Atlanta (CNN) Surprising claims came to light during a hearing Thursday for a Georgia man whose toddler son died after being left in a hot car, a man prosecutors sought to portray as an unfaithful husband who wanted a child-free life. 
 
 Among the most shocking allegations: Justin Ross Harris messaged six women, sending and receiving explicit texts -- some including nude images -- from work while his 22-month-old was dying, a detective testified at the hearing. 
 
 Harris' attorney repeatedly objected to Cobb County, Georgia, police Detective Phil Stoddard's testimony claiming that Harris sexted the women -- one of whom was underage at the time -- but the judge allowed it. 
 
 Police say Harris, 33, left his toddler, Cooper, strapped into a car seat under a baking sun for seven hours while he went to work June 18. Records show that the mercury topped 92 that day, and police say the temperature was 88 degrees when the boy was pronounced dead in a parking lot not far from his father's workplace. 
 
 At the hearing, Cobb County Chief Magistrate Frank Cox found probable cause for the case against Harris to move forward with respect to murder and child cruelty charges. 
 
 "For him to enter the car ... when the child had been dead and rigor mortis had set in, and the testimony is the stench in the car was overwhelming at that point in time, that he -- in spite of that -- got in the car and drove it for some distance before he took any action to check on the welfare of his child, I find there is probable cause for the two charges contained in the warrant," Cox told a packed courtroom. 
 
 The judge denied bail for Harris, who has pleaded not guilty. 
 
 In addition to the charges he faces in connection with his son's death, Harris may also be charged with felony sexual exploitation of a minor and misdemeanor illegal contact with a minor, Stoddard said. 
 
 Internet searches 
 
 The detective also testified about Internet searches that could raise eyebrows given the context of the case. 
 
 Before his son's death, Harris had visited a Reddit page called "child-free" and read four articles, Stoddard said. He also allegedly searched how to survive in prison. 
 
 Among the other details police have released is that Harris and his wife, Leanna Harris, told them they looked up how hot a car needed to be to kill a child. 
 
 Five days before Cooper died, Ross Harris twice viewed a sort of homemade public service announcement in which a veterinarian demonstrates on video the dangers of leaving someone or something inside a hot car. 
 
 Leanna Harris told police that she had recently seen a story on a state initiative aimed at reminding people not to leave children in cars and that it was a fear of hers, Stoddard said. 
 
 Ross Harris "stated that he recently researched, through the Internet, child deaths inside vehicles and what temperature it needs to be for that to occur," police have said, adding that Harris told investigators "he was fearful that this could happen." 
 
 During questioning, Leanna Harris "made similar statements regarding researching in car deaths and how it occurs," according to police. 
 
 The time frame for the alleged research remains unclear. 
 
 'I felt his pain; I even wept' 
 
 Thursday's probable cause hearing was expected to last 90 minutes; it stretched for some three hours. 
 
 A good chunk of that time was spent discussing how Ross Harris acted after he pulled into a shopping center asking for assistance with his son. 
 
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 Witnesses told police they heard "squealing tires, and the vehicle came to a stop," Stoddard testified. Harris got out of the car yelling, "Oh, my God, what have I done?" Stoddard said. 
 
 The 33-year-old father then stood there with a blank look on his face, the detective said. When a witness told Harris his son needed CPR, Harris went to the other side of his vehicle and made a phone call, apparently to tell someone his son was dead, a witness told police, according to Stoddard. 
 
 Harris never called 911, and when an officer told him to get off his phone, he refused and even said, "F*** you" before an officer took his phone and handcuffed him, the detective said. 
 
 He also alleged that Harris told police he couldn't reach anyone on his telephone, but phone records show that Harris made three calls after he discovered his son's body, and one between him and his employer lasted six minutes, Stoddard said. 
 
 However, witness Leonard Madden offered a different version of what happened. Madden and an acquaintance were leaving a restaurant when they noticed a commotion and approached within 3 or 4 feet of a clearly distraught Harris. 
 
 "He was crying. He was hollering," Madden testified, recounting the father saying, "Oh, my God! Oh, my God, my son is dead!" 
 
 "I felt his pain; I even wept," Madden said. 
 
 Strange behaviors 
 
 According to Stoddard, Harris made statements that police felt were strange, including "I can't believe this is happening to me" and "I'll be charged with a felony." 
 
 "It was all about him," Stoddard said. "'Why am I being punished for this?' It continued. It was all very one-sided." 
 
 The detective said Harris talked about losing his job. He testified that messages between the Harrises indicate the two were having financial problems. 
 
 Ross Harris had recently been passed over for a promotion, and the couple had two insurance policies on Cooper, one for $2,000 and one for $25,000, the detective said. 
 
 Stoddard also testified about how Leanna Harris acted when she arrived at a day care enter to pick the boy up and employees there told her Cooper had never been dropped off. 
 
 "Ross must have left him in the car," she replied, according to the detective. Witnesses said they tried to tell her many other things could have happened, but Leanna Harris insisted that Ross Harris must have left the boy in the car, Stoddard said. 
 
 He also testified that when Ross and Leanna Harris were in an interview room, Ross Harris told his wife that Cooper looked "peaceful" and that his eyes were closed when he was removed from the vehicle. He told his wife, "I dreaded how he would look," Stoddard said, noting how Harris had used the past tense. 
 
 The detective added that the boy's eyes and mouth were not closed when he was taken out of the SUV. 
 
 At another point in the interview room, Stoddard said, Leanna Harris asked her husband about what he had said to police. 
 
 "She asked him -- she had him sit down, and he starts going through this. And she looks at him, and she's like, 'Well, did you say too much?' " the detective testified. 
 
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 'Nothing was weird' 
 
 While prosecutors painted Ross Harris as a terrible, in fact criminal, father, the defense called witnesses who testified on his behalf. 
 
 James Alex Hall, who worked with Ross Harris and had run a Web development company with him for the past two or three months, said Harris didn't act out of the ordinary on the day his son died. 
 
 "I would say normal as you could be. Nothing stuck out. Nothing was weird," Hall said. 
 
 Ross Harris was scheduled to meet friends for a 5 p.m. showing of the movie "22 Jump Street," according to Stoddard, but he told them he'd be late. He left work at 4:16 p.m., and it would have taken him about 10 minutes to get to the theater, the detective said. 
 
 When Harris didn't show up 30 minutes into the movie, Hall stepped outside to contact him. Harris didn't respond to texts, and phone calls went straight to his voice mail, Hall said. 
 
 Asked whether Harris was a guy who talked about how life might be without a child, Hall said he was the opposite: the kind of dad who talked about his child to the point that people were tired of hearing about it. 
 
 "He said he loved his son all the time," Hall said. 
 
 On cross-examination, a prosecutor asked Hall whether he was aware of allegations that Ross Harris had been sexting various women. Hall replied no and conceded that, if that were true, he didn't know everything about his friend. 
 
 In what might be a harbinger, the defense repeatedly asked witnesses if they knew Harris was deaf in one ear, perhaps indicating that Harris might not have heard his child in the back seat when he got out of the car and when he returned to it. 
 
 "He is deaf in one ear or mostly deaf," a friend testified about Harris. "I always have to go to the other side of his head to talk to him," said Winston Rowell Milling. 
 
 'It's easy to get distracted' 
 
 Defense attorney H. Maddox Kilgore said after several witnesses testified that he didn't feel anything presented at Thursday's hearing indicated that Ross Harris intentionally left Cooper in the car, which would be key to finding him guilty on the charges. 
 
 "It's not even criminal negligence enough to support a misdemeanor," he told the judge, asking him to dismiss the warrant. "It's easy to get distracted when you get behind the wheel. Everyone does it." 
 
 Kilgore said he himself had forgotten boxed-up leftovers, a comparison on which the prosecution seized. Someone might remember that they left spaghetti in the car after 30 minutes, said Assistant District Attorney Chuck Boring. 
 
 But Harris not only forgot his child, he got an e-mail from his son's day care during the day and at one point went to the vehicle to place lightbulbs inside, never once remembering Cooper, the prosecutor said. 
 
 "I think it's remarkable he didn't stick his head in that car," Boring said. "He knew what he was going to find." 
 
 Cooper was buried Saturday in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. 
 
 The Cobb County Medical Examiner's Office determined that the child's cause of death was "consistent with hyperthermia and the investigative information suggests the manner of death is homicide," according to a Cobb County Department of Public Safety statement. 
 
 The Medical Examiner's Office is waiting for toxicology test results before making an official ruling on the toddler's death. 
 
 At the boy's funeral, Leanna Harris said she loves her husband and stands by him. 
 
 "Am I angry with Ross?" Leanna Harris told mourners. "Absolutely not. It has never crossed my mind. Ross is and was and will be, if we have more children, a wonderful father. Ross is a wonderful daddy and leader for our household. Cooper meant the world to him." ||||| MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia man who police say intentionally killed his toddler son by leaving the boy inside a hot SUV was unhappy in his marriage and had looked at websites that advocated against having children, a detective testified Thursday. 
 
 Justin Ross Harris, right, the father of a toddler who died after police say he was left in a hot car for about seven hours, arrives for his bond hearing at Cobb County Magistrate Court Thursday, July... (Associated Press) 
 
 Justin Ross Harris, center, the father of a toddler who died after police say he was left in a hot car for about seven hours, arrives for his bond hearing at Cobb County Magistrate Court Thursday, July... (Associated Press) 
 
 Justin Ross Harris, second from left, the father of a toddler who died after police say he was left in a hot car for about seven hours, arrives for his bond hearing at Cobb County Magistrate Court Thursday,... (Associated Press) 
 
 Justin Ross Harris, second from left, the father of a toddler who died after police say he was left in a hot car for about seven hours, arrives for his bond hearing at Cobb County Magistrate Court Thursday,... (Associated Press) 
 
 Cobb County Police Detective Phil Stoddard testified at a hearing that evidence showed Justin Ross Harris was practically leading a double life and should not be granted bond. Stoddard described the evidence police have suggesting Harris, who is charged with murder, killed his 22-month-old son Cooper intentionally. 
 
 Harris has told police he was supposed to drive his son to day care the morning of June 18 but drove to work without realizing that his son was strapped into a car seat in the back. 
 
 Harris was exchanging nude photos with several women, including teenagers, even on the day his son died when he was at work, Stoddard said. The man also had looked at a website that advocated against having children and had done an Internet search for "how to survive in prison," the detective said. 
 
 "I think the evidence now is showing intent," Stoddard said. He said Harris should remain in jail because he is a flight risk: There is evidence he was leading a double life, he has family in Alabama, and the former 911 dispatcher has law enforcement experience. 
 
 Harris is a native of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and moved to Georgia in 2012 to work for Home Depot. 
 
 The detective said after the boy died, Harris showed no emotion while being interviewed by investigators. At one point after Harris pulled over with the dead child in a strip mall parking lot, an officer told Harris to get off his cellphone, Stoddard said. Harris twice refused, using profanity, and was then arrested. 
 
 Scores of reporters and some curious members of the public were at the hearing just outside Atlanta, where police and prosecutors laid out the most detailed account yet of their case against Harris. Some of Harris' supporters also were in the courtroom. ||||| Ross Harris of Marietta is accused of leaving his 22-month-old son, Cooper, inside the family’s SUV for seven hours, according to Cobb County police. (Family photo) 
 
 By Christian Boone 
 
 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution 
 
 Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter Christian Boone is in the courtroom for a hearing for Justin Ross Harris, who is accused of killing his 22-month-old son by leaving him inside an SUV. 
 
 4:38 p.m.: Harris is escorted back to jail. Hearing is over. 
 
 4:36 p.m.: Judge denies bond. 
 
 4:30 p.m.: Harris’ brother, Tuscaloosa Police Sgt. Randy Michael Baygents: “He was a loving father. Loved his son very much.” 
 
 4:20 p.m.: Judge rules there was probable cause for the charges against Harris. “At the very minimum there was reckless disregard,” he says. 
 
 4:13 p.m.: Kilgore: “Why would he take his closest friends to his crime scene? It makes sense that he didn’t know.” 
 
 Sexting doesn’t illustrate wanton, willful disregard. 
 
 4:05 p.m.: Maddox Kilgore, Ross defense attorney: “We’ve heard a lot of suggestions, speculations, coincidences … but you certainly haven’t heard any evidence this was intentional. There’s no evidence Ross was aware the child was in the car. Why would he bring his colleagues right up to the car. It doesn’t make any sense.” 
 
 He’s got to be aware the child was in the car for there to be conscious indifference. “ 
 
 3:46 p.m.: “He said he loved his son all the time,” Hall said. “His son was very important to him.” 
 
 3:40 p.m.: Defense witness Alex Hall, a co-worker at Home Depot. 
 
 Noted nothing unusual about Ross Harris’ behavior that day. 
 
 “I wouldn’t say abnormal in any way. Nothing stuck out, nothing was weird.” 
 
 3:28 p.m.: Madden: “I heard the desperate cries of a father who had just lost his son.” Two officers approached Harris aggressively. They put handcuffs on him. 
 
 3:24 p.m.: Witness Leonard Madden, called by defense. 
 
 Madden works in Ashford-Dunwoody area and was having lunch with a colleague. 
 
 “Saw this precious boy lying there, lifeless,” Madden testified. “The father, had just given his child CPR. Two other people had come near to exist. As I got closer you could just hear his cries and his desperation for his son to be revived.” 
 
 3:17 p.m.: Detective: Six weeks ago they bought forward-facing child seat. Few weeks went back to using rear-facing car seat. 
 
 Kilgore: At 3:16 on June 18, day Cooper died, Ross had texted his wife, “When are you going to get my buddy?” 
 
 3 p.m.: Defense lawyer disputes prosecution contention the Harris’ were in financial trouble. 
 
 2:50 p.m.: Kilgore: “[Harris] just tosses light bulbs in, closes the door and walks away. 
 
 Detective confirms, no sign that he checked back seat 
 
 2:44 p.m.: Kilgore (defense attorney): Ocassionally Harris would take Cooper to daycare, then go to Chick-fil-A. 
 
 2:42 p.m.: Kilgore: A parent could be shocked, dazed. That could account for his behavior. 
 
 Argues his client was in shock. 
 
 Stoddard: He had expressed concern for what he was going to tell his wife. 
 
 2:38 p.m.: Defense attorney: “Witnesses said Ross Harris was hysterical at scene.” 
 
 “Some did,” Det. Stoddard said 
 
 2:33 p.m.: Det. Stoddard being questioned by defense attorney Maddox Kilgore. 
 
 Kilgore: Warrant doesn’t allege the act was intentional. 
 
 Stoddard: “Evidence now is showing intent.” 
 
 2:27 p.m.: On bail and potential flight risk from Det. Stoddard. “Evidence is showing up [Harris] has this whole second life he’s leading.” Harris never called 911. 
 
 Do you view him a threat to commit another crime? “He’s committed other crimes. Sexual exploitation of a minor.” 
 
 2:25 p.m.: Harris visited a sub-Reddit site: “Child-free. People who advocated living child-free.” 
 
 Also did a search on: “How to survive in prison.” When they told him he was charged with murder, 
 
 Ross Harris looked at me and said, “But there was no malicious intent.” Ross argued cruelty to children charge: “It was an accident.” Viewed video [on a computer] twice about children dying in cars. Last one, June 13. 
 
 2:17 p.m.: Woman he was sexting with: She said, “Do you have a conscience.” What was his response? 
 
 “Nope.” Had interviewed with Chick-fil-A didn’t get [the job]. He was depressed. Had two insurance policies on Cooper. One, $2,000. Also had $25,000 policy on Cooper. 
 
 2:11 p.m.: To defense objections, DA introduced evidence of texting:“Goes to motive, marital problems with wife and his unhappiness. ” One of chats that day was with 16 year-old girl, now 17. 
 
 Examining computers, Stoddard said, “We’ve barely scratched the surface.” 
 
 2:09 p.m.: On the day Cooper died, Ross, at work, was “sexting” with up to six different conversations with different women. Sent photos of erect penis. 
 
 2:05 p.m.: Leanna went to daycare: “I’m here to pick up Cooper. They told her he didn’t drop Cooper off. 
 
 In front of several witnesses she said, “Ross must’ve left him in the car.” 
 
 “They tried to console her, said there could be a million reasons.” 
 
 She said no.” 
 
 Showed “no real emotion” after being told Cooper was deceased. Didn’t ask to see Cooper. Asked to see her husband. 
 
 Leanna called her mom, loud conversation could be overheard. 
 
 The emotion was coming from Leanna’s mom. 
 
 Mom to Leanna: “Why aren’t you crying? Why aren’t you reacting?” 
 
 Leanna: “I must be in shock.” 
 
 Leanna and Ross were put together at police station, wife and father put together. What was he emotional about. 
 
 “It was all about him. I can’t believe this has happened to me? Why am I being punished for this? What am I going to do. I’m going to lose my job.” 
 
 Wife: “Did you say too much?” 
 
 Ross to Leanna: “He looked peaceful. His eyes were closed. His mouth was closed.” 
 
 Stoddard: Actually, Cooper’s “eyes were not closed. Mouth not closed.” 
 
 Ross to Leanna: “I dreaded how he’d look.” 
 
 1:59 p.m.: Stoddard on when police talked to Harris after Cooper was found dead: “Harris is walking around, rubbing his eyes, look like he’s trying to hyperventilate. Then nothing. No tears, no real emotion. “ 
 
 Told him Stoddard was a jailer, a dispatcher. Used cop language. 
 
 DA: Did u ever see tears? 
 
 Stoddard: No 
 
 Leanna went to daycare: “I’m here to pick up Cooper. They told her he didn’t drop Cooper off. 
 
 In front of several witnesses she said, “Ross must’ve left him in the car.” 
 
 “They tried to console her, said there could be a million reasons.” 
 
 She said no.” 
 
 Showed “no real emotion” after being told Cooper was deceased. Didn’t ask to see Cooper. Asked to see her husband. 
 
 1:52 p.m.: Harris never mentioned he had returned to car in deck at lunchtime. Police looked at the surveillance video to find out. Also, Harris didn’t tell police he went to Home Depot on lunch hour, purchased two boxes of light bulbs. 
 
 At lunch, he open driver side door, tosses light bulbs inside the car. Approaches from left hand side. 
 
 Shuts door, turns around and walks into Home Depot. Another person passes him walking towards his car. As person approaches him, he stops. Stops again, seemingly to distract passerby. 
 
 Received a group email from Cooper’s daycare. 
 
 1:49 p.m. : Stoddards says at Chick-fil-A Cooper was “active, talking, walking.” 
 
 Inside the car, Cooper’s head would’ve been in-between two front seats. Harris strapped him in tight. 
 
 Cooper gives him a kiss. He gave him a kiss back. Always gave him a kiss in case of car accident. 
 
 “Wanted his last memory to be his Daddy loved him.” 
 
 1:45 p.m.: Det. Phil Stoddard, Cobb police is on the stand. Family woke up around 6:30. Leanna left for work around 7:15 a.m. Watched cartoons before leaving for work, stopping at Chick-fil-A. Everyone said child was normal that morning. No mediciations, no illnesses. 
 
 “Nothing out of the ordinary.” 
 
 Justin normally took Cooper to day care. Taking him “not out of his routine.” Chick-fil-A visits happened 2-3 times a month. “Daddy’s on time.” 
 
 Child appeared “wide awake and happy” at 9 a.m. , Chick-fil-A 
 
 Cooper seen walking around Chick-fil-A. 
 
 They left 9:19 a.m., drove “not even a mile.” 
 
 Arrived at work 9:25 a.m. 
 
 Left work at 4:15 pm. 
 
 Less than 2 miles from office, defendant pulled over into Akers Mill on way to movie. 
 
 Parked car, entered rear door, removed Cooper from car seat, placed him on pavement next to vehicle. 
 
 1:28 p.m.: The line to get into the old Cobb County courtroom started forming around 12:15 p.m., some 75 minutes before Ross Harris – charged with malice murder and second-degree cruelty to children after leaving his 22-month-old son locked inside his SUV for more than seven hours— was due to make his first public appearance since his arrest two weeks ago. By day’s end he could be freed on bond. 
 
 Most were family members and supporters of Ross and Leanna Harris, who lived in the Tuscaloosa area until about two years ago. None of Harris’ relatives or friends would talk to the media. “We’ve been told not to by the lawyers,” said one. 
 
 The standing room only crowd pushed into the courtroom when the doors opened at 1 p.m., though some were left on the outside looking in. One woman could be heard yelling, “I’ve been here since 9:30 a.m.” 
 
 The probable cause portion of today’s hearing will provide the first glimpse into the prosecution’s case against Ross Harris, who claims he forgot he had left Cooper in his car seat inside the Hyundai Tucson.
– Justin Ross Harris exchanged sexually explicit messages and nude photos with six women as his 22-month-old son baked to death in a hot car—including one 17-year-old, police detective Phil Stoddard testified today, as Harris appeared in court for a probable cause hearing. Harris' lawyer objected repeatedly during the testimony, but prosecutors argued that it helped establish Harris' state of mind, and the judge allowed it, CNN reports. Harris was leading something of a double life, Stoddard said, because he and his wife were having "intimacy problems." In addition to his searches regarding hot car deaths, the detective revealed that Harris had visited websites that advocated child-free living, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The 33-year-old may soon be charged with felony sexual exploitation of a minor thanks to those texts to the 17-year-old, Stoddard added. He also testified that witnesses described Harris as acting erratically when he pulled into a shopping center seeking help for his son. When a witness told Harris the boy needed CPR, Harris apparently walked around the car and started making phone calls, telling someone on the other end that his son was dead. When police told him to get off the phone, Harris directed an expletive at them. Police then took his phone and handcuffed him.