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Dr. Amie Harwick was murdered by her long-term stalker on Valentine's Day

True Crime Society

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True Crime, Society & Culture

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Dr. Amie Harwick was an established marriage, family and sexuality specialist.   She worked in Los Angeles and was highly respected in her field.

In 2009, Amie began dating a man named Gareth Pursehouse. After 18 months, things turned sour and they broke up.  Except, Gareth could not accept the change. He was violent towards Amie and stalked her, forcing her to take out multiple protective orders.

Amie managed to distance herself from Gareth over the following years.  In January 2020, the two had a chance meeting at a public event that Amie was attending and Gareth was working at.  This meeting caused Gareth to fly into a rage which terrified Amie.

On Valentine’s Day 2020,  Amie attended a burlesque show with her friends. Gareth waited until she left and he broke into her home.  He lay in her bed and waited for. When Amie arrived home, she was brutally attacked by Gareth and he threw her off a balcony, leaving her to die.

Gareth would go to trial for Amie’s murder and he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

There have also been some big updates in the ‘suicide’ of Ellen Greenberg.  The medical examiner who originally titled Ellen’s death a suicide has now backtracked.  "It is my professional opinion Ellen's manner of death should be designated as something other than suicide," Dr Marlon Osbourne said.

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Thank you.

0:37.7

Thank you. What's up, guys, welcome back to another episode of the True Crime Society podcast with Stephanie and Olivia.

0:45.0

It is February 6. We're finally in February. We're on our way through 2025, making our way through trekking along. It's nice to know this is a short month and we're going to be in March.

0:50.9

I feel like slogging along is, it's like, you know, if you have like skis and you try to

0:54.4

walk through the snow, it's like that. Yeah, definitely. We're going to be in March before you know it,

1:00.1

and that's when my birthday is, and then it maybe starts getting a little nicer here where it's winter.

1:07.3

And things are going to be looking up. I'm confident that things are going to be looking up by then, maybe, hopefully.

1:13.6

Well, I've got a vacation plan in March 2, to Thailand, hopefully.

1:17.1

Oh, true, true.

1:17.9

So that's surely going to be a good month.

1:21.2

Yes, Olivia's back to her traveling.

1:23.2

The traveling bullshit.

1:26.6

It's been a while for you.

1:28.6

Yeah.

1:29.2

Well, yeah, it has actually.

1:30.4

But it's, um, this trip's been planned for a long time and I wasn't sure if it was

1:34.1

going to go ahead.

1:34.9

But now it seems like it might be.

1:36.4

So anyway, I'll keep you posted.

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