she left the house. he looked out the window and a black sedan was leaving. the husband agreed to meet the detective and his partner at the grant home the night he reported her missing. five days after he said she d walked out in a huff. mr. grant answered the door. i could tell he was afraid that we were there. where as he s our complainant, we re here to serve him and help him, but he s afraid of us. one of the detective s first questions was why grant had waited so long to report his wife missing? the husband replied that they d had fights before when tara walked out for a day or so, but she would always come back. we re immediately trying to establish her reason for leaving. was it an argument, was something prearranged? detective kozlowski proceeded to ask grant about the health of his marital relationship, potential lovers and potential enemies. while the other detective, sergeant pam mclean was with the two children and their au pair, a 19-year-old german girl verena d
under fallen tree limbs, down in hollows. grant had cut his wife into 14 pieces. police found 11 parts marked by the red dots in this aerial photo, but they never did recover all of the remains. animals had gotten there first, they said. with his client in custody and the man s wife in pieces, stephen grant s lawyer announced he was no longer representing mr. mom. grant himself was in a northern michigan hospital under guard recovering from exposure when he asked if he could talk to detective kozlowski. the detective got on the line and after a few seconds, grant made a surprising proposal. come up, we ll talk. come on up, we ll talk? yep, me and you. five hours later kozlowski and detective mclean, the two who made the original house call on grant, were mirandizing the husband in his hospital bed, after pressing record on their tape machine. do you, in fact, understand that you are, in fact, under arrest right now? right.
plainclothes detective walking by. but that officer remembered stephen grant because of the fragment of conversation he overheard. and i heard him actually say, she s been gone for five days now. detective brian kozlowski was still wondering why the guy had waited five days to report his wife missing when his desk phone rang and sure enough, he d been assigned the case. his lieutenant sounding urgent. i want you to get on it immediately. by now detective kozlowski had the report from the desk officer who had taken down the husband s story. this story. after a week-long business trip grant said, his wife, tara, had come home the previous friday night, february 9th. no sooner had she unpacked her bag when she announced she d be going back to puerto rico early, sunday rather than monday. grant cried foul. she needed to be home more and traveling for her job less. the argument ensued. according to mr. grant. and he last heard her on a phone saying i ll be out in a minute.
stephen grant has asked reporter hank winchester to come out to the house. he wanted me to interview him in the garage of the house. i asked him, why the garage? he said, well, the garage will give you a look into what i saw that day. because i was looking out one of the windows when i saw tara leave in the town car. but the interview never happened. never happened. and certainly not in the garage. because, watch this. as technicians inside are methodically searching the house entering the immediate kitchen. outside, that is stephen grant, simply walking away, getting out of dodge, looking back as though he couldn t believe no one was stopping him. what they found in the house 90 minutes later is detective kozlowski s stomach-churning story. by then, he and five other detectives had retreated to the garage to get out from under foot of the csi types working in the house. detective kozlowski eyeballed
he insisted she come back to michigan immediately. i said, mark, it s 11:00. you want us to drive to michigan? we have two small children. he said yes. for your safety? for your safety. at the sheriff s office, the next morning, alicia heard the incomprehensible news. her sister not only murdered, but dismembered. then she had to tell her parents that their first born was gone. i don t even know what i said other than, tara s dead. tara s dead. stephen grant had simply walked away from his home before detective kozlowski had discovered the torso. now a day later, the investigators were getting some good clues on his whereabouts. information pinging off cell phone towers told them the cell phone grant was using was headed north. they d learned he was in a yellow dodge dakota truck borrowed from an unsuspecting