Another sad story

This story has been all over the front pages of the newspapers and on all of the news channels for three weeks, and has made it on Fox News Channel as well as Nancy Grace and was to be profiled on America's Most Wanted tonight. Now, it has come to a sad conclusion.

Tara Grant, a 34 year old mom from the same county as me, disappeared on February 9 after arguring with her husband about the number of business trips she had to take. He said someone called her, and she left. When she didn't show up for work, he finally reported her missing on Valentines Day. Telephone records have shown that no one called Tara, and the day after reporting her missing, her husband hired an attorney, wouldn't take a lie detector test, would not turn over computers, would not let them look in the house, and would only communicate with the police through his attorney. Then, like the Laci Petterson case, an ex-girlfriend came out with emails that Stephen Grant sent to her 2 weeks before Tara went missing trying to start up an affair with her, calling marriage vows liek speed limits, that sometimes they need to be broken.

Police were finally able to obtain a search warrant for their house and the gruesome discovery of Tara's torso was found in the garage. They then searched a nearby park and recently found more body parts suspected to be Tara's. Stephen is now missing, and two children are going to be without their mother, and as it looks, their father as well.

I know this is a long shot, but you never know. Though only a few people read this blog, I want to get this info out there. Stephen is suspected of driving a 2006 yellow Dodge Ram truck with Michigan license plates 9FL-R57. Maybe just keep an eye out. He has been gone since late last night, so he could be far gone by now. Justice needs to be done for this young mother, and I just want to get the word out there. I am not sure if America's Most Wanted is still going to be airing the case, but I will be watching!

Next time, I promise not so much depressing news.

Why?

It is a very sad day today in our neck of the woods. A mother of two young girls apparently stabbed her two daughters to death, along with two dogs and a pet mouse. The woman's sister alerted police after her sister called her and told her she heard voices that were telling her to harm her children and that she has ate people in the past. To me, I just can't understand and comprehend how someone could harm another living person so brutally, let alone their own children. It seems that she likely had and has some serious mental problems, but I just can not believe that it would go so unnoticed that it could lead up to this. It seems that she was also doing drugs at the time, which just makes me so mad that this woman would have her children and would do drugs in their prescence. It just really hits close to home, as the children attend the same elementary school that I did, and I know teachers in the little girls' school. Today, due to the weather and the frigid cold, classes were canceled but I know that grief counselors are planned to be on hand when the children return to school. How can one explain to these girls' classmates, just 5 and 8 years old, that something so horrible has happened. I am 25 and cannot grasp it. Those poor girls were apparently awake when this happened and felt such pain and confusion that the one person who was to protect them forever has harmed them. I would just ask for your thoughts and if you pray, your prayers, for the many people that these little girls lives touched and that they are in a much better place now where no harm can come to them.

Here is a link to the news story if you are interested.

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070205/NEWS04/70205025