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Another unwanted woman killed but the husband is going to trial when no body has been discovered. A woman (who her husband thought would be overlooked) due to the tragedy of Sept. 11 but LE followed through for years. This couple also continued to live together while estranged. The husband may walk because it is a circumstantial case and there is no body or witness.

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Sunday May 20, 2007

Harris trial begins without body
Prosecutor faces uphill challenge


MICHELE HARRIS


CAL HARRIS


By Nancy Dooling
Press & Sun-Bulletin
The Harrises looked like the perfect family in a photograph.

Beautiful, blond wife, successful husband from a wealthy Tioga County family, both surrounded by four picture-perfect young children, posing for the camera amidst fall's bright leaves.

But something, somewhere, went terribly wrong.

Michele Harris, then 35, disappeared more than five years ago, her gold Ford minivan found abandoned at the entrance to the couple's driveway in the Town of Spencer on Sept. 12, 2001. The keys remained in the ignition, officials said.

This week, Michele's husband, Calvin Harris, 45, will stand trial for what a prosecutor claims was her murder five years ago, even though her body has never been found. Jury selection will begin Monday in Tioga County Court in Owego.

A friend in 2001 had no doubt that Michele is dead.

"Michele would never leave her kids," Linda Hyatt, a close friend of Michele's, said in the months after her disappearance. The children, two boys and two girls, were 2, 4, 6 and 7 years old when their mother vanished.

Months of intense police searches in and around the couple's rural estate, including nearby Empire Lake, would yield no sign of Michele, nor would the constant monitoring of her bank account and cellular telephone.

But through the years, police investigators refused to call it quits.

State police spent thousands of hours on the case, said Capt. Mark Lester of Troop C's Bureau of Criminal Investigation. What made the Harris case different from other cases is that it never went cold, Lester said. Leads kept coming in and were followed. Investigators kept pushing for clues -- and for answers.

"We've never given up looking for Michele," Lester said.

On Sept. 30, 2005, Calvin Harris was indicted on one count of second-degree murder -- four years after Michele disappeared.

Lester refused to discuss what came to light in the police investigation after four years that gave Tioga County District Attorney Gerald Keene enough evidence to seek the indictment.

But making that indictment stick would prove to be difficult.

After a review of the grand jury proceedings done at the request of Harris' defense attorney, Joseph F. Cawley Jr., Tioga County Judge Vincent Sgueglia told Keene and Cawley that he would throw out the indictment because the proceedings, conducted by Keene, were fatally flawed.

Three days later, Keene would demand that Sgueglia step down from the case, accusing the judge of showing favoritism and bias toward Cawley and Harris. Sgueglia vehemently denied the accusation, but stepped down anyway.

In December, Broome County Judge Martin E. Smith was appointed to oversee the case. And he agreed with Sgueglia; in January, he tossed Keene's indictment, citing a litany of Keene's errors, including knowingly allowing improper hearsay testimony from witnesses during the grand jury proceedings. Witnesses also had been given free rein to voice opinions on the couple's relationship, he said.

In addition, Keene had given the grand jurors an impression that caused them to undervalue their own role in reviewing the evidence, Smith said in his written decision. Keene also told grand jurors, in a conversation about a polygraph test, that he had a story to tell them, but couldn't share that story until after the trial, court documents said.

Keene pressed forward, however, getting a new indictment from a different grand jury in February. A trial date was set for May 21. JoAnn Peet, Tioga County chief court clerk, said 450 Tioga residents have been summoned for jury selection, which begins Monday.

Harris remained free on bail throughout the court proceedings after his family posted $500,000 in cash. Harris continues to live with his children in the home he shared with Michele, friends said.

Harris' defense attorney, a skilled trial veteran with three murder acquittals under his belt, is sure to argue that Harris didn't kill his wife. Cawley said in an earlier court appearance that Keene's case against his client was circumstantial -- meaning there were no eyewitnesses.

Details of the case against Harris have been hard to come by because the court files remain sealed on the orders of the judge. And neither Cawley nor Keene will say much about the case. But the couple's relationship is almost certain to be a central issue in the trial.

The couple became estranged, but lived together under the same roof, police, friends and family would later say. Michele Harris began divorce proceedings in January 2001. She had a boyfriend, who may have been the last person to see her before she vanished.

State police initially said Harris was last seen by co-workers when she left her waitressing job in Waverly about 9:30 p.m. Sept. 11, 2001. But Cawley said in a later court appearance that Michele Harris had actually stopped at her boyfriend's house after she left work, leaving there about 11:30 p.m. that night.

A friend, who remains unidentified, reported her missing early Sept. 12, 2001.

By the time state police investigators showed up on Sept. 12, 2001, Michele's minivan was parked in the Harris' garage, and Calvin Harris had no objection to allowing the investigators to search the minivan, the house and property on Sept. 12, police testified at a pretrial hearing in 2006.

In the years between Michele Harris' disappearance and the murder indictment, Calvin Harris would be charged with misdemeanor assault in 2002 for hitting his brother at a car dealership in Owego.

Later, grand jury testimony in Tioga County would hint at the couple's relationship, with Michele allegedly calling a family member from inside a closet where she hid from her husband, court documents stated.

What is known is that the couple continued to live together with their four children in a big house on an estate in rural Spencer. Michele never showed up for an appointment with her divorce attorney on Sept. 12, 2001.

It isn't unusual for a divorcing couple to live together, because if one leaves, the other gains custody of the children, said Donald M. Sukloff, a five-decade veteran of legal marital battles in Broome County. But such living arrangements may have a high price for the couple and their children. "It can be a terrible atmosphere," the Binghamton attorney said.

Michele Harris disappeared on one of the country's darkest days.

On Sept. 11, 2001, all attention was focused on New York City, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C., after terrorists attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Michele Harris may have been overlooked in the days following the attacks, but her family and friends have not forgotten her.

Her photograph remains posted on the Web site of the National Center for Missing Adults to this day. She is described as blond with brown eyes. Harris is 5-feet, 2-inches tall and weighs 100 pounds. She has a sun and flames tattoo on her ankle and breast augmentation. She was wearing numerous rings and bracelets, two chain necklaces, one with a religious pendant.

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comment from article:

No body = no crime.

A person can be convicted without evidence of a body, but it's very difficult and almost impossible without eyewitnesses and/or a confession.

My odds are: He walks.

Roger Thornhill, Editor
The Catskill Commentator
http://www.commentator.vze.com

Posted by: Roger_Thornhill on Sun May 20, 2007 2:56 pm

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Monday, May 28, 2007

Boyfriend takes stand in Harris trial
By LISA R. HOWELER Times Reporter
OWEGO - Brian Earley was dating Michele Harris when she disappeared on Sept. 11, 2001.

She was 35. He was 24. She was married with four children, and in the process of getting a divorce. He was in a relationship.

Earley testified in Tioga County Court Friday that he saw Michele Harris the night before she was reported missing. He denied accusations by defense attorney Joseph Cawley Jr. that he followed Michele to her van, begging her not to end their relationship and then followed her in his vehicle to her home on Hagadorn Road in Spencer and where her van was later found abandoned.


In fact, Earley said, Michele had not tried to end their relationship and he had walked her to her van, like had every night since they had been dating, to kiss her goodnight.

The body of Michele Harris has never been found, but police say her husband Calvin Harris killed her in made sure no one would ever find her. Harris, a 45-year old wealthy businessman, is in the midst of a trial in Tioga Court, answering a charge of second degree murder.

Friday, during the third day of testimony, Tioga County District Attorney Gerald Keene asked Brian Earley how he learned of Michele's disappearance and if he had been involved in a romantic relationship with her. Earley admitted he had been involved romantically with Michele and said he had attempted to hide the relationship from Calvin Harris, the man she was divorcing. Earley didn't deny the relationship to police, nor did he deny them access to his apartment in Smithboro, he said.



His relationship with Michele had become serious, enough that they had discussed marriage, but Earley said he wasn't upset when he learned he wasn't the only one who had been romantically involved with Michele in 2001.

Michael kasper of Sayre was working as a manager at Lefty's in Waverly when he and Michele began a relationship in April of 2001, kasper testified. That relationship ended sometime in June of 2001. And while kasper admitted he had once used cocaine and had transported a girlfriend of his to the hospital after pushing her into a wall, he said he never saw Michele use cocaine and never argued with her.

Calvin Harris told police and others he had heard Michele was using cocaine.



Senior New York State Police Investigator William McEvoy interviewed Earley and also observed his apartment and Earley's uncle's hunting cabin in North Orwell, Pa. Earley, a native of Philadelphia, owned a shot gun and while McEvoy said he saw the shotgun he did not take it into evidence and that, to his knowledge, forensic experts did not study it.

Earley admitted under cross examination that he had moved to Smithboro, N.Y., to be closer to Michele Harris. He admitted to dating Michele and not telling his then-girlfriend Andrea. He said his failure to break off his relationship with Andrea was what bothered Michele, but once that break up was complete, he and Michele did not have any arguments between them.

An undated letter Earley wrote to Michele referred to her concern she could not balance their relationship and a divorce proceeding that was growing more and more bitter, he told Cawley.



In the days following his wife's disappearance Calvin Harris seemed to have an attitude of “business as usual,” his former friend John Culvey testified. Calvin Harris' daughters stayed with Culvey and his wife in the days after Michele's disappearance and it was at that time Culvey asked Harris how he felt about what had been happening.

“I'm (expletive deleted),” Culvey said Calvin Harris told him. “I'm (expletive deleted) if they don't find her. I'm (expletive deleted).”

Culvey and other friends of Calvin Harris' approached Harris a few weeks later, asking him again what was the story behind his wife's disappearance.



Culvey testified that Harris said, “You guys already think I'm guilty. Why should I try to convince you otherwise?”

On cross examination Culvey said he didn't remember Harris saying first “John, you're my friend. You shouldn't have to ask me if I did this.”

Culvey said he wrote a letter to Harris shortly after that time and told Harris he could no longer be friends with him because he - Culvey - felt he - Harris - did not seem to think Michele's disappearance was a big deal.



Cindy Turner - a close friend of Michele's and the Harris' - testified she first learned of Michele's disappearance from a secretary at the school she works at. She called Calvin Harris and asked him why she had heard of her best friends disappearance from someone other than him.

“She's no good,” Turner said Calvin Harris told her and then said Michele had been using cocaine.

Turner, and her husband Thomas, who also took the stand Friday, both said they had never witnessed Michele use cocaine and did not believe she ever had used it.



Turner's testimony also touched upon Calvin Harris' apparent unusual behavior in the days after his wife disappeared - the second time this issue has been brought up in court during this trial.

According to Turner, during a visit two days after his wife disappeared, Calvin Harris seemed withdrawn and would not look his friends in the eye. He starred at the floor when he talked, testified Turner. She said Harris asked for something to clean his eyeglasses, a disinfectant and then a toothpick and brush. Asked by Keene if Harris had ever been this thorough in cleaning his glasses before, Turner said she had seen Harris playing with his children before, his glasses knocked off and him just putting them back on again.

On Wednesday, neighbor and Harris housekeeper Barb Thayer said Harris had also asked her to clean his eyeglasses the day his wife was reported missing.



Friday, Turner also testified that Harris had told her and her husband about the blood police found in the Harris' garage. Harris said the blood stain was “about the size of a loaf of bread.” She asked Harris if he knew where the blood had come from and he said he may have cut himself shaving one time.

In testimony Thursday, a New York State Police Investigator said Harris had suggested the blood may have been from his son cutting his finger some time before.

Future testimony is expected to focus on experts that say the blood found matched that of Michele Harris.



However, this week the prosecution's star witness, Dr. Henry Lee, has had his credibility called into question in California. Lee has testified in a number of high profile murder cases, including the trial of O.J. Simpson. Currently he is testifying in the murder trial of music mogul Phil Specter. A judge ruled this week that Lee had tampered with evidence.

It is not clear what this latest development concerning Lee will mean to the Harris case. Lee's testimony concerning the blood splatters found in the Harris home has already been videotaped because Lee would have been out of the country during the trial. Lee's examination and cross examination have not yet been shown to the jury.

The trial will resume Tuesday morning, after the Memorial Day holiday. Attorneys on both sides have suggested the trial could take as long as four weeks.

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I'm trying to read more about Cal and this trial. I read the evidence was unsealed at the trial but can't get the link to work as of yet. I need to get more evidence to convict the husband on this crime. There just isn't enough for me to actually say he did it. She had another boyfriend and the blood evidence is not enough. I have to know more about both him and his wife. Will keep you all updated.

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Trial paints two pictures of missing woman
Testimony portrays Michele Harris as loving mother, bar-hopper



By Nancy Dooling
Press & Sun-Bulletin
Who is, or was, Michele Harris?

Three days of testimony last week during the murder trial of her husband, Calvin Harris, offered two different pictures of the radiant, blond mother of four who disappeared Sept. 11, 2001.

Calvin Harris, a wealthy Tioga County businessman, is accused of killing her, although her body has never been found.

That Michele's friends and family loved her is beyond dispute. Her father, Gary Taylor, wept when shown a picture of his daughter while he testified in Tioga County Court.

"She was beautiful," said her friend, Nicole Burdick.

She laughed and played with her four young children, who ranged in age from 2 to 7 years old at the time she disappeared, other family members have testified.

She was a wonderful friend, speaking on the telephone nearly every day to Burdick, and she maintained a close relationship with her neighbor, Cindy Turner, the two women testified last week. If Burdick didn't talk to Michele by phone, she'd see her in person, she testified.

Michele Harris maintained a close, personal friendship with her housekeeper, Barbara Thayer, confiding in her, and riding horses with her. It was not the relationship of employer and employee.

She remained close to her brother, Greg Taylor, and to his wife, Shannon, with whom she also had a close relationship, Shannon Taylor testified.

Cindy Turner knew Michele as a teenager, when she baby-sat Cindy's and husband Thomas' children, she testified. When asked about Michele's relationship with her children, Cindy Turner spoke about Michele's birthday parties for her kids, about being invited to holiday parties at the Harris estate, and her Easter egg hunts.

"Shelly loved parties," Turner said.

She remembered Michele bathing her children in the kitchen sink when they were babies.

And Cindy Turner was devastated that Calvin Harris didn't tell her that Michele was missing. Instead, she learned from others, she said. Two days after Michele disappeared, Calvin Harris called Turner at work.

"I asked him where Shelly was," Turner testified. "And how come I found out from a friend and secretary that my best friend is missing," she said, her voice breaking with emotion.

But other testimony offered last week showed a different side of Michele.

In the midst of a bitter divorce, she took a job as a waitress at Lefty's, a Waverly restaurant.

She started going to bars after work, friends and family testified.

And Calvin Harris told police in their initial investigation that Michele worked until 9 p.m. at Lefty's, and then stayed out until 1 or 2 a.m. drinking in bars.

Burdick testified that she and Michele went out two or three times a week, and with increasing frequency in the summer of 2001.

She did not drink to excess nor do illegal drugs, Burdick and family members insisted. But Thayer, the housekeeper, discovered Michele's van parked along the driveway to Hagadorn Road on Sept. 12, 2001. She checked the inside of the van, thinking that maybe Michele had been out drinking the night before and was sleeping in the back of the van, the housekeeper testified.

Michele met a 23-year-old Philadelphia man in a bar in late November 2000 and the two began an affair, he testified. Brian Earley left Philadelphia, moving to Tioga County to be close to her, he testified. He wanted to marry her, he said.

In December 2000, Michele asked Calvin Harris, her husband of 10 years, for a divorce. He reacted angrily, court records show. On Dec. 8, 2000, Shannon Taylor called Michele in the middle of an argument between Michele and Calvin and Michele told her he blocked her in with his truck and wouldn't let her leave.

But while dating Earley, Michele also had a two-month affair with another 23-year-old man, Michael Kasper, then a manager at Lefty's, Kasper testified Friday. Michael Kasper said the two parted amicably.

Calvin Harris told police investigators that Michele had planned a trip to New York City the week of Sept. 11 for Sept. 13-14. She'd told him and others that she was meeting a friend from college in the city and that she was excited about the trip.

Michele had an associate's degree in business from the State University of New York at Morrisville, court documents state.

But she told others she was going to the city to pawn some of her jewelry, including her engagement ring -- which held a 2-carat diamond -- and a Rolex watch Calvin had given her in 2000 during a cruise the couple took to reconcile after Calvin Harris had an affair with a woman who worked at one of his dealerships, court records state.

Michele wore lots of jewelry and commonly wore the Rolex watch, friends testified.

She was short of money. Calvin Harris had been ordered to pay Michele $400 a week in spending money while the divorce action was pending. He also was responsible for meeting all household expenses, the mortgage and bills.

But Michele had run up $16,000 in credit card bills, court documents state. And she owed Thayer about $1,000 in baby-sitting hours. Calvin Harris paid Thayer for housecleaning duties and baby-sitting, but wouldn't pay for the baby-sitting Thayer did for Michele while she was at work, Thayer testified.

The trial resumes Tuesday.

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More on this interesting trial so I can watch it play out and see if Cal is guilty or innocent. Let us see what the jury is hearing.


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Calvin Harris Trial: Witness testifies to blood evidence
By LISA R. HOWELER Times Reporter
Published: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 11:42 PM CDT


OWEGO - The role of motherhood in the life of Michele Harris was driven home Tuesday, if ever so subtly, with photographs that showed toys in the back seat and floor of the van she was last seen in.

Tuesday was the fourth day of testimony in the trial where prosecutors are attempting to prove that Michele Harris was killed by her husband Calvin Harris.

Prosecutors say Calvin Harris controlled his wife like he controlled his money and his businesses, and his last act of control was to murder Michele on Sept. 11, 2001. The defense for Calvin Harris say the theory may be interesting, but holds no water with little to no evidence, no murder weapon and not even a body.


Michele Harris disappeared the night of Sept. 11, 2001 and was last seen leaving her boyfriend's home in Smithboro. Her body, nor any hint of her whereabouts, has ever been found.

The defense continued Tuesday in Tioga County Court to attack the prosecution's theory, asking a New York State Police Crime Scene Investigator why, if Michele was murdered in the Harris home as police believe, no blood was found in sinks, in Calvin Harris' truck, in a laundry room adjacent to a door and doorway where blood splatters were found.

Testimony from Investigator Steven Andersen took up the entire day Tuesday, beginning with his direct questioning from Tioga County District Attorney Gerald Keene.



Andersen testified to finding various blood splatters in the doorway of the Harris home leading from the garage to the kitchen and in the garage by that doorway, as well as on a throw rug in the same entryway. The blood was on the door and molding of the door in the entryway. Andersen said he did not find any blood in the minivan Michele was last seen driving. He was able to lift finger prints from the driver's side of the van that matched Calvin Harris' and Michele's boyfriend Brian Earley, he said.

The blood spatters found in the garage appeared to show that someone had tried to clean up after themselves, the prosecution suggested. The blood in the garage was pushed under chipped up paint on the concrete floor of the garage, Andersen testified. He further testified to how he believed the blood had splattered on to the wall, versus it being dripped on the wall.

Still, defense attorney Joseph Cawley, Jr. wasn't convinced that the blood was from a violent act, asking Andersen if areas in close proximity to the other spots were testified for blood. Andersen said a pile of dirty clothes in the laundry room, a sink in the laundry room, and other areas near the stains discovered by police were tested for blood, but none was found.



Cawley also questioned how the New York State Police handled the crime scene, pointing to photographs of the entrance of the Harris driveway where law enforcement vehicles were parked, eradicating any possibility of classifying the scene for forensic purposes.

Originally the scene was not considered a crime scene, but instead a place to begin searching for a missing person, said Andersen.

Tuesday marked the first day jurors were given an extensive tour of the alleged murder site, beginning with the driveway to the Harris home, the garage and then the interior of the home, mainly the kitchen, bedroom and master bathroom.



Keene presented close to 200 exhibits for jurors during almost five hours of direct examination of Anderson. Most of the exhibits were of photographs, maps, and diagrams and others included Calvin and Michele Harris' toothbrushes, the rug from the kitchen, and Michele's cell phone. The bulk of the photographs were of the red stains found in the garage and kitchen doorway. A 20 minute debate spurred on by Cawley on the coloring of the photographs, and if they actually depicted the stains accurately, was eventually put to rest by presiding Judge Martin Smith over ruling the defense's objection to the photos being entered in as evidence.

Andersen said a problem with the flash had lighted the image slightly, but that the size and location of the blood splatters was consistent to what he had observed with the naked eye when he investigated the scene.

For the second time in the trial the defense focused on a long, detailed list of jewelry, asking Andersen if any of the items on the list had been recovered from the home or the van. Andersen testified several pieces of jewelry were recovered, but did not know if all the items on the list had been. The significance of the items and the question of their recovery was not immediately made clear by Cawley.



Also Tuesday, Cawley continued to drive home the point that Calvin Harris never once refused to allow the New York State Police to search his home, his truck, his property, or even to speak to his children. In addition, Cawley said, Harris was not at home when many of these activities occurred.

Throughout the trial the defense has tried to allude that Michele could have been killed by her boyfriend or by other spurned suitors.

Testifying earlier in the trial, Harris' boyfriend, Brian Earley, said he had walked Michele to her van that night, kissed her good night and then returned to his apartment. When asked by defense attorney Joseph Cawley, Jr. if he had actually followed Michele to her van, then drove behind her in his car to her driveway in the Town of Spencer, Earley responded, “absolutely not.”



So far Keene has called less than half of the 70 witnesses expected to take the stand in the trial, which attorneys say could last as long as four weeks.

Court resumes today in the main courtroom of the Tioga County Courthouse.

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Calvin Harris is currently on trial for the murder of Michele Harris who he was in the process of divorcing at the time she disappeared Sept. 11, 2001.

Thursday marked the sixth day of Tioga County District Attorney Gerald Keene presenting testimony and witnesses in Tioga County court in an effort to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Calvin Harris killed his wife as a final act of control over her. Police have never found Michele Harris' body nor any other remains.

The day in court was a riveting one, bringing to the stand the woman Calvin Harris was dating while still married to Michele, Michele's hairdresser who testified he heard Calvin Harris threaten Michele, a friend who said Calvin Harris asked her to convince Michele not to go through with the divorce and a state police investigator who said police watched Calvin Harris constantly between Sept. 11, 2001 and November of that same year.
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Keeping up with the trial everyday and will print as the information unfolds on what is taking place.

Please feel free to read the link to find out what is going on, just printed the open lines.

It appears Cal was in disbelief when someone stated they found Michele's but it was in error. Cal was shocked and debated, "they did not!!" This is not a good sign, as it may show Cal may have buried her so deep, he would know that nobody would be able to find her.

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Calvin Harris's case went to the jury for a decision on his guilt or innocence. If he is found guilty he can face a minimum of 15 years to life and a max. of 25 years to life for his wife's disappearance (Michelle Harris) in Sept of 2001.

I'm waiting to see what the jury decides in this case because I don't know what conclusion I would come to with the evidence that was presented. I would have to take much time if I was on this jury to reach the proper verdict and go over and over the evidence. I don't think they showed me enough to convict (at least for murder) and the body has never been found.

Will keep you posted on the verdict.

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I guess the jury felt there was enough evidence for a conviction of 2nd degree murder even though they never found Michele's body.



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Calvin Harris found guilty of wife's murder
By LISA R. HOWELER Times Reporter
Published: Thursday, June 7, 2007 10:58 AM CDT

Sobs and cries of “no!” from Calvin Harris filled the courtroom Thursday morning as the jury foreman told the judge that a jury of 12 had found Harris guilty of second degree murder.

Harris has been on trial for almost three weeks for the murder of his wife Michele Harris who disappeared on Sept. 11, 2001.

Harris has been out on bail, but on Thursday that bail was revoked and he was remanded to the custody of the Tioga County Sheriff's Department.


The Harris' had four children who have been living with Calvin Harris. There was no word Thursday what will now happen to the children, the oldest of which is 13.

The family of Calvin Harris did not comment on the conviction. Michele Harris' family said they were pleased with the verdict, but that it would not bring Michele back to them.

Defense attorney Joseph Cawley said there will most likely be an appeal filed.

Police have never found Michele's body nor a murder weapon, but despite that Calvin Harris was indicted for her murder by a grand jury twice.

Michele Harris' van was found at the end of the driveway leading to the estate where she lived with her husband and children on the morning of Sept. 12, 2001. Prosecutors say the van was left there by Calvin Harris, who drove it to the end of the driveway to make it appear Michele was kidnaped.

There was no evidence directly linking Calvin Harris to the death of his wife, Harris' attorney, Joseph Cawley Jr., stated to jurors in his closing arguments Wednesday.