Timeline: The suspicious death of Amie Harwick
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In the early morning hours of February 15, 2020, Los Angeles police officers responding to a call for a "woman screaming" found Amie Harwick, 38, lying on the ground battered and unresponsive beneath the third-floor balcony of her Hollywood Hills home. Harwick later died from blunt-force injuries The Hollywood therapist's final hours start the day before Valentine's Day 2020.
Amie Harwick texts Drew Carey, her former fiancée and host of CBS' "The Price Is Right," for the first time in a while since their breakup in October 2018. Carey had introduced Amie to his audience as his fiancée on Valentine's Day 2018. In the text, Amie tells Carey in the spirit of friendship and forgiveness she "would love to get together" with him and talk. For his part, Carey was elated to hear from her, and he told her "I would love to do that ... I love you." They agreed to meet after the Valentine's Day holiday weekend. Tragically, Amie and Carey, whose first date was at Disneyland, never had that chance to get together again.
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