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Dark Histories

James Eugene Harrison: The Murder That Never Was

Dark Histories

Ben Cutmore

History

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

The disappearance of James Eugene Harrison, a young entrepreneur who set out on a business trip in the winter of 1958 and never returned, signalled a tragic loss for his family. Their life suddenly flipped on its head. Mrs Harrison slowly came to terms with the difficult life of a widow with two young sons to raise. A Californian convict admitted to the murder, complete with a detailed confession and the whole sorry affair was tied up neatly for police. That was until James Eugene Harrison showed up on the driveway of a suburban house one night, three months later, confused and unsure of how he had moved halfway across the country and very much alive. For extended show notes, including maps, links and scripts, head over to darkhistories.com Support the show by using our link when you sign up to Audible: http://audibletrial.com/darkhistories or visit our Patreon for bonus episodes and Early Access: https://www.patreon.com/darkhistories Connect with us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/darkhistoriespodcast Or find us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/darkhistories & Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dark_histories/ Or you can contact us directly via email at [email protected] or via voicemail on: (415) 286-5072 or join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/cmGcBFf Music was recorded by me © Ben Cutmore 2017 Other Outro music was Paul Whiteman & his orchestra with Mildred Bailey - All of me (1931). It's out of copyright now, but if you're interested, that was that.

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All right, enough of this.

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Let's crack on with the episode. The disappearance of James Eugene Harrison, a young entrepreneur who set out on a business trip in the winter of 1958 and never returned, signaled a tragic loss for his family.

0:53.0

Their life suddenly flipped on its head.

0:55.0

Mrs Harrison slowly came to terms with the difficult life of a widow

0:59.0

with two young sons to raise.

1:01.0

A Californian convict, admitted to the murder, complete with a detailed

1:05.9

confession and the whole sorry affair was tied up neatly for police. That was, until

1:12.4

James Eugene Harrison showed up on the driveway of a suburban house one night three months later,

1:19.0

confused, unsure of how he had moved halfway across the country and very much alive. This is dark histories

1:27.2

where the facts are worse than fiction.

1:39.0

Hello and welcome to Dark History season 4 episode 20 which is a nice round number which makes me feel good happy Halloween I hope you all had a good weekend.

1:45.0

I'm recording this the day before Halloween and it's going to be going out the day after Halloween,

1:50.3

so it's not really Halloween either way, but you get my point. It's the weekend, isn't it?

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