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Hi everyone, I'm Tanya and I'm
Talia, and we are Crimes and Consequences,

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a true crime podcast. Hi,
Talia, Ky, Tania, how

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you doing today? Okay, let's
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regular episode, So welcome back everyone.

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I'm doing great. Thank you for
asking. So welcome back to another exciting

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episode of Rhymes and Consequences. Have
you ever heard of Lobster Boy? I

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have in the book that's probably completely
inappropriate, like in nineteen eighties called Freaks.

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Oh okay, you're talking about I
always got the little hands that,

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yeah, that were like labster claws. Yes. Yes. His name was

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Grady Styles Junior, and he was
born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, nineteen thirty

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seven, and he would grow up, obviously to lead a very interesting life.

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He was known as lobster Boy.
I know. He had a rare

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medical condition that ran and his family
was genetic and the condition is called ectrodactyle,

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and it is commonly known as lobster
claw syndrome. Like I said,

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it's genetic. It's very rare.
And what it is. It causes extremities

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your hands, your feet or both
to have malformation. They're like attached or

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something. You know. It's funny
though the condition may not start in the

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womb, and it could develop later
in someone's life. So how's that pass?

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I know, it's just bizarre.
But for Grady, his symptoms were

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prenatal, so the middle parts of
his hands and feet were missing. He

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had it both in his hands and
feet. So what happens is like he

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had like a thumb and a pinky
with like the rest of the fingers fused

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together together. So he had like
it looked like a lobster claw, but

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he had all his fingers right,
No, they were all fused together.

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It was like, well too big, you know, I get lobster claw.

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And like I said, his feet
were exactly the same. So because

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his feet were disformed, he couldn't
walk and he would use a wheelchair.

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Ok. Okay, for many people
in the thirties and forties, this condition

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really hadn't been seen many times.
Obviously, no internet no, even television.

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I mean, where do you see
someone. I've never seen anybody not

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in person. It's rare. Yeah, it's rare. Grady was the sixth

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generation in his family to have this
condition. Wow, right, so family

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members went back to like the eighteen
hundreds, they still managed to find someone

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to love them. Yeah, exactly, the sixth generation. That's true.

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That's true. And Greedy was the
fourth child of his father, Greedy Senior,

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and his mom Edna, and every
offspring that Greedy Senior and Edna had

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they had the same condition, with
exception of one of his sisters. So

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it's dominant. Yes. So rather
than being ashamed or embarrassed about the family

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deformities, the Styles family capitalized on
it and they were a side show America.

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I know, in a traveling carnival
and you know, like you mentioned,

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you read a book called Freaks.
They were commonly known as freak shows.

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But that's impropriate, that's inappropriate.
Now. The family then continued to

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grow and produce more and more children
that had this condition, like kind of

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like to continue to fuel the side
show. Right. Oh yeah. They

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eventually developed a family circus known as
the Lobster Family, and they became a

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prime attraction in carnivals throughout the early
twentieth century. They were really popular.

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Lobster family, the Lobster family.
Why not, Why not? Paula's going

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to make money. They can't walk, they can these are hands at well

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exactly his nineteen thirties. Yeah,
it's nineteen thirties. And now even though

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I mentioned like most of his brothers
and sisters had the condition, not all

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of them had them in both their
hands and feet. But Grady did.

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Like I said when I mentioned,
he had this wheelchair, and when he

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wasn't using the wheelchair, he would
use his arms to pull himself across the

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floor. So he developed a really
incredible upper body strength just because that's how

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he used to get around when he
didn't have the chair. So I'm telling

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you, you know, his family
is touring this circuit, this carnival circuit,

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and they spent their off season in
a place called Gibsonton, Florida that

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was known as Showtown, USA,
and it was the most popular hub for

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circus and carnival performers throughout the winter
months, so they all seemed to flock

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there. I had no idea.
I didn't either in case you're wondering,

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like how much money could they really
make? This family did really well,

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the Styles family, they made about
sixty to eighty thousand dollars per season,

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and the season would be only for
about half a year. I mean it's

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a lot of money. What years
like nineteen let's say it's nineteen forty and

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it's one point seven million dollars in
today's money. So they did really when

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they didn't need more full time,
no half the year. The nice thing

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about all of the carnival workers going
to the city in Florida was because they

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were all there, they kind of
got away from people like staring at them.

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It's kind of like they you know, they truly got to community that

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they fit in. Yeah, exactly. During this time, while Grady grew

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up, he learned to write and
he learned to shoot a gun. So

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it's very important things. It's physical. His physical limitations did not stop him

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from doing those things. Eventually,
at some point, young Grady fell madly

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in love with another carnival worker named
Mary Teresa. And I've seen it as

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Mary, and I've seen it as
Maria, so I'm just going to call

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her Mary. She had run away
from her home to join the circus when

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she was a teenager. She was
a product of incest and she was physically

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abused by her parents. And even
though she traveled with the carnival, Mary

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wasn't part of any act. She
was just a staff member, so she

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wasn't part of the fight show unique
about her, right right, She was

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just a regular worker. So Mary
and Grady hit it off really well and

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they eventually got married. While married, Grady and Mary had two children,

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two daughters named Kathy and Donna.
Their daughter, Kathy wasn't born with this

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lobster claw syndrome, but Donna was. Both children would become part of the

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carnival, joining the rest of the
family. Since Donna wasn't born with a

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genetic condition, Grady actually favored her
a little bit over her sister. As

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they grew up, Kathy was the
apple of his eye. It's been said.

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At some point Grady began to drink
heavily, and along with that he

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became abusive to his family. Yeah, he was an incredibly mean drunk and

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would use his upper body strength to
his advantage while beating Mary and Donna.

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Because Kathy was his favorite, so
he did not abuse her. And you

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know this is really kind of graphics. I'm just warning everybody. So Mary

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used an IUD. It's her form
of birth control. I don't want to

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know this. During a fight,
Grady used his claws. Stop, hands

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up. You know what I'm gonna
say? Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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go ahead. He literally ripped the
cud out of Mary's body. Oh my

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god, yeah, I don't.
I don't understand it. I don't want

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to know. I just can't.
I don't want to picture it. Just

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can you move forward? Oh?
Absolutely? That was That was all I

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was going to tell you about that. My god, I'm just trying to

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give you, like the level of
abuse this poor woman suffering. I can

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handle ahead being tapped off. I
can't handle things like that. I know.

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He would choke her when they fought, and his hands were perfect for

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him to be able to just wrap
around her knock and you know, do

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that. His hands weren't functionable enough
to do much else. He became extremely

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dangerous to everyone around him due to
his alcoholism. Takeaway his reel chair,

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then he's got a crawl. I'm
not trying to be me, I know.

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And two things that I mentioned,
the choking and the other thing that

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we won't get into that wasn't even
the worst. Yeah, it wasn't even

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the worst of what he's done what
he will go on to do his daughter

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Donna, And Donna was the one
that was born with the syndrome. She

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fell madly in love with a young
man named Jake Lane who was eighteen and

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she was sixteen. And Grady hated
this kid from the beginning. Was he

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like your average Yeah, I believe
so. I believe so. Like I

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didn't find anything that said that he
had any sort of or anything right,

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Oh, she was actually fifteen years
old. Excuse me. When she became

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engaged to Jack, they were planning
their wedding and Grady felt the need to

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put a stop to this relationship altogether. He was like, nope. He

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asked Donna to break off the engagement, but she said, you know,

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she loved Jack so much and she
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to do. So the reason why
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But on the day before his daughter's
wedding, Grady met up with Jack.

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And there's two different versions of the
story. One said that Grady invited

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Jack over under the ruse he was
going to bless the marriage between Jack and

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Donna, And the other theory is
that Grady went to Jack's home to give

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him the blessing. So I'm not
sure exactly Okay, where this incident happened.

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Well, if anybody tries to marry
my fifteen year old daughter, yeah

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there's gonna be a big problem.
That means a different time. Yeah,

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it was a different time. The
meeting happened in September of nineteen seventy eight,

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and before he even spoke to Jack, like when the two met up,

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Grady fatally shot Jack twice with his
shotgun and it killed him instantly.

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Yeah, and the poor guy was
loving her, loving his daughter, all

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her just the way she is as
Grady, he figured if Dinna got married,

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she would leave and he'd no longer
be able to control her. Or

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maybe she'd have babies and they'd have
more little baby right. I don't know

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family, but he had issues like
control of his family was his number one

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priority. When Dinna found out about
the murder of her poor fiance, Jack,

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Grady gave her a devilish smile while
saying, I told you I would

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kill him, Okay, like what
I'd be scared of death of my dad.

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I hope someone went to the place. Well. Grady was arrested for

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Jack's murder and a child date was
set with the jury consisting of six men

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and six women. Grady really didn't
give a shit about the consequences, and

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he showed absolutely no remorse for what
he did. The defense claimed that Jack

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Lane was shot twice in self defense. Grady said he feared for his life.

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He's disabled. He's disabled. He's
disabled. How can I even choot

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a gun? Right? The defense
went on to say that everyone involved,

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his family and the police got together
to completely dramatize their stories since the shooting.

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Donna, the farmer bride to be. She was out of town,

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but somehow she was able to be
in cahoots with the police to go against

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Grady, like we're all conspiring right. The prosecution told a jury that Grady

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had threatened to kill Jack on multiple
occasions and that he went out to purchase

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the gun in order to follow through
with the threat. He just really didn't

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want Donna to marry Jack. Donna
testified against her dad, and she said

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that she was going to live with
Jack, even though her father was against

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the underage marriage like she was going
to probably run away. Says she didn't

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care about getting his blessing, so
that's why this whole story is kind of

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jacked up. She was happy with
Jack and she wanted to start her life

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with him as soon as possible.
She also testified that after her father killed

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Jack, she said to Grady,
I'll see you at your grave. Oh,

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and that's why she got out of
town. Yeah. The defense claims

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that Anna should be ashamed of her
testimony and then it caused the greatest hurt

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and shame for the Style's family.
The defense attorney, his name was Anthony

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to Cello, told the jury to
visualize all the love and compassion that this

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poor soul has for his children.
It's really trying to play what was his

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self defense? What was Jack going
to do? Well? He said he

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was in fear for his life and
that it was Jack and Jack was going

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to attack him. I don't know
all you just haven't have a gun,

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yeah, exactly. The attorney to
Cello wanted the jury to feel sorry for

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Grady since all he really had was
his family, even though he abused them

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and beat them at every chance he
got and got drunk and blah blah blah.

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But before the trial began, Grady
obtained a court order from the state

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of Florida to get custody of his
children. What yeah, what I know.

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How did he get custody? I
don't think he did. Oh he

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tried, Yeah, he tried.
During the closing arguments, Assistant District Attorney

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Robert Paul Vinsler told the that the
detectives thought that Grady would be found not

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guilty out of sympathy for his disabilities. One of the last statements said by

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the DA was that Grady has not
led a happy life up to this point.

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It's not his fault all, yeah, he said, a really miserable

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life. The jury felt that the
murder was premeditated, even though the defense

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said that the murder was due to
love and compassion for his daughter. So

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Grady attended the verdict reading in his
wheelchair, and he quietly cried as the

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jury foreman read that he was found
guilty of third degree murder. That's amazing.

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The jury heard both sides and convicted
Grady after deliberating for three whole hours.

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Three hours. Judge Thomas Harper postponed
sentencing, which could have been between

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ten to twenty years in prison.
But yeah, but Judge Harper did set

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Grady's bound to ten grand which is
so he got out, yeah, about

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fifty thousand today because this was nineteen
seventy nine. Before sentencing, Grady pleaded

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with the judge that there was no
way that he could ever be in prison.

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There was not a single jail or
prison at the time that was equipped

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to handle his disability and doing so, like putting him into prison, would

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be cruel, unjust, and unusual
punishment. Okay, whatever. Yeah,

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Grady failed to mention at the time
that he also hit cirrhosis of the liver

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from his kind of drinking, along
with emphasima from years and years of smoking

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cigarettes. Oh and how old is
he about this time? He's about fifty

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because he's born in nineteen thirty seven, so yeah, he's like maybe like

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fifty two. Okay. The court
recognized a Grady's argument and they didn't have

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anything really to say, so the
prosecution really didn't say much in rebuttal,

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there's lots of people that are disabled
in prison. I know. But guess

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what, I don't want to hear
it, do I? No, No,

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The judge didn't sentence Grady to prison
time and What's Good gave him fifteen

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years probation. So he walked out
a freeman and went home. Yeah,

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he shot and killed a man and
he got to walk out a team.

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Yeah, an eighteen year old guy. So not long after the murder,

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his wife divorced him. Mary finally
got out of abusive relationship, but this

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didn't stop Grady from marrying his second
life and having two more children. What

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I know, how's this guy getting
women? He's super sexy. I guess

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his drunken rage and abuse kept going
and this caused his second wife to divorce

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him. Mary, his first wife, didn't mourn this divorce from Grady.

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She moved on quickly and she got
remarried to a man named Harry Glenn Newman

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Senior. He also worked for the
carnival. Oh, he was known as

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the world's smallest man. What stop
it? What? Yeah, she married

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the world's smallest man. She married
the world's smallest man. And well,

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he can't hurt her. I'm guessing, yeah, right, he's small.

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Yeah, he's probably small. And
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Harry Glenn Junior, and he would
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he was a little person. He
didn't have any physical deformities, which

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is okay. Yeah, his act
in the side show was he was known

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to hammer nails and drive ice picks
up his own nose with the hand.

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Oh my goodness, the ship and
he did really well financially. Oh,

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I know I am in the wrong
job being a lawyer. I know I

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needn't start figuring out how to put
nails up a breeze fire or something.

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Right after the divorce of his second
wife, Grady persuaded his first wife,

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Mary, who was married to Harry. She remarried him in nineteen eighty nine.

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Yeah. Why what was wrong with
Harry? Don't know. I don't

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know if Harry passed away, I'm
not sure. Okay, but she remarried

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Grady. Wow. No one in
Mary's family or the Style's family knows how

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the hell he got hurt to marry
him a second time. So Mary,

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along with Donna and Cathy, who
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big, happy family. And one
occasion, Grady's daughter Kathy was pregnant and

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she tried to intervene between a bad
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She put Grady's wheelchair in between the
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to calm things down, like separate
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this that he turned to Kathy and
beat her so badly to the point she

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went into early labor. Thankfully,
the baby survived and was born with lobster

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claw syndrome. Graedy became especially cocky
after evading prison for killing a man and

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beating yeah his daughter. He knew
he could literally get away with murder,

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and with this mindset, the beatings
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severe. And this is when Mary
finally finally had enough. She's like,

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fuck this, she was done,
and she put a hit out on Greedy.

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They put a hit on someone I
don't know. Mary put a hit

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out. I'm gonna tell you all
about it. Okay, yeah, okay,

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this is questions. She paid her
seventeen year old neighbor and fellow carnival

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worker. His name was Chris Wyant. She paid him a whopping fifteen hundred

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dollars to murder Grady. Mary she
said, I hit my breaking point.

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I couldn't find a way out of
living. So her son, Glenn,

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which was the world's smallest man's son, remember Harry. So her son,

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Glenn helped his mother come up with
a plan that would get rid of Grady

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once and for all. The story
is so fucked up. I know,

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I know, Okay, I didn't
know all of this. Okay, Glenn

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would plan and help carry out the
murder. So the young neighbor, Chris,

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the seventeen year old, he had
a friend to buy him a thirty

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two caliber cult automatic pistol and this
would be the weapon that Chris would use

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to shoot Grady. Everyone around the
Styles family knew that Grady was a dangerous

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man who needed to be stopped.
I'm not saying like you should murder someone,

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but he was pretty hated. And
before I tell you more and what

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happened next, I can't wait.
We're going to take a break. On

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the night of the shooting, which
was to take place in November of nineteen

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ninety two, neighbor Chris peered into
the window and he saw Grady watching TV

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in his underwear. Oh that's nice. Chris entered the Styles family trailer with

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his thirty two caliber gun and he
shot Grady at point blank range, killing

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him instantly. Grady was fifty five
years old. The police had a very

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long list of suspects to work through
and ahole. Yeah, everybody hated him

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and they eliminated each suspect one by
one. They knew he had lots of

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enemies. He was hard to get
along with because he was just such an

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angry alcoholic. He'd get drunk and
be pissed. He's a dad, Yeah,

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and he knew he could get away
with so much shit, Like I

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mean, he could literally kill someone. He just had a terrible reputation.

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Up until his death. He was
still making money from the circus in the

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carnival, which I'm surprised because this
nineteen ninety two, did they still have

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these sights that's so politically not correct. No, it's not. Maybe I

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know it doesn't seem right, but
he did. The medical examiner noted in

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Grady's autopsy that he was shot in
the back of the head. Surprise,

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with the police using their process of
elimination, the suspects came down to Grady's

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family. Had to be someone in
the family. When the surviving members of

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the Styles family were questioned by police
about Grady's murder, not a single one

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of them denied that they really wanted
to murder Grady. They knew that he

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would need to die in order for
them to be free. Yeah, in

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order for them to be free.
And you know that way, he couldn't

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hurt anyone else. They had to
kill him. It seems like they could

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have found a different way. No, less obvious. I'm just saying,

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I don't know. Never mind,
you're not gonna plan a murder. Mary

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said to the detectives that Grady was
going to kill her and her family,

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and she believed that like wholehearted.
I'm sure she knew they would be safe

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now that Grady was dead, and
she thanked God that her family was alive

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and okay, and back then they
were like with domestic violence and all that

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bettered wife syndrome that was still kind
of new. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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it's going to come into this story. Oh, I know, spoiler

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alert. Despite how true Mary's statement
was to the police, when police questioned

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Glenn, he was forced to take
a polygraph test, which he failed miserably.

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He was forced Yeah, apparently I
didn't think they could. They can't

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know, but it took one.
Okay, Well, after that, he

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was taken into an interrogation room and
the pressure was applied, which he cracked

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some yeah, and he spilled the
beans, confessing to the entire plan.

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During the confession, Glenn told investigators
every step of the plan between him,

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his mother, Mary, and the
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After the confession, detectives drove back
to Gibsonton to pick up Mary at

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her home. The police said that
they spoke with Glenn and they needed her

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to come down to the police station
to straighten out some facts. Oh shit,

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you know I need you to come. You know what, I'm sorry,

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I'm gonna need a warrant. Yes, Flora, go there. The

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informed her that Glenn made some statements
that weren't really in her fever, and

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you know, they really needed her
side of the story. But they also

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made sure that obviously Mary knew her
constitutional rights. They read her her Miranda

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rights. Mary was visibly upset by
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nineteen ninety two, at ten thirty
pm, Mary signed a consent for

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him, giving the police permission to
interrogate her. The detectives then asked Mary

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to tell them what happened. So
she told investigators that her husband was abusive

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to both her and her children.
She told them Grady was an uncontrollable monster

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and would beat them with his clause
what she called them. She said he

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would make her bleed by headbutting her. She proceeded to tell investigators that she

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had told her daughter Cathy about wanting
to kill Gradies several months before it actually

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happened, and then when Glenn became
aware, he knew someone that could help

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carry it out the neighbor. Mary
said, did she wanted to make one

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thing clear there and then that she
wanted to accept all the blame for the

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murder. She wanted her family to
be left out of it. She told

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detectives that she gave Glenn the fifteen
hundred dollars as payment to Chris for the

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murder of Grady. The detectives asked
Mary if she had ever met Chris,

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and she told him, yeah,
I have, but they never discussed the

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murder that she wanted done. The
arrangement was between her and Glenn, so

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Glenn was the one that gave Chris
the money to carry out the hit on

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Grady. About two weeks prior to
the killing, Mary had told her daughter

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Cathy that the contract was off and
that no murder was going to happen.

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Can you imagine these conversations. I
called off the hit. Hey kids,

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what good news? Good news,
We're not going to kill Mary was adamant

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with the detectives that Grady was supposed
to be alive. It wasn't supposed to

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happen this way. Well wait,
I thought she was taking the fall for

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it. But now she's seeing She's
like, well, it wasn't supposed to

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happen. I mean, I agreed
in the beginning, but then I now

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she's backing down. Yeah, but
then throwing them under the bus. The

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police were like, well, you
left the trailer just moments before Grady was

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murdered, so she happened to step
out, and yeah, coincidentally he's alone.

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The detectives then asked Mary where she
got the fifteen hundred dollars to have

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her husband killed, and she told
detectives she made her own money by being

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a show girl and that she had
her own finances show girl. I don't

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know, but Grady was fifty five, so she can't be that young.

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Well, whatever, whatever is good
for her. Somebody spoke, you know,

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everybody likes different flavors to leave.
That's what are you trying to say

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old ladies can't know they're sexy.
I mean, yeah, absolutely, any

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as an old lady. Right.
The detectives asked her, why didn't you

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just divorce Grady like she previously did? Well, why did you divorce him

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and remarry Grade? Yeah? Right. Mary said that he threatened to kill

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her if she did and the abuse
was much worse than ever had been in

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the past. I believe it.
Yeah, me too. That same day,

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Mary was charged with first degree murder
and she was also charged with conspiracy

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to commit first degree murder. Her
son, Glenn, was indicted with the

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same exact charges, so she wasn't
going to get away with taking all the

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blame. Chris, the neighbor.
He was taken into custody on December first.

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He was advised of his rights,
and then he declined to make any

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statements and requested an attorney's hard yes. The detectives then went on the search

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for the murder weapon. They found
a trailer that belonged to the guy who

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gave Chris the thirty two caliber cult
gun, and they found the gun in

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the middle of a swamp like woods
next to a palm tree. The gun

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was still loaded when it was taken
into evidence. Chris was arrested and charged

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with first to re murder and conspiracy
to commit murder. So all three of

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them were Yep, all three of
them do the nature of the cold blooded

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crimes. All of them were held
without bland. None of the three defendants

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took any sort of plea deal,
and they all chose trial by jury.

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The state of Florida decided not to
seek the death penalty in all three cases.

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The cases were assigned to Judge Barbara
Fleischer, and she had a reputation

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of being sympathetic to abused women.
Maria and Glenn were represented by a young

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criminal attorney named Peter Catania. He
originally was only going to represent Mary,

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and he later took Glenn's case pro
bonn He soon realized that the case was

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too large for one attorney. We
have two mass Yeah, maybe these are

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murder you know charges here? Yeah, so we brought on another attorney.

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Would be kind of a conflict of
interest like that to represent both of them.

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Yeah, I think they had separate
trials. I don't know, I

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guess. He brought in another attorney
named Arnold Levine to help. Levine was

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a well known attorney and the media
loved him because he always represented like high

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profile cases and he won them a
lot. He won the publicity. Yeah,

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he knew that this case was going
to cost a lot of money for

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Mary, so he also took the
case pro bono because a lot. Oh

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yeah, a lot often, so
he didn't care. He got like free

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advertise it too. Mary and Glenn
filed for battered spouse and child syndrome defenses.

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The battered wife syndrome had never been
tried as a defense and a murder

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for higher case in Florida before,
so Levine he had to prove that Mary

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feared for her life and was so
intimidated by Grady that killing him was her

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only way out. He felt they
could win the case without a doubt.

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The first of the trial, though, would be Glenn's detectives testified that Glenn

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failed the lie detector test. I
don't think they could do that. It's

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not amissible. Oh and because they
did it, because polygraph results can't be

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admitted as evidence, Judge Fleischer ruled
a mistrial. Absolutely, that was really

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stupid of them. I know what
they fucked that whole case. I mean,

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that's like law school first year.
Yeah, hello, Chris the neighbor

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Chris Wyant. His trial date was
set to begin in January of nineteen ninety

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four. His lawyer was court appointed
and was not known to be the best

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like what marrying Glenn had. And
he can't use that defense, No,

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he can't. Chris's mother, Janice, was present for her son's trial,

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along with Chris's six year old sister. I don't think that's quite a program.

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Why are you bringing a six year
olds? Anyway? The prosecution touched

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on the fact that Chris didn't just
shoot Grady once. He instead kept shooting

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and shooting and shooting. While sitting
on the defense side of the courtroom.

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Chris showed no emotion or remarse for
what he did. He felt that what

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he did was right in order to
save the surviving members of the Stiles family.

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Assistant State Attorney Ron Haynes had a
very strong case against Chris and portrayed

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him to the jury as a hired
assassin and a person who was born to

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kill. Okay, the theatrics,
Well, he's a hired assassin, though

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that's true. He related that there
were two plans. Originally, one was

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to shoot Grady outside of a lounge
in Gibsonton, but that didn't happen since

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Grady only went there during the daytime. The other was to make the murder

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look like a home invasion gone awry. That would have been a better idea.

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That would have been a better idea. Whitnesses were called by the prosecution,

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and one person in particular was Grady's
neighbor, Marco Eno, who was

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the first person Mary went to with
her murder for higher plot, but he

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declined, oh yeah, She's like, hey, you want to kill Grady.

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He's like, hey, can I
get a cup of sugar? And

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then I have a question for you
real quick. I gotta I gotta find

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out would you be interested in something? I got a business enterprise for you

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with the hell you want to make
a few extra bucks. Eno was asked

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about the night of the murder.
He lived nearby and heard everything that happened

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when the murder occurred. He said
that around eleven PM he heard someone yelling

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and that Grady kept saying, get
the fuck out, you son of a

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bitch. Then came four shots.
He was the person who discovered Grady's body

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and he saw Chris leave the trailer
after the shots were heard. During the

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witness testimony. Chris was described as
seeming to be bored with the whole ordeal.

418
00:30:26.240 --> 00:30:29.960
I've been in court, yeah,
and I've been bored too, but

419
00:30:30.079 --> 00:30:33.160
not with my own murder trial.
Yeah. Medical examiner was called to testify

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and said that Grady was shot three
times. Two shots were fatal. Either

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one of them could have been the
kill shot. One of the bullets went

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straight through the brainstem and hid the
base of his skull. The third bullet

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entered and chipped the skull and exited. Testimony throughout the trial only took about

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a day and a half. The
jury hung on to every word from the

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prosecution's mouth, throwing closing arguments,
and they deliberated for six hours. That's

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not good for Chris. On January
twentieth, think ninety four, Chris,

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who was originally charged with first degree
murder, was found guilty of second degree

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murder with a firearm in conspiracy to
commit first degree murder. He was sentenced

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to twenty seven years in prison for
his crime. Next trial was the main

430
00:31:14.480 --> 00:31:18.359
event the trial for Mary. Mary's
attorney filed for a speedy trial, but

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00:31:18.559 --> 00:31:23.920
what he didn't know was that Judge
Fleischer her schedule was full for the next

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ninety dies, and she was supposedly
the judge that was sympathetic to a speedy

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00:31:30.000 --> 00:31:32.839
trial. They got a different judge, didn't they. Yep, they got

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a different judge. It was Judge
m William Grayville, and he was known

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to be a real hard ass.
During her trial, Mary cried quietly at

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the defense table. The prosecutor was
Ron Haines. He presented a very similar

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00:31:48.279 --> 00:31:51.599
case as he did with Chris,
and Chris was called to the stand to

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00:31:51.599 --> 00:31:56.119
testify against Mary. Oh wow,
I know, he told why he only

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got twenty seven? He told the
jury he was brought into the plan that

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00:32:00.279 --> 00:32:05.200
Mary and Glenn had already cooked up. He went through with the murder while

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00:32:05.240 --> 00:32:08.279
being high. This was a new
detail in Mary's defense. Team did everything

442
00:32:08.319 --> 00:32:14.519
they possibly could to poke holes in
the new alleged story. The state rested

443
00:32:14.640 --> 00:32:16.640
and it was time for the defense
to make their case. Since the matter

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00:32:16.680 --> 00:32:21.920
if you're high or not, I
not diminished capacity. Of course, you

445
00:32:21.960 --> 00:32:24.599
know what you're doing. People are
high out there, not mean Yeah,

446
00:32:27.160 --> 00:32:30.440
maybe he had to get high in
order to do it. I don't know.

447
00:32:30.960 --> 00:32:36.119
Since Judge Fleischer had allowed the battered
wife's defense that didn't mean that Judge

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00:32:36.160 --> 00:32:40.359
Graybill was going to Mary first had
to testify. For that to be admitted

449
00:32:40.359 --> 00:32:45.559
as a defense, she had to
first admit that she arranged the killing and

450
00:32:45.599 --> 00:32:50.319
feared for her life. Mary said
she couldn't fully recall specifics of what happened

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00:32:50.400 --> 00:32:52.759
leading up to the murder. This
was a problem because an order for the

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00:32:52.839 --> 00:32:57.480
judge to rule the self defense,
you know this battered wife syndrome, she

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00:32:57.519 --> 00:33:00.519
had to describe in detail when she
went through. Her attorney mentioned in a

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00:33:00.599 --> 00:33:06.119
statement to the media that Mary's memory
it had returned. Yeah, it's back,

455
00:33:06.480 --> 00:33:10.880
but it was because of trauma that
she failed to recall that. The

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00:33:10.920 --> 00:33:19.240
following day, Judge Graybell stated battered
wife syndrome could not be used. Arnold

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00:33:19.359 --> 00:33:22.079
Levine, her lawyer, now had
to prove that Mary was in imminent danger.

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00:33:22.599 --> 00:33:28.319
The defense called Harry Newman Senior,
which was Glenn's dad, which was

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00:33:28.359 --> 00:33:31.359
the smallest man, the world's smallest
man. Yes. He told a jury

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00:33:31.359 --> 00:33:36.720
that he had known Grady for over
thirty years during their time working together in

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00:33:36.759 --> 00:33:40.440
the carnival shows. He went on
to say that Mary called him after Grady

462
00:33:40.440 --> 00:33:44.039
had thrown her out of the house
one night and when he picked her up,

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00:33:44.079 --> 00:33:46.680
she was covered in black and blue
bruises from head to toe. He

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00:33:46.759 --> 00:33:52.079
talked about how he and Mary wed
after Grady and her got divorced. While

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00:33:52.119 --> 00:33:54.440
the two of them were married,
Mary's children with Grady lived with their father,

466
00:33:55.160 --> 00:33:59.599
and when she would try to send
them stuff, he would send everything

467
00:33:59.640 --> 00:34:04.279
back. But you just said the
word imminent, right, Yeah, and

468
00:34:04.440 --> 00:34:07.639
we know what that means as lawyers. Yes, immediate, immediate, instant,

469
00:34:08.000 --> 00:34:12.599
Yeah, when the murder happened,
Yeah, she had been in immediate

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00:34:12.679 --> 00:34:16.320
danger. Lastly, Newman told a
jury about the time that Grady pulled out

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00:34:16.400 --> 00:34:21.440
a sowd off shotgun and put it
to Mary's head. Not only did he

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00:34:21.440 --> 00:34:23.440
put the gun to her head,
but he also hit her with the gun

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00:34:23.480 --> 00:34:29.039
and tried to sexually assault her with
the shotgun. Neighbors testified were Mary during

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00:34:29.039 --> 00:34:32.480
her trial and said they would hear
blood curdling screams coming from the Style's home

475
00:34:32.480 --> 00:34:37.599
on occasion. It was no secret
that Greedy was a very abusive alcoholic,

476
00:34:37.880 --> 00:34:40.920
and he mistreated his family on a
regular basis. He used his upper body

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00:34:42.000 --> 00:34:45.679
strength to throw himself on the floor
and would use his claw like fingers as

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00:34:45.760 --> 00:34:51.039
weapons to choke slam and beat his
family. He would target skin and eyes

479
00:34:51.159 --> 00:34:53.639
since his claws would tear right through
them. Oh Man. Mary took the

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00:34:53.679 --> 00:34:58.840
stand to testify on her own behalf. She has to yeah. She spoke

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00:34:58.880 --> 00:35:02.320
about her previous home life before she
ran away to join the carnival. She

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00:35:02.400 --> 00:35:07.360
then spoke about how badly she was
assaulted by Grady when they were first married.

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00:35:07.840 --> 00:35:10.639
He hit her in the face so
badly that oliver teeth broke. He

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00:35:10.639 --> 00:35:15.599
would pour I know, he would
pour steaming hot coffee on her. He

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00:35:15.880 --> 00:35:20.280
walked from the Yeah, she should. He walked her around with a knife

486
00:35:20.280 --> 00:35:22.440
in her back, and he knocked
her down the stairs while she was pregnant

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00:35:22.480 --> 00:35:27.360
with one of their children. She
talked about how badly Grady beat their children.

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00:35:27.719 --> 00:35:31.639
She told the jury about how he
ripped out her audd and that she

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00:35:31.719 --> 00:35:36.239
was bleeding heaven when he threw her
out of the house. Mary was questioned

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00:35:36.239 --> 00:35:38.639
about if she had ever called the
police when she and the children were abused,

491
00:35:39.079 --> 00:35:42.480
and she told a jury that when
she called the police, they said,

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00:35:42.599 --> 00:35:45.039
this is a domestic problem. I'm
sure if you talk it over everything'll

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00:35:45.039 --> 00:35:49.400
be fine, okay, and they
left. Grady used to tell her I

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00:35:49.440 --> 00:35:52.159
got away with murder once before.
Yeah, I mean that in and of

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00:35:52.199 --> 00:35:55.960
itself. It's scary. It's like
I could get away with it again,

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00:35:58.679 --> 00:36:01.599
not if I kill you first.
Mary said she had a handwritten will because

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00:36:01.599 --> 00:36:06.119
she thought that Grady was going to
definitely kill her. She wanted everything to

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00:36:06.119 --> 00:36:09.400
be in order for when she was
finally murdered at his hands. Her daughter

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00:36:09.480 --> 00:36:15.079
Cathy held the will for her just
in case. The prosecution cross examined Mary

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00:36:15.079 --> 00:36:19.280
and grilled her about her money,
previous marriages, and the murder. Kathy

501
00:36:19.360 --> 00:36:22.360
was called to the stand to testify
for her mother. The defense put up

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00:36:22.360 --> 00:36:25.920
a great defense, but when all
was said and done, Mary was convicted

503
00:36:25.920 --> 00:36:30.559
and knew it. Yeah, she
had to be right right of manslaughter and

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00:36:30.719 --> 00:36:36.000
conspiracy to commit murder, and she
was sentenced to twelve years in prison.

505
00:36:36.320 --> 00:36:39.800
Glenn, it's not too bad.
No. Glenn was convicted of first degree

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00:36:39.880 --> 00:36:44.559
murder along with conspiracy to commit murder. I remember, and Chris the shooter

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00:36:44.679 --> 00:36:49.199
was only convicted of a second degree
he was sentenced. Glenn, her son

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00:36:49.320 --> 00:36:53.440
was sentenced to life in prison with
an extra twelve years added to his term.

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00:36:53.840 --> 00:37:00.280
Oh if I was Mary Man When
Grady died, the little tidbit about

510
00:37:00.280 --> 00:37:05.719
Grady before I'm done with the story. When he died, he was so

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00:37:05.840 --> 00:37:09.280
disliked the funeral home couldn't find one
person willing to be a pall bearer.

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00:37:09.719 --> 00:37:15.079
Wow, I mean not one person. They're like, fuck you. Nope.

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00:37:15.280 --> 00:37:20.000
Mary was released from prison in the
year two thousand and she went back

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00:37:20.039 --> 00:37:23.280
to her life in Gibsonton, Florida. Since her release, she wanted to

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00:37:23.280 --> 00:37:28.440
stay out of the public eye,
and her current whereabouts are unknown. Chris

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00:37:28.480 --> 00:37:31.320
was released in two thousand and nine, and he also has been living off

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00:37:31.320 --> 00:37:35.480
the radar. I'm not sure where
he's at. His whereabouts are unknown.

518
00:37:35.719 --> 00:37:39.800
And unfortunately, Glenn died while in
prison in twenty fourteen. Yeah, could

519
00:37:39.880 --> 00:37:44.360
have been that old. Couldn't have
been that old? Wow, my sad,

520
00:37:44.440 --> 00:37:46.079
sad story. I don't even know
what the fuck to say about this

521
00:37:46.119 --> 00:37:52.679
crazy stuff? Wild? Right the
hell? What lots of twists and turns

522
00:37:52.679 --> 00:37:57.440
in that story? Hell, he
thought it was just gonna be about one

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00:37:57.519 --> 00:38:00.360
murder. Nope, it's about murder. I'm the murderer. I don't even

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00:38:00.400 --> 00:38:04.519
know. I don't even know to
say about the crazy twists and turns.

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I know it's wild. Thank you, to Lea for listening, and thank

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Just do it. It's you know, it takes you like a millisecond.

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at who the fuck says I don't
know my grandma. I don't know.

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I'm like god, I'm getting take
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know. This is all poppy cock
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