Then investigators showed him the security footage from the hidden birdhouse camera in the hallway. It showed him tampering with her pill organizer on six different occasions.
They had his purchase records for the toxins and his text messages to Felicity. “Is she gone yet?” one of the messages read.
Felicity cooperated with the police to avoid a homicide charge herself. She testified that Harrison told her Mirabelle was already dying and he was just speeding it up.
The trial lasted three weeks and filled the county courthouse every single day. Reporters focused on the secret fortune, but the jury focused on the chilling evidence of control.
Mirabelle’s recorded statement played on the monitor while Harrison stared at the table. “I no longer wanted apologies,” she said in the video, “I wanted a system of truth.”
When the prosecution played the clip of him tampering with the pills, a juror pressed a hand against her mouth. Harrison insisted on testifying in his own defense despite his lawyer’s warnings.
He called Mirabelle unstable and suggested the money had made her paranoid. Under cross-examination, the prosecutor dismantled every lie using the documents Mirabelle had saved.