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Jan 26, 2024 · Jury finds Megan Hargan guilty of killing her mom and sister. A Fairfax County jury has found Megan Hargan, the woman accused of murdering her mother and sister in 2017, guilty on all counts.
Feb 1, 2024 · Updated on February 1, 2024 03:45PM EST. A Virginia woman twice convicted of killing her mother and sister in and staging it to look like a murder-suicide in 2017 was sentenced to life in prison ...
- 47 sec
- Liam Quinn
- Who Are The Hargans?
- A Fatal Discovery
- Who Pulled The Trigger?
- The "Toe on The Trigger" Defense
- Immeasurable Grief
On Friday, July 14, 2017, at about 5 p.m., Fairfax County Virginia Police visit the next of kin to deliver awful news: 63-year-old Pam Hargan and 24-year-old Helen Hargan are dead. Det. Brian Byerson: Pamela was shot twice — in the mudroom. Lead detective Brian Byerson says police are recording and whispering to avoid being overheard, when they giv...
It's 1:44 p.m. on July 14, 2017. Carlos Gutierrez, Helen's boyfriend in Texas, is having a hard time with 911 dispatchers in Virginia. The call ends without a promise of help. So, 15 minutes later, Gutierrez calls again. And this time, he makes a startling revelation about something he says Helen had told him on the phone that morning. Megan Hargan...
A police spokesman was calling the Hargan shootings a murder-suicide, but the next day when Det. Brian Byerson saw Helen's autopsy report, he was certain it was something else. Det. Brian Byerson: The gunshot wound on Helen Hargan was in the top of her head. The rifle bullet had traveled downward into her neck. Det. Brian Byerson: She would have to...
More than three years after her arrest for the murders of her mother and sister, Megan Hargan is going on trial. Prosecutor Whitney Gregory: I think she's pure evil. Whitney Gregory and Tyler Bezilla are prosecuting the case. Prosecutor Tyler Bezilla: Megan is a pathological liar. … That's what she is. The Commonwealth of Virginia opens by arguing ...
Peter Van Sant: As the jurors come back into the room, they have a decision, are you looking at their faces? Prosecutor Tyler Bezilla: Yes. After a three-week trial, it takes the jury less than two days of deliberations to reach a verdict. Tyler Bezilla: I thought my legs were gonna go weak 'cause we were standing up, and it had been just, like — m...
- 42 min
- Peter Van Sant,Josh Yager,Lauren A,White
Sep 22, 2023 · A jury convicted Hargan, 40, of West Virginia of first-degree murder in the two killings and two counts of using a firearm in commission of a felony. On July 14, 2017, Hargan shot her mother ...
Mar 31, 2024 · A new trial began in September 2023 and Megan, now 41, was again found guilty of both murders. The judge said the killings were “sinister and chilling” and said the facts of her guilt were ...
- Gail Shortland
Jan 27, 2024 · On the afternoon of July 14, 2017, Megan Hargan, 41, shot Pamela, 63, and Helen, 24, in Pamela’s McLean home where the three were living at the time, along with Hargan’s then-8-year-old daughter.
Mar 28, 2022 · Defendant Hargan was found guilty of two counts of first-degree murder, and two counts of use of a firearm. She killed her mom Pamela and sister Helen on July 14, 2017 after Pamela did not give her $400,000 for her to buy a home, prosecutors said. Megan also allegedly believed her mother favored her sister over her.
