Comments on: Cops: Husband Admits To "Horrific" Murder

Police Say Stephen Grant Confessed To Killing Wife Tara

[passerby2]

this guy's lost it all in the head. i don't think he even cares what will happen to him, I mean how can he go through the process of cutting up his wife for crying out loud. just sick, completely sick

[plplearecrzy]

Perhaps I'm simplistic, but I still believe in "personal" responsibility.

Cage the Rage...sorry about getting the names wrong.

[retmilspouse]

Considering that this guy can't get anything more harsh than life, what difference does it make to you if he sits in a cell for 15 years before his appeals are exhausted?
Posted by formrusmcsgt at 04:00 PM : Mar 05, 2007

I care because the family needs to have closure. Those small children need to move out without their mother now. Why should they have to see it played out on tv in magazines every year or so for the next 10-15 years what their dad did. Can you imagine the hurt and pain they will feel when they are old enought to realize what has gone on?

Also it costs the taxpayers of Michigan to draw it out. It would be nice to know that he would get put in a jail cell with limited resources without the light of day, but he won't, he will have access to more than he deserves.

[cagetherage1]

I don't feel that anyone here is trying to use it as an excuse for what he did. What he did was horrible and he alone is responsible for what he did to his children's mother. However, the question was raised as to how one person can do this to another and this was offered as a possible reason behing his hideous actions. He obviously does not value human life as most of the rest of us do. Since behavior is learned, he had to have learned it someplace. Additionally, we need to look seriously at this possibility, because we have another whole generation coming of age that has been raised on this type of stuff, if Columbine, etc., is any indication....

[trueprogress]

As a graduate student, I have learned to evaluate all situations without harsh judgmental negative influences to cloud the issues. All I am saying is that we ALL have to take responsibility when we allow, protect, promote, enhance, subsidize and glamorize the violence that our societal fabric enjoys, vis a vis movies, award shows for movies . e.g. Saws and that double dose of violence honored at the awards of some kind, about a bogus war with Japan and China.
So, we have to step back and ask, what role did we play in this terrible trajedy .

[cagetherage1]

"Hackel" is the Sheriff of Macomb County, "Grant" is the guy who confessed to murdering and dismembering his wife. Just trying to help.....

[plplearecrzy]

Excuse me TRUEPROGRESS I don't believe this woman asked to be strangled and then dismembered while her children were present in her home. She may have shared in marriage troubles, but her husband is TOTALLY to blame for her murder. I for one believe, we as individuals are responsible for our actions and no one else. You screw up...you have no one to blame but yourself. Mr. Hackel had the option of divorce or separation, he chose murder. He should pay...I pity Mrs. Hackel's children and family.

[cagetherage1]

prosperine writes: "What is wrong with these guys? Not only do they murder their wives but they cut them up like so many packages of hamburger."
I believe that it is at least partially caused by too many of the gory movies, video games involving killing and maiming, and other sorts of similiar media during a child's formative years. While I can understand the dynamics behind what might cause one to kill a loved one (no I am not saying that killing a loved one is OK). However, I can not imagine dismembering and mutilating another human, especially someone that I have loved and parented children with. I believe that a child who is allowed to see the type of media that I am talking about becomes desensitized to killing, maiming, multilation, etc. and that it gets to a point where it does not bother them in the way it would the rest of us. I am not some screaming, raving anti-war/horror movie/video game fanatic. As a kid I saw my share of these types of movies and played "war" with the fake plastic guns, etc., and it did not affect me in this way, but I think we can all agree that things are different today, being more graphic, etc.

[cagetherage1]

No doubt, I agree that our system of justice will still allow him to have a trial by jury and the opportunity to exhaust all sorts of appeals before all is said and done. But what is especially unfortunate in this case is that is the system that WE chose to protect ourselves from a tyrannical government. Please don't get me wrong, I feel the same as most of you do, however, I also recognize the we are a part of a society that chooses to believe that it is the right and moral thing to do.

[prosperine-2009]

What is wrong with these guys? Not only do they murder their wives but they cut them up like so many packages of hamburger. They were having money problems... who the hell doesn't have money problems at one time or another in his life? Why couldn't they just have filed bancruptcy and started over?