were you looking in her face? no, i covered her face up. what did you cover her face up with? gray underwear or a gray t-shirt. how did you know she had died? when she stopped moving. and i was worried. i was really worried. the two children, grant said, were in their rooms down the hall from their murdered mother. the au pair was out. authorities would say later grant text messaged her, you owe me a kiss, and left a note reading the same on her pillow. grant said he returned to his wife s body, tied a belt around the neck and dragged the corpse down the stairs and out to the garage. he was going to hide the body in back of tara s isuzu trooper. i dropped her. she was too hard to pick up. the belt broke and she fell. it was the most disgusting noise. it sounded like dropping a watermelon on the cement. he went back upstairs only to hear the front door opening. verena.
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an old girlfriend of grant leaked recent e-mails she received from stephen two weeks before tara went missing. not so subtle come-ons like, i m still in need of some excitement in my day, wink, wink. i just think of marriage vows like speed limits. sometimes you have to break them. meanwhile, the agency that placed the young au pair in the grant home became so uncomfortable with one of its girls being in the midst of a publicly messy domestic situation, it pulled verena, the kids nanny, out of the house against her will. she returned home to germany on february 21st. reporter amber hunt knew why the juicy psycho drama about a suburban family had hit such a nerve. they were the people next door. nice house, good kids? yeah. loving dad, successful mom. beautiful family. but could reporters or anyone really find out what was going on under a family s roof? the husband, in particular, was proving difficult to get a fix on. the people that we came
break. the detective s desk phone rang. i recognized it right away as being an international call. at the other end was a voice saying this is verena durkas. verena, the grants former au pair, calling from her home in germany. she was crying. i had the sense to reach for my recorder and record the conversation. everything he said was a lie and i believed everything. and for the next 30 minutes, what a story she had to tell. verena, in the middle of the night for her, was saying grant had just called her and confessed to killing his wife. he told me it was an accident. he said she slapped me and she yelled at me. and i pushed her back and she banged her head and was dead. the 19-year-old verena swore to the detective that she always believed stephen s story that his wife had walked out. she had no idea, she said, that he actually killed tara. the detective told verena he believed her. but he gently confronted her
he s never going to get out. second-degree, there is that possibility. so that s what was at stake when the murder trial of stephen grant began here in the courtroom ten months after his arrest. would he get life in prison, meaning exactly that? or would the jury find him guilty of murder in the second degree leaving the door open for him to walk free at some future date? despite his legally airtight confession, grant had pleaded not guilty. you strip it all down, it s a domestic violence murder. somebody has to speak for tara and that was our job. the macomb county prosecutor, erik smith, never for a minute believed grant s story he and tara had a fight about her traveling so much. it was about sex. it was about stephen grant wanting to replace his wife with his au pair. something that was really telling in this entire case, the first thing he did after murdering his wife was pick up the cell phone and text the au pair saying, you owe me a kiss. the judge wouldn t permit