Amie Harwick case: Blood, a broken necklace and a poison-filled syringe are evidence in Hollywood therapist’s violent death

[This story previously aired on February 12, 2022. It was updated on September 3,]

More than two-and-a-half years in the past, distinguished Hollywood therapist Amie Harwick was discovered fatally injured beneath her bed room balcony simply hours after Valentine’s Day — a former boyfriend has been charged together with her death. In his first in depth TV interview, Drew Carey, host of CBS’ “The Price Is Right” and Harwick’s onetime fiancé, gives “48 Hours” correspondent Erin Moriarty a uncooked, sincere account of sudden love and insufferable loss.

In the early morning hours of February 15, 2020, police discovered Amie Harwick, a high-profile household therapist, clinging to life beneath the balcony outdoors her residence.

As Amie was rushed to the hospital, investigators instantly questioned her traumatized roommate who had referred to as 911. They got down to interview neighbors and search for surveillance digicam video – something to elucidate what had occurred to her.

Hours earlier, Amie’s Valentine’s Day had began peacefully with a dawn hike together with her buddy, Cleopatra Slough.

Cleopatra Slough: So, I obtained to her home … She invited me in as a result of she nonetheless hadn’t gotten prepared but. … We went as much as her bed room, which was very stunning. It had this good balcony, all this pure mild. …And she was frantically preparing and on the final minute, she grabbed this little pink cardigan sweater and mentioned,” it’s Valentine’s Day, I am just going to throw this on.”

Amie acted as a native tour information as they climbed the winding Hollywood Hills streets.

Cleopatra Slough: She was mentioning all these completely different landmarks she preferred, telling me completely different historical past in regards to the neighborhood.

They stopped for breakfast on the Beachwood Café.

Cleopatra Slough: She talked a lot about how completely satisfied she was. How … she felt actually completed and pleased with the place she was in life and very a lot, like, at peace …

Erin Moriarty: Did she appear anxious about something that day?

Cleopatra Slough: No.

Erin Moriarty: Did she discuss what her plans have been that night time?

Cleopatra Slough: Yes. … They have been all going to a burlesque present. And she was actually excited to dress up and go to that.

Erin Moriarty: What was she sporting that night time?

Miss Tosh: She was sporting her rosary necklace, her leather-based jacket, her purse and her boots and a velvet gown.

The necklace would later develop into a key piece of evidence.

Amie’s buddy, often called Miss Tosh, says the burlesque present began round 7 p.m.

Miss Tosh: They introduced a little Kodak digicam and taking all these movie photographs collectively … And I may see them even after I was on stage simply, like, cheering and standing. The greatest time.

 Around the time that Amie and her associates have been taking photos on the present, Amie’s roommate Michael Herman – asleep in his room on the primary flooring – would later inform authorities he thought he heard the sound of a smashing plate. He thought it was Amie, a flooring above, and drifted again to sleep. Investigators now imagine it was an intruder breaking the glass of the French door to her residence.

Erin Moriarty [looking at photo]: In this second, all people, you understand, appears to be like completely satisfied.

Miss Tosh: We’re all on a excessive of thrill of celebrating the present … we have been simply having a lot enjoyable.

Amie, nonetheless on the Globe Theater, caught up with Miss Tosh in the foyer after the present round 9 p.m. Miss Tosh requested her to come back to the after celebration.

Miss Tosh: And she’s like, “no, I’m just going to have tea with my friends” … and that was my final second together with her was simply, you understand,” I love you. I’ll see you again soon.”

Amie and her associates left the Globe Theatre and they ended up on the Nomad till 12:18 a.m.

At round 1 a.m., Amie pulled into her driveway, and she texted her buddy Sara Rollins to ship photos from the Nomad: “Send me pics on the green couch!” The time is 1:02 a.m.

Moments later, police imagine she climbed the steps to her third-floor bed room and was viciously attacked. Police theorize that Amie’s assailant had been mendacity in await 4 hours.

Amie’s roommate was jolted out of sleep by her screams. He later testified that he heard the sound of our bodies falling to the ground and extra screams that appeared muffled, as if somebody had put a hand over her mouth.

Unable to seek out his telephone, Amie’s roommate first simply tries yelling to scare the assailant away. When he runs for assist, he will get trapped contained in the courtyard, and has to scale a tall steel fence, chopping himself, however he nonetheless makes it over to the neighbor, knocking repeatedly, and no person involves the door.

It was now 1:08 a.m., Amie’s roommate is frantic. He then runs throughout the road and once more nobody solutions the door. Then, he sees somebody strolling up the road who occurs to have a telephone. They name for assist. It is now 1:14 a.m.

That’s when police discovered Amie mendacity 20 toes under her bed room balcony. She was struggling to breathe.

Police famous that Amie had extreme accidents and deep marks on her neck – indicators that she had been strangled earlier than she fell from the balcony.

At 2:05 a.m., Sara Rollins, who had no thought Amie was clinging to life, texted that photograph of her on the inexperienced sofa. But, by then, Amie was on her solution to Cedar Sinai Medical Center. She died at 3:26 a.m.

Inside her residence investigators found evidence of a violent battle. There was blood on a bed room door. There was additionally a path of these rosary beads that she’d been sporting earlier that night time that went from her TV room, by her bed room and onto the balcony. And that is the place they recovered a syringe stuffed with liquid.

 Considering Amie didn’t smoke, drink or do medication, the syringe appeared misplaced. Was it left by Amie’s attacker? And why?

LOVE AND LOSS

As daybreak broke over Los Angeles on the morning after Valentine’s Day in 2020, hearts started breaking.

Robert Coshland: It’s just like the solar was ripped from the sky.

Amie Harwick’s shut associates Cleopatra Slough, Grace Stanley and Robert Coshland, have been listening to the news that the 38-year-old girl they’d beloved and leaned on was gone.

Cleopatra Slough (cries): I did not imagine it.

Grace Stanley (cries): She’s not there anymore.

Robert Coshland: The police referred to as me…and mentioned, “Hey can you come down to the Hollywood station.”

Word rapidly reached her onetime fiancé, too: Drew Carey, comic and host of “The Price is Right” on CBS. He launched Amie to the world on the Valentine’s Day version of the present in 2018, simply two years earlier than her death.

Drew Carey: You need an intimate relationship the place you’ll be able to confide in any person utterly … and she was that for me.

Carey is giving his first in depth tv interview about Amie Harwick: A uncooked, sincere account of sudden love and insufferable loss.

Erin Moriarty: How’d you meet her?

Drew Carey: I … met her at – there’s this producer that will throw these like, wonderful large Hollywood events.

It was 2017. He says he noticed stars everywhere in the room that night time, however particularly when he noticed Amie Harwick, who was moonlighting as a bartender.

Drew Carey: Our first date we went to Disneyland. … And … I used to be, like, so amazed by her … I used to be telling individuals at work. … “Wow, I met this great girl. Her name’s Amie.”

Like Drew, Amie Harwick had grown up in center America. In her case, a small Pennsylvania city.

AMIE HARWICK [modeling agency video]: It was at all times simply a problem to determine the place I belonged … And it took a actually very long time for me to determine who I used to be as a individual.

She had been adopted and had, at one level, briefly been in foster care. As a teen, she was drawn to an offbeat crowd.

Sharon Little: We would go to the toilet and do our make-up collectively and skip class.

The girls’ room wasn’t simply the place Sharon Little and Amie Harwick went to goof off; it is the place they first met. One day in tenth grade, Sharon says she was sobbing after listening to a shut buddy had died, when somebody she did not know supplied her a hug.

Sharon Little (crying): She noticed me crying and simply held me.

Both craving understanding, Sharon says they appeared to grasp one another instinctively.

Sharon Little: I felt she knew precisely what I used to be feeling.

In 2001, Amie settled in LA, planning to get a psychology diploma, however she wanted cash.

Drew Carey: She labored her method by school … she labored, like, bartending, go-go dancing.

She obtained gigs at nightclubs and events round city.

Sharon Little: She was blooming. She was consuming fireplace …

Drew Carey: She had a fireplace act that she would do. And like actually hustled.

Amie’s hustle, smarts and ardour for private development ultimately paid off.

Armed with a grasp’s diploma in medical psychology and ultimately a Ph.D. in human sexuality, she opened a non-public follow and labored with shoppers who have been usually shunned.

AMIE HARWICK (“Good Morning La La Land”): I work with intercourse staff or those who may be beforehand intercourse staff …

Amie introduced her distinctive mixture of compassion and charisma to a YouTube viewers, too.

AMIE HARWICK (YouTube): Hey, that is Dr. Amie Harwick …

AMIE HARWICK (YouTube): You talk what you are seeking to do … what your boundaries are …

Part of what made her so attention-grabbing, say associates, have been her personal colourful pursuits.

Grace Stanley: Taxidermy and issues like that.

But whereas Amie appeared to have a morbid fascination with mortality …

Robert Coshland: She was obsessive about death … and in reality, at one level she had purchased her personal coffin.

… she additionally had a zest for all times and residing.

Grace Stanley: She did all the things … and I do not know the place she obtained the power from.

Drew Carey: I fell so onerous for her.

Erin Moriarty: You even mentioned that you just have been fortunate sufficient to have that love of a lifetime, what did you imply by that?

Drew Carey: It was. It … felt to me like lastly, here is like all the things I ever needed.

He says Amie supplied what any individual would need: unconditional love.

Drew Carey: I’ve a lot of physique points about the best way I look, and- however I might, like, take my shirt off round her and not care, and she would love me. … like, she did not care. She simply at all times thought I used to be attractive and sizzling.

They obtained engaged in 2017.

Drew Carey: We had a nice time collectively … we might be, you understand, in the kitchen and simply begin dancing.

But there have been critical issues, too.

Drew Carey: There can be an article like, “Oh, Drew Carey and Amie Harwick at a thing.”

The couple’s superstar outings typically introduced undesirable consideration to Amie.

Drew Carey: And then the subsequent day, two days later, there’d be one thing.

Something would nearly at all times seem on-line: damaging, nameless feedback on web sites that reviewed medical doctors, he says. And Amie feared her status as a therapist can be ruined. She was satisfied they have been written by a jealous ex-boyfriend. His title: Gareth Pursehouse.

Drew Carey: And she’s like … “I wish you weren’t famous!” 

Erin Moriarty: If this was this nice love, and you guys so meshed, what occurred?

Drew Carey: Well, you understand, we had some issues, and – I do not wanna get into it.

But Carey informed “48 Hours” they tried onerous to make it work.

Drew Carey: We went to remedy as a lot as we may and, you understand, lastly simply needed to name it a day. … And it was actually upsetting for each of us.

Friends say the breakup was amicable and the couple ultimately fell out of contact. Carey, by then in a new relationship, says he was thrilled when, on the night time earlier than Valentine’s Day in 2020, Amie instantly reached out with a textual content.

Drew Carey (studying textual content): “I would love to get together with you and talk.” And I mentioned, “Yeah, I would love to do that. I love you.”

Erin Moriarty: Are you unhappy you by no means obtained that probability?

Drew Carey: I by no means obtained it.

Each of Amie’s associates dealt with her death in a completely different method, however when requested who they thought would damage her, one title got here to thoughts.

Grace Stanley: My buddy is terrified of 1 individual.

Robert Coshland: It’s Gareth.

Erin Moriarty: She thought he was harmful.

Grace Stanley: She did … she knew what he was able to.

ACCUSATIONS OF ASSAULT

Robert Coshland went all the way down to the Hollywood police station and informed investigators what he knew about Gareth Pursehouse, an ex-boyfriend Amie had dated years earlier than. He was a software program engineer, wannabe comic and photographer.

Robert Coshland: They requested … Who I believed may need performed this and … did she have any enemies? … “this ex of hers, Gareth … if anyone … it would be this guy.”

Coshland additionally informed them that Amie mentioned Pursehouse had assaulted her on a couple of event.

“48 Hours” tracked down quite a few police studies and two restraining orders that Amie obtained towards Pursehouse.

Erin Moriarty [reading]: So, that is what she wrote in April 2011:

“Gareth Pursehouse forced me to the ground, covered my mouth to prevent my yelling, kicked me.

In mid-May, there were multiple arguments in which Gareth Pursehouse … choked me, suffocated me, pushed me against walls, kicked me, dropped me to the ground with forced force, restrained me, slammed my head into the ground, and punched me with a closed fist.”

Robert Coshland: They would get in … yelling fights. And one time she threw a pillow at him. And he hit her and bashed her head towards the ground.

Robert Coshland: And then instantly he would make up and be all like,” I’m really sorry” and “I love you” and all this type of stuff.
But it was a very completely different relationship when the couple first began courting, as Grace Stanley remembers.

Stanley says Amie launched her to Pursehouse again in 2008 at a photograph shoot for Bench Warmer buying and selling playing cards. Back then, Amy was a mannequin going by the title Amie Nicole.

Grace Stanley: It was very apparent after I met him that he was taken by her. … at all times taking photos of her.

Grace Stanley: I truthfully suppose she was searching for the good man, the protected man, the man who wasn’t going to interrupt her coronary heart or cheat on her. … when there’s any person who’s that into you, you do not suppose that they’ll damage you.
Rudy Torres: He was – he was loud … charming. Somewhat goofy.

Pursehouse posted movies on social media.

Stanley says there was no signal of a relationship in hassle in the start, however one thing now strikes her as unusual.

Grace Stanley: I by no means noticed her and him collectively whereas they have been courting … and I type of marvel if he was type of retaining her away from her associates.

Eventually, Amie may not disguise the indicators of abuse. Friends say she began documenting her accidents.

Erin Moriarty: He was hurting her. Does that match the Amie you understand? To keep in a unhealthy state of affairs like that?

Robert Coshland: Actually, sure, it does … she actually would wanna make relationships work … even when they weren’t working for her. … She didn’t prefer to lose in any respect. So, I believe a relationship breaking apart … would really feel like a loss … and she was very a lot about sustaining issues that she had, even when they weren’t good.

Grace Stanley: I simply bear in mind doing the buddy factor … “leave him, leave him. Like, that’s not a relationship you want to stay in.”

Erin Moriarty: And how did she react to saying get out of that relationship?

Grace Stanley: She completely agreed.

Amie lastly ended their relationship in 2012.

Rudy Torres: Gareth did not take that very properly in any respect. He would begin to get obsessive.

Rudy Torres: He at all times needed to know the place she was at … he used to need me to be his go-between, which, I didn’t wanna do. He’d at all times ask me to ship her …  photographs, ship her hyperlinks to sappy love songs. … and he would not take no for a solution.

Rudy Torres: And he simply type of blew up and mentioned … “you have to pick, it’s either me or her.” … and I went together with her and after that he lower me off.

AMIE HARWICK (YouTube): The video as we speak is on the right way to survive the breakup.

Amie was decided to maneuver on from Pursehouse. Not solely did she survive, she thrived. But almost 4 years after the breakup, somebody broke into her residence.

Robert Coshland: She referred to as me she’s like I believe he broke into my home and stole my photograph albums and my pc … It had been wiped.

Robert Coshland: She believed it was him, she could not show it, she did not have cameras.

Grace Stanley: She felt as if possibly he was watching one way or the other … she felt like he may possibly have bugged her issues.

Amie was satisfied Pursehouse was behind a number of the insulting and derogatory on-line feedback she had been getting for years. Gareth had additionally despatched messages to her associates designed to sabotage her friendships.

Grace Stanley: It appeared ridiculous. … Surely, he is moved on by now.

But then, on January 16, 2020, they crossed paths for the primary time in eight years. The distinguished intercourse therapist obtained a last-minute invite to the annual XBIZ awards, an grownup movie business gala.

That’s the place she noticed Pursehouse working the occasion. She tried to remain calm, however she later informed Robert Coshland when Gareth noticed her, he went ballistic.

Robert Coshland: And he was yelling in her face saying, “You’ve ruined my life.” And reciting textual content messages she had despatched to him in 2012. And like, you understand, created a big scene.

Robert Coshland: There’s like a hundred individuals in this room and he is screaming. He is working the occasion. He’s a large man and he is screaming at her, sobbing … falls to the bottom in a fetal place wailing.

After the present, Amie spent 45 minutes talking privately with Pursehouse, away from everybody, however nonetheless inside view of safety guards.

Robert Coshland: She informed me she went into therapist mode … and inform him, like … he must, like, get on along with his life … however in a non-confrontational, as absolute best method. … she felt like she had talked him down.

Robert Coshland: But … she was unnerved by the entire thing … After that, she was like, “I want to share my phone location with you.” … “If anything ever happens to me … it’s him.”

Grace Stanley: She needed to up the safety in her home. She needed pepper spray. She was taking the steps of any person who was scared.

Two weeks after the run-in with Gareth, Amie referred to as her dad and mom, with an sudden request.

Robert Coshland: She … informed them that, if I die, I wish to have an open casket funeral and I need an elaborate gravestone and … like, very express needs.

Then, simply a day earlier than Valentine’s Day 2020, there was that textual content from Amie reaching out to Drew Carey.

Drew Carey: I used to be actually completely satisfied … I used to be like, “Oh, it’d be great to see her again.”

But Carey would by no means hear from Amie once more. Robert Coshland would ship the heartbreaking news.

Drew Carey: And he goes, “Hey – Amie was murdered.” And – I simply began like, “What?” And I – and I simply began crying … And I simply – I could not even get up. And – I – you understand, I did not suppose that was doable.

News of Amie’s death exploded throughout the nation.

And inside hours, detectives tracked down Gareth Pursehouse at his residence, and charged him together with her homicide. Now, prosecutors got down to construct their case towards him.

Rhonda Saunders: It’s going to be a struggle.

A LOOK AT THE EVIDENCE

In September 2021, a year-and-a-half after his arrest, Gareth Pursehouse appeared on the Los Angeles Superior Court for a preliminary listening to. Rudy Torres, as soon as Pursehouse’s good buddy, needed to be there – for Amie.

Rudy Torres: You wish to know what these final moments have been like for her. And you simply should be there as a result of somebody needs to be in that room for her.

Cameras weren’t allowed contained in the listening to itself, the place a choose would decide if there was sufficient evidence to strive Pursehouse for the homicide of Amie Harwick.

Rhonda Saunders: You know, there is no such factor as a slam dunk case, ever.

Rhonda Saunders was a deputy district legal professional in LA for 33 years. She just isn’t concerned in this case however reviewed court docket information at “48 Hours” request. At the listening to, prosecutors mentioned Amie’s post-mortem, which paperwork obvious defensive wounds on her arms and palms. There was additionally a sample of broken blood vessels round Amie’s eyes referred to as petechiae, which might be evidence of strangulation.

Rhonda Saunders: There not solely have been the petechiae, however there have been bruises on her neck.

But was Gareth Pursehouse the intruder on the night time of February 14, 2020? Prosecutors offered evidence of DNA recovered from the French door and the lounge flooring, which they mentioned was a match to Pursehouse.

Rudy Torres: The phrase of the day was septillion. … That’s the one with 24 zeroes. … Most of the stuff went over my head, however I can bear in mind septillion.

Torres is appropriate – investigators mentioned the prospect that the DNA belonged to anybody apart from Pursehouse was lower than one in one septillion. And maybe extra disturbing, they are saying Pursehouse’s DNA was on Amie’s fingernails. Torres says he is disturbed by the thought of Amie’s final moments alive -the roughly 6 minutes after she despatched her final textual content and earlier than her roommate knocked on the neighbor’s door for assist.

Rudy Torres: Six minutes. Her final moments on earth have been six minutes. And that is most likely essentially the most scary a part of all this, that she – would not sound like a very long time, however she fought for six minutes.

At the listening to, the protection questioned whether or not that DNA was collected and examined accurately, and they questioned whether or not Pursehouse was there in any respect. But a neighbor’s residence safety video from the night time of Valentine’s Day – performed in court docket – reveals an intruder that Torres believes is Pursehouse.

Rudy Torres: He places his hand over the digicam so it would not see him … however you understand any person for that lengthy it is like seeing him from a distance. It appeared like him.

Gareth Pursehouse pleaded not responsible, and his protection attorneys argue that not one of the evidence collected by the state proves homicide. They say even when that intruder was Pursehouse – and they do not agree it was – he may have gone there simply to speak to Amie, and her fall off the balcony may have been an accident.

Rudy Torres: That’s ridiculous. … He’s tall. And she’s tiny. … She’s unmatched in any method you’ll be able to quantify.

Robert Coshland: He could have needed to say some issues to her, however I believe he went there to kill her.

Then there’s that syringe that police say they discovered on Amie’s balcony. Lab exams later revealed that it contained nicotine, which might be a deadly poison. Robert Coshland believes that syringe may solely have been there for one cause.

Robert Coshland: That simply actually, I believe, confirmed that he had intent – murderous intent, as a result of there is no benign cause to have a syringe of nicotine, ever.

Although very uncommon, there have been homicide instances involving deadly doses of nicotine – notably one which “48 Hours” coated: the case of Paul Curry who was discovered responsible of the 1994 poisoning of his spouse Linda with the toxin.

Dr. Neal Benowitz: If you’re taking it orally by mouth or by pores and skin, then it takes for much longer as a result of absorption takes a whereas … But when you’ve got it intravenously, then you’ll be able to die inside minutes.

Dr. Neal Benowitz, a main skilled on nicotine, who wrote a report in regards to the Harwick case, spoke to “48 Hours” in 2014 about how somebody may make a excessive focus resolution of the drug.

Dr. Neal Benowitz (holding up a vial): This can be a concentrated nicotine resolution that would kill any person.

Police say they later discovered a syringe in Pursehouse’s residence much like the one stuffed with nicotine. Prosecutors argued that the presence of that poison at Amie’s house is evidence of Pursehouse’s murderous intentions.

Rhonda Saunders: The prosecutor has to indicate that intent to hurt her, to kill her. Why else would there be a syringe with that toxin in it?

At the listening to, Amie’s associates testified about her concern of Pursehouse, and the measures she had taken-including the house safety system, shopping for pepper spray, and permitting Robert Coshland to trace her telephone. After her death, Robert positioned Amie’s electronic mail password, and says he discovered what stands out as the most haunting evidence towards Pursehouse, written by Amie herself.

Erin Moriarty: You discovered one thing in her Gmail.

Robert Coshland: Yes.

Erin Moriarty: That grew to become essential, did not it?

Robert Coshland: Yeah.

Amie used her electronic mail to doc her scary encounter with Pursehouse on the XBIZ awards present. She wrote:

“He started screaming … you shouldn’t be here, why are you here … He was sobbing. … He was distorting his face up and shaking violently …”

Erin Moriarty: What does that say to you – that type of response with simply operating into a girl that he has not had contact with for years?

Kris Mohandie: This was terrifying to her and … She ought to have been terrified, as a result of that is not regular.

Forensic psychologist Kris Mohandie.

Kris Mohandie: This electronic mail is a voice, you understand, of what Amie Harwick was experiencing.

In it she additionally writes, “It terrifies me that he’s been obsessed with me for nine years … He’s malicious, highly intelligent, and focused on harming me.”

Rhonda Saunders: What that electronic mail reveals is that there is no such thing as a method after writing that even to herself, that she would have invited him over, that she would have had something to do with him, that she was afraid of him.

The query now’s for the choose to resolve. Is there sufficient evidence to take Gareth Pursehouse to trial? Amie’s associates haven’t any doubts.

Erin Moriarty: Do you suppose she fell off the balcony?

Cleopatra Slough: No.

Robert Coshland: No. … under no circumstances.

Robert Coshland: She actually mentioned, “if anything ever happens to me, it’s Gareth.” She informed  these actual phrases to me.

WANTING BETTER FOR AMIE

Grace Stanley: You know, she’d had different relationships that hadn’t ended properly. But they by no means got here up.

Amie’s shut buddy Grace Stanley additionally testified on the Gareth Pursehouse hearing-about texts she had from Amie relaying her fears about him.

Grace Stanley: She by no means actually preferred to textual content a lot about Gareth. She actually did not like to make use of his title.

Erin Moriarty: Why? Did she suppose he would possibly see it?

Grace Stanley: She felt as if possibly he was watching one way or the other. She’d at all times felt that.

After six days of evidence and arguments, the choose dominated there was greater than sufficient to bind Pursehouse over for trial for the homicide of Amie Harwick.

Erin Moriarty: Will you go to the trial?

Rudy Torres: Yes. … There’s a small group of us and we have agreed that, it doesn’t matter what, there’ll at all times be any person in that room for her.

Musician and buddy Sharon Little intends to be there too.

Sharon Little: I need the choose to see how essential she was. And, you understand, and I needed to be there for her.

Psychologist Kris Mohandie thinks the state’s case towards Pursehouse, if true, displays a deep obsession with Amie, first documented in these long-ago court docket information that was reignited after that probability encounter on the pink carpet.

Kris Mohandie: There could have been a lull by these years, however at that awards occasion it obtained the pursuit began once more.

Pursehouse has not been charged with stalking and has pleaded not responsible to Amie’s homicide. But Kris Mohandie believes that if the state’s allegations are true, his alleged crime would match the sample of what he calls obsessional pursuit. He additionally says it is probably that Amie was responding to Gareth with sympathy and not security for herself as her first concern.

Erin Moriarty: In hindsight, was it a mistake for her to attempt to calm him down, defuse the state of affairs?

Kris Mohandie: I’m undecided I might name it a mistake. I might name her choice to speak with him twice that night to attempt to calm him, to be her humanity.

However, the most secure plan of action for stalking victims, Mohandie says, is never to interact their stalker in the event that they may help it. Well-meant human kindness might be twisted by stalkers’ delusions and gas their rage.

Kris Mohandie: And that rage, they do not heal from it. They – it turns into this residing factor that they nurture and feed. And what you see in in this case, if true, is a nine-year window of that.

Amie’s associates say she was by no means going to let her concern of Pursehouse shut down her life.

Robert Coshland: You cannot stay your life in concern. … If you wanna stay in concern, you are giving that individual management over you. And that is not who she was. She was her personal individual and she was gonna management her personal future and she would by no means give him that energy. Ever.

Erin Moriarty: This is – it is nearly two years. The ache has not gone away, has it?

Robert Coshland: No. (Cleopatra Slough, sitting beside Coshland, shakes her head, “no.”) I do not suppose it ever will.

Erin Moriarty: Is Valentine’s Day onerous for you?

Drew Carey: Terrible. Yeah (emotional) … Yeah. Valentine’s Day sucks now. That’s not a good day to recollect.

Erin Moriarty: Do you’ve gotten regrets?

Rudy Torres: Yeah. I believe all of us do. You know, you at all times suppose, I may have performed extra, I ought to have performed extra, I ought to have been there, I ought to have listened extra.

But one factor Rudy Torres is evident on is what he can do now. He calls on different males to hitch him.

Rudy Torres: Plenty of that is a drawback as a result of males want to carry different males accountable.

Drew Carey says he hopes Amie’s death and the eye it has obtained will assist deliver extra consciousness to intimate associate violence and the very actual risks of stalking.

Drew Carey: You cannot be a individual in this nation and not know a girl who hasn’t been a sufferer of home violence. You simply cannot. … And it is actually a drawback that not sufficient individuals acknowledge.

Erin Moriarty: What will you miss about her essentially the most? Is there one factor? That you simply suppose…?

Robert Coshland: Her. Just her. Her, you understand, sittin’ subsequent to me. You know, I hear her voice in my head day by day.

Sharon Little: Every time I really feel depressed, and I do not really feel like getting up in the morning and I – I simply say, “She can’t get up. You’ve gotta do it for – you’ve gotta get up for her.”

Amie’s dad and mom shared a assertion:

“As we approach the 2 year anniversary of Amie’s death, we remain thankful for the unwavering support of our extended family and friends.  Many of Amie’s close friends communicate with us regularly, attend court hearings, and update us on those proceedings.  We are very grateful.

Our hope is that 2022 will bring justice for Amie and focus on her life, her work, and her accomplishments.”

Drew Carey: She cared a lot about serving to individuals. That was her life’s function. She simply needed to assist individuals. Especially girls.

Erin Moriarty: You actually miss her, do not you?

Rudy Torres: It’s like, I could have misplaced a buddy and a lot of us misplaced a buddy. But she was en route to only assist so many individuals … In her chosen subject, she helped so many ladies, and she would’ve helped so many extra. … it is extra than simply dropping a buddy.

If you or a beloved one are a sufferer of home violence, the National Domestic Violence Hotline gives free, confidential assist 24/7 at 1-800-799-7233.

Amie’s associates are planning to build a memorial to honor her and victims of home violence. 

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Produced by Sarah Prior, Murray Weiss and Josh Yager. Greg Fisher and Michelle Fanucci are the event producers. Gregory F. McLaughlin, Grayce Arlotta-Berner, George Baluzy, Michael Baluzy and Greg Kaplan are the editors. Kathryne Teurfs and Shaheen Tokhi are the sphere producers. Anthony Batson is the senior producer. Nancy Kramer is the manager story editor. Judy Tygard is the manager producer.