Hey sir I can help you my roomate was attacked I know it I I heard it she's screaming she was thrown to the ground sir sir come here this man just LED police to a dead body the victim Amy Harwick a celebrity sex therapist was found lying unconscious under her third story balcony officers were immediately suspicious of Amy's roommate Michael Herman hey can I see your hands yeah that's what I poked it on the climbing over the fence oh okay got it I don't know dude something something's off the blood on Michael's hands and the
signs of struggle found inside Amy's bathroom made it clear that this was a crime scene and Michael is the prime suspect do you still hear scream I still heard screaming when I was I was leaving I yelled up there hey mother cuzz I wanted her to think I was coming upstairs so maybe he'd like stop and run however detectives began to have doubts the further they investigated the clearer it became that there was more to this crime than meets the eye and as they dig deeper they uncover that Amy had a history of troubled relationships
and many people had it out for her but one relationship stood out from the rest one that was plagued with stalking violence and abuse leaving disturbing clues that would lead detectives to one deranged killer I have so much I need to say please give me a chance to just say it please at 1:11 a.m. on February 15th 2020 911 received a harrowing call from Amy's roommate I want to 44 somebody just attack my roommate down street find how was the assaulted what happened it's a he I don't know I was downstairs I heard screaming please
get a cop here okay this is who's screaming inside um can't think right now um Amy Amy Harwick I mean who is she to you sir she's my roommate okay is she screaming for help yeah okay did you see anything no okay I heard I heard her screaming and I heard her being all right so I'm going to send out that somebody's screaming okay since you didn't see anything you don't know she's being ATT T you're not sure you see a c got thr to the ground with Sirens blaring multiple law enforcement agents rush to
the scene the information that they have as they arrive is limited all they know is that there is a situation with a screaming woman and that somebody appears to be in danger as soon as they arrive Michael herwin Amy's roommate is the first person to come into contact Hey sir hi I can help you my room roommate was attacked I know it I I heard it she's screaming she was thrown to the ground I I couldn't find my phone I couldn't find anything okay hold on okay so so you have access to here is there
anybody else inside the house my roommate just your roommate by yourself yes you didn't check on her dude I heard screaming I don't know if that guy had a g a gun or a knife I came running trying to I couldn't find my phone so is there somebody else inside I think there's okay sir do me a favor do me a favor calm down calm down other than your roommate is there anybody else inside the house I don't know I don't know so you didn't see anyone you just I just heard her screaming sounded she
got thrown to the ground I've been calling for her through his windows nobody's answering nothing so your where's your key at inside downstairs the back door is open here D you're good you're good you're [Music] good 6815 advises the responding unit so we had to hop the fence we're going to be at the rear of the location 499 sir sir come here relax take a seat take a seat oh my God we need what was going on tonight know asleep I've been asleep all night when officers move into the courtyard there lies Amy Harwick 20
ft beneath her third floor balcony going into continuous seizures with glass surrounding her body bro she's having a seizure oh Jesus quickly Amy lived in a relatively safe area in Hollywood Hills and was a well-known family and marriage therapist so her home being broken into was unusual and whoever did it made sure she had a painful death she was thrown off her balcony resulting in several serious injuries the trauma to the head was so severe that it had resulted in a subgaleal and a subdural hemorhage sending her into continuous seizures not only that but her
neck showed signs that she had been strangled before falling off her balcony even though Amy started receiving urgent care this situation was far from over not knowing whether the as salant is still in the house officers began to breach and clear the ground floor do you know if there's anybody else inside the house I don't I don't what happened to you anyone else inside it's LAPD come out with your hands up hey somebody Pat him down please probably on on my couch anyone else inside this LAPD come out with your hands up got you my
I got your light all right so you guys can move up in unison on you guys just hold it they're going to move up in unison you you're good P whenever you guys are ready go ahead go go go go go back I got a open room there's a there's a balcony to the top got couches looks like a kitchen to the right unfortunately the one responsible for Amy's condition has managed to escape and as cops make their way through the home they notice that everything is organized and spotless besides a few areas of interest
it's sticky beads this is urine urine but none in the bathroom Amy's bedroom was a mess with the covers thrown off and a pool of urine in the connecting bathroom often when a victim is strangled it results in the involuntary loss of bow control moreover officers would discover something strange right on the balcony from where Amy fell a syringe filled with nicotine had fallen to the ground um so there's a loaded Syd on this right here extreme doses of nicotine like the one found in this syringe act as a poison causing organs in the body
to fail and slowly kill an individual as they suffer from vomiting nausea diarrhea and severe abdominal pain strangely enough these types of drugs were never even present in the home and even if they were Amy would never take them as her roommate explains um aot s in so sir do you know her history of drug use no she so she do drink it she didn't even drink she doesn't drink she doesn't even drink she Dr so no nobody in this house is is doing drugs um I I smoke pot and stuff yeah okay what do
you mean and stuff well I smoke pots now and then she okay so she's sober completely she's sober completely how how how sure of that are you I'm positive I'm absolutely absolutely sharp I don't know dude something something's off that rig is is loaded completely has used it hasn't been used hey can I see your hands yeah that's what I poked it on the climbing over the fence oh okay got it what about this one here I don't know what that I guess from can you can you pull your uh can you pull your sleeve
back on this one right here oh no on this one right here this one can you flip it for me do me a favor look up can you pull your shirt down a little bit sure really this really like shady sh this whole thing's very weird and did you see that it's WRA around it's weird although Michael seems incredibly suspicious finding out whether he's guilty comes second the first priority is to ensure Amy's survival whose condition was worsening by the second her pulse was nearly non-existent and she was rushed to a nearby hospital where it
was determined that she had sustained many serious injuries since dropping about 20 ft from the balcony including lacerations to her liver and brain damage and despite the best attempts from doctors Amy Harwick was soon pronounced dead the syringe filled with nicotine Amy's injuries before the fall and no missing items these were all clues that this was not a burglary gone wrong but a planned murder for police this would make sense because working as a specialized sex therapist and one that was was very public with several shows and media Presence at the time was risky there
could have been too many people who had it out for her since therapists often have to deal with emotionally problematic and sometimes obsessive individuals for now though Michael Herman was the only person around Amy when she was murdered making him the first suspect Michael was already a suspicious individual as his frequent cannabis use LED officers to believe that he had at least some knowledge of drugs and could be behind the nicotine syringe but more telling was the facts that his arms were covered in blood and scratches which made him look even more guilty so to
get to the bottom of this Michael was brought in for an interview where he would stay adamant about his innocence can you remember do you still hear scream still heard screaming when I was still hear SC and we were at the house when I was yelling cuz when I was leaving I yelled up there hey mother really loud cuz I wanted her to think I was coming upstairs so maybe he'd like stop and run you know that he would know that he's not in the house right right right right and I didn't know if it
was like you know I didn't know if it was multiple people you know I just didn't know and and um I just hope that that would like that that would make the person flee Michael claims that after returning home he heard screams from inside the house and then shouted loudly to scare off the potential attacker he then entered the home to find the front door open and Amy harwick's body on the ground he immediately called 911 and attempted to provide aid while waiting for emergency responder not only does Michael fully cooperate with law enforcement but
he also has a solid Alibi and witness testimonies supporting his account additionally there is no forensic evidence linking Michael to the crime still detectives can't rule out Michael just yet as there are no other suspects and nobody had seen anyone outside of Michael enter or leave the building but this is when police receive footage from a nearby ring doorbell camera a crucial piece of evidence that would turn the entire case upside down down when the cops looked at the footage they saw Michael come running out of the home trying to wake up the neighbors and
call for help this was exactly what he told them he had done which confirms the fact that he was likely only a witness to all of this but the camera also picks up someone else at the scene a strange male figure wearing gloves hopping fences and running through backyards in many cases this man can even be seen covering cameras with a gloved hand undeniably this masked individual was the one responsible for this murder but finding out who this could be was difficult as they began looking into her life there were very few people who wanted
to hurt her she was on good terms with her family and friends and had almost no enemies so police began to believe that this may have been a case of one of Amy's past relationships coming back to haunt her but yet again almost all of her boyfriends came up clean all but one of them Gareth pers house a man who was reported by Amy's friends to be an obsessive EX lover and someone who had previously stalked her but before officers look into Gareth they decide to consolidate all of the evidence they have first because of
the presence of the syringe filled with pure nicotine detectives believe that whoever broke into Amy's apartment intended to kill her by injecting her with the syringe but that their plans somehow went Ary Amy began resisting and a physical altercation occurred that would be proven by a black Rosary that Amy had been wearing around her neck beads of this Ros were found trailing all the way from her bedroom to the balcony not only that a black leather jacket that was turned inside out was also discovered at the scene it is likely that the attacker snuck up
behind her grabbed her by her jacket and a struggle ensued the attacker then likely choked Amy dragged her out to the balcony and threw her over the top with all of this in mind officers began looking for somebody who would want to hurt Amy in this manner undeniably the masked individual was responsible for the murder however identifying them could be challenging because despite being a well-known public figure Amy had no known enemies police start their investigation by questioning friends and family of Amy looking for any clues on who could have committed this heinous crime and
it wouldn't take long for them to get a strong lead Amy's Friends Revealed to police that about a month before her murder they began receiving concerning messages from Amy she expressed fear for her life mentioning that she had recently encountered a stalk stalk er a stalker which it would turn out she had an abusive relationship with a decade prior 41-year-old photographer Gareth pers house Amy and Gareth had met 10 years earlier in 2011 when Gareth had worked as a photographer on a therapy event Amy attended they dated briefly but Amy's friends took note of the
relationship being far from normal in May of 2011 Amy tried to file a restraining order for the abuse she suffered in the relationship Gareth often suffocated her slamming her against the walls dropped her on the ground and punched her yet somehow this order was denied as authorities believed there was a lack of evidence of course this meant a quick end to the relationship at least for Amy this was unacceptable for Gareth as he started obsessing heavily over Amy and his emotional state worsened but Amy was the one who'd have to face the brunt of gareth's
mental decline in the months after the breakup weird occurrences began happening at Amy's residence she would walk into her home to find picture frames were smashed sometimes there would be Rose's tape to her front door and on other occasions Gareth would refuse to leave her doorstep for hours a year later in 2012 Amy tried to file another restraining order against Gareth because he had once again assaulted her and dragged her out of a car fortunately this time the order would be approved by a judge barring Garett from seeing Amy for 5 years however according to
her closest friends gareth's Behavior became even more creepy and intense in the years after the restraining order was issued if Gareth couldn't see her physically he'd tarnish her reputation on every one of Amy's social media pages every single time she posted she would get derogatory comments and all of her Publications in her field as a therapist would get bombarded with comments criticizing and degrading her work but things would take a turn for the worst 1 month before Amy's murder on January 17th 2020 Amy was attending the xbiz awards where she was a panelist of an
organization called pineapple support which was meant to focus on therapy related to workers in the sex industry however as Amy was having drinks before her segment began she would hear a familiar voice gareth's voice who was working as a photographer at the event at this point in time Amy had not seen Gareth in nearly a decade yet he would approach Amy angry and upset saying that she ruined his life one of Amy's friends would outline what the two talked about as Amy called him for help the first phone call when she called I couldn't hear
it was a lot of loud commotion it was chaotic so I couldn't understand and I hung up and then 30 seconds later I received another phone call from from her as well and all I could hear amongst the chaos or the sounds that were sort of the the loud sounds was get the F over here initially seen them walk away I first checked in with my friend who called me and she told me this guy is freaking out on your friend so I then walked over to where the two of them had walked to and
as I was walking towards them the only words I heard was ruin my life you [ __ ] after this event Amy was extremely scared of Gareth and told friends and family that if anything happened to her Gareth would be responsible and he had sent her voice messages after the event I have so much I need to say please give me a chance to just say it please and her concerns were proven to be true because when officers matched a picture of Gareth to the man seen on the ring doorbell footage on the night of
the murder it was an exact match but for authorities to be sure that Gareth is the same man they're looking for they needed to search his home obtaining the warranted self was not hard because the sheer amount of evidence against Gareth gave officers Reasonable Suspicion to do so however this suspicion would soon turn into shock as syringes filled with nicotine were discovered in gareth's home exactly like the one found on Amy's balcony not only that but Gareth himself had sustained injuries on his body and had bloody clothes scattered all over the home but there was
one piece of evidence that proved to be a definitive breakthrough in this case a DNA comparison between the fingernail scrapings of Amy's body and Gareth would turn up an exact match detectives knew that this was exactly the man they were looking for so by about 5:00 p.m. the day after the murder the cops locate and approach Gareth Pur house in the face of gareth's history with Amy and him being caught on camera officers decide to charge him with Amy's murder while sitting in jail awaiting a murder trial Gareth doesn't show an ounce of remorse in
fact while on a jailhouse phone call with some of his buddies he cracks jokes and makes light of the whole situation he even tells them that due to the Public's interest in him they could become millionaires by selling old jokes he told while working as a standup comic but this is far from the strangest thing he says yeah turn those into a book try to find try right now actually try to find a uh publisher that'll give you money ahead of time for for that just based on my name because of the media like that
could be a million bucks I don't know uh but I I do have a joke for you uh what's what's the most feminine candy bar huh her [Music] she's least you have your s of yeah you got your sense of humor you're making the best of it and everything yeah uh well and Al people are posting like crazy hate and there's like why why bother so so you you said you're not getting out correct ever is that what you're trying to say yes I've I've seen what's coming at me and it's not good I'm not
getting out super fine Gareth pers house has made it very clear that he believes he is going down for Amy's murder and he has completely accepted that one could likely assume that if this man were not truly guilty of this horrific crime he would not be speaking this way despite this Gareth was bonded out of jail before his trial began but Gareth was certainly panicking because right after he was released on bond the first place he visited was Los Angeles International Airport to escape the country normally a person who has their bond posted is not
allowed next to any airports or borders to prevent them from leaving the country and if they're found doing so they're arrested immediately and given no chance for a second Bond exactly what would happen to Gareth as he was arrested once more the trial of Gareth pers House Began in August of 20123 the defense claims that Gareth was only there to talk to Amy and that her death was an accident they also argued that while Gareth had brought that syringe filled with nicotine to the scene he had only intended it to be used for his own
side but the prosecution took a different approach and painted Gareth as an obsessive killer she rejected his advances she cut off all Conta and to punish her for that he broke into her house on Valentine's Day he broke in there with a syringe loaded with a lethal dose of nicotine the prosecution's argument was was solid however they had a major point that they would have to prove if they wanted to get a guilty verdict that point was that Gareth came to Amy's apartment on the evening of February 15th 2020 with the intention of killing her
not just to have a conversation as the defense alleged the defense also suggested that Amy may have ended up on the concrete below the balcony while attempting to get away from Gareth out of fear one likely scenario for how Miss harick came to rest where she lived in the patio as she comes home encounters Mr first house in a panic she runs through her bedroom to her balcony climbs up and over the railing attempts to lower herself or climb down and is unsuccessful throughout the entire trial Gareth P house never once took the stand to
testify on his own behalf most legal experts will say that this is something that can be very telling to a jury after all if an innocent person has nothing to hide then it is suspicious that he wouldn't speak out to defend himself but whether or not the jury in this case will see things his way only time will tell after finishing the deliberation process the jury in this case reached their decision in September of 2023 count one with the jury and the above entitled action finding defendant Gareth P house guilty of the crime of Murder
in the First Degree ladies and gentlemen of the jury of these your verdicts so say you one so say you all thank you and just like that Gareth P house was officially convicted of the murder of Amy Harwick the only thing left was for Gareth to finally be sentenced Gareth P house was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole
