Pictured: Recent photo of Dan Harmon.
Daniel Harmon, Jr., a former Prosecuting Attorney in Saline County, died on Friday, September 22, 2023, at the age of 78. Reports say he battled with throat cancer and passed away in hospice at VA Hospital in Little Rock, Arkansas. He was still a resident of Saline County.
Harmon had a checkered past, having been the Prosecutor for the “Boys on the Tracks” unsolved mystery in the late 1980s. In 1997, he had a federal racketeering conviction and in 2010 was arrested on drugs charges.
Arrangements for a funeral are currently being made, according to a family friend. Read more about Harmon’s life in this article in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
Dan Harmon was a person that would help anyone that needed it. He may have had a past, though who doesn’t, his was just publicly known. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, doesn’t make them right. Dan was an awesome person and is loved by many. Rest in peace my friend, we will miss you!
I see everyone is saying nice things about Dan Harmon, a convicted felon who one time head to public trust as a prosecutor yet I don’t hear no one saying anything about the family of the two boys that were murdered on the tracks There’s so many articles that suggest Dan Harmon was involved in this and other people in politics. No one here I said anything about the family of those boys that were murdered. Dan Harmon Harmon was such a good guy. Why didn’t he ever make amends for what he’s done or has known about what happened to those boys please don’t tell me that he didn’t know nothing. There’s too much evidence when that he knew something or was even there, I just hope he made it right with the Lord before he went because he’s probably in Hell today,.
You need to think about who is going to read this. If u had a past would you want everyone to hear about it when u died. Wow. Dan Harmon was a very big hearted man he loved his family beyond words. Why would u not just say rest in peace as you would want everyone to say for you!!
Did you click that link at the end and read the Democrat-Gazette’s article, then send them a message too?
Your laconic replies in this comment thread aren’t clever, cheeky, or even the “gotcha” clapbacks you somehow think are remotely appropriate to a death announcement. In fact, your already tenuous moral high ground you held by doing your “journalistic duty”to “stick it to the baddies” completely crumbles once one notices you’ve linked a self-authored fluff piece to defend your journalist “creds.” A satirist would be hard-pressed to compete with your pitch-perfect lampooning of today’s state of journalism: over-saturated with self-absorbed “personalities” who don’t have the wherewithal or strong character to humble themselves before their actual miniature stature. This screams a lackadaisical sense of ethics and arrested-development. You know very well this article would have no traction outside a very small population of people well acquainted with Dan Harmon’s past. Why else would someone look up his name on the internet? You have to use a limiting qualifier like “Arkansas” so as not to be inundated with results only addressing the famous screenwriter Dan Harmon. Nobody stumbled upon this by accident. The man is dead. You are shedding no new light, balancing no karmic tables. Rather, you double down, rubbing salt into the fresh wounds innocent collateral, namely his family and the people who care deeply for the well-being of them.
At least there’s a silver-lining, your tasteless bungling of this obituary is most insulting to yourself. This was a creative way of saying “I have narcissistic tendencies and trouble empathizing” without saying it outright.
I leave with a renewed gratefulness that I can recognize when I’m making an ass of myself. 🙂
Tommy Niehaus and Sharlene Wilson are both recorded via “The Boys on the Tracks” by Carnage on Ice, testifying that Dan Harmon was on the tracks the night that Kevin Ives and Don Henry were murdered. There’s an overwhelming amount of evidence that implicates Dan Harmon with the murder, or at least the cover up of the murder of those two boys. For people that haven’t studied this case and knew Dan in a different light, I can understand why this article and several of the comments upset them. Having said that, Dan Harmon covered up the murder of two innocent boys. People from that area are rightfully upset about that.
As should they be. But his obituary? Is this what we have come to. No one with any respect for not him but his family. I can’t understand how folks can’t just say rip or say nothing esp on social media. Say whatever u want in the privacy of ur own
always heard stories about him growing up. I’m 28, now but I met him when he lived at the apartments by Holland chapel. he was taking care of his 3 grandsons and you could tell they meant the world to him and they cared very much for him. he was always very kind and I enjoyed his company. I was addicted to drugs at the time and he would always make sure that I had clean clothes and a full stomach and a safe place to sleep. and he did this for other people as well. I dont have a bad thing to say about this man despite what others have said about him. Rest in peace
I’m 100% sure he’ll get what he deserves no more said
I am 100% sure that everyone makes mistakes in life. I am 100% sure that he paid for his mistakes and will be judged accordingly, not by you though. Danny was a good man who was loved by his family and friends and will be missed by myself and the people that really knew him. Shame on you, judge not lest ye be judged.
amen to that!!!
Yes. That’s the appropriate comment
harman broke the law, several times, and ways, to bash the publisher of this article is very foolish.. harman was bought and sold like garbage that he was. he totally disgraced to our county. he’ll have to answer to a much greater power. I think Shelli Poole does an excellent job with her publication., I support her 100%.
Dan was a good person my prayers for his family. I reported the news here in saline county on a daily basis for 20 years I always looked for the good in a persons story not their checkered past hope you learn something from this story
This shouldn’t be about “rumors” from the past. A man lost his life after a long battle with cancer. My prayers are with his family.
I was a friend of Dan he was wonderful and caring. This article should’ve just announced his passing not his past
I agree wholeheartedly! This is totally unnecessary! Come on my saline! 😠
Thank you Cheryl you are 100% correct. SHAME ON THE AUTHOR WHO THOUGHT THAT WAS AN APPROPRIATE WAY TO ANNOUNCE THE DEATH OF A GOOD MAN, WHO WAS NOT PERFECT.
YOU ARE NO JOURNALIST! You don’t have the mental capacity or mentality to be a reporter!!!
This article is BULLSHIT and you should be ASHAMED for writing such humiliating information to DISCREDIT a GREAT person who is no longer able to defend himself. You are a DISGRACE to journalism and shouldn’t be allowed to even address the public! you need your right to post publicly REVOKED FOR LIFE and SUED by the family for defamation! shame on you low life POS!
You should be ashamed of yourself. Dan Harmon was a POS, He is a criminal on so many levels, and the families he caused pain to I guess doesn’t count in your book. Shellie is reporting what is nothing but the truth. You want to remember his sorry life, fine, but don’t try to sugar coat what he was or did. It’s ALL part of his life, the good and the bad.
Michelle Griffith..are you fucking serious…You know as well as I everything that’s been said here is absolutely 100% the truth..I realize he catered to you,he entertained your life style and his to be exact for the last many years..So how dare come on here bashing someone for being completely honest..She doesn’t claim to be a journalist so you can stop with all your dramatic bullshit..Real is Real
I am a journalist. Read my bio at http://www.mysaline.com/about
my condolences to the family