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stole her watch. Harrison became a suspect because he lived near the site of the abduction and a tip that someone at his house was trying to sell a watch, although the victim's watch was never found. Both the rape victim and the person providing the tip picked
Harrison from a photo lineup. It was largely on this identification that Harrison was convicted on March 18, 1987, and sentenced to life in prison.
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October 25, 1986, a woman was attacked as she walked in the rain to a bus stop in Decatur, Georgia. The assailant hit her, dragged her to an embankment and raped her three times before she was able to get away and notify the police. During the incident, the assailant also
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Harrison with a one million dollar sum payable as an annuity over twenty years. In March 2015 Harrison was bankrupt. He sold $ 735,000 in future annuity payments to Seneca One for just $ 272,000, not knowing he had to pay income taxes.
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