Georgia News
Georgia News

‘Breakdown’ Episode 12: From the gutter to the homicide file

ajc.com
By Staff
Oct 24, 2016

An amazing week in the Justin Ross Harris murder trial: it started in the gutter with Ross Harris’s strange and sordid sexual behavior and ended with blockbuster testimony by a defense witness and gripping video from the police station.

This witness put the lie to one of the most explosive assertions of the state: that Harris investigated a website devoted to a “child free” lifestyle.

Also, with Cobb County police Det. Phil Stoddard on the stand Friday afternoon, the prosecution played the recording of Harris’s police interview and then the recording of his former wife, Leanna, visiting him in that same interrogation room.

Go the ajcbreakdown.com or download Episode 12 from the podcast store at iTunes.

About the Author

Staff
More Stories

Keep Reading

Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla is a 1,296-bed jail from Louisiana-based LaSalle Corrections, with which ICE contracts to hold immigrant detainees. It is set to be reopened. (Hyosub Shin/AJC)

Credit: HYOSUB SHIN / AJC

ICE has restarted detention in controversial South Georgia immigrant jail

A whistleblower complaint claimed a high number of hysterectomies had been performed on detainees — a claim later deemed false by a federal judge. The jail is set to reopen.

Fans are bananas for the Savannah Bananas. Will they embrace sister clubs?

The barnstorming Savannah Bananas and their sister teams are wrapping up 2025. Next year, there will be six teams playing in a league format for the first time.

Here are the 6 teams in next year’s Banana Ball Championship League

The Banana Ball Championship League is expanding to six teams. Here's a primer on each of the barnstorming baseball teams, including the Savannah Bananas.

The Latest

Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla is a 1,296-bed jail from Louisiana-based LaSalle Corrections, with which ICE contracts to hold immigrant detainees. It is set to be reopened. (Hyosub Shin/AJC)

Credit: HYOSUB SHIN / AJC

ICE has restarted detention in controversial South Georgia immigrant jail

Here are the 6 teams in next year’s Banana Ball Championship League

Fans are bananas for the Savannah Bananas. Will they embrace sister clubs?

Featured

Mathew Palmer, a former Delta Air Lines employee, at his home in Atlanta on Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025. Palmer was fired less than two weeks after writing a post on social media about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. (Natrice Miller/AJC)
EXCLUSIVE

Delta flight attendant fired for Kirk-related social post speaks out

Mathew Palmer, a Delta flight attendant, was suspended by the airline the day after writing a Facebook post about conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s voters are sticking with her through her political evolution

Congresswoman Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s supporters are sticking with her even as she splits from Republican Party leadership

Truck driver arrested after 8th victim found in wreckage of I-85 crash

A tractor-trailer struck the back of a Dodge van, causing the van to go up in flames. The crash involved 6 vehicles, one of which was a van transporting 37 cats to a shelter.