Obsessed

The Life & Murder of Amie Harwick

De: N. C. Bogdan

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

On the night of February 14, 2020, celebrated therapist Amie Harwick returned to her Hollywood Hills home after an evening with friends. Hours later, police found her gravely injured beneath her third-floor balcony. Inside the house were signs of a violent struggle—and evidence that the man she had once feared had waited years to reach her again.

Amie had built a remarkable life from difficult beginnings. Intelligent, ambitious, and fiercely compassionate, she transformed herself from a small-town Pennsylvania girl into a respected marriage and family therapist, author, educator, and advocate who helped others reclaim their confidence and sexuality. To the outside world, she appeared fearless. Yet behind the success was a former relationship marked by intimidation, stalking, and a restraining order that could not protect her forever.

When Amie unexpectedly encountered her former boyfriend, Gareth Pursehouse, at a Los Angeles event in January 2020, the meeting lasted only minutes. His obsession did not.

Drawing upon court testimony, forensic evidence, digital records, witness accounts, and Amie’s own public work, Obsessed: The Life & Murder of Amie Harwick traces her journey from her Pennsylvania childhood through her reinvention in Los Angeles, her education, relationships, professional success, and determination to help others, before reconstructing the final weeks of her life, the investigation that followed, and the long-delayed trial that exposed what happened inside her home. It is an intimate, unsettling account of ambition, survival, fixation, coercive control, and the terrifying distance between recognizing danger and being protected from it.

Above all, this is the story of Amie Harwick—not merely how she died, but how she lived, what she survived, and why those who loved her refused to let her murderer become the most important part of her story.