The Incredible Life of Tot Harriman, Part Two
This is the second part in a two part series. Click here for part one.
Settling in Portland, Maine
Lake Tahoe’s mountains shrank in the rearview mirror as Clint drove his family east. Refreshed and ready to start their new life, they moved to be near Clint’s mother in Maine. They started in South Portland, but a few years later, they moved south to Cape Elizabeth, where they had a spacious home with panoramic views of the bay. Just steps from their front door was Trundy Point, a small peninsula where they could watch waves crash against the bluffs and cast lines into the water. It was perfect for Tot—fishing reminded her of home.
The birth of Chien Si
Tot and Clint married once more—this time with an American marriage certificate. Minh also took on the Harriman name. He’d never gotten the chance to know his biological father (who had died when he was so young), and Clint embraced him as his own.
In 1977, two years later, Tot and Clint welcomed another son. They named him Chien Si. Most Vietnamese names have a meaning which relate to one’s character (or the character that their parents would like them to have). Clint looked through a Vietnamese-English dictionary and found Chien Si, which means “brave warrior”, or an undefeatable force. It’s sort of like an American named “Rambo”. Chien Si explained, “there’s a lot of expectations with a name like that.”
Clint continued working with the Merchant Marines, and went on to earn more honors and awards for his service.
Tot’s life in Portland
The kids were enrolled in school, and Tot stayed busy as a mother and homemaker. She was active in her children’s school and extracurriculars, and welcomed their friends into her home. Thu Hong shared a memory of Tot’s hospitality: "I remember coming home from high school dances at 11 at night with friends, and my mom would get up and cook us a full meal. She'd do a stir fry and rice and some fruit, the whole nine yards.” Naturally, the house became the go-to hangout spot. Many of her children’s friends even called her, “Mom.”
Tot learned to cook from her childhood in Vietnam and she started hosting “kitchen dinners” for all of her friends in the neighborhood. She also helped people get their dream wedding dress—clients would often come over with a photo of a pricy designer dress and she would create custom patterns to produce a replica for something that could fit into their budget. Chien Si remembered seeing her late at night doing all of the brocading and beading, one bead at a time.
She taught cooking classes for fellow Mainers, and she even opened a Vietnamese restaurant named after her daughter, Thu Hong, in Portland, where she was known to greet customers with big smiles and friendly conversation.
Tot embraced American life, and, later said that she considered herself “more American than Vietnamese.” But she also honored her roots—although she was not able to raise her children in Vietnam, she made sure that their lives were infused with its culture. In the eyes of her youngest son, she was a cultural ambassador to the community. She would throw a big party for Tet (Vietnamese New Year), and their house would be filled with over a hundred people, packed like a nightclub, but when she would stop the music and pray, it would become totally silent and all the guests would watch and listen respectfully.
The Vietnamese population in Portland was very small when Tot and her family arrived. Even today, Maine—as a whole—is 94% white. She wasn’t just a minority; she was one of the very few Vietnamese families in greater Portland when she arrived in 1975. She and those other families founded the community that grow and mature over the coming decades.
Tot volunteered with a Refugee Resettlement Service, helping immigrants adjust to American life. Tot even opened her own home to newly-arrived refugees. Introducing them to American pastimes, she would sometimes recruit Chien Si to introduce them to baseball and basketball. At Maine Medical Center, she served as an interpreter for Vietnamese patients. Though her English wasn’t perfect—she’d sometimes mispronounce and misspell words—her expressive nature allowed her to communicate well. Teasing herself about language mistakes became a trademark of her humor.
Tot enjoyed donning a costume and being on stage. In her early years in Maine she would sing parts of Vietnamese operas and plays during her Tet celebrations. To this day, Chien Si can still recall the sound of his mother’s voice singing him Vietnamese lullabies at night.
In photos from this vibrant period in Tot’s life, you can see her standing proudly with her family, flashing smiles that were kind and welcoming, or as Chien Si said, “like a ray of sunshine that overcame a world of darkness.”
Clint succumbed to cancer, a return home
For 14 years, they lived together in the house on Trundy Point. The family’s life in Maine was idyllic until the summer of 1992, when Clint, at the age of 72, lost his battle with cancer.
His children revered him—one of whom followed in his footsteps becoming involved with the Merchant Marines.
The following summer, the family buoyed their spirits by taking a trip to Vietnam. It was their first time back since the 1975 evacuation, and Tot was thrilled to introduce her children to their family. They’d grown substantially since they’d left in ‘75: Thu Hong had graduated from the University of Maine, and Minh was working as an engineer with the Merchant Marines. Chien Si was still in high school, but would soon move to California to attend Stanford University. Tot’s roots were in Vietnam, but the United States had become home for her children.
Tot and her children visited Vietnam for a month, staying primarily in Tot’s home of Tay Ninh. It was a rare sight to see Westerners in the country in 1993, and locals wanted to know everything about them. Tot’s family in Vietnam had recovered the country house that she and Clint had built together. She wanted to help her family have a better life, and so, before leaving, she set them up with land (rice paddies) and a generator business.
Tot moves to Florida
In 1996, after Chien Si headed off to college, Tot was alone in her big house on the bay. She was in her early 50s and wanted to find a new companion. She found John Darby and moved to Milton, a small town in the panhandle region of Florida, to be with him. The muggy heat near the coast was reminiscent of Vietnam’s tropical climate—a welcome change after 18 frigid New England winters.
Her new home was smaller than the one in Maine, but had the same easy access to water. It was just steps away from the Blackwater River, and less than a minute’s walk to a state park. Seated on a park bench, Tot enjoyed the shade of magnolia trees as she watched the river pull ducks, fish, and kayaks slowly south.
Tot’s disappearance
In 2001, after five years in Florida, Tot’s partner passed away, and she moved again—this time to be closer to her children. That summer, she drove to Texas to visit them. Minh and Thu Hong lived close to one another in the suburbs of Houston. Minh was in League City, where he worked training astronauts at the United Space Alliance. Thu Hong, who married a Merchant Marine in 1995, was a homemaker living in the neighboring town of Clear Lake. The siblings were growing roots in Texas, and they wanted Tot nearby to share in their lives.
But she wasn’t sold on the Houston area. She wanted to live somewhere with better views of the water and more access to the beach. She was also looking for a place where she could buy property that she could rent out as a landlord. She’d originally argued for Brownsville, the southernmost city in Texas, right on the Mexican border, but her children told her it was further from them than her home in Florida. “Corpus Christi was as far as we’d let her go,” said Chien Si. It was less than a four-hour drive from Minh and Thu Hong, and seemed like a perfect fit for Tot. The coastal city is surrounded by islands and bays, and is a popular vacation spot that attracts millions of visitors each year. Between permanent residences and vacation homes, there were an abundance of real estate options. Tot made an appointment with a realtor in Corpus Christi for Friday, the 13th of July.
Her children helped her prepare for her trip. Thu Hong mapped out her route down the coast. Rather than take the busy interstate, she’d head south on highway 35, a two-lane country road that went through a series of small towns. It would take Tot all the way to Corpus if she stayed on track. She planned to leave early in the morning in order to avoid traffic. The evening before she departed, Minh checked Tot’s car to make sure it was in good shape. She drove a maroon 1995 Lincoln Continental, a four-door sedan. Her Florida license plate read “TOTSY.” The gas tank was three-fourths full—enough to get her to her destination without stopping. Tot would be staying with some friends overnight in Corpus Christi and would be meeting with the realtor the next day.
On the morning of Thursday, July 12th, Tot woke early. Minh was still sleeping when she departed between 5:00 and 5:30AM, but he briefly woke when she kissed him goodbye.
At 8:30AM, a friend called Tot and the phone rang four times before going to voicemail. It would be the first of many attempts to reach her. Based on the time she left Minh’s house, she should have gotten to Corpus between 9:00 and 9:30AM, but at 10:30AM the friend called again—and this time it went straight to voicemail, indicating that her phone was off.
That evening, after not hearing from his mother all day, Minh called the friends that she was supposed to be staying with. When he learned she’d never arrived, he immediately became worried. The next day, Tot missed her appointment with the realtor, and no one in her life heard from her through the weekend.
Reporting her missing
Though Minh went to the League City Police on Thursday to report her missing, the date on Tot’s official missing person report was Monday, July 16—four days after she was last seen.
Chien Si said he doesn’t understand the reason that law enforcement forces people to wait 72 hours to report an adult missing. He recalled being told, “well, she’s a grown woman, she has a right to leave if she wants.” But he and law enforcement both agree that those initial hours are the most crucial to make a difference in recovering a missing person. It’s one of the things he’d like most to see changed.
Chien Si emerges from Grand Canyon
While these initial days of investigation and panic were unfolding, Chien Si was oblivious to the truth, having the trip of a lifetime out west—a 200-mile rafting trip through the Grand Canyon on the Colorado River. He was out of cell service and was camping every night. There was no way to reach him, short of sending a helicopter down.
Chien Si was half-asleep, thinking of his mom—thinking how lucky he was—when he felt something biting his spine. The guide had warned people of scorpions, so he quickly asked his friend, Rob, to check it out. He found nothing.
When he emerged from the canyon, the guide told him that he needed to make an urgent call to his family. He called his sister’s phone (in Houston), and was told by a family member, “You have to come home. Your mom is missing.” All he could say was an anguished, “No…”
Chien Si quickly made it to Texas and was confronted with a strange new world without his mom. When he walked into the offices of Texas Equusearch and saw flyers of her and pictures of her car, it was surreal.
The first newspaper notice
It wasn’t until the following Thursday, July 19th, a week after her disappearance, that Tot’s description was shared publicly in the newspaper. It read:
“Harriman is described as being of Asian ancestry, standing 4 feet, 11 inches tall and weighing 100 pounds. She has brown eyes and wears gold-framed eyeglasses. She has black hair streaked with gray and wears seven gold bracelets on her right arm.”
The report also included a description of Tot’s car, and urged anyone with information to contact the League City Police Department.
Texas Equusearch
The weekend of July 21st and 22nd, over a week after Tot’s disappearance, volunteers retraced her route down the 75 miles of highway between League City and Bay City, as well as Port Lavaca and Palacios—areas closer to Tot’s planned destination in Corpus Christi.
The search was organized by Texas Equusearch, an equestrian search and rescue group founded in response to another tragic disappearance out of League City. In 1984, a 16-year-old girl named Laura Miller vanished after using a payphone at a convenience store. 17 months later, two children biking in fields outside of the city came across the remains of another women. When authorities came and searched the area, Laura Miller’s body was discovered. Had the first accidental discovery not been made, Laura’s body may have never been found. It was clear to her father, Tim, that police efforts alone could never cover Texas’s vast open spaces when searching for missing persons. He started Equusearch as a way to honor his daughter’s memory and help other families find answers to their loved one’s disappearances.
The “Texas Killing Fields”
While no official connections have been made by authorities, League City is home to an area known as the “Texas Killing Fields.” Since the 1970s, several women’s bodies have been found in and around a 25-acre patch of land, while thirty additional bodies matching similar descriptions have been found throughout the wider region of southeast Texas. It is evident that foul play was a factor in the majority of these cases, leading many to believe that several serial killers could be behind the unsolved murders. Although some believe that Tot has a connection to the Killing Fields, she would be an outlier. All of the other victims were women between the ages of 12-35, but Tot was 57.
With Tim Miller leading them, Equusearch volunteers spent the weekend scouring the fields outside of League City under the blazing Texas sun, hoping to find some trace of Tot or her car.
Tips from the public
On July 24th, about two weeks after Tot’s disappearance, League City police Detective Richard Rennison told reporters that they had gotten several tips of sightings of the vehicle, including claims that it had been driven “erratically” on I-45—the large highway Tot had planned to avoid. One woman claimed to have seen a man driving Tot’s maroon sedan three days after she disappeared. In her account, he was alone. A composite sketch depicting a slim black man in his early 20s was released following her report. The amount of detail she was able to recall is surprising considering the fact she caught only a brief glimpse while driving on a major highway, and a week had elapsed before she reported the sighting.
Another caller said the car was parked at a grocery store 10 minutes away from League City in Dickinson. Unfortunately, since the reports came in over a week after the sightings, there was little that officials could do. “Where do we go look?” questioned a lieutenant with the sheriff's department.
Following the July 24th updates, more reported sightings came in to Tot’s family and the police.
"A lot of leads turned out not to be true," said Detective Rennison. "We had hundreds of sightings, but none we could substantiate."
FindTot.org is launched
Two weeks passed and Tot’s children were losing faith in the ability of the police to locate their mother. They hired a private investigator, and Chien Si, who was 24, uprooted his life—moving from California to Texas. In late July, he launched a website, FindTot.org, to expand the case’s reach.
The site contained photos of Tot, details of the case, and contact information. He asked readers to reach out to major news outlets and TV stations to spread the word about Tot’s disappearance. It is clear from Chien Si’s words that he believed exposure was the best way to move the case forward. The bottom of his first post read:
“Please, help me find her. Contact me and tell me your thoughts or download flyers because we really have no idea where she is. Any assistance could help. Take them to your local hangouts and post them. This is what the Internet is for, isn't it? It gets people from everywhere involved.”
Chien Si also used the site to tell the story of his mother’s life. He posted pictures of Tot with her family, including one of her standing next to him at his graduation from Stanford the previous summer. Though she is an entire head shorter than her son, Tot stands tall in the photo, beaming with pride at Chien Si’s accomplishments.
He wrote:
“Hello everyone. This is my mother's site. I've tried to put into it everything that I could find. This is my dedication to her memory and all for which she stood. I don't know where she is right now, and I miss her. She was an incredible woman—beyond words at times—whose life spoke for the good we all hope for, but sometimes let slip away.”
“A big pile of nothing”
As July turned into August, hopes of finding Tot dimmed. Flyers with pictures of her car were faxed to police stations all along the coast, though Chien Si didn’t feel they were doing much to help. He called precincts up and down the coast, asking them individually if they had heard of Tot’s case, and in many cases they didn’t. He made it his personal mission to get her image in front of people, and spent a year of his life doing it non-stop.
Chien Si turned 25 in early August. It was the first birthday in his life where he hadn’t heard from his mother. “I miss her,” he wrote in an August post on the website. “If I knew how my mom disappeared, I could accept that. But I don't. Instead, I search every day to find clues that will bring her back to me. I live now with only an imagination that runs wild with ideas, still blind to the truth.”
On August 11th, a local newspaper confirmed that police had gone through Tot’s phone records and credit card statements, which showed she had not made any calls or purchases since her disappearance. The lack of activity, Detective Rennison admitted, was very unusual. The only thing they were able to confirm was that her phone must have lost power or have been turned off between 8:00am and 10:30am on the day of her disappearance, as the first call that went through rang four times, and the second didn’t ring at all. He said, "We've got a big pile of nothing, really.”
Chien Si said in the same article, “It's been really tough. You want to get everything done as fast as you can and you want a million people out there looking for her, but it just doesn't happen that way. It's the helplessness—that's what's hardest for me.”
Law enforcement, summary of efforts
On August 15, a sergeant from the state police summarized the efforts put forth so far, saying:
“[We started] at the residence and followed the route she planned to take all the way to Palacios [which was the halfway point on her trip to Corpus]. We stopped at every ravine, every bar ditch, every body of water. There were three or four places that she might have run off the road. We weren't real satisfied with what we found, so we used [a plane] Friday. We're going back in a helicopter. There are a couple of areas of water we're going to check with a johnboat. The family is doing a lot of legwork. We'll help the family and League City [Police] in any way we can. We're willing to do whatever it takes.''
Theories
The Victoria Advocate, a local newspaper, printed two theories in the case in mid-August.
The first was that Tot was involved in an automobile accident that resulted in her car becoming hidden—for example, a deep section of one of the area’s wetlands. Houston’s nickname is Bayou City and bayous are basically swamps that contain murky, stagnant water. And since bayous typically have poorly defined shorelines, it could be hard to spot them from the road in a search.
In 2011, Texas Equusearch revealed sonar pictures from three of the city’s bayous which revealed 127 vehicles sunken beneath the surface, possibly with bodies trapped inside. In one interview, Houston police insisted that even if they attempted to extract the vehicles, they would fall apart. Equusearch disagreed, insisting that it would be possible to remove them intact. At the very least, they could recover license plates to connect the cars to missing persons cases. Tim Miller, the founder, spoke to the Houston Chronicle in 2011 about police resistance to move forward with the sunken vehicles. He said, "I went to the detective and told him we’ve got a problem. We've found all these cars. (And) he said, 'You need to shut up, the city doesn't have the money and the public will go crazy about this.'" The Houston Police disagree with Tim’s version of events, but concede that there are still hundreds of submerged vehicles.
They remain unidentified in the bayous today. If Tot’s is among them, it rests silently, waiting to be recovered.
The second theory was that Tot was abducted, and the car was stolen. This was supported by the sightings of Tot’s vehicle being driven erratically, as well as the family’s instincts about her disappearance. “My brothers and I believe there was foul play involved,” said Thu Hong in an interview with the Bangor Daily News. Chien Si also expressed his inclination to believe she was abducted, telling a reporter, “We have 30 or more sightings [of the car]. I'd bet my life that one of them is true, which lends more credence to the kidnapping theory.”
Tot’s children knew their mother had strong survival instincts, but in the same breath, Chien Si acknowledged his mother’s outgoing tendencies, saying, “she'd [easily] strike up a conversation—she always wanted to get a sense for where she was and what type of people lived there.” Sometimes when Tot was traveling, she would just get the local phonebook and start scanning the names until she found a Vietnamese one. She’d call them up and ask, “Hey, are you from Vietnam?” And then follow it up with a “Want to hang out?” She was fearless.
But the theories were merely speculation, and Detective Rennison expressed doubt that they would get any further in finding Tot, “We don't have any promising leads at this point. Numerous people claim to have seen the car. We've searched ground, air, water and basically found nothing.”
Chien Si continued posting updates on the website daily, at times, revealing his cynicism about human nature.
“I can't believe that she is gone, that someone took her. What is wrong with people? Couldn't they see her beauty, or her kindness? Why is it that all they could see was the weakness of a small and frail woman?”
A man goes missing in Yoakum
On August 9th, an elderly man named Edgar Findeisen went missing in Yoakum, an inland city that was about an hour away from the closest city on Tot’s route. Texas Equusearch looked for Edgar and kept their eyes out for any clues that might lead them to Tot. They searched around both Yoakum and a city closer to Tot’s route called Victoria, where police had received a tip that Tot may have been seen on Main Street. Tot’s children went to Yoakum and Victoria to distribute flyers.
On August 17th, a month after her disappearance, a helicopter from the state covered 35 miles of small highway going through Yoakum and planes searched the area on the following day. It was still summer, and the trees were thick with leaves, obstructing their view from the sky.
Moving on (2002)
By January, the trees lining the highways of southeast Texas had shed their leaves, and for a moment, there was renewed hope that increased visibility might bring new discoveries.
The children had already settled their mother’s finances. They had removed her things from the Florida house in order to lease it and pay the mortgage. After taking several months off to aid in the searches, Minh returned to work. They were learning to live with their confusion and grief.
A final message
In February 2002, Chien Si wrote the world again, saying, “For anyone out there who doesn't think this is real, it is. My mother has been missing for seven months now.”
And then he addressed his mom directly:
“I'm sorry, Mom. I'm so sorry that I haven't been able to find you. I don't know where you are. I hope that you are ok. No one will help me, Mom. I've tried calling the news programs, they don't respond. I put your story in the newspaper again and again—only a few good people ever reply. The police aren't doing anything for you anymore. They think that you are dead, but I don't know what to believe. Sometimes I think that I am going to die on the inside… I miss you so much. I was going to take care of you, and I feel like I let you down. I'm sorry, Mom. Please God, forgive me. I have never felt so helpless in my life. I love you, Mom, and I miss you very much. We all do.”
Memorial Service in Cape Elizabeth
On July 12th, 2002, a year to the day after Tot’s disappearance, mourners filed through the front doors of Spurwink Church in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. Leaves swayed in a faint breeze against the clear summer sky, the trees its only neighbors on a quiet country road. As people walked inside the lonesome white chapel, Tot’s face smiled at them from picture frames bringing them warmth and companionship. It had been one year since she kissed her son goodbye and departed on a journey from which she’d never return.
People listened from sunlit pews as Minh, Thu Hong, and Chien Si took turns speaking about her life. Chien Si considered the service to be a chance for people to pay tribute to his mom. They’d travelled back to Maine for the occasion, the place where Tot spent the most time building a community and raising her family. The service was attended by loved ones from every corner of Tot’s life: friends who’d sat around her kitchen table, indulging in Vietnamese dishes and laughing at her jokes, fellow immigrants who she’d welcomed to America with her kindness and hospitality, and of course, her family.
They placed a memorial marker for her in the cemetery behind the church—the same place their father, Clint, was buried. Fresh-cut grass cushioned their steps as they went to place flowers at the modest headstone. “TOT TRAN HARRIMAN” was engraved in the flat gray granite marker that was buried level with the ground—it was inscribed simply in all caps, military-style, with one line devoted to a single word: MISSING.
Despite their pain, Tot’s relentless optimism lived on in Thu Hong, who said:
"Aside from the nightmare, I actually feel pretty blessed. I have family and friends surrounding me. In a way, it has allowed me to realize what I do have and not to dwell so much on what I don't.”
Looking back after 20 years
It has been 20 years since Tot’s disappearance, and I asked Chien Si what he thought most likely happened to his mom today. This is what he said:
“She left so early in the morning. Probably what happened is that she drove into a Texas town, went into a café and got some coffee. She struck up a conversation with some guy who was looking at her car and her gold jewelry. She might have said that she was looking for property. [I imagine him saying] “I’ve got property right down the road. Want to go see it?” [She went with him and that’s where she was killed]; her car was chopped up for parts; stones were taken out of rings and sold to pawn shops. There is a chance, too, that the crime was racially motivated. She may have been charmed a bit by Texas, not aware of how rough and violent Texas could be.”
Chien Si shared what it was like today for him, having had 20 years to process his loss.
“I’ve had a lot of time to heal. A lot of time to think about it. A lot of time to make my peace with it. But it doesn’t really make it that much easier. I think all of us are still looking for an answer. It doesn’t change how much we love our mother or father. [It’s] just an open wound that you have to walk over. Losing my mom… She was one of the most important people in my life. We were very close. And [in her honor] I live my life every day as if it’s my last.”
He has a soft spot in his heart for other families who have lost someone as a missing person, a fate he says he doesn’t wish on anyone.
“You know, I try and help in missing persons charities. I don’t think I do enough. I think it’s an awful way for a person’s life to end. If you’ve ever had anyone who you loved a lot [go that way], you wouldn’t wish it on anybody. I wouldn’t wish it on anybody. To have… someone who could light up the world like that… to go like that… without being able to pay any respects to that person in the right way… it makes you so angry.”
Following the funeral service, people gathered at Cape Elizabeth Middle School to trade stories about Tot, her infectious laughter, and her boundless energy. Chien Si imagined what Tot would have said had she been there:
"I know that she feels lucky for having gotten the time to spend with all of us. I think she would say, THANK YOU.”
If you have any information about the disappearance of Tot Harriman, please contact the League City PD at 281-332-2566.
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Tot and Clint Harriman reunite in the US, ~1976
Tot Harriman in South Portland, ME, at her new home
Minh, Tot, and Thu Hong Harriman (L to R)
Tot with her kids, first time seeing snow!
Tot and her husband, Clint Harriman, Florida
Clint Harriman
Clint Harriman, honored with a service medal by president Gerald Ford
Spontaneous party, instigated by Tot, on Amtrak!
Tot’s restaurant in Portland, named after her daughter
The Harriman family: Clint, Thu Hong, Minh, Chien Si, and Tot (Clockwise from left)
The Harrimans: Chien Si, Minh, Tot, and Thu Hong (L to R)
Clint and Tot Harriman
Thu Hong’s wedding day
Thu Hong’s wedding reception (Chien Si photobombing)
Clint Harriman, later in life
Clint Harriman, obituary photo
Caodai temple, Tay Ninh, Vietnam
Tot’s mom (left)
Tot’s mom (seated), in the home she and Clint built
Chien Si’s graduation from Stanford University
Chien Si was at the bottom of the Grand Canyon when his mom went missing
Tot’s maroon 1995 Lincoln Continental, with Florida plates, “TOTSY”
Composite sketch
Sources For This Episode
Newspaper articles
Various articles from Bangor Daily News, Corpus Christi Caller-Times, Houston Chronicle, McDowell News, News Chronicle, Portland Press Herald, Victoria Advocate, here.
Written by various authors including Allan Turner, Ann Rundle, Cindy Woodward, David Connerty-Marin, James Sullivan, Pat Hathcock, Ruth Rendon, and Sara Lee Fernandez.
Online written sources
'Can you help solve these cases?' (CBS News), 10/22/2011
'Texas Killing Fields' (Wikipedia), 8/8/2013
'Tot Tran Harriman' (Charley Project), 1/8/2018, by Meaghan Good
'The story of Tot Harriman' (Find Tot), http://findtot.org (via wayback machine), 12/4/2001, by Chien Si Harriman
Other archived pages from findtot.org (now defunct) were utilized as well-
Interviews
Chien Si Harriman
Photos
Photos courtesy of the Harriman family.
Credits
Vocal performance, audio editing, and research by Kristen Seavey
Writing support, research support, and photo editing by Byron Willis
Research by Samantha Coltart
Writing by Zoe Aarts
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