FL FL - John Harden, 32, Clermont, 22 March 1975

[HMSHood]

I heard of this case in the show Unsolved Mysteries.

John Harden was a Clermont, Florida man who was divorced and on his second marriage and had a child. In the early morning of March 22, 1975, he smelled smoke and saw his truck on fire. As he comes out, he is shot with a 20 gauge shotgun by a person hiding somewhere within the house. The phone line was also cut to prevent emergency calls.

The house is haunted. A woman named June Farris has dreams of the house before she moved in. The house she dreamed of, she would later move in 1978. The same home where John Harden was killed.

Unsolved Mysteries Wiki-John Harden
http://unsolvedmysteries.wikia.com/wiki/John_Harden

Unsolved Mysteries Wiki-Harden House
http://unsolvedmysteries.wikia.com/wiki/Harden_House

Tv Show Tells Tale But Murder Still A Mystery
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com...5_1_unsolved-mysteries-clermont-police-hatley

Reliving history through the pages of the South Lake Press
http://www.southlakepress.com/011312ann

 

[Mdriver1981]

This story is told continuously as a man named John Harden having been murdered outside his house in Clermont, Florida, which triggered a woman in Richmond, Virginia named June Farris to have dreams about it "years later".

So, ok, pay attention... June Farris did not allegedly have the dream years later. She allegedly had the dream years earlier. John Harden was murdered in 1975. Farris allegedly had her dreams about the house and the event as early as 1968, seven years before the murder. She claims to have ceased having the dream in 1972 (three years before the murder) when she moved to Orlando, 22 miles (35 km) east of Clermont. She claims to have first encountered the house "two years later", which, if taken literally, obviously puts the year at 1974, still before Harden's death. If you watch the Unsolved Mysteries segment it shows the house as unoccupied and ready for purchase. Did soon to be murdered John Harden buy the house at this time?

Finally, in 1978, four years after seeing the house for the first time, and three years after Harden's murder, Harris and family move in... Weird things allegedly happen. Farris surmises she, since 1968, had been given the task to solve the 1975 murder. The paranormal forces that allegedly influenced June, were not able to stop Harden from being murdered. As of 2017 Harden's murder is still unsolved, and June herself has joined Harden in eternal oblivion.

 

[Firesite79]

Here is a website that has a pretty good theory as to who the killer is. It also has the original Harden House Unsolved Mysteries Episode on it.

The Harden House Haunting & Unsolved Murder

 

[PayrollNerd]

Updated March 15, 2021
The Strange Unsolved Murder Of John Hardin, Which Some Believe Spurred An Even Stranger Haunting

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The back of the Hardins' house had a turn-off from the driveway that led past the back porch and into their yard. This is where police believe the culprit waited for Hardin that night, suspecting that the entire family may have stumbled upon him if they hadn't used the front door to enter their home.

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Neighbors alerted to the fire either heard the shotgun and mistook it for an explosion or saw the flames from their homes and called emergency services.

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Investigators found the shotgun used in the bushes of the Hardin house, and pellets littered the ground and embedded themselves in doorframes, but no connection to a suspect was made.

 

[NosyNita]

Here is a website that has a pretty good theory as to who the killer is. It also has the original Harden House Unsolved Mysteries Episode on it.

The Harden House Haunting & Unsolved Murder

That link doesn’t work. What was their theory on who the murderer was? I remember when I watched the Unsolved Mysteries episode years and years ago, thinking it was his first wife who killed him. That’s still what I think. And the way the crime was committed seems like something a woman would do. Set a fire, hid in the bushes, then shot him in the back? It really seems like this person didn’t want any chance that he could defend himself and overpower them.

 

[PayrollNerd]

I was able to open the link.

The Strange Unsolved Murder Of John Hardin, Which Some Believe Spurred An Even Stranger Haunting