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Murder of Amie Harwick (Los Angeles, 2020)

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Amie Harwick, a Los Angeles marriage and family therapist and author, was strangled and thrown from her third-floor Hollywood Hills balcony on February 15, 2020, by an ex-boyfriend who had a history of stalking her. A jury convicted Pursehouse of first degree murder. He got life without parole. Send this to someone from Los Angeles.

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A Los Angeles therapist came home after a late burlesque show. She didn't survive. Police arrested her photographer ex-boyfriend, Gareth Pursehouse, that very day. They only dated for eighteen months, but his obsession lasted nine terrifying years. A jury convicted Pursehouse of first degree murder. He got life without parole. Can restraining orders ever truly protect a victim from a stalker? The full, sourced file is on casepin dot org.

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