What Happened to the Harrisons? | 2. Tug of War
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The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?
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What triggered Bridget Harrison’s police interview on May 6, 2009?
Some evil thing happened here.
Three people die in a quiet suburb in Mississauga, Canada.
It's not a coincidence.
Она афер, і на сай хау. Is this bad luck or something more sinister?
The worst investigative mess I've ever. Long simmering what took you so fucking long. To get here.
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Before we begin, just wanted to let you know this episode contains descriptions of domestic violence.
I'm looking at a grainy video of a police interview. Bridget Harrison is sitting alone at a small round table in a windowless room. She's at the police station near her home on Pitch Pine Crescent. Waiting for a constable to join her. It's May sixth. two thousand and nine. Three weeks after Bridget found her husband, Bill Harrison, dead of an apparent heart arrhythmia. And now She's here to report a crime. She looks deeply distressed. But even now she's carefully put together in a tailored blazer and stylish glasses. It's okay. She lifts her head as a police officer enters and opens a spiral notebook. Bridget is a meticulous note taker.
Class with Mike Young, the original police criminal affiliations bureau.
He's a middle aged man with thinning grey hair, and today he's dressed in plain clothes, a shirt and tie.
This room right now is being audio videotaped and you are.
I my name is Bridget Harrison. Bridget Harrison. Right. And I am the mother of Caleb Harrison. And the grand mother of two grandchildren.
Bridget names the children here. A girl and a boy five and seven years old.
And these are the children who have been abducted by their mother. Abducted by their
mother. Bridget's son Caleb isn't here with her and we'll get to why later.
Um all right. And so that's what we're here, that's what we're investigating.
Бриджіт ревіски івенц та в лесі да калеб газів ірому опічпне кресензіз маражни і тутазан. And his children had been living there too when Caleb had visitation. Until recently. On April the
sixteenth of this year. Which is just like three weeks ago. My husband died. Completely unexpected and so suddenly he's never been ill.
Bridget says she wanted to be the one to tell her grandchildren that their papa had died. But the kids were scheduled to be with their mom that weekend.
But because of the death of my husband went to school on Friday and found out they weren't in school.
She thought their mom might have kept them home from school. So Bridget drove to Melissa's house to check.
We went by the house, twenty six fifty one Aquitaine, all dark, all locked up. Made me Nervous. I called her dad. Меліса' фаттер, Майк Меррит. Partly to tell him well first of all to tell him about Bill's death. But also to ask 'em please to talk to Melissa and make sure that we were able to tell the children ourselves so that we could be with them when we had to give them this information.
The weekend passed, with Bridget in mourning for her husband and worried for her grandkids. She heard nothing from Melissa. On the day the kids were supposed to return to Pitchpine Crescent, Bridget went back to the school. When they're not in school
on Tuesday. That's the flags really went up then.
How did Caleb and Melissa meet and why did their relationship quickly turn into a marriage?
When I first learned about the abduction, I remember thinking What would motivate a mother of little kids to just make a run for it? To walk away from her home, her life. To risk criminal charges and jail time.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What triggered Bridget Harrison’s police interview on May 6, 2009?
0:02–5:18
2
How did Caleb and Melissa meet and why did their relationship quickly turn into a marriage?
5:18–10:47
3
Why did Melissa claim she had ovarian cancer and how did that lie affect the couple’s plans?
10:47–16:45
4
What happened during the June 2005 drunk‑driving crash that changed Caleb’s life?
16:45–21:21
5
How did the domestic‑assault accusations and court affidavits shape the legal battle?
21:21–26:05
6
What were the key arguments in the custody tug‑of‑war between Caleb and Melissa?
26:05–31:38
7
Why did Melissa and her new boyfriend disappear with the children in 2008?
31:38–36:45
8
How did the Harrisons finally regain custody and what was the outcome for the family?
36:45–42:28