hard in new hampshire ahead of tuesday s primary. they ll have a chance to go head to head in two separate debates. and president obama touted the drop in unemployment in his radio address. he said there are a lot of people that are still hurting but we are starting to rebound. more news later. we ll see you in an hour. i ve never seen violence like this. the detective had found the missing tara grant. but only a part of her. just the woman s torso in a plastic storage bin inside the garage of the home she shared with her husband and two children. alicia, tara s sister, returned to her home in ohio by the time the awful discovery was made. my phone rang about 11:00 p.m. and it was sheriff hackel. he said, alicia, do you feel like steve would ever harm you? the sheriff didn t tell alicia that they found her sister, but he was concerned for her well-being because grant was on the loose.
confounding all courtroom betting for a fast verdict. three days later they returned. second degree murder. stephen grant guilty of second degree murder. guilty of murder in the second degree. after a split jury tussle, they d finally been persuaded by the defense s argument against premeditation. the defendant in full-panic mode during and after the killing, his rational self as it were, no longer at the wheel. the jury has spoken. i wanted first degree murder. the defendant has been convicted of murder. but what i wanted more than anything was to make sure steve grant would be off the streets and be off the streets for a long time. two months later in her sentencing of grant on february 21st, the judge ensured just that. grant will be in prison for the next 50 to 80 years. today, justice was served. nothing will bring back tara grant, but also nothing will bring back stephen grant. grant s first opportunity for
for the murder of your wife, tara? yes. as though shooting the breeze over coffee in a diner, grant told the detectives it started with a fight in the master bedroom on friday, february 9th. tara saying she was going back to puerto rico early. grant angrily accusing her of not spending enough time at home. i said, i have to do my job. it s none of your business. she started to turn around and i grabbed her wrist. i said stop it. you re not going anywhere. i said we re going to finish this conversation and she slapped me. after that i don t really remember what happened. she fell and she banged the back of her head on the floor. and then she said something like, that s it. i m going to take the kids and you re going to be [ bleep ] homeless. you re a piece of [ bleep ]. and i choked her. in the bathroom? on the carpet. she started to get up when i put my hand on her neck. just grabbed her neck and choked her.
hi, this is the cell phone of tara grant. the detectives also learned her husband was trying to reach her. because when they retrieved tara s voicemails after the night of the disappearance, they heard steve s angry voice. tara, next time i call you pick up your phone. it s absolute [ bleep ] you haven t called me or your kids. i know you re mad. i m mad. you traveling this much is not right. but anxious as he professed to be for help in locating her, stephen grant never did take that lie detector test the next day. he had a lawyer, who advised him to stop talking. stop talking to law enforcement maybe but not the media. we appreciate you guys, we appreciate all the people who have been helping. amber hunt, crime and courts reporter for the detroit free press was surprised that grant was constantly calling newsrooms and reporters on their cells. initially you think, oh, well the guy really wants to find his wife. then after a while, hmm, maybe that s not what he was loo
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