the best years of my life as a parent and i ll never get those years back. he will also never stand trial for his wife s murder again. exonerated now. and free finally to speak his mind about his terrible 15-year ordeal. from my standpoint personally, i think one of the greatest hip of course czys in our country is our criminal justice system. there is nothing fair about it. cal did more than just speak out n august 2017, his legal team filed a sweeping 26-page federal complaint claiming malicious prosecution and violations of civil rights. the lawyer representing the county, the county s district attorney s office and former district plans to file a motion to dismiss. two others named in the suit have already done so.
with the prosecution claim that cal harris was a man used to being in charge of everyone and everything in his life. he s in control of his businesses, he s in control of his wife, he s in control of his finances, his employees and his children and just kind of a domineering person. more than that, said the prosecutor, cal harris could be volatile. michele began keeping notes of what she said was abusive language and behavior. in fact, she won a temporary order of protection against him. what he said to her was i wouldn t need a gun to kill you. and if i did kill you, they ll never find your body. in the heat of passion, people say terrible things to each other. doesn t mean they killed them, though. but he went beyond saying terrible things to her. he told her that he would put her body in a place it would never be found. that s like one of the biggest facts of the case that we ve looked and looked and looked for this woman s body and have not been able to find it.
there were people there that had criminal records. there were people there that were dealing drugs. there were people there making sexual advances. and on the night she vanished, after she left her boyfriend s place, they now knew, they said, that michele did not go home. because one of those witnesses reported seeing her later that night with another man, a local steel worker. september 11th, on that night in a bar, in a dance club he actually said. he was there but then he left the two of them alone and went home. the steel worker spotted with michele was a regular at her restaurant, said the defense. his name was stacy stewart. the defense said he told his friends he had a sexual relationship with michele and, said the defense, stacy stewart appeared to be the very man kevin tubbs saw with michele in the early hours of september 12th. there was a blonde woman out there and a young gentleman, you know, in his early 20s. tubbs identified that man
the prosecution argued that cal showed how unfeeling he was by failing to join the search for michele. that was nonsense, said his aunt mary. cal was trying to keep it all together for his small children. there were dozens, maybe hundreds of experts scouring the area, looking for her. and there was one person taking care of these four kids. that alleged motive that cal was worried that dealerships would take a hit because of the divorce, not so, said cal s side. his lawyer said michele couldn t touch the business and anyway, before she vanished michele decided to accept cal s settlement offer, $740,000. she indicated to numerous people she was happy with the settlement. besides, said aunt mary. there was plenty of money to go around. no amount of money would have
from a photograph. his physical appearance, his facial hair, his height, his age and the type of vehicle he drove. tubbs said the man he saw was driving beside a black truck, stacy stewart drove a black truck, same kind. it s a new model and it s a chevy and it s all coming together. stacy stewart denied any involvement in michele s disappearance. he denied he ever had a relationship with michele that he was never even alone with her. still, cal s side was convinced that stewart and a friend of his played some role in michele s disappearance. in 2015, trial number three opened, a change of venue necessary said the defense because the case was too well known. and the defense managed to get some of the prosecution s case thrown out. the state wasn t allowed to suggest, as it had before, that