old Caleb Harrison lying in bed, with red marks around his neck.

But this wasn’t the first time that the paramedics had found a dead body at the Harrison family home.

In fact, in the space of just five years, three members of the Harrison family had died in separate and bizarre incidents in the same house…

Was the house haunted by a murderous ghost, or was the family being preyed upon by a calculated and patient killer?

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Sources:  https://projects.thestar.com/harrison-family-murders/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7qECRc0VVk https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/forensic-pathology-nb-1.3704109#:~:text=National%20shortage,to%20attain%20the%20right%20qualifications. https://healthydebate.ca/2020/02/topic/death_investigation_feb2020/ https://www.thestar.com/life/health_wellness/2009/02/02/addressing_ontarios_pathologist_shortage.html https://www.crime-scene-investigator.net/forensic-science-in-canada.pdf https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/forensic-pathology-canada https://thepointer.com/article/2020-08-19/part-1-the-harrison-murders-how-did-peel-regional-police-investigators-miss-the-obvious https://thepointer.com/article/2020-08-21/part-2-the-harrison-murders-failing-to-catch-a-killer https://thepointer.com/article/2020-08-22/part-3-the-harrison-murders-peel-police-finally-catch-a-killer-but-expose-their-own-failures https://projects.thestar.com/harrison-family-murders/


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