Dad wanted to ‘get rid of’ wife to prevent losing California home to divorce, son testifies

Googie Rene Harris Jr. testified this week that his father asked him to help kill the dad’s wife — the son’s stepmother.

The motive, the son said, was his dad feared that she was having an affair and going to file for divorce and take his “dream house” in Jurupa Valley.

“He wanted to get rid of her … to kill her,” Harris Jr., 45, testified in Riverside County Superior Court. “And he wanted me to help him.”

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Harris Jr. testified that his cousin, Joaquin Latee Leal III ...