Crime Fix with Angenette Levy - Mom's Best Friend Murders Her Daughter

Episode Date: November 16, 2025

Harmoni Henderson was three years old when her mother left her with her best friend, Ieasha Harris. Harmoni's mother trusted Harris to watch her non-verbal, autistic daughter. When Harmoni's mother went to pick up her daughter, she found her lifeless. Harris would later confess about undergoing a polygraph test that she failed. Law&Crime's Angenette Levy goes through the tragic case in this episode of Crime Fix — a daily show covering the biggest stories in crime.PLEASE SUPPORT THE SHOW: Take your personal data back with Incogni! Use code CRIMEFIX at the link below and get 60% off an annual plan: https://incogni.com/crimefixHost:Angenette Levy  https://twitter.com/Angenette5Producer:Jordan ChaconCRIME FIX PRODUCTION:Head of Social Media, YouTube - Bobby SzokeSocial Media Management - Vanessa BeinVideo Editing - Daniel CamachoGuest Booking - Alyssa Fisher & Diane KayeSTAY UP-TO-DATE WITH THE LAW&CRIME NETWORK:Watch Law&Crime Network on YouTubeTV: https://bit.ly/3td2e3yWhere To Watch Law&Crime Network: https://bit.ly/3akxLK5Sign Up For Law&Crime's Daily Newsletter: https://bit.ly/LawandCrimeNewsletterRead Fascinating Articles From Law&Crime Network: https://bit.ly/3td2IqoLAW&CRIME NETWORK SOCIAL MEDIA:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lawandcrime/Twitter: https://twitter.com/LawCrimeNetworkFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/lawandcrimeTwitch: https://www.twitch.tv/lawandcrimenetworkTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lawandcrimeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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The friend's response? Oh, at any point did you realize that something was wrong with Harmony? That's the bad part about it. Her arm was normal. But then the guilt becomes just too much. You're getting it out of me. It's okay. You're fine. I hear you. We're going to get through this, I promise.

I know. I go through the tragic murder of Harmony Henderson. I'm Ann Janette Levy, and this is Crime Fix. If you think that the crime stories that we cover here on crime fixer, scary, wait until you hear what's happening with your personal data online. Your name, your phone number, even your address, it's all floating around the internet for data brokers to sell or for scammers to steal. Our sponsor, Incogni, lets you take back control.

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use code crime fix for 60% off an annual plan. Some moms are stretched really, really thin, juggling work and family and sometimes just exhaustion. So when someone offers to help, you might take it. But this time that trust cost a mother, her daughter's life. Harmony Henderson was a three-year-old little girl who was nonverbal and autistic. 31-year-old Aisha Harris, she is going to spend anywhere from 28 to 50 years in prison for murdering Harmony. Aisha was a friend of Harmony's mother, and she was babysitting her at her home

in Detroit when she was killed back in 2024. A medical examiner determined that Harmony's cause of death was caused by blunt force trauma, but multiple injuries were on her body, and they appeared consistent with being struck with an object, and she had superficial burns, most likely caused by hot water in an attempt to wash or revive her. It all came to a tragic end when Harmony's mom, Paris, England, went to pick her up, only to find her beautiful little girl's lifeless body. Desperate, Paris rushed Harmony to the hospital. Ayesha came along, but she left the hospital when police took her to the Detroit Detention Center for processing.

The investigators wanted to get information about the initial drop-off from Paris, Harmony's mom on March 15, 2024. So tell me from Friday, tell me what happened all the way up until yesterday. Well, Friday, man, my friend was texting or whatever. Who is your friend? You got to tell us everything because we don't know who you're talking about. Paris, England. And that is.

The mama. Harmony's mom. Okay. So, Paris, go ahead. Okay. So, man, my friend, Paris was texting Friday or whatever, like, normal as we do. So she was like, these damn kids getting on my nerves and this and this and that. So I text her and say, you want me to get the baby.

She was like, yeah, if you can. So I say, yeah. And she was like, okay. The two moms, they've been best friends for the past five years, so watching each other's kids is not out of the norm. I was having a hard time with harmony because she was having, like, with her episodes. So explain that to me. What's the episode?

So she was artistic and she could be like she was nonverbal. Nonverbal, okay. So instead of, like, It's like a newborn. Not when you don't know what's wrong with them, but she's old enough to tell you, but you don't know what's going on, so she's just crying or she's emotional or me, her's like this. So nobody could come down with me. So that means she's stuck with me 24-7 if she's not at school.

So I needed a break. And I tried to get her daddy to do it if he had to work. So I was just going to suck it up. it up and I was going to let my oldest daughter go with her daddy because I knew it was the weekend and I was going to suck it up but I text my friend just to see what she was doing and she offered to let Harmony come over. My initial idea was Harmony was coming over for a day. That's what I thought. But when I got there, she said, oh, Harmony could stay the weekend. Matter of fact, Harmony will stay until Monday. Don't worry about it. I know you need a break because she understands. Like she knows, I call her when I can't take it in me.

I can't take it anymore. You know, when I'm stressed, so she understood. Aisha knew her best friend, Paris, was that type of parent that could never relax. So she assured her as she was leaving that she had everything under control. And she did until Saturday. So far, it was only the girls in the house, herself, her daughter, and Harmony, up until 4 p.m. That's when Aisha's friend named DiAngelo came over. So he left at seven.

you went in the room and you realized she threw up. Yeah. Where did she throw up at? On the bed. On the bed. Did you change the sheets at that point? Yeah, because I was about to lay back down. Like, at this point, I don't know.

And it's time for them a nap, too. You know, that's not going on now. Because it's like, what time? He left at seven. Yeah, seven, so I'm going on eight. Yeah, so it's time for a nap or whatever. So about eight is when you realized she threw up. That's when I was about to lay down.

I'm, she was still in her little spot laying down and everything too. That's when I moved a little cover, pin my pillow down. Soon as I put my little lead like this. Was it a little bit of time? No, it was a lot with food, the cookies and stuff. Just now, Aisha casually mentions that she was high to investigators. Earlier in the interview, she openly admitted to her vices. I'm a smoker, baby.

I smoke. All day. I smoke. Not all, all day, but. So you, for show, you smoke some of? Friday. You smoked through a few on Saturday while you had company. Now, Aisha probably thought that mentioning her dependency on weed would explain her behavior. I mean, drug use in front of children, it's never, ever okay. But she tells investigators she was still capable of caring for the children.

She was aware, she said, that she got lazy after smoking. So after Harmony threw up, she forced herself into action. So you go down in the basement and she come behind you. Well, Not really be like a couple of minutes. How many stairs is it leading to the basement? It's a lot, but I don't, she did fall down all of it because I heard her little feet. So how many would you say she fell down? Not for sure. Okay.

Would you say she was halfway down all the way at the top? Because you boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, sound like a whole bunch of stairs. So it was around 8 p.m. when Ayesha updated Paris about Harmony falling down the stairs. Okay. She called me and said Harmony fell down the stairs. down the stairs. So I asked her, I said what you mean for down the stairs. She said, she had a tablet in her hand and she was coming, because my baby would love cocoa milling. But she just now learning how to skip the ad. So she don't know how to skip the ad. She'd come

find you so you can skip the ad. And she said she was in the basement and the kids were upstairs on the second floor in a baby room. She said she was putting clothes in the laundry and she said that she heard the baby coming. So she was trying to hurry up. She said that The baby came and she heard the baby fall. She said she didn't see it. She heard it. So she said that she cried, but not like that. My baby fell down the stairs like two times before.

And when she would cry, but then she just, well, you know, you know what I'm saying? So I sent her. I hung up the phone on her because I asked her, I said, let me see my baby. She said, I said, send me a picture of my baby. She said, nah, friend, I don't want to see you a picture. And I hung up on me, you know what I'm what I'm what I'm what I mean? Like, I don't tell me a picture of my baby. They're a video call on Facebook.

Okay. And I see my baby. It was just literally a bump and a bustle lip. I took a picture of it because me and her dad have a communication. If something happened to my baby, I see him pictures. Let him know to keep him updated. He'd know everything, you know, it was going on with her. And I showed him that.

So I took the picture and she was laying on the bed and I told her to pick her up because I don't want her to lay down. I said, watch her. I said, but she was okay. I called her. back, not even 45 minutes later, just to check on it. And she said she was okay and she was laying down. I asked, I said, is she acting like she in pain?

She said, no, she's chilling here. She video called me. I see my baby. My baby's chilling. She watched Cocoa Mellie and she pointed at the screen. And she pointed out the screen for me. And she didn't want to get my baby. She got at the screen.

There's the last time I think they're alive. Okay, so let's rewind. Paris was periodically checking in with Ayesha about the status of Harmony after her fall. And each time, Aisha assured her that she was okay. In the final hours of Harmony's life, Paris called to see if her eye was better. Aisha said it was and to stop calling. So the big question is, what happened between then and 2 p.m.? Investigators press her to find out.

So watching the TV, I'm on the bed, just watching my phone, landing in the bed or whatever. So, her, I'm back there doing her, like, making noises, like, she's about to go to sleep. Normal stuff she'd do, twirling her feet, all the type of stuff. I passed by the normal stuff. My baby watching TV. So I turned around. She was eating a fruit snack. I ain't pared no mind, whatever, so I'm on my phone still, you know.

So I'm like, okay, I don't hear her no more. Turned around. She was laying on the pillow like this. I'm like, okay, she's sleep. So I ain't paying no mind. And I hear my friend coming in the house. She got to keep to my house or whatever. So she ain't know the cold or whatever.

So I'm trying to beat her to the door for I can push the code in. Don't nobody want to hear that. That's what for alarm? Yeah. Okay. And the moment that Paris walked in the door, that's a memory a mother will never forget.

And I threw my phone and my keys down. I yell her name. Harmony. I walked through the room. She's Isha sitting on the bed. Her baby is on the foot of her bed laying there. Like, she just, she's there. And my daughter is on the side of her.

It looked like she was either picking through her nose, like, trying to get something on her face or her. I think it was her nose, because my daughter's, you know. Okay. She was picking through a little, she said, Hi, Harmony, I'm over here. And she picked her up like this. And when she picked her up to do like this,

something just told me something like, because my baby sleep hard. But when you move her, she moves. So when she did like this and bung her over, and she was still like she was pressing, like, laying her hair back and doing, like, she was doing something to her face. So I get closer to the bed,

and soon as she did like this, and her arm dropped. I lost my shit. I snatched her out of each of your arms. I ran to get my key. She's telling me to calm down. me to calm down, but I know I watch a lot of law, I know the crew chimes, all that stuff, so I know when something is not right. I grab my keys, I scream dead her and I thought the bitch come on, I grab my stuff, I start the car,

and I did like a hundred of six miles. When I brought my baby in, I followed her all the way into the room, and the way how he was on his chest pumping her, and the way how her body was just lifeless. I knew my baby was gone. And the lady acted like she didn't want to tell me. She kept saying, calm down. I'm going to tell you, if you stop moving. So I stopped moving.

I'm like, tell me, my baby dead ain't she? She just nodded her head and I fell. And then it didn't occur to me that maybe she would have done something because I'm freaking the fuck out. Like, I'm freaking the way out. I didn't feel. I'm all on the floor. I didn't swung on people.

She's right here. She come up to me and asks me, is everything, well, not everything, but it's going to be okay. And I snatched from her instead of blowing her shit up. Especially because she knows what her friend is capable of. She's not a gentle parent. Stop, stop sugarcoat it. Just tell me what she did. Because it's, it really depends on her mood, to be honest.

I know, just somebody that I mean that you saw. Listen, listen, we're not actual about any of the other, the other, the other, the other care the other uh factors that that led into the way she disciplined just tell us what she did when she was doing her discipline she just you know hit her on either the back or the butt with a with an open hand open i never seen her smack her baby in the face oh okay or i never seen her punch her baby it literally just be like when the kid's standing there you just bha okay okay and you felt that was excessive to me paris doesn't know why i Eisha never realized something was wrong with her daughter.

Based on Harmony's injuries, it was obvious. Investigators thought maybe she was more intoxicated than she thought. Did you smoke right after she fell? But I know your nerves was bad. No, I couldn't. Oh, okay. I couldn't. Okay.

But then Aisha was starting to worry about how this was looking for her. Can we not do that? No. You're making this thing bad. Like I just said, all right, whatever. No, I mean it. like that. We just want to give you a chance to tell your story, Ayesha.

The only thing I can say, maybe the water was hot. That's the only thing how this can get up there. Other than you talking about me beating that damn baby head or how she got trauma to the water was, however you said it. I know that for a fact I did not do that. Me, this probably, yeah, no. Mm-mm. Would you be willing to take a polygraph?

What's that? Well, I'll take this. Most definitely. You will? Mm-hmm. Okay. All right, well, no stuff we will. You will.

Yes, I will. If it's going to set me free, because knowing that I say I didn't hurt that baby, yeah, and I don't know how y'all are going to put this, the water was too high yet. Maybe I did that, but me killing that baby and her brain, I will, I will like one. I would like one. I will like one. I will. But me looking at that picture is like that.

That's messed up. And see, it didn't look like that. The picture's making it look worse. With a harm, when parents got to get harm, her head ain't looked like that earlier. It didn't look like that. It did. It didn't look like that. It was red, but it didn't look like that.

It didn't look like that. Oh. At the end of the interrogation, Ayesha leaves the detective with a message to deliver to her front. You're going to go see her? I would probably have talked to her eventually. Can you please give her a hug for me? No.

I'm probably not, but you think I wouldn't? I don't know. I don't know, my friend, and she probably told, y'all, my friend, I like this, what was she corn through? She had her heart in time. I don't know what I'd be, it wasn't a weed, like. the weed, like, I smoke all the damn time, but I barely said, so, damn, they need a new coat.

I mean, we can't, have you talked to her, but if you want to write a letter to her. I want to get my friend a hug. She might punch me in the face. Well, we don't want that to happen. Well, I accept it. I would accept it. Would you want to write a letter to her? No, I don't want no letters.

I wanted to come out my mouth. Okay, I hear you. The next day, Aisha gets set up for a polygraph with a lieutenant. Okay, Sue. I'm right now. Maybe come in like an easy. I'll take this jacket off. Yeah, just freaking, if you're comfortable with it out for right now, we'll eventually take it off.

Okay. We've got to sit in a table. Oh, okay. Sorry. Lieutenant Lelon explains to Aisha how this examination will record physiological responses to ultimately determine when she is being deceptive or not. Then he establishes some baseline readings by carefully conducting some control questions. relevant to the crime.

So what kind of person you think would assault a child? Good person, bad person, frustrated, tired. A crazy person. Like, I like, I've been watching the news all they did. A lot of years been going past. Like, how people hurt a kid? Like, I don't understand how can people hurt a kid. So why do you think they would?

That's why I don't know. I don't know. Maybe they're tired of the thing. Don't kid. They're wanting. I don't know. I'd be having a lot of questions and a lot of good things. I don't know.

And the only reason they accuse you of doing this is you had custody of the child at the time. The baby was in your care at the time. Yeah, I had her. Yeah, but everybody deserves a second change, right? Yes, I should. I should get a second change. I think you should. Yes, I should not go to prison.

I have a daughter. At least tether something, something, right? there's something something I don't know when the pre-test interview is complete the real exam begins the test has begun please remain still are the lights on in this room yes do you believe that I only ask the questions we reviewed yes regarding injuries to harmony do intend to answer truth for each question about that? Yes. Have you ever heard someone who loved or trusted you?

No. Did you strike harmony in the head causing those injuries? No. Have you ever hurt someone to get even with them? No. Did you strike harmony in the head? No. Have you ever hurt someone out of anger?

someone out of anger. No. Even though I've said it with that, are you afraid to ask you a question about something else? No. The test is over. Please remain still. I take things out of operation.

All right. Looking good. So we should just have one more to do, okay? Because I would feel like I was this issue. My stomach can. I kept breathing. I'm kind of holding in. I'm like, okay, let me just breathe. You're looking okay. Yeah, you're okay. I'm like, oh my God. During this day, I'm feeling my heartbeat. Then I feel less. Then I got, I heard my heartbeat. I'm like, didn't happen. I'm here.

Yeah. Okay, I'm okay. I'm doing good. Yep. Okay. Feel my God. They feel like I'm messing up. Like, I'm just not doing. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Just keep doing it. Okay.

It's like I can heal my heart. The results come in. And guess what? The examiner detected deception in Aisha's answers. So the following day, Aisha says she wants to update her statement despite being a little hungry, Aisha seems like she's in good spirits for someone accused of murder. Yep. I love you, Bree.

Thank you. All, you will. Whatever. Whatever. I eat all day. Whatever you bring me, you could bring me some grab crackers. Make sure they got the cinnamon on top. But I'm all anything. I'm not picky. At first, aspects of the story start to change. It wasn't one time that you didn't like repeatedly hit her. No. Did you push her down? What was how did you happen?

And it was in the tub. Yeah. She banged her head, but I didn't do it. It was just because of the situation of the burning. and how she was moving. She did it. On the damn tub. Detectives can tell she's hesitant, but they encourage her to just let it all out.

So look, we're here. This is zero percent truth. This is 100 percent truth. We're about here by 85, 90 percent, right? That's what I'm at. But this right here is the meat and potatoes, right? This is the thing that makes a difference, right? Yeah.

Okay? If we don't tell the truth about this, all this is no good. Okay? So we've got to get here. We got to get to that 100%. part did you did you said you you made a reference to us I think this is you try to tell me you're trying to ease into it did you did you push her down

I mean you pushed her down to the tub yeah okay and where did she hit her head when you push her down the top oh no so this is this is the top right here okay I apologize I'm not a good artist I know it's okay you getting it out of me it's Okay. You're fine, Ayesha. We're going to get through this, I promise. I know. So this is the tub here.

I'm going to get through the prison. No, Aisha, let's not put the cart before the horse. We don't know what's going to happen. Again, if you took the baby's head and repeatedly smashed the baby's head against its house... I didn't do that. I know you didn't do that. But if you push the baby's head down and she hit her head, well, that's something we've got to talk about too. But that's two different things.

Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes. Okay. Here's the tub. We're going to say this is the wall, the back wall, this part. Maybe the faucet comes out here. Oh, here, I'm sorry. Okay, show us here on the picture.

Are there going to be in my house? Yes. No, we've been there. We went there yesterday. Okay. Draw a circle around when you hit the baby. Oh, I'm not more. Oh, okay.

Draw circle around where you hit the baby's head on the tub and then right in that area. Okay. And it puts your initials next step. Is that on the outside or the inside of it? It's like the outside of it. Okay, and this was during the whole thing. You got a little bit frustrated and just kind of

Ayesha, the only reason I can say I understand this, I have two boys. I'm going to tell you a true story. I've told many people this story, okay? I'm driving out of the street of my son. He's a baby, and he was screaming, and I can still, if he gives me, you know, your hair stands up in your back your neck and on your arms, I can still hear him screaming. I had to pull over. I'm telling, I almost crying by the way.

I think about it. I had to pull over and get out of the car and call my wife. You know why? Because I thought I was going to do something because I was so frustrated. Who did you have with you? Nobody. You had nobody with you. You didn't want to go. You had like you hit your breaking point. Again, you got that pressure cooker and you lost your, right?

Excuse my language, right? Aisha. It's, it doesn't, again, it happened, but we're going to deal with it, okay? It's not what we did is what we do with what we did that makes us the person we are. You're not a bad person. I am. She died. She died. Confessing out loud seems to have brought some relief to Ayesha. Yep, yep, yep. All right.

Do you feel... I feel a little release, but I feel like I am a bad-ass person. I am a bad person. I don't know why I got frustrated on somebody else's daughter. I have my own daughter, but that ain't making it better. Like, I'm saying I got my own daughter, but... You did it to somebody else's... As child and it's bad, now she's gone.

Like, she is gone. Gone. Gone. Gone. Because of what the f*** I did. Doing, being frustrated, irritated. Here's the thing. At the end of the day, Aisha, what you're doing is the right thing. I'm at least going to tell the truth. I am. It's going to probably take me a minute. Me saying I ain't doing it, but I already know this. But I hit the baby at once. That's how she got the little cut. And when she got the cut on the head, I didn't do it no more because I only hit it one time.

And with the truth out, investigators are curious about what else she might confess to. So what did you do with the bloody stuff that you cleaned up the blood with? Or you just let it go in the tub? What do you mean? Did you use a rag to clean her when she started bleeding? Because we looked in the house and we didn't see anything bloody at all. No, it's in a washing machine. Oh, you washed it?

Yeah. So the towel and things like that? It's in the wash machine. I told the lady, yeah. Did she actually fall down the house? Yeah, she did. But she wasn't really injured from falling down. the steps was she no she she had a little she had a little cut her head injury

came from this the tub okay well I'm asking you you got to tell us no no she felt down the stairs but she had a little cut her little cut in her eye right here that cup came from when I hit her in the head did it in the tub the one from the top came from the stairs yeah so all those injuries that we see did you see like it look like red that was right there do you think that came from the hot water I didn't really see it I just You talk about the, at the top? Yeah.

Can we just get this over with us? Yeah, that's what we're doing. I'm just trying to, I'm trying to go down the line so we can just make sure we got everything squared away. Can I see the picture, you okay? You want to see them again? I want to see them again. Yeah, this is just the top. I still want to see what I see it.

I still want to see. Aisha takes a moment with the photos, looking at them in disbelief. So if you had an opportunity to just try to tell her something right at this moment, what would you tell her? Tell her I'm very sorry and she can beat my ass. She'll never got to talk to me again. She, I know that because her baby girl. I can't bring her baby back like a three-year-old. I can't bring her back.

Right. But if I can talk to my friend, if you was my friend, I'm sorry. You know, I can't, I never need to hurt you or hurt, I never heard her, I never in my life. Friend, that Saturday, I was so frustrating. I went to so much, shit, I would, I argue with everybody that day, friend. Right. People have made me mad, and I cussed out everybody, friend.

This is how we told, we call each other friends, everything. Let's go ahead, let it out. I was so fucking mad. Those people made me mad. Didn't that nigger. I'm telling all my stuff. I was so frustrated. I'm sorry.

I didn't mean to hurt her heart. I even hit Javier. And you already know how you don't like me hitting her, but I hit her anyways. Okay. I'm sorry. I can't take this back. I can't take your pain away. I'm sorry.

I think she would appreciate that. I think she would appreciate that. All right. So we're going to let you down. I'm not holding no more. No, look at me. Eat some time. I'm ready to go. 14 months later, Aisha pleaded

guilty to second-degree murder in exchange for a lesser sentence. At her sentencing, her attorney read a statement on her behalf. I pray for peace and for healing for everyone's heart. Most of all, I pray for forgiveness for the pain that I have caused you. If I could rewind back today,

I would. I took this plea in the hopes of sparing the family the pain of the trial. Paris, please find it in your heart to one day forgive me. I will forever be broken. I'm sorry. Aisha will serve her time at a Michigan prison. Harmony will be remembered for being so full of life, love, and laughter. And I'm going to tell you, I'm sorry. I never regard you, my dear. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.

Sorry. And that's it for this episode of Crime Fix. I'm Anjanet Levy. Thanks so much for being with me. I'll see you back here next time.