1 Tonight on 20/20 ` Why do people in this community continue to believe that you killed your wife? A whodunnit story that spanned more than a decade and a half. A New York man going on trial... Cal Harris says he did not kill his wife. Cal Harris, the millionaire husband; the nasty divorce; Michele, the wife and mother who went missing on 9/11. But after 15 years and four different trials, did everyone get it wrong? Who has a dog in the fight? Who's got skin in the game? He does. For the first time, the man on the hot seat speaks out only to 20/20. You'd be hard-pressed to think about this as a backdrop for a murder, right? Well, there wasn't a murder here. Something happened here. No, nothing happened here. But if it didn't, then where has his ex-wife been for the past 15 years? You've got no murder weapon. You've got no body. They live on over 200 acres. A property ` plenty of places to make someone disappear. Is your camera on? 20/20's been on the case for years, filming over every inch of the investigation. The real crime scene here is out at the front gate, where Michele Harris' van was found. Charred clothing in a fire pit. There's a bra strap. There is a button. And the other men in the area that night. Have police been chasing the wrong man for more than a decade? What we have on them is gonna be shocking. Everyone's gonna be shocked. I'm prepared to be shocked now. Tell me. 'Bad Blood' ` tonight on 20/20. Captions were made with the support of NZ On Air. Copyright Able 2017 Kia ora. I'm Caroline Robinson. Welcome to 20/20. Tonight, we have a real whodunnit ` the trial, or trials, of Cal Harris for the murder of his wife, Michele. Cal Harris has been tried four times for the same crime, and a total of 36 jurors have weighed in on the case. What's even more bizarre ` it's a murder case where there's no conclusive evidence that a murder even took place. No body has ever been found; that's after 15 years of searching. So after tonight, we hope to have a clearer picture of what happened to Michele Harris. Here's reporter Matt Gutman. MATT GUTMAN: Driving the twisting roads of upstate New York, you'll find your fair share of scenic riverside views and plenty of indications the area is part of the Haunted Trail of New York State. But off this remote mountain road in Tioga County, something else seems haunting. In this vegetable garden lies a pile of charred trash and rubble. But it's not your garden variety heap. The soot and cinder may hold answers to a 15-year-old mystery. It looked just like a place where you would maybe have a bonfire during a party. Working with forensic archaeologists, these private investigators believe they've discovered critical clues in the disappearance of 35-year-old Michele Harris, a woman missing since 2001. What comes out of here is a series of what I call artefacts. There's a bra strap. There is a button that appears to come from probably some form of women's apparel. 'Even if they were the remnants of Michele's clothes, 'the whereabouts of the woman who wore them is still unknown.' Where do we start to look for Michele Harris? I would posit that we're probably standing in the middle of someplace where somebody should start looking. But Michele's disappearance would have the misfortune of coinciding with the terror attacks on 9/11. 225 miles away in New York City, it was September 11th 2001, and with state troopers pouring into New York City by the hundreds, it left behind a skeleton staff, barely able to investigate a missing wife and doting mother of four. Michele was a good, loving, laughing, great person, mom,... friend. Barb Thayer was the Harris family nanny who helped Michele care for her four young children. She loved the babies, loved being pregnant. She loved being a mother. For six years, Thayer worked for Michele and her husband, Cal, one of the biggest fish in a small county ` a former all-American lacrosse player in college, an outdoorsman and a successful businessman whose wealthy family owned a chain of car dealerships. Did it seem like they had a good relationship? I would have said very much so in the beginning, yeah. When Michele first met Cal Harris, she was working in the office at one of those dealerships, as Cal recalled when 20/20 first interviewed him in 2014. She was just, uh,... a stunningly beautiful girl. Just, uh, very attractive. She was fun. She had a great personality. Cal's aunt Mary remembers meeting Michele at a family gathering. And I remember thinking that it was a good match, because she was very funny and very vibrant and just a very happy person. Michele and Cal married in 1990 on the Harris family's estate ` 250 pristine acres with a private lake. 29-year-old Cal was a divorcee, but the marriage was Michele's first. It was a storybook wedding, for sure, at Empire Lake. She had this precious sort of country wedding gown, and the bridesmaids were dressed accordingly. The couple lived in this house high on the hill, and after four years of marriage, their first tow-headed child, Taylor, was born, followed quickly by his sisters, Cayla and Jenna, and finally, baby brother Tanner. Four children, five years. Friends say Michele was a busy, now stay-at-home, mom. She was amazing with the kids. I'd go in in the morning, and things would be in disarray. And she'd sit at the counter and paint the girls' fingernails and toenails while the sink was full of dishes. (CHUCKLES) Things like that. But those things didn't bother her. Michele's husband, Cal, says that while they wanted a large family, their relationship became strained under the weight of constant childcare. We certainly complicated things by having more kids ` no question about it. Things went from strained to toxic just about the time their last child, Tanner, was born. Cal Harris admits he had an affair, and friends say Michele was devastated when she found out. Something happened in that last year or so. Something snapped. Maybe because she learned you were cheating on her. There had been tension and rift between us before that. Cal says Michele had an affair too, and in January of 2001, after 10 years of marriage, Michele Harris filed for divorce. Michele's family said that she came to them and said that Cal told her he could 'make her disappear'. Although they declined our request for an interview, listen to what Michele's sister-in-law Shannon and brother Greg Taylor told CBS News. 'Ah, ha, ha. I got the perfect place to put your body. They'll never find you.' That's not something you say unless, in the back of your mind, you think that, you know,... 'I might just do this.' That was something that supposedly Michele said to them about something that I supposedly said to her. But that was not true. So there was no rage. There was no anger. Things were going well here at the house. We were getting along. Cal may have thought there was nothing to fear, but Michele wasn't taking any chances. She removed Cal's guns from their house, giving them to her brother Greg. Why was it, during that period of time, that Michele removed the guns from this house and gave them to her brother? She removed the guns when she told me that she was filing for divorce, because I was upset at that time, and we did have an argument at that time. Why did she do that, then? She's trying to build a case. She wants a divorce. Michele and Cal continued to live together in their house on the hill, because Michele's lawyer told her that if she left, she could risk losing custody of the kids. She told me that if she left at that point that it would be considered abandonment, and she would... forfeit the kids. And divorce meant Cal could lose something else ` possibly half of the fortune he'd built up during their marriage. We're in a divorce. You know, there's a lot of money involved. I get all of that. But you have to see and look into the details of what was going on in her personal life. Cal Harris says they were under one roof but living separate lives. And she was sleeping downstairs on the couch, and I was sleeping upstairs. You know, we were trying to` I was trying to keep it together for the kids, but I think at that point, she'd already moved on. After filing for divorce, the millionaire's wife took a waitressing job at a dive bar. And she started dating, apparently relieved to be moving on. We went for a horse ride, and she said, 'I can't believe I'm so happy. I'm finally getting my life back.' So those were her exact words. But was her husband, Cal, so happy about it? He made Michele what he considered a generous offer ` $800,000 doled out over 10 years. That's $80,000 a year. But given the car dealerships and the vast house, Michele's attorney, Robert Miller, thought Cal was worth millions. His son, Todd Miller... My father was not gonna accept that offer. He felt that wasn't near what the businesses were worth. On the morning of September 12th, Michele had schedule a meeting with her divorce lawyer. She never made it. We all waited, and she never showed up, which has never happened before. So he knew the history between her and Cal and instantly assumed something happened to her. And that morning, it did. When we come back ` suspicious things around the house, Mom's abandoned minivan. And why is there blood in the kitchen? People have blood in their homes. You know that. Everybody knows that. Maybe. But when we come back, we'll see the importance of the blood in the kitchen. Stay with us. 1 Welcome back to 20/20. Tonight, we are looking at one of the most perplexing murder trials in the United States this century. As reporter Matt Gutman continues with 'Bad Blood', millionaire car salesman Cal Harris and his wife, Michele, are going through a divorce in the shadow of the 9/11 attacks. So what happens now will spark a police investigation that will last more than 15 years. MATT GUTMAN: If the town of Owego had a golden couple, it was Cal and Michele. Owego, a tiny town on the twisting Susquehanna River, is a Native American word meaning 'at the fork'. Cal and Michele Harris had reached that fork and, after 10 years of marriage, were getting a divorce. They were living under the same roof but not sharing the same bed. She was now dating and waitressing at a local watering hole called Lefty's. I knew she had a boyfriend and that she was spending time with him, but I also knew that she was hanging out with a bad crowd down at this bar that she worked. On September 11th 2001, the day of the terror attacks, the family's nanny, Barb Thayer, noticed a distracted Michele getting ready for work. And how was Michele that day? Frantic. I know she had a headache, and she was late for work. After the dinner shift ended at 9pm, Michele had some drinks with co-workers at Lefty's to unwind and talk about the country's unimaginable day. Then she left to visit her new boyfriend, 23-year-old Brian Earley, who insists Michele returned home before midnight. Then the following morning, Barb Thayer received a call from the Harris home just after 7am. Who called you? Cal, in the morning, and` What did he say? He just said Michele didn't come home and... would I come up and help him get the kids ready for school. And I said yes. And that had never happened before. Concerned, Thayer quickly drove to the Harris house. She immediately noticed something strange ` Michele's Ford minivan sitting at the end of their long driveway with no one inside, keys in the ignition. From the time that you rolled into that driveway and saw that minivan, how long did it take you to know what happened? I'm gonna say maybe... four minutes. Four minutes until Thayer says she started to suspect foul play. She rushed to the house to get some answers from Michele's estranged husband, Cal. I asked where Michele was, and I was told that she went to New York City. Went to New York City? MAN: I doubt very seriously that anybody would have even been able to get into New York City on September the 12th. It was just a completely implausible, nonsensical tale. Yeah, it was like a blood-draining moment. The hair stands up on the back of your neck, and you just know something. Thayer says she found it curious that Cal seemed more concerned with getting the kids packed off to school than locating his wife. He asked her to retrieve Michelle's car from the end of the driveway, and off he went to work. The only ones panicking, it seems, were Michele's friends. Listen to this frantic voicemail from her friend Nikki Burdick. Failing to reach Michele, Burdick called Michele's divorce attorney, Robert Miller. His son Todd was there. And that's when my dad called... the police. Her divorce lawyer is the one that ultimately contacts the police. Now, that's a fine how-do-you-do (!) Common sense dictates that you do ` call the authorities. 'Good grief, my wife's not home.' But was it foul play? Or had Michele run off? Within hours, a manhunt ensued, police prowling the Harris estate ` the dense forests and that glimmering lake. There was no sign of Michele on the grounds. And inside the house, nothing seemed amiss... at first. But upon closer examination, investigators find something alarming ` blood. Tiny droplets of blood, some spattered in a kitchen alcove, on the door and on the rug. And just beyond, through the door, police found what appears to be dried blood under peeling paint on the garage floor. Upon closer examination, it seemed to investigators that someone had tried to wipe it up. DNA testing confirmed some of the blood was Michele's. Why'd they have Michele's DNA on them? Not all of them have Michele's DNA on them. People have blood in their homes. You know that. Everybody knows that. This is not a crime scene. But police weren't buying what this car dealer was selling. And they were now eyeing Cal Harris ` not as a spouse spurned but as a potential murder suspect. A helicopter... on top of my house. I could see the pilot's face, hovering right over the roof of my home. Cal always understood that he was gonna be a suspect. Yeah. I mean, it's... You know, they were going through a divorce. There were domestic issues. But I also believe because he knew he was innocent, he had nothing to lose. Months went by, and the Harris children began to wonder about their missing mother. When they asked you where their mommy was, what'd you tell them? Their mom was gone, and that she never would've left 'em, that she was taken from them. After four long years, there was still no Michele, no murder weapon and no smoking gun. But finally, there was movement. Police arrested their prime suspect, Michele's husband, Cal Harris. The chatter that was going on at that time was sort of like a 'well, it's about time' type of attitude. Jury selection took a very long time. It was hard to find somebody that didn't know Michele, that didn't know Cal Harris. When we come back ` the wealthy car dealer on trial. A jury of his peers slam the door on the car dealer. But facing life in prison, Cal gets a lifeline from a complete stranger. If somebody was on the outside looking in, it would almost start to look like a soap opera to them. You know, what's gonna happen next in the Cal Harris case? You know, who's gonna come forward next? So, what is going to happen next? Stay with us to find out. 1 Welcome back. Tonight on 20/20, we're looking at the disappearance of Michele Harris in 2001. After a four-year investigation, Michele's husband, Cal, a millionaire car salesman, will stand trial for her murder. But this court case will not be the end of it. A dramatic twist is looming which will spark a decade-long legal battle. Here's reporter Matt Gutman. MATT GUTMAN: Taylor, Cayla, Jenna and Tanner Harris grew up on this placid lake. Their childhood, though, was far less tranquil. They barely remember their mom's disappearance in 2001, but they do remember their dad's arrest for her murder four years later. What was that like? Uh, it was pretty rough. We didn't get to say bye. We just came home one day after school, and our aunt, uncle and our nanny were there and told us about it. Did they ever ask you, 'Daddy, did you kill Mom?' No. They've never asked me that. Now, normally, the biggest event around Owego is the annual strawberry festival. Cal, anything to say? But in May 2007, townsfolk got out their pitchforks for a different event. One of the wealthiest men in the county, Cal Harris, was about to stand trial. There was a lot presumption that Cal Harris was guilty among all the residents in Tioga County. But the case wouldn't be as easy to sell as one of Cal's cars ` that according to ABC News legal anchor Dan Abrams and legal analyst and former prosecutor Sunny Hostin. You've got no murder weapon. You've got no body. You still have to be able to frame the story as a prosecutor. And so you're gonna look at motive, you're gonna look at opportunity, and you're gonna look at behaviour. When it came to motive, prosecutors say Harris had reason enough to kill his wife. You have a man who is in the middle of a bitter divorce. He doesn't wanna give up half of his money. He doesn't want to lose custody of his children. There are a lot less reasons to kill someone. As for opportunity, prosecutors say Cal's estate wasn't just an outdoorsman's playground but perfect grounds for foul play despite that exhaustive search by authorities. They live on over 200 acres, a property that he knows extremely well ` plenty of places to make someone disappear. And finally, prosecutors point to Cal Harris' behaviour. They say he wasn't exactly acting like a bereaved husband. He acted really strangely. He didn't ask about her well-being. That's a pretty good story for a jury. I think the prosecution had a great and compelling story. They just didn't have a lot of evidence, and that's the problem. That is the problem. But remember, prosecutors did have some physical evidence ` that small amount of blood found inside the house. And the prosecution said the blood spatter pattern revealed that Michele had been attacked with a blunt object. Jurors love the CSI effect. They love that kind of forensic testimony. You have that in this case. And ultimately, it was that blood evidence that largely carried the day ` prosecutors scoring a stunning victory. Cal Harris was convicted of second-degree murder. REPORTER: Calvin Harris was convicted of killing his estranged wife, Michele. A jury determined there was enough evidence to convict Harris of second-degree murder. I was in shock. I just went numb. All I could think about was that I'm not gonna be goin' home. I'm not gonna see my kids. And then, just days before he was to be sentenced, possibly for life behind bars, a stunning development that upends the entire case. From out of nowhere, this man emerges ` a farmer named who plants the seeds of doubt, claiming that at dawn on the day Michele disappeared, he spotted not one but two vehicles at the front of Harris' long driveway. Here he is telling CBS News what he saw. There's a man at the back of the pickup. There's a woman at the side of the pickup. She was a blonde-haired woman. It appeared that she was cryin', and it appeared that he was a little upset. But how could Michele have been alive that morning when prosecutors argue that Cal had killed his wife inside the house earlier during the night? you simply can't convict Cal Harris, because the prosecution's timeline has been completely shattered. And sure enough, the judge found Tubbs' account to be credible. And to the dismay of Michele's family and friends, he threw out Harris' conviction. The judge just looked down at me and said, 'Unhandcuff him.' And I just started bawlin'. I just started cryin'. REPORTER: The new evidence could possibly cause a different outcome. Calvin Harris is free on bail. But the prosecutors are relentless. In June of 2009, they put him on trial for a second time. and Harris himself takes the stand. And once more, the jury is not buying it. He's convicted again of Michele's murder. He's headed to the slammer for 25 years to life. What was going through your mind? Just missin' the kids growin' up. Just missin' all those special moments, those special events. But after spending over three years in prison, the topsy-turvy Tioga trial saga takes yet another astonishing turn ` this time for Harris. An appeals court rules that the judge improperly allowed hearsay testimony in as evidence. Believe it or not, Cal Harris' murder conviction was overturned again. A New York appeals court orders a new trial for Cal Harris. But as you'll see, it would be a big difference with the third trial. Coming up ` the never-before-heard audio recordings of the other men Michele might have been with right before she disappeared. What do they know? Were you framed? Was he framed? There's still a long way to go in this story. Stay with us to find out. 1 Welcome back to 20/20. Tonight, we are looking at the 15-year investigation into the disappearance of New York woman Michele Harris. She went missing in the shadow of the 9/11 terror attacks. Her husband, Cal, was the prime suspect, and after two trials and two convictions that were both overturned, a third trial looms. But this time, there are new witnesses. How will that change the narrative? Reporter Matt Gutman will explain as 'Bad Blood' continues. When you have the kind of money Cal Harris had, you can afford a multimillion-dollar house on a lake,... You'd be hard-pressed to think about this as a backdrop for a murder. Right? Well, there wasn't a murder here. ...and if you're accused of murdering your wife, enough money to pay for the best defence ` not once, but four times. Ultimately, what Cal was looking for, I think, is somebody that was gonna be fairly aggressive, both at obviously defending him, but more to the point, to finding out who actually killed his wife. Bruce Barket took over Cal Harris' case before his third murder trial in 2015 and enlisted a highly-paid dream team of former police detectives and private investigators to clear their client's name. So, what did investigators see when they first started looking at this house? So, this was the scene where they found the blood spatter ` minute little droplets of blood. Forensics expert Natalie Bayer was hired to take a closer look at those bloodstains found inside the Harris home. So, the only place where there was blood spatter of any kind was in this area? Correct. And it isn't... a crime scene. 'Course, you're paid to say that. I'm paid to... review cases forensically. And it didn't exist here. The blood evidence was the crux of the prosecution's case against Cal Harris in those convictions in trials one and two. But the prosecution is relentless, hoping a third trial will be the charm. 10 drops of blood? 10 drops of blood. Still, what were 10 drops of blood in spatters about a millimetre wide`? What were they doing here? Good question. No idea. Seems jurors in Cal's third murder trial couldn't figure that out either, and after 11 excruciating days of deliberation, they were hung; a mistrial was declared. Some of the blood was Michele's, right? Some of the blood was Michele's. But you can't tell at what time of the year, of the day, when that blood was deposited. All right, love ya. Still, prosecutors aren't giving up. On the eve of Harris' fourth trial, the defence hires Bill Flanagan to get a fresh perspective on the case. He's a retired deputy police commissioner turned grizzled private eye. The real crime scene here is out at the` out at the front gate, where Michele Harris' van was found. Flanagan says that's the spot that local farmer Kevin Tubbs claimed to have seen a blonde woman ` fitting Michele's description ` and another man the morning she went missing. Defence team investigator Dave Beers... I went back to the drawing board to try to find out if any of the suspects in the case drove a dark pickup truck. So who was this mysterious man? To try to find out, the investigators start taking a closer look at some of the men Michele might have known and any who might drive a dark pickup. They zero in on this man, Stacy Stewart, who frequented Lefty's bar where Michele was slinging drinks. And when I started looking into Stacy, just one thing led to another. He's the guy. He fit the physical description and he owned a 2000 black Chevy pickup. So the red flags went up right away. As you might imagine, Cal Harris' attorneys were eager to talk to Stacy Stewart. What you're about to hear is a never-before-heard audio recording of an interview between Stewart and Cal Harris' defence team. What they wanna know is just how well he knew her. Stewart vehemently denies ever dating Michele or even seeing her that night, but the defence feels they have a new lead after talking to him. Stewart tells them around the time Michele Harris went missing, this man, Chris Thomason, an old drinking buddy, came to his home with a female friend. They were covered in blood. Which brings us all the way back to that fire pit. This is where Stacy Stewart claims that it was Chris Thomason who burned those bloody clothes. Remember that bra strap? The defence believes it could have been Michele Harris'. What are these? There's a bra strap. There is a button that appears to come from probably some form of women's apparel. This is more archaeology than criminology. It is absolutely. You can see where this is going. These private eyes peering back into the past and seeing Stacy Stewart and Chris Thomason somehow linked to Michele Harris' disappearance or maybe even her murder. I don't know who's responsible for Michele Harris' demise. What I believe at this juncture is that there are at least two people associated with this property and this pit that have more information than they have given to anyone at this juncture. Tonight, Chris Thomason sits in a Texas jail, incarcerated for an unrelated crime. We reached out to him, but he declined to comment. But on those audio recordings, he denies ever burning anyone's clothes. As for Stacy Stewart, he was also called to testify in Cal Harris' fourth trial but ended up a no-show. So we tried to find him. Real estate records obtained by 20/20 show an address for the elusive Stacy Stewart 1700 miles away in New Braunfels, Texas. But that address leads us to this empty lot. (CRICKETS CHIRP) No sign of Stewart here. I think Texas is centric to... potentially finding Michele. So we turned to investigator Bill Flanagan for help. He helped us track down this woman, Julie Brinkman ` Stacy Stewart's ex-girlfriend. Julie told us about a strange conversation she'd had with Stewart in January 2015 after a night of drinking. He initially said that he didn't know the victim in the case. But Julie says Stacy Stewart's story gradually changed as the night wore on. He brought it up again later in the evening, and he said, 'Because I was the last person to be seen with her alive.' Julie said it all seemed rather insignificant ` until Stewart told her he knew how to hide a body. But is the defence grasping at straws? So is it desperation from the defence or an actual new lead? We'll find out when 20/20 returns after this break. 1 Welcome back. Tonight on 20/20, we're looking at the 15-year investigation into the disappearance of New York woman Michele Harris. Now, she went missing on September the 10th 2001; that's the day after the 9/11 attacks. Suspicion immediately fell on her estranged husband, millionaire car dealer Cal Harris. But even after three trials, no one is really sure what happened. Now, as reporter Matt Gutman resumes 'Bad Blood', a fourth trial is about to begin. But will it bring closure? MATT GUTMAN: It's a May morning in Schoharie, New York ` another tiny town with another Native American name. But it's more than just a change of scenery for Cal Harris; it's a change of venue. The defence fought to move the case here after their polling determined the name 'Cal Harris' was toxic in Tioga County. 97% of them, just by name, when you mentioned Cal Harris, knew that that was a case about a guy who was on trial who had been convicted twice before of murdering his wife. Something else is different here at Harris' fourth trial. Defence attorney Bruce Barket is rolling the dice, opting for a bench trial instead of a jury trial, as he tries to convince a judge Harris is not guilty of second-degree murder. It's a very different thing trying to convince a single person, a judge, rather than a jury. And you are theatrical, and you are... I don't know if I'm theatrical. I think I'm just expressive. Maybe a little too expressive for Judge Richard Mott, a guy who likes to wear a bow tie and drive a Jaguar but doesn't care for flashy in his courtroom. The first day of the trial, I was ` I swear ` 30 seconds late. And he... said, 'You're late. This will never happen again.' Really scolded me. What you're about to watch is the only portion of Cal Harris' four trials ever broadcast ` closing arguments. Look at Cal. People judge him. People look at him. The defence decides to confront a nagging issue that has dogged Cal Harris throughout his ordeal. I wanted to Botox his forehead, because every picture that they would snap of him was like this. He would furrow his eyebrows. So, he doesn't play to the press. He doesn't go out of his way to act innocent. He is innocent. And if you don't believe it, too bad ` that's his attitude. But the defence had been dealt a huge blow. All that was uncovered at that burn pit ` Judge Mott tossed it out, ruling that it was inadmissible because there was no DNA link to Michele Harris. And those audio recordings from alternative suspects? They were thrown out too. So Barket then turns his attention to the evidence ` or lack thereof. Barket claims the small amount of blood found inside the Harris home is not evidence of a crime. Even if it was all Michele's blood, and it clearly is not. 10 drops fits in this vial... Next, Barket takes aim at that blood evidence in a different way, questioning the authenticity of those crime scene photos. The colour is off by a significant margin. The exposure is wrong. You can't rely on that kind of evidence to convict a man of murder. Barket says he knows why the photos are so red. It was one of the more deceptive things I've seen prosecutors engage in. They literally manufactured evidence here. Barket says this video ` outtakes subpoenaed by the defence from CBS ` is proof the photos were tampered with. Members of the prosecution's team and renowned forensics expert Dr Henry Lee talking about pictures that had been altered to compensate for bad photography work at the crime scene. The state police say they didn't alter or enhance any photos that were submitted for evidence at trial. I could not believe that you had a district attorney, a senior investigator from the state police and Henry Lee sittin' there talking about altered photographs. Conversely, Barket says the testimony of Kevin Tubbs is true blue. Remember, he's the witness who testified he saw a man and a woman at the base of Harris' driveway on September 12th. to fabricate, no reason to make anything up, no reason to come forward. He's not an attention-seeker. Now it's Kirk Martin's chance to sway the judge his way. The Tioga County DA presented his argument in vivid detail. She bled on the floor of the garage, and the defendant cleaned up that blood. Michele Harris was murdered by that man sitting right there. The prosecution says the mere name 'Stacy Stewart' is nothing more than an attempt to deflect attention away from Cal Harris. What possible diabolical motive would Stacy Stewart have to murder Michele Harris, wife of the defendant? The prosecution says it was Harris who had all the tools to make a body disappear. He's got vehicles to load Michele's body into. There was the Gator and the ATVs in the garage. He's got garbage bags to put her in and the stuff from the kitchen island. We acknowledge he found a good spot ` a spot that he knew would make her disappear. And Martin reminds the court Cal Harris had the means and the motive and the opportunity. Michele died in an act of domestic violence at the hands of her familiar adversary, her husband, the defendant, Calvin Harris. With that, Judge Mott begins his deliberations. Everyone here at the courthouse is now playing the waiting game, like you said, waiting on Judge Richard Mott. He has a sombre expression on his face, and at that point, I thought, 'Oh no.' He came out. He was stern. He looked at nobody. And he says, 'In The People vs Cal Harris, indictment number 2009, 'I find the defendant not guilty. Bail in the amount of 500,000 is exonerated.' And he gets up and walks out. It was stunning. Not guilty ` that's the verdict Calvin Harris heard today at his fourth murder trial. In a reversal of fortune, Cal Harris, a man who could easily have left this building in handcuffs, instead walks out a free man. I thought I was done. And, uh, I was numb. And then when he came back with the 'not guilty', I was just, uh` I was shocked. I was truly shocked. After more than a decade, Cal Harris has finally shaken his legal albatross. Three times I've been ripped away from my kids. And that's been hard. Minutes after his acquittal, he lets 20/20 tag along as he gives new meaning to the term 'free ride', putting the courthouse and the case in his rear-view mirror. Total relief, you know. Just all this pressure, all this weight that's been on my shoulders for so long. Finally, finally some calm in my life. But just beneath the calm ` bitterness. Harris isn't satisfied with exoneration. He wants retribution against those who prosecuted him. They were enjoying every moment... of goin' after me. It was sport for them. It was entertainment for them. Harris and his legal team say they'll file a civil suit in the coming months, alleging misconduct by the former Tioga Country district attorney and New York State Police. What we have on them is gonna be shocking when it comes to... comes time for the trial. Doesn't part of you, though, just wanna let this go? I mean, you said that they robbed you of 15 years of your life. No, no. No. No. Don't you just wanna put that behind you? Why? Why? Why? So you can live the rest of your life. And let them do this to somebody else? In a statement, the New York State Police say... The four Harris children are now estranged from their mother's family, who declined an interview. Those kids have stood by their father throughout the entire ordeal. Do you think about sacrifice? Do you think about the stuff that you've lost because your dad has been involved with this... seemingly endless battle with the law? Yeah, definitely. He was gone for, like, four years at one point, and that's a lot of time to miss when you're growing up as a kid. They have also grown up mostly without their mother, Michele, whose memory they hope will not be forgotten. You think about her often? Yeah, I do. I try to be the person that she would want me to be. Out of all of these, is there one that you like best? (CHUCKLES) OK. Why? She just seems so happy. Cal Harris is happy to be home, but he is not basking in the glow of that legal victory, well aware of all that has been lost. There's gonna be no celebrating at my house. There's no winners here. Everybody loses. Michele loses. Her family loses. My kids lose. The taxpayers of Tioga County lose. There's no winners here. No. No matter what you think about Cal Harris and his guilt or innocence, there are no winners in this case. That's our show for tonight. Thank you for joining us. Kia ora. Nga mihi.