Murder In Michigan
A chronology in the disappearance of Tara Lynn Grant.
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Tara Lynn Grant, 34, returns from a business trip to Puerto Rico and argues with her husband Stephen, 37, at their home in Macomb County's Washington Township. Stephen Grant says he saw his wife getting into a car at the end of their driveway.
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Stephen Grant notifies the Macomb County Sheriff's Department that his wife is missing. He says later that he waited to tell police because she might have been "blowing off steam" after the argument and before returning home.
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Grant is pulled over for a traffic infraction and, according to his attorney David Griem, is held for six hours.
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A woman identifying herself as Grant's ex-girlfriend gives police a series of e-mails indicating that Grant suspected his wife was having an affair and he installed a device on their home computer to track with whom she was corresponding. The ex-girlfriend tells The Detroit News that Grant began calling and e-mailing her more regularly a few weeks earlier.
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Police conduct a 4 1/2-hour search of Stony Creek Metropark and surrounding wooded areas near the Grants' home. Tara Grant was known to jog in the area. The search yields no clues.
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A magistrate authorizes a search warrant allowing sheriff's investigators to search the Grants' home and a Mount Clemens business where Stephen Grant worked. Stephen Grant allows deputies inside the house, then leaves with his sister, according to Griem.
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Investigators say they found what is believed to be the torso of Tara Grant in the garage of her home. Stephen Grant is identified by Sheriff Mark Hackel as the only suspect in her death.
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Authorities apprehend Grant in a state park at the tip of Michigan's Lower Peninsula, about 225 miles from his home. He is held at a Petoskey hospital and treated for frostbite and hypothermia.
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At a news conference, Macomb County Sheriff Mark Hackel said Stephen Grant had confessed to killing and dismembering his wife, and described the "horrific" details surrounding her death. Hackel said the couple's young children were home at the time of the killing. Grant was later released from a hospital where was recovering from hypothermia. Handcuffed in a wheelchair and wearing a black-and-white-striped prisoner jumpsuit, he was taken to Macomb County Jail.
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Stephen Grant is arraigned on charges of first-degree murder and dismemberment of a body, and Judge Denis LeDuc entered a not guilty plea on his behalf. Grant had no attorney at the arraignment. David Griem, who had acted as his spokesman, said Sunday he no longer would represent Grant because of irreconcilable differences. The judge said he would appoint a lawyer for Grant. He also ordered him held without bail.
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Credits:
CBS/AP
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