"48 Hours Mystery": Deadly Prophecy

When she heard about Faylene Grant's close call in Utah, sister-in-law Tammy Fuentes immediately went to the Grant's home to get it ready for their return.

She got the shock of her life.

"She had prepared her house as if she was not coming home," she told Susan Spencer.

Fuentes said Faylene had left notes of Mormon scripture everywhere; plus, there were bags of personal items, clothing and pictures with instructions to give them all away.

Faylene's fall now made perfect sense to her. "She thought she was going to die on that mountain," Fuentes realized. "She tried to kill herself… I know she did. And I knew then that I wanted to confront Faylene about it. And I was going to confront her about it."

When Faylene came home from the hospital two days later, it didn't seem like the time.

"Faylene was real sore," Tammy said. "She's been injured, you know, in the fall."

Doug said his wife "was hurting pretty bad." He had asked his friend, Physician's Assistant Chad White, to examine Faylene at home.

"She seemed happy to me, regardless of all of her injuries," said White.

Faylene had no broken bones, but was still in pain and couldn't sleep. White prescribed a muscle relaxant and the sleep aid, Ambien, recording in his notes that he specifically told Doug not to fill the Ambien prescription without calling him first.

"I just simply didn't want her taking the two together," said White.

White next heard from Doug just after 7:30 a.m. the following morning.

"He was very alarmed - very panicked," White told Spencer. "He told me that she had gone in to take a bath…that he was laying on the bed and had fallen asleep"

When he woke up, Doug said he found Faylene unconscious in the tub; her head under water.

When asked what happened next, he told Spencer, "[I] got her out… put her on the bed. Started CPR."

"I asked if he had called 911," White told Spencer. "He informed me that he had not called 911. I asked him why and he, he relayed to me that he was afraid."

White jumped in the car and called 911 himself.

Listen to excerpts of White's 911 call

Meanwhile, at the house, Faylene's daughter, Jenna, said her stepfather was freaking out.

"I hear Doug and he's screaming. He's panting. And he's having a hard time. It looks like he's bracing himself… and then he told me [to] take my little brothers to the next door," she said.

Jenna ran to the home of Andrea Rodgers, who raced to the Grants to see if she could help.

"Doug came flying to the door, so upset. My whole body just reacted to the terror in his eyes," Rodgers recalled.

Chad White showed up minutes later and took over. "He had obviously pulled her from the tub. And she was laying there unresponsive… she did not have any vital signs."

With Doug looking on, White tried CPR until the paramedics arrived.

'[Doug] was crying. He's bawling. He was yelling out, 'Please help her. Please help her,'" said White.

Paramedics got Faylene's heart going again and rushed her to the hospital, where Jenna remembers a bizarre scene.

"As my mom is laying in a bed unconscious with tubes running through her nose, in her arm, Doug takes me out into the hallway and he tells me…'If your mom wakes up, she might say weird things,'" Jenna recalled.

Jenna said Doug seemed too eager to accept the possibility that Faylene might not wake up. But as she watched her mother's heart rate on the monitor, she knew Faylene wasn't coming back.

"I kept looking at the screen and it just kept going down and down…from 100 to 75 to 50. And then I realized what was happening," Jenna said. "She was dying."

Soon, doctors said brain activity had ceased and Doug authorized taking her off life support. At 4:37 p.m. on Sept. 27, 2001, Faylene Grant was pronounced dead. The official cause: drowning. But tests showed a whopping 50 milligrams of Ambien in her system. Clearly, Doug had ignored Chad White's orders.

"You didn't call him when you chose to fill the prescription?" Spencer asked Doug.

"I didn't feel I needed to call to fill the prescription," he replied.

Still, investigators seemed unconcerned. In the bathroom and in Faylene's bedroom, they shot just five photos. In the coming days, they would fail to interview key witnesses and they even lost evidence - including the pill bottles. Then again, they had ruled this death an accident the very day Faylene was found.

Faylene's family was upset. It took months of pressure from them before investigators started taking a closer look at Doug Grant.

And that's when Detective Sy Ray got the case.

"I felt there was a lot of unanswered questions... so I primarily focused on just trying to answer some of the real basic questions," Ray explained. "The first thing we looked at that helped us do that was the phone records."

Ray found a slew of calls from the months before Faylene died between Doug's phones and Hilary Dewitt's.

Prosecutor Juan Martinez said authorities became even more intrigued at reports that Doug and Hilary had met in a park only hours after Faylene's death.

"When he saw her, he grabbed her around the hip area… pulled her towards him… and said, 'Ooh I miss this," he said.

"That scenario is chilling," Spencer responded.

"Well it is chilling and it isn't a scenario. It's something that happened," said Martinez.

Hilary admitted meeting Doug in the park, but she wasn't sure when. And she adamantly denied any conversation about her hips, but nobody denies what happened a few weeks later.

Less than a month after Faylene's death, Doug and Hilary became man and wife.

"I know how people feel about us getting married so quick," Hilary told Spencer. "I don't care what people perceive about me. I am who I am and that's my life…"

Doug and Hilary had started a new life, but Det. Sy Ray had no intention of moving on.

"I had a lot of concerns about the way he reported things happening," Ray said. "Just some real common sense things that I felt just didn't quite fit in."

Chief among them, Ray said he just couldn't get over that Doug never had called 911.

"I know with every fiber of my being that I called them," Doug told Spencer. "I called 911!"

Phoenix-area records show no such call. Still, Ray didn't have enough for an arrest until the sudden appearance of a new and reluctant witness.

"I didn't want to get involved because I knew what was going to happen once my name hit the papers," said Jim McElyea.

Caught on tape with a story about what Doug Grant told him really happened the day Faylene died.

According to Ray, "It's the missing piece of evidence that we're looking for."

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[earthygirl84]

I have to agree that this woman is a bit looney. It is obvious that organized religion played a huge scary role in what has come to her demise. I think that Doug is innocent of actually killing his wife against her will. As bizarre as it sounds, I think that she did have suicidal thoughts and really did believe that she was going to be with God. I think that Doug may have not cared to the point in not preventing it, or yes, he may have encouraged her to do the things she felt were prophesized in her destiny just to rid of the crazy life he had to spend with her.. Maybe he felt it was his duty to stick by her no matter what. Kinda brings a whole new meaning to "til death do us part" My heart goes out to her daughter Jenna, I am so sorry for the way this has turned out for her, however, sometimes there really is nobody to blame.. Sometimes you can't point the finger at anyone. As far as Hilary goes, it seems that 3 weeks is a very short time to mourn and then get married, but if Doug was emotionally unattached to Faylene then moving on would be natural.. I know it seems heartless to think this way, but it is what it is, it's reality...

[curious51]

I wish ANY reporter would contact me to discuss the suspicious death of my son, Joshua Robinson, who was found dead in Amsler Park/McGregor, Tx on February 16, 2006. Without investigating or asking me, the mother, any questions, the police presumed the death was due to suicide!
However, after 3+ years of research, teaching myself basic forensics such as manner/cause of death, rigor/livor mortis, cadaveric spasm, digestion processes pertaining to time of death, etc, I have concluded that Joshua did NOT die from his own hands!
www.americaiswatching.org (Joshua Robinson) Attached documents, including a crime scene photo, statement that a patrol officer was the last person to see him alive in Amsler Park, which has a 10PM curfew, and an online petition.
www.realcrimes.com (Joshua Robinson) Attached documents.
www.blogtalkradio.com/dennisngriffin Commentary~October 6, 2009

[raydernation]

I wished they would've shown the 2 hour version of this case like they did about 5 months ago. Than you all really would be more upset at this jury. This woman had serious psychological and mental issues. Her husband hung in there best he could. When they first got married he gave all her family memebers jobs in his business, good jobs. The guy was doing real well for himself, he just got hooked up with a wack job. They didn't show the time she went to this remote mountain in the desert to talk to God, and stayed there for several days, she suffered from dehydration, hunger, and almost died, they traced her by pinging her cell phone. Other weird things she did as well, they didn't cover in this hour episode. Regardless, the jury got it wrong, all those notes and memoirs she wrote virtually saying she was ready to meet God, and she finally did it. Only thing she met the other man down below, suicide is the ultimate sin which casts you strait to hell. Very sad story, hopefully this guy can hold up, he's lucky to get 5 years, should have been exonnerated though. Very sad story.

[48hrzfanz]

The guy deserved manslaughter because he let her die. I don't believe she fell off that l mountain ledge at all. She sustained only minor injuries off a cliff that high with all those sharp rocks. Also, The guy never called 911. Plus, the crying game. FAKE!!! Dateline NBC did a story on his whole crying episodes. He cried tears at the drop of a hat. He should've become an actor.

[bann65]

I feel sorry for Doug. He even went back and remarried Faylene! I'm hoping I'm right, but I think Faylene needed psychological help, big time. I hope he and Hillary can have a wonderful life ahead of them, when he comes back.

[rondivoo]

There is no justice here! There is overwhelming evidence that Faylene was seriously disturbed mentally for a long time. She obviously committed suicide, either by sure intentions or by a half-hearted attempt (either of which resulted in her death). The "fall" on the mountain was no doubt the first half-hearted attempt to kill herself. Not wanting anyone to know what she really did, they both covered it up with their "falling" story. This man endured a lot. He lived with a woman who was constantly "up" or "down" emotionally... that is extremely difficult for the spouse. But he loved her and tried to help her. After all, he didn't HAVE to remarry her. If he had wanted to marry Hilary, he could have stayed divorced from Faylene. No way did Doug murder his wife, nor did he have any participation in her death. This poor guy was sent to prison by an inept jury who didn't like him because he had affairs. This is SO wrong!

[stryker54]

The lady was a nut case. Again a woman able to screw a mans life over from the grave. Must have been a real loony tune.

[shmew1]

I believe CBS did an outstanding job of reporting on this. However, the case in my opinion is another classic case of a miscarriage of justice in the case of Adam. There may be many faults within him, but there doesn't seem to be any evidence that he did his wife any physical harm. But in Arizona, he had three strikes against him, he is a Morman, who married a delusional Morman, and then married another Morman. Mormans have long been discriminated against in Arizona because of their religious practices, and when you have a man that has had mulitple relationships with women it makes it all the easier to find a reason to dislike him. The jury admitted they convicted him of being a scum bag. Trouble is he wasn't on trial for that. Hopefully, his attorney can get the conviction overturned on appeal. How that jury can sleep at night or live with themselves is beyond me. To destroy someone because they don't fit your idea of the perfect man is well, just obsurd on the face of it. Like I said, hopefully the attorney will appeal based on the daughters testimony, which in my opinion should not have been allowed, prosecutor misconduct,the finding of the coroner that no crime was comitted,juror statements, and the failure of the judge to properly instruct the jury, set the verdict aside, but most of all her failure to simply dismiss the case from the start for a lack of evidence. Simply put, Adam remarried his wife at her request,he didn't have to, and in my opinion his delusional wife did what she had planned to do, which was to get even with a cheating husband by killing herself in a manner that would result in his loss of reputation if not imprisonment. She got what she wanted. Kinda of scary when you think about it, that one can go to prison for not being a nice person, and the only evidence presented is discounted, evidence of a very disturbed woman by her on account, who planned her death and dreamed of suicide, but hey that is Arizona.

[guest173]

A responsible man would need to tell his wife to stop talking the way Faylene talked. Doug encouraged that idiot talk Faylene was doing, with the selfish motive of getting a new young wife who is also an idiot by the way she is going along with all Doug's stupid fantasies.