Stay-at-home dad kills business exec wife, scatters body parts

A successful

exec

utive goes off the grid and her distraught husband is lost. The beautiful teenage babysitter of the family in the middle. The poison just started to come out of her mouth. Then, the most frightening discovery of all. Tara Grant was a beautiful and intelligent small town girl. with big city dreams in the corporate world, she kept moving up the ladder, she was a perfectionist, but according to some, that perfectionist married her strange and awkward opposite Stephen Grant, he was the guy you thought would grow up, rob a liquor store and he would leave. He wore his name tag and you would see it on the stupidest criminals.

Steve wasn't the most popular guy in the world, he wasn't the most handsome, so I guess when I saw his

wife

I thought, good job, Steve! I never thought you'd get someone like Tara hooked. Tara was a real blow to Stephen. Tara's success allowed them to have a very successful life. They lived in a really nice neighborhood. They drove new cars. Her children attended a private school. But with those successes came some. sacrifices Tara was working in San Juan and she worked Monday through Friday and then she would get on a plane on Friday afternoon and go back to Detroit and spend the weekend and then BOOM she would get back on the plane on Monday to return to her work life while Tara excelled at her job in sunny San Juan Puerto Rico Steven, who had dreamed of working in politics, maintained his position at

home

as a soccer coach and called himself Mr.

Mother of her two young children. Steven Grant loved taking care of his children. He was very present in his daily lives. They seemed to be making everything work, but were they really? Their public face of the Kundu couple seemed much more normal than what might have been simmering inside those doors, what was simmering was heading towards a boil and it was Stephen's growing resentment that was stoking the flames. calls. I think on some level his ascension and the flat line of him and the fact that, you know, they

stay

ed there with the kids, I think. In the back of his mind, he certainly felt maybe a little emasculated by it, so they fought and Stephen sought someone else's attention.

Steve had a girlfriend before he met Tara and they had reconnected. He was looking for someone who made him feel loved. Perhaps several people also seemed to be falling in love with the family's beautiful nanny, eighteen-year-old Verena. The Grants had hired a German au-pair to live in their house to take care of her children. Stephen started talking to her because she was the only person in the house with him, you know, while Tara was working and then their conversations turned sexual, he told her straight out that he would like to sleep with her, was it just flirting? or did things get physical?

Stephen was reportedly very jealous. Tara had someone by her side, he found some stuff on her computer about a previous relationship and it seemed like this relationship had rekindled and he believed that an affair with her boss was making Tara's weekly island getaways less work. and more pleasure, regardless of your actual destination. or perceived flirting' as at least for the moment they

stay

ed together until one night when everything went to hell. It's a frigid Friday afternoon in February when Tara arrives

home

from Puerto Rico and informs Stephen that she will return a day early on Sunday.

They immediately started arguing, he had told her this had to stop, you've been gone all along, Tara reportedly angrily packs her bags and walks out the front door, down the driveway and shot and chewed like a car service, a black car. Stephen tries to call her over the next few days. Stephen calls Tara several times but gets no answer. He also calls her boss in Puerto Rico and her family, but they still aren't worried about her and say she's probably just cooling her off. jets and she just stays away from you because she's angry and you'll be hearing from her soon, but after five days of desperately trying to find her on Valentine's Day, Stephen reports that Tara was missing, she arrived, one of our helpers took a report from he and We immediately turned him over to our detective bureau because it just didn't add up, the intense search was underway, it was a big deal because, frankly, I'm attractive, well-educated

exec

utives didn't disappear in the suburbs of Detroit.

Tara Grant, globetrotting executive and mother of two, left where they lived, people didn't just leave, her husband Stephen Grant says that after arguing one night she left their suburban Detroit home and flew home early. I work in Puerto Rico and he's been trying to find her for five days, he became a county sheriff's detective, Sergeant Pam McLean and her partner, Detective Brian Kozlowski, almost immediately believe something is wrong, well, first we get there At the house, Stephens was very nervous, he was very restless, he was trying to be too cooperative and the more questions we started asking him, the more nervous he became, but being nervous doesn't make someone guilty and Tara is just missing, so That the detectives also look at the others wondering if another lover is connected to her disappearance or what about the babysitter the couple had been getting.

In the days leading up to Tara's disappearance, their relationship had begun approximately four to six weeks before Tara's disappearance and was rapidly escalating. The children were home sleeping the night her mother disappeared, but Verena was away while she continues the investigation. The detectives are watching Stephen. We set up surveillance on him, we knew something wasn't right and we think he had something to do with it, meanwhile Stephen is busy playing the distraught husband. I hope their walks and their heads don't taste good, they're becoming a regular on the nightly news tell me if there are people who buy it please call me come in that's called South one you see it wasn't an Oscar worthy performance this one He's a guy who is now the star of the Stephen Grant show to me the detectives are watching and we're getting closer to breaking down Stephens' implausible story and we found out that she wasn't back in Puerto Rico.

We had checked all the airlines. We knew that her passport had not been used. We knew her credit card had not been used. and cell phone records showed when her last call was made, then investigators take a break when a woman walking through a local park sees a bag stuffed in a tree filled with some questionable items, gloves, metal shavings and blood that Then we learned that they were actually arrows, blood, a police bomb. arranged for the rest of the park to be searched at the same time staying with Stephen, it is at this point that Stephen had become somewhat uncooperative with us, any questions we had or anything, had to go directly through a lawyer who was had refused to accept. a polygraph for us, we later learned that she had undergone a private polygraph and it was inconclusive three weeks after Tara disappeared detectives obtain a search warrant for the grant house a knock on the door brings a team of investigators he was there At the beginning of the search, when we get there, Stephen asks if he can take the dog for a walk.

He was not free to leave. He wasn't being detained by us at that moment as Stephen leaves the house and heads into the cold winter night. The case takes a scary turn we were all standing in the garage and my partner noticed that this seemed a little out of place and he opened it and he could see there was a lot of plastic in there and he kind of pushed it and he could feel a little present and he said: Doesn't that seem good to me? The detectives cut the plastic and find that it will sicken the most experienced investigators inside the bag where the remains of Tara's clove grant at least part of it. her torso from her neck to the top of her thighs on her back she had on her bra panties and part of the pants she had been wearing Tara Grant was dead and part of her was in her own garage .

My first thought was that his feeling wasn't We Got Him, but was Stephen acting alone? Stephen Grant is on the run. His

wife

Tara Grant had been missing for the past three weeks, but everything changed when a search of the family home yielded the most gruesome of discoveries: her torso was from her neck. up to her waist found in a container right next to a tub with his children's toys, he knew we were going to find it and that was when he fled. The search for Stephen Grant is underway. The FBI is invading the state preparing a raid.

In full pursuit of him, a suicidal Stephen borrows a friend's car and heads north into the frigid Michigan night. He makes this meandering trip across the state of Michigan and remembers that he and Tara used to camp at Wilderness State Park as he heads there. Stephen arms himself with alcohol tablets, razor blades and something else. He bought a toy gun thinking that if he had a gun in his hand and pointed it at the police, they would shoot him after driving for hours. Desperate Steven does. some final calls and writes goodbye letters to his two young children, he knew he was not going to win, he was right, his vehicle is located in the park and they found it under the tree, he had extreme hypothermia, semi-conscious, he was seeing people and talking to the trees and he was in pretty bad shape, they transported him by plane.

I was taken to the local hospital once Macomb County Sheriff's Detectives McLean and Kozlovsky arrive, they play Stephen Grant under arrest but he wants to talk, only the audio of him is recorded. :45 p.m. Interviewing Stephen at Northern Michigan Hospital little does detectives know the extent of the wild secrets Stephens was hiding one Friday night in February. Stephen says it all started in his room when Tara was unpacking her work trip and he was naked getting ready for bed and a fight. about Terra's busy work and travel schedule, the argument quickly escalates Tara slaps him, then Stephen hits her, she fell, oh, hits her head on the floor and then said something like, okay, I'm a kid big, enraged, Stephen does the unthinkable finally grabbed my hand at one point it was too late Stephen continues to strangle Tara she was looking him in the eyes and he was fighting with him and he grabbed a piece of clothing and put it on her face to that he didn't do it.

I have to see why he was killing her after more than four minutes of cruelly strangling the life of her wife. Tara Grant is dead and then with her young children sleeping just two feet away. She wrapped a belt around her neck. I think she was my brown. leather belt I know I couldn't carry her, so I wrapped it around her neck and used it to hold her down the stairs. Still naked, Stephen drags Tara's

body

to the freezing garage where he struggles to get her into the back of her own truck. I dropped the disgusting sound of it, it just sounded like dropping the watermelon on cement.

Then I knew that I had killed. Stephen finally puts her in the truck, puts her in the back of her truck, closes the door, and returns to her house moments later. Verena, the family nanny with whom he had flirted, walks through the door. Stephen quickly dresses and then tells her the story he made up: he and Tara fought and she abandoned him. He wanted the babysitter to feel sorry for him right now she was playing. what oh my wife has left me a card so Stephen starts a plan to cover his tracks he started doing things like calling his wife's cell phone and leaving messages knowing of course that her

body

was in the family garage the next day Stephen's plan He takes a terrifying turn after saying goodbye to his children, drives Tara's car with her body in the back to his father's machine shop, places a pile of tarps on the floor, removes her body, places her on top and begins to dismember it. tears hands to the next joint and the next joint and the same with his legs and how cute - what a surprisingly barbaric act I just said to myself look if you don't do this you will go to prison to rest your life and when Steven is done, he wraps the

parts

of the body in plastic and fill a large plastic container to the brim with Tara.

I put everything, I think it's a newspaper in there, please, at one point there was some blood, but it's very real, particularly like a syrup, so you had Tara's entire body. One in a Rubbermaid container early the next morning. Stephan grabs his son's sled and heads to snowy Stoney Creek Park while he stands on a hill. Steven puts the container on top of the sled, but before he knows it, you know I'm chasing this sled. He kind of has a body down the hill and I finally stopped him when he fell, he broke those pieces but he rolls fast.

Steven eventually gathers Tara's mutilated body

parts

and buries them around the park. Steven brought Tara's body and her remains to this area. here and he hoped that the wildlife and within the park would eat the remains and therefore the bones of the dream, whichthen it would make it a little easier to avoid detection, not that that would be her final resting place, he moved her multiple times to multiple locations. I've done a very, very bad job of hiding everything that's there on the elephant because of the way he was giving us his confession. It was like he was just telling a story, he would laugh, he would joke, he didn't show any remorse, it was just Los Tom's story detectives also learned from Stephen what led to their big break when they found Tara's torso in the family garage.

It turns out that when Steven heard that there was going to be a large-scale search in the park, he panicked fearing that the poorly hidden torso would be easily found. first he took it out of the park then he took it to his father's

business

and put it on top of the office area up there it stayed there for about a day and at that time he moved it because he was afraid it would start to smell bad and then that's when he took it to his garage, but that's also when the detectives showed up with that search warrant.

Our timing was right. Fortunately for us, he had just moved her torso there the night before investigators finally located most, but not all, of Tara's remains. They thought there were 14 pieces but they only recovered 11 and they also found some of the saw. Blades that Stephen used We recovered some with some tears still in the flesh Detectives now know that Stephen Grant committed this despicable act by himself The babysitter had nothing to do with it With that nine months after Grant is arrested for the brutal murder of his wife the case goes to trial and after three weeks of testimony Stephen Grant is found guilty of second degree murder and mutilation of a corpse.

He is sentenced to between 50 and 80 years. She certainly didn't deserve to die like this. Andrea Billups co-wrote a book about Tara's murder. She called it a murder in the suburbs and she says that while justice has technically been served, no punishment can replace what has been lost. I think the great sadness of this case was obviously for these children who were born six years at the time this murder occurred, so now they had lost their mother and their father was going to go to prison for what will undoubtedly mean the rest of his life. It's just an enormous tragedy.