Adam Weitsman shares lie detector results amid long-running rumor in Michele Harris case

After winning a lawsuit for defamation, over a false claim that he was involved in Michele Harris' still-unsolved disappearance, Owego scrap metal dealer Adam Weitsman recently took one more step in an attempt to prove false one of many local rumors surrounding the 17-year-old Tioga County murder case.

He took a lie detector test.

The results are in, as Weitsman shared Tuesday on Facebook: 

Weitsman said the rumor of whether he or his company, Upstate Shredding, played any role in Michele Harris's Sept. 11, 2001, disappearance has been a recurring topic of conversation over the years. 

"I just want to clear my name of these ridiculous folklore rumors," Weitsman said Wednesday by phone.

Here's a few exchanges from Monday's polygraph exam:

Question: Did you dispose of Michele Harris's body at the Upstate Shredding company?

Answer: No.

Q: Did you use the Upstate Shredding company shredder to dispose of any females?

A: No.

Q: Were you in any way involved with disposing of Michele Harris's body?

A: No.

The exam's results said Weitsman was telling the truth.

Michele Harris' estranged husband, Cal Harris, of Spencer, was acquitted of second-degree murder in May 2016, after four trials that spanned two counties over nearly a decade. 

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A federal judge in Albany issued a default judgment April 25 against Robert A. Levesque III, whose current address is listed as Ramona, California, and who had been trying to falsely implicate Weitsman in Michele Harris' disappearance. 

Levesque sent out a series of internet and social media postings that also accused Weitsman, owner of Upstate Shredding, of drug dealing and bribery of government officials, according to court records.

Weitsman's defamation lawsuit was filed in federal court last year. 

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