this is dateline. >> he's a good dad, he loves us so much. nobody wants to have both their parents taken away from them. >> it's a tale with so many dramatic turns, the story of a young family facing hard beyond measure. a mom who suddenly vanished, a dad suddenly under suspicion. >> you just hear the awful things that they. say >> i knew they were focusing on me. >> there was nobody. no weapon. no eyewitness. >> there is not one doubt in my mind that he is guilty.

>> >> now after four trials, the final verdict is in. >> i'm not guilty. i didn't do >> hello and welcome to dateline. cal harris seem to have it all. a beautiful family, a successful business, and a big house on a lake. but all was not as it seemed. it was september 11th, 2001, as the world witnessed the tragedies unfolding in new york, washington, d.c., and pennsylvania. the harris family was struck by heartbreak much closer to home. cal's wife michelle had disappeared. here with the house on the lake, is keith morrison. >> it's a long winding ride. this tale. stutter with surprises. >> i just felt like i was being kidnapped and broad daylight,

nobody can help me. >> it's a story of his life, and there's. >> we cannot sit here in silence and watch another travesty of justice take place. >> it's about their world, the one that fell apart in a time they cannot recall. >> do you remember very much about your mom anymore? >> not really. >> it's a long time. >> it's about what happened on the september day the rest of the world can't forget. >> is there a corner of your brain that thinks maybe it was somebody else? >> not at all. not at all. >> 15 years, four trials, will it ever and? >> i just put my head down and i went numb. i just went numb. >> this is the climactic chapter about families saga. one that began in a moment all but drowned out in the chaos of history. it was september 2001, the harris kids were little. seven, six, four, and two.

the family lived in the sprawling patch of wilderness, where the private lake in the backyard. living in paradise. it seems like. >> yeah. the kids have still have a lot of happy memories out here. it's just a very unique and special place that we were fortunate enough to purchase years and years ago. >> you can make a special place that only a prosperous person could afford. like the prominent car dealer cal harris. he loved it out here to, he said. and taught his kids to love it. >> you went hunting with the kids here? >> hunting, the shooting, you name it. we swim in the lake. we get ski and alike. we water ski. mike i'd like to bring their friends out and really enjoy just if you like to be authoritative on place. >> christmas was always fun. >> i can imagine. >> opening presents, playing with them all the things you got. >> i can't think of a more idealogue sort of place to have christmas. does it feel like that at the time?

>> yeah. >> it was here in this path of paradise, said cal, that he woke up one morning, years ago, to find that his wife, michelle, wasn't home. she had gone to work the evening before, didn't come back. mary harris's cows aunt. >> he didn't know where she was until he found out what happens. >> she woke up, and she wasn't there. >> yes, and honestly, he didn't, it wasn't something he seems comfortable talking about a lot. i think it was very emotional for him. >> she was gone. gone without warning. her friends destroy, called herself. on >> where the hell are you? you need to call me as soon as breaking possible. i am worried to death about you. >> they heard her cherry cell phone message, haunting now. >> hi this is michelle. we leave your name and i'll call you back. >> michelle?

bomb. eller where, what's going on here? >> there is something else about this you should know. the night michelle harris vanished was not just any night. it was september 11th, 2001. >> things are in some kind of disarray. so they were. >> and so, nobody was paying much attention to the disturbing events up here around a little owego new york. >> troopers have all been sent to new york city. there is a skeleton crew left at all of the stations. >> back then tumulty was a senior investigator the new york state police. she took the call warning of september 12th. >> with did you do? >> i sent to investigators over to talk to calvin harris, and i said a uniform trooper up to the house. >> cal harris opened up his house to them. >> he said, whatever you need, look wherever you need to. look we have carte blanche. i want this to be solved. i want to know what happens. >> that morning investigator knew only this.

she had a missing person case on our hands and with luck, it would resolve itself speedily as many do. >> we kept hoping, as everyone did, that michele would call her house or call one of her friends and show up. >> calcite's and mary was completely focus on his four children, had to leave it to others to search for michelle. >> his thing was, okay it's time for them to go to school. >> okay it's now time for me to pick them up, i need to make sure that if this is the routine that they are, is normal for them, we are gonna keep them in their routine. >> but where was their mother? it was a clue that didn't look good. michelle's ban had been left at the foot of a long driveway, leading up to her house, out here on that big country lawn. the keys were still in the ignition. but where was she? the investigators video camera and has searched the house. outside, those 200 plus acres to look through. >> that area was homesteaded heavily in the 1800 so there is a lot of laid up wells and old

foundations and things like that. >> didn't find anything? >> no, we didn't. >> not a person not outside. but a few days later, they did. >> i answer the residents through the open garage door. >> senior investigator steve anderson. >> i noticed a bloodstains on the floor and on the mouldings of the doorway that led out to the garage. >> and there was more blood, tiny stains of a kitchen rug. they sent it out for a test. >> everything on the floor, on the inside walls and on the carpet came out to being michele's blood. >> and suddenly the case looked very difference. >> then we knew we had a real problem. >> what's in the world had happened to michelle harris? >> coming up, they have what would appear to be an idea like life and a beautiful home. beautiful children. we learned more and more, he became the focus. >> a husband suspected, a daughter question. >> i didn't, talk i disappear

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ever. >> so was it foul play? >> after all michelle's ban was abandoned at the foot of our driveway. and that's blood on the garage floor and in the kitchen out co-, testing proved it was michelle's blood. >> there is a lot of blood in the garage. spread over a wide area. and there is a lot of blood splatter, over 60 drops, of blood that has been not just stripped, but splattered, by some force. on that throw rug. >> and it didn't make sense. this woman, wife of an affluent car dealer, devoted mom, seemed like an unlikely victim. >> they have what would appear to speed and ideally cliff, a beautiful home, beautiful children. >> it got off to a storybook start. he the attractive wealthy car dealer, she a pretty young woman from modest memes. answering phones at the harris family car dealership. >> my brother had his office

across the street from mine. i just saw her one day and just kind of evolved from there. >> what attracted the two of you together? >> she was very outgoing and very attractive, good personality. >> she was a knockout. she was funny. she was vibrant. >> and mary harris was also taken by cal's a new girl. michelle, she said, was a woman up for anything. >> athletic, let's have a good time, you know jump on a jacqui, jump on a four wheeler. >> wasn't a dainty we think as it were. >> right. >> another shire retiring tight either? >> that's part of why they are personalities to me seem to really match. >> michelle fell hard to. for the man and for his lifestyle. gary taylor's or dad. >> some dealerships thing and they went to switzerland, i think, and then there was a lot of perks there that she had never had before.

>> in august 1990, michelle and cal got married here beside empire lake. >> it was a great, day disabuse full setting, very relaxing. not very stressful. just kind of end up being a big party. afterwards. >> the fairytale rolled on. kids kept coming. they built a house and empire lake and here on their private preserve, they were a family in motion. fishing, swimming, skating. michelle and all of it. the kids of course grew older, taylor is the oldest, followed by kayla, and gianna, and tanner. their mom? about her they have no real memories. >> it's been a long time. >> yeah that's true. most of your lives. how old were you? >> i'm not sure how old i was but i don't have any memories. >> jenna is often told by those who knew michelle how much she resembles her mom. >> i have seen pictures of her,

she is very pretty, she is always smiling. she seems like a very happy person. so it makes me feel good that people see me and her. >> and even with that terrible loss, said the kids, they have grown up happy and contempt for the most part. all thanks to one person. >> just tell me about your dad. what kind of guy as he? >> funny. , >> funny? >> he can be -- >> he's funny, he's the most caring guy in the world. he is nice and, we are his whole world, and he is protected by just loves us so much. once the best for us. >> protective dad who said he try to shield them the best he could from the not so happy times. >> michelle was really struggling with those kids at a young age. which i totally understood. when i notice was that she was just drifting away from being a stay at home mom. and i understood that. >> there was certainly friction in the harris marriage. he loved order.

she, not so much. >> she had a room downstairs and she called it the trucker room. >> there was gonna be a party or a picnic or whatever, she would throw it. take it down to the checker room. >> and she told friends and family, he had a temper, a controlling way. once back in 1996, she called her sister and law from a closet. terrified. >> he had a gun outside the closet, and she was inside hiding. >> what did you hear about that? >> he was out, there are a pumpkin i guess, and he was racking the pop action up and down. telling her to come out. >> cal later denied it was true that he was fighting or threatening michelle with again. then in 1999, michelle learned how it was having an affair. she was devastated. but not ready to end the marriage. and cal said he wasn't either. >> michelle said that you know, we can work through this, but you gotta get rid of the girl. she worked up at the cortland dealership. >> they did what they courtesy of age the marriage. it didn't work.

she told her family he cut off her spending money. she took up with a young man, and november of 2000. a month later, she told cal she wanted a divorce. her family said, he didn't take it well. and things in that big house in paradise grew strained and deed. >> why didn't she stand a house? >> her attorney had advised her to stay in the house and to not leave. >> so they divided the parenting duties and worked on a settlement. michel got a job as a waitress at a local restaurant. a bar. that is where she was the night of september 11th. she finished her shift about nine, had some drinks with two coworkers, and then she drove to her boyfriend's apartment. left there about 11. but that soon that we believe was a last time anybody saw her michele harris. >> we did a lot of work on a lot of different people early on, and it wasn't until they were eliminated and then we

learn more and more about calvin, that he became the focus. >> the district attorney even tried to speak to the two eldest children. then the complex much beyond frightening them. apparently. >> i know i just sat there and cried the whole time. i didn't talk. i wasn't allowed to be in there with taylor. >> how old were you at the time? >> i was in fourth, great and he was in fifth grade. so, nine, and ten. >> but da jerry kaine said he interviewed plenty of other witnesses who convinced him that the police had the right man. in september of 2005, four years after michelle harris disappeared, the da charged her husband cal with second degree murder. >> three state police, personnel, literally busted into my office and kicked out the door open. the three of them jumped me and handcuffed me, shackled me, walk me out the front door of my office. >> you got a taste of law and order a close and person. >> yeah. >> the da was going to take the

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years after his wife michelle vanished, cal harris was charged with murder. >> oh it hurts. absolutely. you know, i had a good standing in the community. a successful business. donated my time, my money, my resources, to a lot of good causes in the community. raise my kids in that community. you know, all of it was just taken away. >> but, the county da had become convinced that cal killed his wife late in the night of 9/11. and as the children slapped, disposed upper body. >> the more i met with the people that were close to michelle, and i knew something about the case, the more convinced i became that he really did this. >> the trial began in may 2007.

with the prosecution claim that kyle harris was a man used to being in charge of everyone and everything. in his life. >> he is in control of his businesses, he is in control of his wife, he is in control of his finances. his employees. and his children. just kind of a domineering person. >> more than that, said the prosecutor, kelly harris could be volatile. michelle began keeping notes about what she said was abusive language and behavior. in fact she wants a temporary order of protection against them. >> what he said to her was, i wouldn't need a gun to kill you. and if i did kill you, they will never find your body. >> and the heat of passion, people say terrible things to each other. doesn't mean they killed him though. >> but, people go beyond of saying terrible things to her. he told him that he would put her body in a place that would never be found. and that is like the biggest facts of the case. that we looked and looked and

look for this woman's body and not been able to find it. >> the harris family babysitter, a woman named barb affair, testified that she was the one who found michel van parked at the end of the long driveway. >> she goes into the house, and she yells, is michele here? because her car is at the end of a driveway. and the defendant, without missing a beat, he just said, we better go get the car. >> according to the babysitter, cal didn't seem surprised. >> doesn't ask are any questions about the keys. like he knows that the keys are in the van. >> this is an into of a person's reaction. >> yeah, you are right. but it is all of these hundreds of little things that convinced me that he is just not acting like someone would act if they didn't know what had happened to their wife. >> later that morning, when new york state troopers talked to cal, they too made note of his demeanor. >> he seemed kind of unconcerned. he was more concerned with

getting michelle harris has that cleaned up and back on the law. >> the motive, said the prosecutor, was simply money. cal had learned that michele was demanding an appraisal of a car business. and she intended to take a piece of it in the divorce? >> all of a sudden, everything was out of his control. >> so the argument went, if michele disappeared, cal's problems did to. >> he was going to have his finances scrutinized. he was perhaps not going to be able to stand a marital residence, certainly his children were leaving. and the next day, all of those things are back in his control. >> finally, that blood evidence. prosecution witnesses called a medium velocity spatter, that had been left there only recently. >> i think it could very well have been the most important part of the case. as far as placing michelle bleeding in the house, with

some force having been applied to that blood. and no explanation for it. >> so what happens that night? prosecutor keen put his form to the jury. >> she got home that night at about 11:30. parked a car. went in through the garage door. and then as soon as she got inside the house, she was struck with something by the defendant. >> she went out on the kitchen rug, he said, what struck again. that blood spatter. >> so this would put her down, either on her, knees are on her bottom, as she is being struck and the blood splatter is on the door. and on the carpet. took her ba oth garage and later down on the garage floor. she must have blood some out of the garage floor, because there is an area three feet by six fates where blood was found. >> then, so the prosecutor cal try to clean up before he

disposed of the body. he would've then taken the car back down to the end of the driveway. >> walked back up to the house, and dispose of the body during the seven hours or thereabout before he called mrs. there. >> the defense attorney tried to swallow it all down. cal harris himself was adamant. he had nothing to do with his wife's disappearance. >> it is one thing to say look, i'm innocent, i didn't do this, but it's another thing to have so many people accusing you, and pointing their finger at. to look, i'm not guilty. i didn't do that. i didn't commit this crime. there was no body, no murder weapon, and the defense said that the forensics were unconvincing at best. >> but the jurors weren't having it. it was june 2007, they came back, guilty. cal harris broke down and sobbed. >> because i knew i wasn't gonna see my kids. i knew i wasn't gonna be home that night. and i knew how they were gonna be.

it was just overwhelming. >> but, in the eyes of michel's family, it was finally justice. and then? then an extraordinary thing happened. >> my first reaction was, come on, the judge is not going to accept this guys claim. >> a new witness within amazing story. and it turned the harris case on its head. >> coming up. >> as i was going by the harris property, there was a blond woman out there. looked like she was crying. >> i know it was. her >> had someone seen michelle? >> it's the most bizarre story that you could ever have told. >> get ready for trial number two. when dateline continues. two. two. all-night protection. can you imagine 24 hours without heartburn? nurse mariyam sabo

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keene's face. >> i came in the courtroom thinking the defendant was going to sentenced, it ended up being more of my being on trial. >> who on earth had the power to make this happen? he did. kevin tubbs. >> i know that she was there, okay? i know she was. >> kevin tubbs. a plain spoken farm worker back then, was hauling hay and why was he so important? because after six years during which tuff's war he barely registered the fuss over the harris case, he picked up a paper and saw the story of cal's conviction, and. >> i seen that and, you know, i started, like, recalling, you know, thinking like, oh, my god. >> just like that! he suddenly knew, he said, that what he saw the morning after 9/11, the morning michelle harris disappeared, was important. it

was between 5:30 and 6:00 in the morning, he said, he was hauling a load of hay. >> as i was going by the harris property, there was a blond woman out there and a young gentleman, you know, in his early 20s. >> standing by a pickup truck. >> my lights were right on them. >> hardly more than ten feet away, he said he looked straight at the young man, saw he was dark haired and muscular and visibly angry. >> he looks at me like this, like what do you want? >> and the woman? she was looking down. >> just by her face, looked like she was crying. she was either upset or wasted. >> the woman he said, he was certain of it, was michele harris. >> i know it was her. >> was it true? if kevin tubbs really did see michelle in the early morning hours of september 12th then the prosecutor's case was in ruins, because cal harris couldn't

have murdered her some seven hours before. an innocent man had just been convicted and so the judge tossed out the verdict, called for another trial and sent cal home to his kids. many, including michelle's family, thought tubbs'story was bogus. >> everybody knew he was lying. it was the most bizarre story you could have ever told. >> and, of course, when trial number two opened in 2009, the prosecution attacked tubbs'crediblility. why wait six years to come forward? still for the defense tubbs was pure gold, a man to create reasonable doubt. >> there simply isn't enough evidence to convict cal harris of murder. >> bill easton was one of cal's attorneys. >> not an eyewitness and ear witness. none of this direct evidence is present in this case. >> the prosecution argued that cal showed how unfeeling he was

by failing to join the search for michelle. that was nonsense said his aunt mary. cal was simply trying to keep it altogether 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 the dealerships would take a hit because of the divorce? not so, said cal's side. his lawyer told him michelle couldn't touch the business and that any way before she vanished michele had decided to accept cal's settlement offer, $740,000. >> she had indicated to numerous people she was happy with the settlement. >> besides, said aunt mary. >> it was plenty of money to go around. and no amount of money would have made cal say, oh, for $2 million i'm just going to wipe her out. >> then there was the blood.

the spatter in the kitchen alcove, could have been a cut finger, said the defense but any way nobody could really tell when it was left there. and as for a prosecution claimed that cal tried to wash away blood on the garage floor. >> there is a small amount of diluted blood that was found days after the new york state police had walked through this particular area of the house while they were conducting the search. >> walking out is not going to destroy the blood cells. >> it could dilute it if their boots are wet. >> finally, the defense decided jurors needed to hear from cal harris, as a caring father, not as the husband the state made him out to be, so the defendant took the stand. >> it was nerve wracking at first, obviously, my life is on the line and my kids, their lives are on the line. >> he admitted to an affair, blamed himself for the end of the marriage but denied he had threatened, hurt, or tried to control michelle. if anything, he said, michelle had been living a bit of a wild life staying out all hours just before she disappeared.

>> she came and went as she pleased. she had money to spend. i wasn't tracking her down. the babysitters were here, the nannies were here and she was off doing -- i don't even know what she was doing. >> was it enough? the jury deliberated for almost two days and it wasn't guilty again. >> takes your breath away. you know? it's like getting stabbed in the stomach and just i'm numb. you know? i had already been through it once. >> family and friends stepped in, took care of his small kids, who began a weekly ritual visiting dad in prison. taylor, the eldest. >> you go and see him two hours a week and a bunch of other people talking and it's loud and can't really have a private conversation. leaving was definitely the hardest part for us. i mean, he held it together

well. >> what was it like driving home? >> it was quiet. >> watching his kids walk away week after week, said cal, was unimaginably hard. >> it was the worst. i went back to my cell and just laid there for hours and hours and just closed my eyes and tried to block it out. >> three years rolled by. then came a day in october 2012 when cal harris found himself crying for joy in the prison yard. coming up. >> it's rare, though. this is really rare. >> yes. >> a new chance at freedom and new urgency from the kids. >> this is kind of our time to come out and do our part. >> and a whole new theory of the case. >> it's all coming together. >> it's time to look elsewhere. >> trial number three. when "dateline" continues. "dateline" continues

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so the appeals court order trial number three. cal once again went home to the house on empire lake and is for growing children. tanner, the youngest, was an eighth grade then. the rest were in high school. >> it was great. >> what a change right? >> back to normal. >> don't take? long to adjust? >> it is what our plans were. >> well you've been coping on your own for so long. >> yeah. >> and this time, this is their chance, the kids were determined this would be different. >> we wanted to know that our cast doubt will not be taken away from us again for a crime we know he did not commit. >> it was a very public coming out. kayla address the cameras. the rest of the kids and their teary eyed dad stood by. >> we do not sit here in silent and watch another travesty of justice take place. >> the family launched a tip line asking the public to help find out what's really happened to michelle.

it was march 2014. >> it's time for a real investigation that will get us answers. >> i think that there was a good thing for us to finally come out and talk about it. >> how did it feel to do? it >> good. >> we all knew that this was kind of our time to come out and give our side and do our part in this. >> cal hired new lawyers. and they condemned the state for an investigation in which they said was blind to any suspect but their client. lead defense attorney bruce parquet, >> they pursue this man for 14 years. with scant evidence. evidence that really no prosecutor should bring a case on. >> the defense went back to witnesses that police had interviewed years before. talk to others. and heard on whole new story of missiles last ours on earth. earlier trials they said reveal the mother of four had been hanging with an unsavory crowd. coworkers and customers from her waitressing job.

attorney aida, >> there were people there that had criminal records. there were people there that we're dealing drugs. there were people there that were making sexual advances. >> and on the night that she vanished, after she left her boyfriends 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. attorney donald. yeah >> on september 11th, on that night, in a bar, and the data, he actually said, that he was there but then left the two of them alone and that he went home. >> the steel worker spotted with mitchell was irregular at a restaurant. said the defense. his name was stacey stewart. the defense said that he told his friends he had a separate relationship with michelle. and, said the defense, they see stewart appear to be the very man kevin tom saw with michelle in the early hours of september 12. >> there was a long woman out there. and a young gentlemen. you know in his early twenties.

>> dubbed identified that man from a photograph. >> his physical appearance, his facial hair, his height, his age, and the type of. -- >> dobbs that the man he saw was standing beside a black truck. stacey stewart owns the black truck, same kind. >> and it's a new model, and as a chevy. and you look at everything up and it's all coming together. >> stacey stewart has denied any involvement in michelle's disappearance. he has denied he ever had a relationship with michelle. said he was never even alone with her. still, cal's side was convinced that stuart and a friend of his, played some role in michel's disappearance. >> in 2015, trial number three opened at the town of schoharie. a change of venue necessary said the defense because the case was too well-known in tioga county. >> 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

the blood was built around the time michele disappeared. >> to have a scientists get up and speculate, and guess on how old blood was placed on the color from a photograph, it's outrageously unsupported proposition. >> also out, hearsay testimony from prosecution witnesses who said michelle told down that cal threatened her life. >> we don't think that they belong to the evidence, it's part of a recent cases were through the first time. the second time. >> then, the defense attempted to present its evidence about all that alternate suspects. stacey stewart. and the judge shut them down. the jury would only be allowed to hear the words name, that michelle knew him, that kevin tubs had ided him, and that he owned a black truck at the time. no more. why? because stacey stewart wasn't on trial, cal harris was. the wrong man. his attorneys insist. a >> cauldron of those are to be on trial. and frankly, michelle and her

family deserved better. we all want to know what happened to her. it's time to look elsewhere. >> there was a new prosecutor this time. tioga counties kirk martin. he made the same arguments as the previous da, saying the evidence pointed to cal harris killing his wife. the trial took three months. and finally, late april, the jury got it. and the waiting began. rachel's family still convinced that kyle was guilty. >> is there a corner in your brain that thinks, god maybe it was somebody else? >> not at all. not at all. >> well kyle and his family hope the jury had been persuaded otherwise. >> you know, you had been confident when you had gone on trial because you had said, i didn't do. it i should be acquitted. and yet you weren't. so how does that impact your thinking now? >> just by what bruce and his

team has done in the investigation. it's gotta create some doubt. and we didn't have that before. >> so uncertainty by this time it was a way of life for the children. so i think you know, if things don't go our way. >> it'll definitely turn all of our worlds upside down but, i think we are, i know we are tough enough that we will get through it. but you definitely don't want to think about that kind of thing. >> we definitely have plans that what we want to do. when it's all said and done over with. and the good and turns out. >> you want to talk about that at all? >> vacation. >> yeah. >> some more cool. >> maybe. maybe not. >> it's the end of cal harasses or third murder trial. his lawyers were determined to show that there was reasonable doubt in the case, but would that be enough to persuade the jury? >> coming up. breaking news out of this -- courthouse. >> would you believe trial

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the third trial has been ruled a mistrial by the judge. >> a mistrial. it was the outcome nobody wanted. >> we got closer to justice, but we're not there yet. >> michele's family, convinced they knew the truth, that cal murdered michelle, left the courthouse without comment. >> not right now. >> and tioga county prosecutor kurt martin vowed to do it again. >> there have been two guilty verdicts in this case and i eagerly await the earliest possible trial date that fits with the court's schedule. >> a fourth trial? really? yes, indeed. in march 2016, deja vu all over again. same courthouse, same cast of characters with one notable newcomer. >> how are you? >> judge richard. when cal waived his right to a jury trial, the new judge suddenly had a starring role in trial number 4. he would decide the case. he'd also decide whether

to hear the defense's new evidence. in the end, he allowed some, but not all. lead defense attorney bruce. >> the truth finally began to peek its head at this trial. we finally begin to see at least an outline of who is actually responsible for michelle harris'demise. >> a peek or two, that's all. he made the most of it. talking about testimony tham steelworker stacy stewart once said, something about michelle. >> he says i was the last person to be seen with her when she was alive. >> defense attorneys said they wanted to put stacy stewart on the stand but couldn't track him down. so now, in closing, he didn't offer a detailed theory about what happened to michelle. didn't have to. >> i'm asking the court to find mr. harris not guilty because there's not proof beyond a reasonable doubt that he committed this offense. >> four trials and now it was all on the line. and so d.a.

kirk martin came on strong. that whole defense theory, he told the judge, was a fantasy. >> there's no evidence stacy stewart had any sort of relationship with michelle, let alone any reason or motive to harm one hair on her head. >> finally, said the d.a., after so many years, so many trials, it was time to convict cal harris once and for all. >> michelle died at the hands of her husband, the defendant, calvin harris. >> so what would the judge do? >> we presented the evidence about what we think happened. >> the judge was terse. the verdict brief with no explanation. just two words. words cal harris and his children had waited 15 years to hear. not guilty. >> when he came back with a not guilty, i was shocked. i was truly shocked. >> shocked. overjoyed. and saddened by what he had lost. >> best years of my life as a

parent. 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 hypocrisies in our country is our criminal justice system. there is nothing fair about it. >> cal did something more than speak out. they filed a sweeping 26-page federal complaint claiming malicious prosecution and violations of civil rights. the lawyer representing tioga county, the county's district attorney's office and its former district

have denied allegations of conduct. but still, the mystery indoors. about a woman who vanished on a warm september night while the rest of the world was looking the other way. >> that's all for this edition of dateline. i'm craig melvin. thanks for watching! dateline. i'm crai >> i'm craig melvin. >> and i'm natalie morales. >> and this is dateline. >> i am being followed, there are threats on my life. i know we're in danger, i know we are. >> it's a riveting mystery that started in a place of glamour. >> it became a destination for a rat packs, for frank sinatra -- >> and ended in a case of murder. the wealthy air to this legendary hotel, dead. >> he was my father. he was the only father i ever knew. >> now, police said she was