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The three spooked

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girls. Hey

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there, spooksters, and welcome back to another episode

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here on three spooked girls. My name is

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Jessica, and as always, I'm joined by my

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favorite ghoul friend, Tara. Hey,

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spooksters. Today is Thursday, and so

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we are doing a stabby here

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on the channel. This one is

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actually, it's March the four year

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anniversary of the victim's death. So

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it just kind of like, kind

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of fell into place. Today,

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we are going to be talking about

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the story of Amy Nicole Harwick. Her

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story has been in the news more

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recently, and you might know why

1:45

when listening to this. So Amy Nicole

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Harwick was born on May 20th, 1981.

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So she and I are

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birthday twins, though she's older than

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me. And she was born in

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Sellerville, Pennsylvania, and she was adopted

1:58

by Tom and Penny Harwick. And

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she has one sibling by the name of

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Chris. Amy loved music and she was

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this kind of like bubbly little beautiful

2:07

girl and so it was very kind

2:09

of contrast that she loved heavy metal.

2:11

Like she was really, really into it. And

2:13

she loved kind of macabre type things. So

2:16

I think she would have fit in perfectly

2:18

with us, Tara. For sure, for sure. An

2:20

article actually, it was her obituary said that

2:22

she was very comfortable in a mosh pit

2:24

and just as comfortable she was dancing with

2:27

her mom on stage with the Beach Boys.

2:30

That's really cool. I love that. Friends

2:32

and family say that she loved her

2:34

family and this kind of made me think of

2:37

you as well because best

2:39

lay the intentions for this one. Favorite

2:41

time of year was when she'd visit

2:43

for something they called CBD, which was

2:45

cookie baking day. I love that.

2:47

Like her whole family, like her cousins, her

2:49

aunts, her parents, her brother, his wife, whose

2:52

name is Carrie and her niece and

2:54

nephew, Madison and Aiden would all come together

2:56

and they would bake cookies. She grew

2:58

up in a really small town in

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Pennsylvania, Lansdale, like I said, Pennsylvania. And

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she graduated from North Penn High in

3:04

1999. Her

3:06

friends, like I said, said she stood out because

3:09

we're from a small town. And so anything that's

3:11

kind of like alt stands out a lot. So

3:14

her friend was like, hey, after high school,

3:16

you should probably move to California. And she

3:18

did, she moved to Southern California

3:20

and attended Cal Poly Pomona. She

3:22

would obtain her master's in clinical

3:24

psychology from Pepperdine. And this is where

3:27

her life takes a really interesting turn.

3:29

She would go on to get her

3:31

PhD in human sexuality from the

3:33

Institute for Advanced Human Study of

3:35

Human Sexuality. Ooh,

3:37

interesting, interesting. I

3:40

would say that she definitely lived her, like lived

3:42

a life for sure. While she was in college,

3:44

she really wanted to make sure that she wasn't

3:46

like accruing debt. So she took a bunch of

3:48

odd jobs, some of them were modeling. But one

3:50

of the things she did is she was a

3:52

go-go dancer. So she would like go and perform

3:54

at clubs. Like

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I said, she was also a model. And she really...

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did embrace her sexuality and she

4:02

even modeled for Playboy. And she

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would go to the Playboy parties

4:07

and she would do fire eating. That's

4:09

fun. Right? So like she

4:11

worked really, really hard. It seemed like

4:14

she was really spontaneous and fun and

4:16

just was like down for anything. And so she wanted

4:18

to make sure that she had a cashflow for that and

4:20

I can respect the hustle. She would go

4:22

on to become a licensed marriage and family

4:24

therapist and she would set up in

4:26

West Hollywood or WeHo. She

4:28

specialized in family counseling as well

4:31

as sex counseling. So like she had like

4:33

a versatile practice. In 2014, she authored a

4:35

book called The

4:38

Sex Bible for Women. She was like on

4:40

a bunch of podcasts, but she also, this

4:42

is something I found really interesting. She also worked with a

4:44

project called Pineapple Support, which is a

4:46

nonprofit organization that provides free or low

4:49

cost mental health therapy for pornographic film

4:51

actors, producers, or other people that work

4:53

in the adult film industry. Oh,

4:55

nice. I was like, that's

4:57

really good. That could probably take a toll on

4:59

your psyche. Like I said

5:02

earlier, she was beautiful. She was like one of

5:04

those women who had like that really pretty porcelain

5:06

looking skin and the dark raven hair. She

5:09

basically was like the pent up version

5:11

of Snow White. Love that. So she

5:13

would actually end up dating a few

5:15

celebrities. She dated Crispin Glover, which

5:18

you might not recognize the name, but the

5:20

character that pops into my head as quick

5:22

as, if you remember, in

5:25

one of the Charlie's Angels movies, remember the guy

5:27

that was like obsessed with like the hair? That's

5:30

Crispin Glover. Oh, okay.

5:32

She also dated Marilyn Manson and

5:34

Dave Navarro. She dated quite the

5:36

array of people, I should say.

5:39

A variety. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. And

5:41

you're about to be like, what? This is about

5:43

to get a little bit different. So

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while she was dating Marilyn Manson, she told him, hey, I want

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to go to dinner for my birthday. I want you to pick

5:49

me up at six. Her friend Robert was like, he's not gonna

5:52

pick you up at six. Marilyn Manson doesn't get even up before

5:54

6 p.m. And she goes, fine. I

5:57

Told him if he doesn't pick me up for dinner, I'm gonna

5:59

go to a party. Have that have a my life

6:01

anyone? And that's what she did.

6:03

And she met a different fellow

6:05

who I was like What? See?

6:07

Matt? Drew Carey. random the comedian see of

6:09

the house to have the prices ramp. She told

6:11

him the story and he's like you shouldn't be

6:14

like leave that early call It adds that

6:16

you shouldn't be with someone who doesn't want to

6:18

celebrate your birthday with him and with you should

6:20

be with someone who's gonna. Take you so

6:22

then like a few days later

6:24

for their first official date area.

6:26

Love that as he took her

6:28

to Disneyland. Oh my god how

6:30

kill a riot and they have

6:33

like the Vip they and she

6:35

said she was laughing. And having this

6:37

great time with Ham the whole time. Soothing. Oh

6:39

my gosh, this is so fun And I guess

6:41

she may have mention that like she would love

6:43

to do this with her friends. So he'd ten

6:45

days after their first day, he brought her. And

6:48

ten friends to designed all that's

6:50

adorable. So like Robert. her from

6:52

his name is Robert Hostile and

6:54

he goes to Disneyland. Them home

6:56

easing as bad as pretty litter.

6:58

So they started dating. And I

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was like God for hard. Drew

7:03

Carey seems great. Big kind of

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had a whirlwind relationship like they

7:07

met in mid two thousand and

7:09

seventeen. and basically by that time

7:11

that Valentine's Day of Twenty eighteen

7:13

rolled around, they were engaged. And

7:15

six hundred sucked for them for a little bit

7:17

because they got the keys in Paris. And they

7:19

wanted to keep the relationship super private catholic

7:22

see how like a booming business and it

7:24

was interesting because in the documentary or and

7:26

on the show that discover a D said

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they were like you know it's not a

7:30

lot of places in America can you have

7:32

a sex therapy off as but L I

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C had nonstop people. And so you

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know she was because of her blog,

7:39

because of her notoriety, Because of all

7:41

this stuff she had become like kind

7:43

of her own celebrity. but people were

7:45

like oh, she's just withdrew because of

7:47

the money is that he was sixty

7:49

nine and she. Was thirty six.

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So. People were like oh the age difference

7:54

People are going online and calling her gold

7:56

digger. that part made me really

7:58

sad but she's also being like

8:00

side basically a former friend of

8:02

hers was going online and like

8:05

releasing information that was not real

8:07

information. Oh no. And

8:10

so basically it forced Amy and

8:12

Drew to come out because this former

8:14

friend was going to sell an exclusive

8:16

quote unquote story to the National Enquirer

8:18

and the National Enquirer, they

8:21

do this, they will like reach out to you

8:23

and be like, hey, someone's gonna like release this

8:25

information. If you want to beat them to the

8:27

punch, beat them to the punch. So they

8:29

did. So they gave an exclusive interview to

8:32

the National Enquirer, which probably didn't help the

8:34

whole like, she just did it for

8:36

the money and the fame because it's a

8:38

trashy tabloid. But they did. They gave an

8:40

exclusive interview about that they got engaged in

8:43

Paris. And then on the Valentine's Day

8:45

episode of the Price is Right, Drew

8:47

Carey brought her out and announced that he had

8:49

a brand new shiny fiance. Oh, that's so cute. Yeah,

8:54

I know. It was so cute. They

8:57

seemingly had a really great relationship. Amy talked

8:59

about it a lot. Like she was on

9:01

this podcast with her like, I would I don't want

9:03

to call it the illustrator, but like the photographer of her

9:05

book and they were talking about it. And she goes, yeah,

9:08

a lot of people thought I was just with him for

9:10

money, but I wasn't. She's like, when you meet

9:12

somebody and just like connect like that's that's

9:14

it. And he was like so

9:16

supportive of her, even though he like he's Drew

9:19

fucking Carey. He had the Drew Carey show. He's

9:21

a famous comedian. He's

9:23

hilarious. Like he retired

9:25

to do the Price is Right. I

9:27

used to watch Whose Line is in Anyway all the time

9:29

because that guy was hilarious. Oh, my God. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

9:32

Right. Probably when I learned all

9:34

my other singers and there was this like one time

9:36

she was going to this event. It was called like

9:38

Rock to Recovery. I think it was like a maybe

9:40

like a concert, but she was like presenting at it

9:42

and people were like, oh, my God, Drew, it's so funny.

9:44

You're here presenting. And he's like, I'm not here. This is my

9:46

partner. Like she's here

9:48

to present. She's got a PhD. I'm just here to

9:50

support her. Like I'm the plus one.

9:53

And so he like really was

9:55

very supportive of her, of her and what

9:57

she was doing. And he often said to

9:59

like. her friends and his friends, he kind

10:01

of wished that he wasn't a celebrity because

10:03

he wishes that he could just be with

10:05

her and not have anyone watching them. Which

10:08

I was like, that makes sense. He

10:10

did not like the macabre thing. She was

10:13

talking about her view in art, it was

10:15

this interview, and she's into taxidermy

10:17

shit. And

10:19

he wasn't. But

10:22

he was like, okay, I'll allow it because

10:24

I love you and this is something you love, so

10:26

why not, right? So

10:29

I just thought it was so

10:31

sweet. And one of the things that she got him

10:33

into is they would go to graveyards together,

10:36

like cemeteries, and walk around. That's fun.

10:38

And so he was like, oh, this

10:40

is really cool. It was really

10:42

interesting because their relationship didn't

10:44

last that long. They broke up

10:46

in late 2018. The

10:49

biggest thing with that was that, I

10:51

think Drew was off filming something, but

10:53

she was home by herself for a

10:55

really long stretch of time, days or

10:57

weeks or something like that. And the

10:59

trespassers kept coming onto the property and

11:02

they were stalking her. Scary.

11:05

And she got really scared and that

11:07

took a toll because of how public

11:09

their relationship was. So I

11:11

think that caused them to split. When they broke

11:13

up, it was very amicable. They both were like,

11:16

this is fine. Not like this is fine, but

11:18

you know what I'm saying? They broke up and

11:20

were like... Right, like good terms, yeah.

11:23

But the relationship we're gonna focus on

11:25

today isn't the good relationship she had with

11:27

Drew Carey. By the way, if you watch that

11:29

show, Dead by Fame or Dead by Fame, I'm

11:31

just gonna say it first. You're like, are they

11:34

accusing Drew Carey of killing her? They are not.

11:36

Oh, good. I'm gonna have to watch this show.

11:39

It was really good. I was like,

11:41

ooh, this is great. So basically she

11:43

had an ex-boyfriend by the name of

11:45

Gareth Pursehouse. And they dated for about

11:47

two years in the late 2000s, like,

11:50

you know, like 2008 to 2010 or something along there. It

11:53

was really hard for me, like actually narrow down

11:55

the dates. They met when Amy was a bottle

11:57

girl at a club and Gareth was the...

12:00

photographer there like you know if you go

12:02

to clubs they'll like take your pictures and

12:04

stuff he was that guy Mm-hmm, and so

12:06

they met fun fact Gareth really wanted to

12:08

be a stand-up comedian interesting But he wasn't

12:10

good at it He went on this show

12:12

called kill Tony and I don't really know like

12:14

the whole thing that it's like there's a live

12:16

crowd And there's like a panel of comedians and

12:19

there's this guy Tony who's obviously the host and

12:21

there's like a band So it's kind of like

12:23

I don't know it looked really interesting and Gareth

12:25

went on there, and they just like ate him

12:27

alive Oh shit mind you he

12:29

only put his first name He comes out

12:31

real hot and is like he was like

12:33

making fun of them something about like oh

12:35

This is kind of like a industry event

12:37

There's like half a band like some comedians

12:40

blah blah blah and he's ago There's a

12:42

full band when like kazoo pops out

12:44

of the ground and like comes out

12:46

singing out of Tony's mouth The

12:48

host is just like what the fuck is happening?

12:51

Yeah, and people are like I don't think people are

12:53

laughing at Gareth I think people are laughing at the

12:56

reaction that like that Tony's having and then they just

12:58

start picking you apart They're like why only one name

13:00

like and he goes well I have kind of a

13:02

long last name and they're like well What is it

13:04

and he's like it's purse house, and they're like those

13:06

are two words we all know yeah It's

13:09

not like my maiden last name Which

13:12

tripped people up quite a bit, but you know I

13:14

could look at that and be like oh, that's clearly

13:16

purse house Yeah, that didn't work for

13:19

him Which also must have been like a

13:21

sore subject with him later on when like

13:23

Amy was with Drew Carey He's

13:25

like a world-renowned comedian their

13:27

relationship wasn't good by any

13:30

stretch like she didn't actually talk to

13:32

her friends about it But like when he would

13:34

be around like Amy was that type of person

13:36

who just always had fun It was not like

13:38

you would meet her and just become her friend

13:40

a lot of her friends were For

13:42

guys and it was said that when Gareth

13:44

was around her and like one of her guy

13:46

friends would come over He would like grab her and

13:49

like try to make out with her like stick his

13:51

tongue in her mouth Yeah, and she would be like

13:53

oh my god. This is so weird and like kind

13:55

of like push him away, and he was like marking

13:58

his tear like that the words her

14:01

friends used was that he was like

14:03

trying to show everyone he was marking

14:05

his territory. Oh my goodness, gross. Gareth

14:07

was also abusive. One of the ways that they

14:09

would do is they would get into like an argument

14:11

in the car and he would either

14:13

be like arguing with her or sometimes he

14:15

would actually like physically like grab her and

14:18

like be bashing her head into the

14:20

seat. Oh my god. Like

14:23

it was abusive, abusive and because like this happens

14:25

a lot with people who are in the therapy

14:27

fields as they meet someone and they see like

14:29

good in them and then they're like I can

14:31

fix them. So I don't want anyone to be

14:33

like why did she stay with him for two

14:35

years? People do things because they have their reasons.

14:37

She would be like screaming let me out of

14:39

the car, let me out of the car and

14:41

he would pull over and push her out of

14:43

the car and then leave her, leave her stranded.

14:46

Her friend Maricela Mendoza would say

14:48

he was extremely vindictive so if

14:50

like she would see him do

14:52

something or Amy would do something

14:55

that would piss him off and like he would

14:57

punish her for it. And they lived together for

14:59

two years and this kind of shit happened all

15:01

the time and eventually they did

15:03

break up and they had a friend who

15:05

was like a mutual friend like he worked

15:07

at like the same kind of clubs and

15:09

interactions that they did. His name is Rudy

15:11

Torres and Rudy said that like Gareth would

15:13

be like dude can you just like text her

15:16

for me? Like she's blocked me or she won't

15:18

talk to me and he's like no like just

15:20

let it go. He kept telling her to like let it

15:22

go or telling I should say he

15:24

kept telling Gareth to let it go

15:26

and he just wouldn't. He would like

15:28

send him text messages of like I'm

15:30

assuming YouTube links to songs that were

15:33

like super sappy and be like listen

15:35

to this song. Yeah it was weird like that

15:37

kind of stuff but he wouldn't let it go

15:39

and in fact I think it was like a

15:41

year or two after they broke up she went

15:43

to China to teach a class like one

15:46

of her classes and when she came home

15:48

she lived in an apartment in Sherman Oaks

15:50

and she said that Gareth had broken in because

15:52

like all her photo albums were gone. A bunch

15:54

of her framed pictures were like turned upside down

15:56

like face down or like upside down and her

15:58

computer had broken in. been wiped clean. So she calls

16:01

Robert her friend and is like, Hey, what the hell? Like, I

16:03

don't know what's going on. Can you come over here? And he

16:05

comes over and like he's like within seconds, like

16:07

he realized the operating system has been deleted

16:09

from her computer. Oh my god. Oh, by

16:12

the way, Gareth is a photographer and

16:14

a software engineer. Yeah, I

16:16

was gonna say he's obviously techy. Yeah, he has

16:18

the tools. And then it's weird. Because in the

16:21

next day, Gareth showed up and he was like

16:23

playing a love song declaring his love to her

16:25

like outside her house. And she's like, Get the

16:27

fuck away. But she never really truly felt safe

16:30

with him because of the fact that he

16:32

was techy. She kind of always felt like

16:34

he was like monitoring her accounts and stuff.

16:36

Like one of the things is in 2012,

16:39

she decided that she wanted to go

16:41

work at a prison. She was like,

16:44

I really want this job. And Gareth

16:46

found out and freaked the fuck

16:48

out because apparently like her going to work

16:50

at a male's prison is like intimidating for

16:52

him. He took her Playboy pictures, like some

16:54

of the ones that hadn't been published and

16:57

sent them to the prison. Oh, what

16:59

the fuck? What a psycho.

17:01

Oh my god. So she

17:03

thought her career was over. And that's like her

17:05

friend Maricela was like, why don't you just do

17:08

the sex therapy full time, like really dive into

17:10

it. And so she did. And this is where

17:12

she grew up. Because like before this point,

17:14

she was just doing marriage and family

17:16

counseling. Okay, that makes sense. After this,

17:18

like she was like, fuck this, I

17:21

have to get a restraining order on

17:23

this dude. And so she did. And she

17:25

got a restraining order. And it

17:28

was like a five year restraining order,

17:30

which expired in like 2000 and

17:32

like 17 or 18. Then

17:34

she has all the relationships with

17:36

like celebrities and Drew Carey. And then

17:38

she's back into doing her thing. So from like

17:40

2018 to 20, like 2020, she's really doing

17:45

like her work and kind of coming into her

17:47

own. She would do these like seminars and people

17:49

would come but like she felt it was really

17:51

difficult at times because Amy was really pretty

17:53

like she was gorgeous. And like clients or

17:55

I call them fans would like show up

17:57

and just be like obsessed with her like

17:59

in her beauty. So it was like, it

18:01

would like derail her event sometimes. Yeah,

18:04

damn, that sucks. And because she

18:06

did the work with the like

18:08

the pineapple support, she would often

18:10

be recognized in the adult film

18:12

industry for her like contribution to

18:14

their like mental health on January

18:16

16 2020.

18:19

So like right before pandemic, she

18:21

went to something called the x

18:23

biz awards. And she's on the red

18:25

carpet, there's like, there's footage if you watch

18:28

the show on discovery plus, she

18:30

literally you can see the photos

18:32

of her and you can

18:34

see this interaction happen. So Gareth is

18:36

there. They haven't seen each other in

18:39

eight years. Basically, she was

18:41

like with a friend and the friend

18:43

stepped away. And he is like in

18:46

the line of photographers, right?

18:48

He has a camera, all of that. And he

18:50

just like steps out of the line and approaches

18:52

her and he starts like yelling at her mind

18:54

you she hasn't heard from him in like eight

18:57

to 10 years at this point, you know, like

18:59

it's been a minute. And so he starts screaming

19:01

at her, they kind of like walk down this

19:03

like off the red carpet, there was kind of

19:05

this like little sidewalk, which I think if the

19:07

red carpet or the orange carpet or whatever color

19:09

it was wasn't there, it would just be a

19:12

continued sidewalk and they kind of walk down there

19:14

and people are filming them right. So

19:16

they're still like looking down at them

19:18

and filming them down this like walkway

19:20

and he starts reciting old text messages,

19:23

text chains. What

19:25

a psycho. How do you remember

19:27

that? Exactly. Tarot, I can't

19:29

remember what I texted you earlier

19:31

today. No, the fuck. And

19:34

like he literally is like reciting his old

19:36

text and she's freaking out and then he

19:39

yells really loud, you ruined my life, bitch.

19:41

And she immediately goes into therapist mode

19:43

and like tries to deescalate it. He

19:46

falls to the ground in the fetal

19:48

position and is crying and having

19:50

a giant temper tantrum. Oh,

19:54

okay. And she wrote this

19:56

like, I don't know if it was in her diary or

19:58

like came

20:00

up behind me and started screaming, why are you here?

20:02

Why are you here? And then he was sobbing, his

20:04

head was in his hands, he

20:06

was hyperventilating, and he was distorting his

20:09

face up and shaking violently. What

20:11

the fuck? Right? Like, I think she

20:13

was texting Robert this, because Robert is literally

20:15

like her best friend. Like I said, she

20:17

just went into therapist mode to pacify him.

20:19

He was basically telling her that they were

20:21

still in a relationship. Oh, boy.

20:24

Yeah, like, basically saying to her that

20:27

like, it's not over between us.

20:29

And she could tell that he was jealous of

20:31

all these men. She told her friend Robert, like,

20:33

she and I was very scared. It terrifies me

20:35

that he's obsessed with me for nine years, that

20:37

he thinks about me every single day. So,

20:40

at this point, she's like, I gotta like,

20:42

figure out my security. Like, I gotta bolster

20:44

the shit up, right? Because this dude is

20:47

crazy. And I would think that he knows

20:49

where she lives. Oh, yeah. It's been nine,

20:51

and she's moved a bunch of times. Like,

20:53

he knows. Her and Robert come up with

20:56

this idea until she can get like, a

20:58

security system installed. She's gonna share

21:00

her location with Robert. So that

21:02

if she's ever like, non-responsive, he could

21:04

find her. So, we're gonna flash forward

21:07

to Valentine's Day 2020. Amy, the day

21:09

before, she reached out

21:11

to Drew and told her, you know,

21:13

because Valentine's Day is very special to

21:15

them because he announced on television their

21:17

relationship them being engaged. So, she reached

21:19

out to tell him how much she

21:21

missed him and she basically, they decided that they

21:23

were gonna meet up soon to like, hang out

21:25

and like, talk. Which I was like, oh my

21:27

god, that's so great because she had told Robert

21:29

how much she loved Drew. Like, I really do

21:32

think that it was like, they were the

21:34

right love. It's just like, they weren't ready

21:36

for it. So, she decided, hey, I've got

21:38

a great group of girlfriends. She took Valentine's

21:40

Day to a whole new thing. And so,

21:42

on Valentine's Day, she did like, a whole

21:44

day with like, different girlfriends. She got up

21:46

in the morning and she went for like,

21:49

a 6am sunrise hike. Tara, I love you

21:51

to death, but unless we're going to Disneyland, do not

21:53

expect me that early. Uh, no, I

21:55

don't want to do that either. Thank you. This

21:57

is why Tara and I work. We don't expect each other to be able

21:59

to- six and 30 in the morning to go for

22:01

a frickin' hike. I mean, that's you, good for you,

22:03

not for us. No, thank you.

22:06

Her and some friends went to the

22:08

Beachwood Cafe for breakfast, and then they

22:10

kind of just hung out around the

22:12

rest of the day, and then they

22:14

got ready. And that evening, they went

22:16

out to a burlesque show. It was

22:18

Miss Tash. It basically was a show

22:20

meant for single people, but also people

22:22

in relationships. It was a little mix

22:24

of it, but there was gonna be

22:26

bits and pieces of it. Amy wore

22:28

a super cute crushed velvet blush-colored dress,

22:30

and she was wearing a rosary bead

22:32

necklace, like a really long one, and the

22:34

necklace is very important. When Amy

22:36

was at the show, she had a roommate, so like Amy

22:38

lived on the third floor, and her roommate lived on the

22:41

first floor, and he was at home asleep. And

22:43

he woke up in the middle of the night

22:45

to this like loud noise, and he

22:47

just thought it was Amy coming home, and he

22:49

rolled over and went back to sleep. Amy,

22:52

then she's at the burlesque show, then she

22:54

leaves, but they don't go to like the

22:56

after-party of it. They decide to go to

22:58

Nomad and get tea, and then they were

23:00

there until a little bit after midnight, and

23:02

she pulls into her driveway and sends a

23:04

text to Robert. She sends photos of her

23:06

from Nomad, so she had snapped to Robert,

23:08

and it was like 1.02 a.m., and

23:11

basically she had said like, "'Oh,

23:13

I'm home, blah, blah, blah.'" And he's like,

23:15

"'Hey, there's this restaurant,'" because they were getting

23:17

ready to go on a trip to like

23:20

somewhere in the UK, and he was like,

23:22

"'There's this restaurant I wanna go to,'" and

23:24

she's like, "'That sounds great.'" And then she

23:26

enters her home, and according to what the

23:28

police say, she's not in there very long,

23:30

and she is viciously attacked in her third-floor

23:32

bedroom. Her roommate hears the screaming,

23:34

and he like immediately tries to like,

23:37

he gets up, he starts running up

23:39

the stairs, and he like

23:42

thinks he's like scared off the intruder,

23:44

and then he runs outside because he

23:46

can't find his phone. I don't

23:48

know like in this moment, like if you panicked, like if

23:50

you didn't have your phone or you couldn't find one, he

23:52

did the right thing because he ran over to like a

23:54

neighbor's house and was like banging on the door, but like

23:56

no one would answer, so he just kept running

23:58

down the street until he... finally found someone as

24:01

I get. 108, so she was like 102, she's

24:04

literally texting someone, goes inside.

24:06

At 108, he's like finally gets

24:08

through and calls 911. They

24:10

get there like a few minutes later

24:12

and they, you know, go into the

24:14

backyard because they go upstairs and she's

24:16

not there and they find her. She's

24:18

on the ground outside. She has severe

24:20

injuries with like deep marks

24:22

on her neck from signs of

24:25

being strangled and she had

24:27

head injuries from her fall. So she

24:29

was rushed to Cedar Sinai Medical

24:31

Center Hospital, but unfortunately

24:33

she would end up losing her life and

24:36

she was pronounced dead at 3 26

24:38

a.m. So the police look at

24:40

her and they immediately realize like the

24:43

bruises on her neck. That's from like

24:45

manual strangulation. That's not like

24:47

she hit that on the way down.

24:49

They were like what the fuck happened?

24:52

And so they go into her room

24:54

and they can see from like basically

24:56

right inside her bedroom door. There's like

24:58

beads that lead out towards the balcony

25:01

and they're the rosary beads she was

25:03

wearing earlier that night. When they get

25:05

outside on the balcony, they find a

25:07

syringe that's filled with liquid and when

25:10

they do a test of the liquid,

25:12

it is nicotine. It's a lethal dose

25:14

of nicotine. Oh shit. I was like

25:16

damn, literally on

25:19

the thing. They were like there's no

25:21

reason to have a syringe of nicotine

25:23

of that potency unless you're gonna

25:25

kill someone or yourself. Right. And

25:27

Amy didn't have a drug problem.

25:29

She didn't even smoke. I mean

25:32

she drank but she didn't like you know

25:34

use drugs or smoke. Right.

25:36

They are like oh my god. So

25:38

then they call Robert who's her best friend

25:40

is also the last person she text right.

25:42

So they bring him down to the police

25:44

station and like her roommate had given him

25:47

like a heads up like hey the police

25:49

are gonna call you because something's happened to Amy. I

25:51

don't know if the roommate knew what had happened but this

25:53

is about nine o'clock in the morning when Robert gets down

25:55

there and they start investigating and start interrogating him

25:57

a little bit and he's like oh my god.

26:00

God, what I don't know what's going on.

26:02

And then as he's sitting in there, another

26:04

police officer comes in and basically informs them

26:06

that Amy has passed away. And Robert kind

26:08

of rightfully so falls apart. And then

26:10

they were like, Do you know anyone

26:12

who would want her harmed or dead

26:14

and Gareth Pursehouse name could not come

26:16

out of his mouth faster. He was

26:18

like, Oh my god, this dude, and

26:20

he began to spill the tea on

26:22

the eight years of like craziness, the

26:24

computer wiping all that shit. And they

26:26

were like, Okay, he tells them the

26:29

story about how they ran into each

26:31

other in January, and all this shit.

26:33

And so the police are like, Okay,

26:35

they literally go and get him. They

26:37

arrest Gareth 13 hours after

26:40

she's been attacked. That's like

26:42

the fastest they did call Drew,

26:44

you know, he's an ex-boyfriend. And

26:46

they look into this, but he

26:48

was like the only contact we've had in

26:50

such a long time is that text. And

26:52

I was looking forward to seeing her and

26:55

they were like, Oh, okay. Robert called him

26:57

to tell him and he told 48

27:00

hours that basically it

27:02

felt like his feet, like he could

27:04

barely see on his feet, like his feet got knocked

27:06

out from underneath him. He was like, so shooken up at

27:08

that, which I was like, that makes total sense. So

27:11

Gareth is arrested, and

27:13

he's arraigned and he is arrested

27:15

for murder and burglary. And he is

27:18

set with a $2 million bail.

27:20

Well, you only have to have 10%

27:22

of the bond in California and Gareth

27:24

makes bail. Amy's cause of death, like

27:27

I said, is manual strangulation and

27:29

blunt force trauma from her fall.

27:31

So that's not one without the

27:34

other. They find Gareth DNA under

27:36

her nails. He also has scratch

27:39

marks on his face and a bruised

27:41

like left eye like he's got a

27:43

little black eye going on. So he

27:45

makes bail on January 19. And

27:48

Maricela was like really afraid because

27:50

she's visibly shaken up in the

27:52

documentary, because she's like, he knew where I

27:55

lived. And he knew that I knew about

27:58

him and Amy. So she like in panic

28:01

mode but Gareth violated his bail conditions.

28:03

Basically in your bail especially with something

28:05

that high you can't even be near

28:07

an airport. It looks like you'd like

28:09

live like near an airport but like

28:11

he was caught near LAX and they

28:13

were like he's gonna try to fucking

28:15

flee. So on August 18th

28:17

he pled not guilty. Now because

28:19

the pandemic had happened he basically

28:21

had to wait such a long

28:23

time. He has his first preliminary

28:25

hearing in 2021 and he basically

28:27

at that point in time

28:31

his lawyers say that he didn't

28:33

kill Amy that she fell off

28:35

the balcony by accident and the

28:37

judge was like no no there's

28:40

manual strangulation involved in this

28:42

try again. Right. They sent

28:44

them back. The deputy district

28:46

attorney Catherine Mariano said it

28:48

became very clear to me

28:50

that Prithhouse's obsession drove

28:53

him and his intent to kill

28:55

her. I mean from the timeline

28:57

he was in her house for

28:59

several hours. Oh yeah. It

29:01

wasn't like he broke in at like 12 20

29:05

and she showed up at one o'clock. Right. He

29:07

would like it had been like

29:09

at least two hours and then

29:11

basically they described what happened in

29:13

their opening statements and they

29:15

said basically he strangled her and then lifted

29:17

her over the balcony and dropped her to her

29:19

death. The defense said

29:21

that basically he after seeing

29:24

her in January, oh talk

29:27

about victim blaming Tara, after seeing

29:29

her in January he got into

29:31

a deep debilitating depression and just

29:34

wanted to talk to Amy. That's

29:37

what they all fucking say. They all

29:39

say I just want to talk. No

29:41

you're a fucking psycho. Right. His only

29:43

intention that night quote unquote was to

29:45

speak to her according to his attorneys.

29:48

Now a really interesting

29:50

thing is when Garret was

29:52

arrested he wasn't alone. There was

29:54

a woman who he had

29:56

met on Tinder a few weeks before

29:58

and And she had ridden

30:01

a bike over to his house, and he was

30:03

like doing construction, so they were like hanging out,

30:05

and she said that his house was really disheveled.

30:08

So she actually helped organize his

30:10

house. He then changed his

30:12

clothes, and then they left. And

30:15

as they're leaving and backing out of

30:17

the garage, there's a bunch of cars

30:19

blocking his driveway, and then the cops

30:21

show up and arrest him. Like they

30:23

literally left her sitting on a curb

30:25

for two hours where they processed the

30:27

scene. And it was interesting because it

30:29

was so weird. I watched her testimony.

30:31

It wasn't in the documentary. I just watched it on

30:33

YouTube. And it was almost like

30:35

she was mad that she had to testify

30:38

against Gareth. And I was like, girl,

30:40

I'm sorry, but if you'd only been

30:42

on a few dates with this dude

30:44

and he turned out to be a

30:47

murderer, count your fucking blessings. Because

30:49

in the defense, basically, I tried to

30:51

say that Gareth was so depressed that

30:53

he'd actually gone there to use the syringe

30:55

on himself and was going to kill himself

30:58

in front of her. That's not traumatic at

31:00

all or stable. And I think they

31:02

were trying to basically like use the narrative

31:04

like he wasn't in his right mind. I

31:07

don't think I think he was there to

31:09

kill her because I think he was like,

31:11

shit, this chick has definitely moved on. If

31:14

I can't have you, no one will. That's

31:16

exactly what it was. Oh, a thousand percent.

31:19

And the jury would agree with you. His

31:21

trial began on August 29, 2023. And

31:25

on September 29, 2023, he was convicted of her murder. And

31:29

on December 6, 2023, he

31:31

was given the life sentence without the

31:33

possibility of parole because he lives in California.

31:35

And what is the point of the death

31:37

penalty? Because this could be a death penalty

31:39

case. Because of the fact

31:42

that he's laid in wait for her,

31:44

it qualified in the circumstances to be

31:46

a death penalty case in California. So

31:49

this is a story. I hadn't even heard of this.

31:52

And I was just like, oh, you

31:54

know, our Thursday episode is coming out

31:56

right after Valentine's Day. I

31:58

want to like do a Valentine's Day. So I

32:00

typed it in, the story came up, and I was

32:02

like, holy shit, and the fact that it would go

32:04

live on the four year anniversary

32:07

of this event happening. So with

32:09

that, we're gonna end today's episode, and

32:11

we will be back on Monday with

32:13

another one. Bye guys, toodles.