the kids while tara was on the road. he prided himself on being a mr. mom at home and a soccer dad on the field. according to newspaper reporter amber hunt. he took them to all their appointments and soccer games and appreciated getting the accolades for that. and from the time he walked into the macomb county sheriff s office on valentine s day, 2007, to report his wife missing, his story never changed. as he gave the spare details of her disappearance to the desk sergeant in the lobby, he may not have noticed the huge 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 koz
sister, but he was concerned for her well-being because grant was on the loose. he insisted she come back to michigan immediately. i said, mark, it s 11:00. it s 1:00, 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 where acts abouts. 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 friend. then a thoroughly unexpected and enormous break.
for. meanwhile, detective kozlowski and the investigative team watched the live shots and took careful note. you re thinking we have foul play here? absolutely. coming up, was it foul play or did she simply walk away? he said to me, she s probably shacked up in a hotel around the corner with some guy. when the valentine s day mystery continues. durability, and safety tests? isn t it obvious? the nissan altima. made to make your life better. now lease a new altima for $199 a month for 39 months or get $1,000 cash back.
hair and dismembered body parts scattered about. 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.
interview. stephen grant asked the 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 this is 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