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episode of Rhymes and Consequences. Have you ever heard of Lobster Boy? I
have in the book that's probably completely inappropriate, like in nineteen eighties called Freaks.
Oh okay, you're talking about I always got the little hands that,
yeah, that were like labster claws. Yes. Yes. His name was
Grady Styles Junior, and he was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, nineteen thirty
seven, and he would grow up, obviously to lead a very interesting life.
He was known as lobster Boy. I know. He had a rare
medical condition that ran and his family was genetic and the condition is called ectrodactyle,
and it is commonly known as lobster claw syndrome. Like I said,
it's genetic. It's very rare. And what it is. It causes extremities
your hands, your feet or both to have malformation. They're like attached or
something. You know. It's funny though the condition may not start in the
womb, and it could develop later in someone's life. So how's that pass?
I know, it's just bizarre. But for Grady, his symptoms were
prenatal, so the middle parts of his hands and feet were missing. He
had it both in his hands and feet. So what happens is like he
had like a thumb and a pinky with like the rest of the fingers fused
together together. So he had like it looked like a lobster claw, but
he had all his fingers right, No, they were all fused together.
It was like, well too big, you know, I get lobster claw.
And like I said, his feet were exactly the same. So because
his feet were disformed, he couldn't walk and he would use a wheelchair.
Ok. Okay, for many people in the thirties and forties, this condition
really hadn't been seen many times. Obviously, no internet no, even television.
I mean, where do you see someone. I've never seen anybody not
in person. It's rare. Yeah, it's rare. Grady was the sixth
generation in his family to have this condition. Wow, right, so family
members went back to like the eighteen hundreds, they still managed to find someone
to love them. Yeah, exactly, the sixth generation. That's true.
That's true. And Greedy was the fourth child of his father, Greedy Senior,
and his mom Edna, and every offspring that Greedy Senior and Edna had
they had the same condition, with exception of one of his sisters. So
it's dominant. Yes. So rather than being ashamed or embarrassed about the family
deformities, the Styles family capitalized on it and they were a side show America.
I know, in a traveling carnival and you know, like you mentioned,
you read a book called Freaks. They were commonly known as freak shows.
But that's impropriate, that's inappropriate. Now. The family then continued to
grow and produce more and more children that had this condition, like kind of
like to continue to fuel the side show. Right. Oh yeah. They
eventually developed a family circus known as the Lobster Family, and they became a
prime attraction in carnivals throughout the early twentieth century. They were really popular.
Lobster family, the Lobster family. Why not, Why not? Paula's going
to make money. They can't walk, they can these are hands at well
exactly his nineteen thirties. Yeah, it's nineteen thirties. And now even though
I mentioned like most of his brothers and sisters had the condition, not all
of them had them in both their hands and feet. But Grady did.
Like I said when I mentioned, he had this wheelchair, and when he
wasn't using the wheelchair, he would use his arms to pull himself across the
floor. So he developed a really incredible upper body strength just because that's how
he used to get around when he didn't have the chair. So I'm telling
you, you know, his family is touring this circuit, this carnival circuit,
and they spent their off season in a place called Gibsonton, Florida that
was known as Showtown, USA, and it was the most popular hub for
circus and carnival performers throughout the winter months, so they all seemed to flock
there. I had no idea. I didn't either in case you're wondering,
like how much money could they really make? This family did really well,
the Styles family, they made about sixty to eighty thousand dollars per season,
and the season would be only for about half a year. I mean it's
a lot of money. What years like nineteen let's say it's nineteen forty and
it's one point seven million dollars in today's money. So they did really when
they didn't need more full time, no half the year. The nice thing
about all of the carnival workers going to the city in Florida was because they
were all there, they kind of got away from people like staring at them.
It's kind of like they you know, they truly got to community that
they fit in. Yeah, exactly. During this time, while Grady grew
up, he learned to write and he learned to shoot a gun. So
it's very important things. It's physical. His physical limitations did not stop him
from doing those things. Eventually, at some point, young Grady fell madly
in love with another carnival worker named Mary Teresa. And I've seen it as
Mary, and I've seen it as Maria, so I'm just going to call
her Mary. She had run away from her home to join the circus when
she was a teenager. She was a product of incest and she was physically
abused by her parents. And even though she traveled with the carnival, Mary
wasn't part of any act. She was just a staff member, so she
wasn't part of the fight show unique about her, right right, She was
just a regular worker. So Mary and Grady hit it off really well and
they eventually got married. While married, Grady and Mary had two children,
two daughters named Kathy and Donna. Their daughter, Kathy wasn't born with this
lobster claw syndrome, but Donna was. Both children would become part of the
carnival, joining the rest of the family. Since Donna wasn't born with a
genetic condition, Grady actually favored her a little bit over her sister. As
they grew up, Kathy was the apple of his eye. It's been said.
At some point Grady began to drink heavily, and along with that he
became abusive to his family. Yeah, he was an incredibly mean drunk and
would use his upper body strength to his advantage while beating Mary and Donna.
Because Kathy was his favorite, so he did not abuse her. And you
know this is really kind of graphics. I'm just warning everybody. So Mary
used an IUD. It's her form of birth control. I don't want to
know this. During a fight, Grady used his claws. Stop, hands
up. You know what I'm gonna say? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
go ahead. He literally ripped the cud out of Mary's body. Oh my
god, yeah, I don't. I don't understand it. I don't want
to know. I just can't. I don't want to picture it. Just
can you move forward? Oh? Absolutely? That was That was all I
was going to tell you about that. My god, I'm just trying to
give you, like the level of abuse this poor woman suffering. I can
handle ahead being tapped off. I can't handle things like that. I know.
He would choke her when they fought, and his hands were perfect for
him to be able to just wrap around her knock and you know, do
that. His hands weren't functionable enough to do much else. He became extremely
dangerous to everyone around him due to his alcoholism. Takeaway his reel chair,
then he's got a crawl. I'm not trying to be me, I know.
And two things that I mentioned, the choking and the other thing that
we won't get into that wasn't even the worst. Yeah, it wasn't even
the worst of what he's done what he will go on to do his daughter
Donna, And Donna was the one that was born with the syndrome. She
fell madly in love with a young man named Jake Lane who was eighteen and
she was sixteen. And Grady hated this kid from the beginning. Was he
like your average Yeah, I believe so. I believe so. Like I
didn't find anything that said that he had any sort of or anything right,
Oh, she was actually fifteen years old. Excuse me. When she became
engaged to Jack, they were planning their wedding and Grady felt the need to
put a stop to this relationship altogether. He was like, nope. He
asked Donna to break off the engagement, but she said, you know,
she loved Jack so much and she refused to do what her father told her
to do. So the reason why Grady despised him is because Donna was underaged.
But on the day before his daughter's wedding, Grady met up with Jack.
And there's two different versions of the story. One said that Grady invited
Jack over under the ruse he was going to bless the marriage between Jack and
Donna, And the other theory is that Grady went to Jack's home to give
him the blessing. So I'm not sure exactly Okay, where this incident happened.
Well, if anybody tries to marry my fifteen year old daughter, yeah
there's gonna be a big problem. That means a different time. Yeah,
it was a different time. The meeting happened in September of nineteen seventy eight,
and before he even spoke to Jack, like when the two met up,
Grady fatally shot Jack twice with his shotgun and it killed him instantly.
Yeah, and the poor guy was loving her, loving his daughter, all
her just the way she is as Grady, he figured if Dinna got married,
she would leave and he'd no longer be able to control her. Or
maybe she'd have babies and they'd have more little baby right. I don't know
family, but he had issues like control of his family was his number one
priority. When Dinna found out about the murder of her poor fiance, Jack,
Grady gave her a devilish smile while saying, I told you I would
kill him, Okay, like what I'd be scared of death of my dad.
I hope someone went to the place. Well. Grady was arrested for
Jack's murder and a child date was set with the jury consisting of six men
and six women. Grady really didn't give a shit about the consequences, and
he showed absolutely no remorse for what he did. The defense claimed that Jack
Lane was shot twice in self defense. Grady said he feared for his life.
He's disabled. He's disabled. He's disabled. How can I even choot
a gun? Right? The defense went on to say that everyone involved,
his family and the police got together to completely dramatize their stories since the shooting.
Donna, the farmer bride to be. She was out of town,
but somehow she was able to be in cahoots with the police to go against
Grady, like we're all conspiring right. The prosecution told a jury that Grady
had threatened to kill Jack on multiple occasions and that he went out to purchase
the gun in order to follow through with the threat. He just really didn't
want Donna to marry Jack. Donna testified against her dad, and she said
that she was going to live with Jack, even though her father was against
the underage marriage like she was going to probably run away. Says she didn't
care about getting his blessing, so that's why this whole story is kind of
jacked up. She was happy with Jack and she wanted to start her life
with him as soon as possible. She also testified that after her father killed
Jack, she said to Grady, I'll see you at your grave. Oh,
and that's why she got out of town. Yeah. The defense claims
that Anna should be ashamed of her testimony and then it caused the greatest hurt
and shame for the Style's family. The defense attorney, his name was Anthony
to Cello, told the jury to visualize all the love and compassion that this
poor soul has for his children. It's really trying to play what was his
self defense? What was Jack going to do? Well? He said he
was in fear for his life and that it was Jack and Jack was going
to attack him. I don't know all you just haven't have a gun,
yeah, exactly. The attorney to Cello wanted the jury to feel sorry for
Grady since all he really had was his family, even though he abused them
and beat them at every chance he got and got drunk and blah blah blah.
But before the trial began, Grady obtained a court order from the state
of Florida to get custody of his children. What yeah, what I know.
How did he get custody? I don't think he did. Oh he
tried, Yeah, he tried. During the closing arguments, Assistant District Attorney
Robert Paul Vinsler told the that the detectives thought that Grady would be found not
guilty out of sympathy for his disabilities. One of the last statements said by
the DA was that Grady has not led a happy life up to this point.
It's not his fault all, yeah, he said, a really miserable
life. The jury felt that the murder was premeditated, even though the defense
said that the murder was due to love and compassion for his daughter. So
Grady attended the verdict reading in his wheelchair, and he quietly cried as the
jury foreman read that he was found guilty of third degree murder. That's amazing.
The jury heard both sides and convicted Grady after deliberating for three whole hours.
Three hours. Judge Thomas Harper postponed sentencing, which could have been between
ten to twenty years in prison. But yeah, but Judge Harper did set
Grady's bound to ten grand which is so he got out, yeah, about
fifty thousand today because this was nineteen seventy nine. Before sentencing, Grady pleaded
with the judge that there was no way that he could ever be in prison.
There was not a single jail or prison at the time that was equipped
to handle his disability and doing so, like putting him into prison, would
be cruel, unjust, and unusual punishment. Okay, whatever. Yeah,
Grady failed to mention at the time that he also hit cirrhosis of the liver
from his kind of drinking, along with emphasima from years and years of smoking
cigarettes. Oh and how old is he about this time? He's about fifty
because he's born in nineteen thirty seven, so yeah, he's like maybe like
fifty two. Okay. The court recognized a Grady's argument and they didn't have
anything really to say, so the prosecution really didn't say much in rebuttal,
there's lots of people that are disabled in prison. I know. But guess
what, I don't want to hear it, do I? No, No,
The judge didn't sentence Grady to prison time and What's Good gave him fifteen
years probation. So he walked out a freeman and went home. Yeah,
he shot and killed a man and he got to walk out a team.
Yeah, an eighteen year old guy. So not long after the murder,
his wife divorced him. Mary finally got out of abusive relationship, but this
didn't stop Grady from marrying his second life and having two more children. What
I know, how's this guy getting women? He's super sexy. I guess
his drunken rage and abuse kept going and this caused his second wife to divorce
him. Mary, his first wife, didn't mourn this divorce from Grady.
She moved on quickly and she got remarried to a man named Harry Glenn Newman
Senior. He also worked for the carnival. Oh, he was known as
the world's smallest man. What stop it? What? Yeah, she married
the world's smallest man. She married the world's smallest man. And well,
he can't hurt her. I'm guessing, yeah, right, he's small.
Yeah, he's probably small. And together they had two sons. One was
Harry Glenn Junior, and he would go by Glenn Harry. Like I mentioned,
he was a little person. He didn't have any physical deformities, which
is okay. Yeah, his act in the side show was he was known
to hammer nails and drive ice picks up his own nose with the hand.
Oh my goodness, the ship and he did really well financially. Oh,
I know I am in the wrong job being a lawyer. I know I
needn't start figuring out how to put nails up a breeze fire or something.
Right after the divorce of his second wife, Grady persuaded his first wife,
Mary, who was married to Harry. She remarried him in nineteen eighty nine.
Yeah. Why what was wrong with Harry? Don't know. I don't
know if Harry passed away, I'm not sure. Okay, but she remarried
Grady. Wow. No one in Mary's family or the Style's family knows how
the hell he got hurt to marry him a second time. So Mary,
along with Donna and Cathy, who were now adults, they all were one
big, happy family. And one occasion, Grady's daughter Kathy was pregnant and
she tried to intervene between a bad argument that was going on between her parents.
She put Grady's wheelchair in between the two of them in an attempt like
to calm things down, like separate them. But Grady got so enraged by
this that he turned to Kathy and beat her so badly to the point she
went into early labor. Thankfully, the baby survived and was born with lobster
claw syndrome. Graedy became especially cocky after evading prison for killing a man and
beating yeah his daughter. He knew he could literally get away with murder,
and with this mindset, the beatings toward his wife and kids became much more
severe. And this is when Mary finally finally had enough. She's like,
fuck this, she was done, and she put a hit out on Greedy.
They put a hit on someone I don't know. Mary put a hit
out. I'm gonna tell you all about it. Okay, yeah, okay,
this is questions. She paid her seventeen year old neighbor and fellow carnival
worker. His name was Chris Wyant. She paid him a whopping fifteen hundred
dollars to murder Grady. Mary she said, I hit my breaking point.
I couldn't find a way out of living. So her son, Glenn,
which was the world's smallest man's son, remember Harry. So her son,
Glenn helped his mother come up with a plan that would get rid of Grady
once and for all. The story is so fucked up. I know,
I know, Okay, I didn't know all of this. Okay, Glenn
would plan and help carry out the murder. So the young neighbor, Chris,
the seventeen year old, he had a friend to buy him a thirty
two caliber cult automatic pistol and this would be the weapon that Chris would use
to shoot Grady. Everyone around the Styles family knew that Grady was a dangerous
man who needed to be stopped. I'm not saying like you should murder someone,
but he was pretty hated. And before I tell you more and what
happened next, I can't wait. We're going to take a break. On
the night of the shooting, which was to take place in November of nineteen
ninety two, neighbor Chris peered into the window and he saw Grady watching TV
in his underwear. Oh that's nice. Chris entered the Styles family trailer with
his thirty two caliber gun and he shot Grady at point blank range, killing
him instantly. Grady was fifty five years old. The police had a very
long list of suspects to work through and ahole. Yeah, everybody hated him
and they eliminated each suspect one by one. They knew he had lots of
enemies. He was hard to get along with because he was just such an
angry alcoholic. He'd get drunk and be pissed. He's a dad, Yeah,
and he knew he could get away with so much shit, Like I
mean, he could literally kill someone. He just had a terrible reputation.
Up until his death. He was still making money from the circus in the
carnival, which I'm surprised because this nineteen ninety two, did they still have
these sights that's so politically not correct. No, it's not. Maybe I
know it doesn't seem right, but he did. The medical examiner noted in
Grady's autopsy that he was shot in the back of the head. Surprise,
with the police using their process of elimination, the suspects came down to Grady's
family. Had to be someone in the family. When the surviving members of
the Styles family were questioned by police about Grady's murder, not a single one
of them denied that they really wanted to murder Grady. They knew that he
would need to die in order for them to be free. Yeah, in
order for them to be free. And you know that way, he couldn't
hurt anyone else. They had to kill him. It seems like they could
have found a different way. No, less obvious. I'm just saying,
I don't know. Never mind, you're not gonna plan a murder. Mary
said to the detectives that Grady was going to kill her and her family,
and she believed that like wholehearted. I'm sure she knew they would be safe
now that Grady was dead, and she thanked God that her family was alive
and okay, and back then they were like with domestic violence and all that
bettered wife syndrome that was still kind of new. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
it's going to come into this story. Oh, I know, spoiler
alert. Despite how true Mary's statement was to the police, when police questioned
Glenn, he was forced to take a polygraph test, which he failed miserably.
He was forced Yeah, apparently I didn't think they could. They can't
know, but it took one. Okay, Well, after that, he
was taken into an interrogation room and the pressure was applied, which he cracked
some yeah, and he spilled the beans, confessing to the entire plan.
During the confession, Glenn told investigators every step of the plan between him,
his mother, Mary, and the neighbor Chris. He just spilled the scuts.
After the confession, detectives drove back to Gibsonton to pick up Mary at
her home. The police said that they spoke with Glenn and they needed her
to come down to the police station to straighten out some facts. Oh shit,
you know I need you to come. You know what, I'm sorry,
I'm gonna need a warrant. Yes, Flora, go there. The
informed her that Glenn made some statements that weren't really in her fever, and
you know, they really needed her side of the story. But they also
made sure that obviously Mary knew her constitutional rights. They read her her Miranda
rights. Mary was visibly upset by all that was happening. On November thirtieth,
nineteen ninety two, at ten thirty pm, Mary signed a consent for
him, giving the police permission to interrogate her. The detectives then asked Mary
to tell them what happened. So she told investigators that her husband was abusive
to both her and her children. She told them Grady was an uncontrollable monster
and would beat them with his clause what she called them. She said he
would make her bleed by headbutting her. She proceeded to tell investigators that she
had told her daughter Cathy about wanting to kill Gradies several months before it actually
happened, and then when Glenn became aware, he knew someone that could help
carry it out the neighbor. Mary said, did she wanted to make one
thing clear there and then that she wanted to accept all the blame for the
murder. She wanted her family to be left out of it. She told
detectives that she gave Glenn the fifteen hundred dollars as payment to Chris for the
murder of Grady. The detectives asked Mary if she had ever met Chris,
and she told him, yeah, I have, but they never discussed the
murder that she wanted done. The arrangement was between her and Glenn, so
Glenn was the one that gave Chris the money to carry out the hit on
Grady. About two weeks prior to the killing, Mary had told her daughter
Cathy that the contract was off and that no murder was going to happen.
Can you imagine these conversations. I called off the hit. Hey kids,
what good news? Good news, We're not going to kill Mary was adamant
with the detectives that Grady was supposed to be alive. It wasn't supposed to
happen this way. Well wait, I thought she was taking the fall for
it. But now she's seeing She's like, well, it wasn't supposed to
happen. I mean, I agreed in the beginning, but then I now
she's backing down. Yeah, but then throwing them under the bus. The
police were like, well, you left the trailer just moments before Grady was
murdered, so she happened to step out, and yeah, coincidentally he's alone.
The detectives then asked Mary where she got the fifteen hundred dollars to have
her husband killed, and she told detectives she made her own money by being
a show girl and that she had her own finances show girl. I don't
know, but Grady was fifty five, so she can't be that young.
Well, whatever, whatever is good for her. Somebody spoke, you know,
everybody likes different flavors to leave. That's what are you trying to say
old ladies can't know they're sexy. I mean, yeah, absolutely, any
as an old lady. Right. The detectives asked her, why didn't you
just divorce Grady like she previously did? Well, why did you divorce him
and remarry Grade? Yeah? Right. Mary said that he threatened to kill
her if she did and the abuse was much worse than ever had been in
the past. I believe it. Yeah, me too. That same day,
Mary was charged with first degree murder and she was also charged with conspiracy
to commit first degree murder. Her son, Glenn, was indicted with the
same exact charges, so she wasn't going to get away with taking all the
blame. Chris, the neighbor. He was taken into custody on December first.
He was advised of his rights, and then he declined to make any
statements and requested an attorney's hard yes. The detectives then went on the search
for the murder weapon. They found a trailer that belonged to the guy who
gave Chris the thirty two caliber cult gun, and they found the gun in
the middle of a swamp like woods next to a palm tree. The gun
was still loaded when it was taken into evidence. Chris was arrested and charged
with first to re murder and conspiracy to commit murder. So all three of
them were Yep, all three of them do the nature of the cold blooded
crimes. All of them were held without bland. None of the three defendants
took any sort of plea deal, and they all chose trial by jury.
The state of Florida decided not to seek the death penalty in all three cases.
The cases were assigned to Judge Barbara Fleischer, and she had a reputation
of being sympathetic to abused women. Maria and Glenn were represented by a young
criminal attorney named Peter Catania. He originally was only going to represent Mary,
and he later took Glenn's case pro bonn He soon realized that the case was
too large for one attorney. We have two mass Yeah, maybe these are
murder you know charges here? Yeah, so we brought on another attorney.
Would be kind of a conflict of interest like that to represent both of them.
Yeah, I think they had separate trials. I don't know, I
guess. He brought in another attorney named Arnold Levine to help. Levine was
a well known attorney and the media loved him because he always represented like high
profile cases and he won them a lot. He won the publicity. Yeah,
he knew that this case was going to cost a lot of money for
Mary, so he also took the case pro bono because a lot. Oh
yeah, a lot often, so he didn't care. He got like free
advertise it too. Mary and Glenn filed for battered spouse and child syndrome defenses.
The battered wife syndrome had never been tried as a defense and a murder
for higher case in Florida before, so Levine he had to prove that Mary
feared for her life and was so intimidated by Grady that killing him was her
only way out. He felt they could win the case without a doubt.
The first of the trial, though, would be Glenn's detectives testified that Glenn
failed the lie detector test. I don't think they could do that. It's
not amissible. Oh and because they did it, because polygraph results can't be
admitted as evidence, Judge Fleischer ruled a mistrial. Absolutely, that was really
stupid of them. I know what they fucked that whole case. I mean,
that's like law school first year. Yeah, hello, Chris the neighbor
Chris Wyant. His trial date was set to begin in January of nineteen ninety
four. His lawyer was court appointed and was not known to be the best
like what marrying Glenn had. And he can't use that defense, No,
he can't. Chris's mother, Janice, was present for her son's trial,
along with Chris's six year old sister. I don't think that's quite a program.
Why are you bringing a six year olds? Anyway? The prosecution touched
on the fact that Chris didn't just shoot Grady once. He instead kept shooting
and shooting and shooting. While sitting on the defense side of the courtroom.
Chris showed no emotion or remarse for what he did. He felt that what
he did was right in order to save the surviving members of the Stiles family.
Assistant State Attorney Ron Haynes had a very strong case against Chris and portrayed
him to the jury as a hired assassin and a person who was born to
kill. Okay, the theatrics, Well, he's a hired assassin, though
that's true. He related that there were two plans. Originally, one was
to shoot Grady outside of a lounge in Gibsonton, but that didn't happen since
Grady only went there during the daytime. The other was to make the murder
look like a home invasion gone awry. That would have been a better idea.
That would have been a better idea. Whitnesses were called by the prosecution,
and one person in particular was Grady's neighbor, Marco Eno, who was
the first person Mary went to with her murder for higher plot, but he
declined, oh yeah, She's like, hey, you want to kill Grady.
He's like, hey, can I get a cup of sugar? And
then I have a question for you real quick. I gotta I gotta find
out would you be interested in something? I got a business enterprise for you
with the hell you want to make a few extra bucks. Eno was asked
about the night of the murder. He lived nearby and heard everything that happened
when the murder occurred. He said that around eleven PM he heard someone yelling
and that Grady kept saying, get the fuck out, you son of a
bitch. Then came four shots. He was the person who discovered Grady's body
and he saw Chris leave the trailer after the shots were heard. During the
witness testimony. Chris was described as seeming to be bored with the whole ordeal.
I've been in court, yeah, and I've been bored too, but
not with my own murder trial. Yeah. Medical examiner was called to testify
and said that Grady was shot three times. Two shots were fatal. Either
one of them could have been the kill shot. One of the bullets went
straight through the brainstem and hid the base of his skull. The third bullet
entered and chipped the skull and exited. Testimony throughout the trial only took about
a day and a half. The jury hung on to every word from the
prosecution's mouth, throwing closing arguments, and they deliberated for six hours. That's
not good for Chris. On January twentieth, think ninety four, Chris,
who was originally charged with first degree murder, was found guilty of second degree
murder with a firearm in conspiracy to commit first degree murder. He was sentenced
to twenty seven years in prison for his crime. Next trial was the main
event the trial for Mary. Mary's attorney filed for a speedy trial, but
what he didn't know was that Judge Fleischer her schedule was full for the next
ninety dies, and she was supposedly the judge that was sympathetic to a speedy
trial. They got a different judge, didn't they. Yep, they got
a different judge. It was Judge m William Grayville, and he was known
to be a real hard ass. During her trial, Mary cried quietly at
the defense table. The prosecutor was Ron Haines. He presented a very similar
case as he did with Chris, and Chris was called to the stand to
testify against Mary. Oh wow, I know, he told why he only
got twenty seven? He told the jury he was brought into the plan that
Mary and Glenn had already cooked up. He went through with the murder while
being high. This was a new detail in Mary's defense. Team did everything
they possibly could to poke holes in the new alleged story. The state rested
and it was time for the defense to make their case. Since the matter
if you're high or not, I not diminished capacity. Of course, you
know what you're doing. People are high out there, not mean Yeah,
maybe he had to get high in order to do it. I don't know.
Since Judge Fleischer had allowed the battered wife's defense that didn't mean that Judge
Graybill was going to Mary first had to testify. For that to be admitted
as a defense, she had to first admit that she arranged the killing and
feared for her life. Mary said she couldn't fully recall specifics of what happened
leading up to the murder. This was a problem because an order for the
judge to rule the self defense, you know this battered wife syndrome, she
had to describe in detail when she went through. Her attorney mentioned in a
statement to the media that Mary's memory it had returned. Yeah, it's back,
but it was because of trauma that she failed to recall that. The
following day, Judge Graybell stated battered wife syndrome could not be used. Arnold
Levine, her lawyer, now had to prove that Mary was in imminent danger.
The defense called Harry Newman Senior, which was Glenn's dad, which was
the smallest man, the world's smallest man. Yes. He told a jury
that he had known Grady for over thirty years during their time working together in
the carnival shows. He went on to say that Mary called him after Grady
had thrown her out of the house one night and when he picked her up,
she was covered in black and blue bruises from head to toe. He
talked about how he and Mary wed after Grady and her got divorced. While
the two of them were married, Mary's children with Grady lived with their father,
and when she would try to send them stuff, he would send everything
back. But you just said the word imminent, right, Yeah, and
we know what that means as lawyers. Yes, immediate, immediate, instant,
Yeah, when the murder happened, Yeah, she had been in immediate
danger. Lastly, Newman told a jury about the time that Grady pulled out
a sowd off shotgun and put it to Mary's head. Not only did he
put the gun to her head, but he also hit her with the gun
and tried to sexually assault her with the shotgun. Neighbors testified were Mary during
her trial and said they would hear blood curdling screams coming from the Style's home
on occasion. It was no secret that Greedy was a very abusive alcoholic,
and he mistreated his family on a regular basis. He used his upper body
strength to throw himself on the floor and would use his claw like fingers as
weapons to choke slam and beat his family. He would target skin and eyes
since his claws would tear right through them. Oh Man. Mary took the
stand to testify on her own behalf. She has to yeah. She spoke
about her previous home life before she ran away to join the carnival. She
then spoke about how badly she was assaulted by Grady when they were first married.
He hit her in the face so badly that oliver teeth broke. He
would pour I know, he would pour steaming hot coffee on her. He
walked from the Yeah, she should. He walked her around with a knife
in her back, and he knocked her down the stairs while she was pregnant
with one of their children. She talked about how badly Grady beat their children.
She told the jury about how he ripped out her audd and that she
was bleeding heaven when he threw her out of the house. Mary was questioned
about if she had ever called the police when she and the children were abused,
and she told a jury that when she called the police, they said,
this is a domestic problem. I'm sure if you talk it over everything'll
be fine, okay, and they left. Grady used to tell her I
got away with murder once before. Yeah, I mean that in and of
itself. It's scary. It's like I could get away with it again,
not if I kill you first. Mary said she had a handwritten will because
she thought that Grady was going to definitely kill her. She wanted everything to
be in order for when she was finally murdered at his hands. Her daughter
Cathy held the will for her just in case. The prosecution cross examined Mary
and grilled her about her money, previous marriages, and the murder. Kathy
was called to the stand to testify for her mother. The defense put up
a great defense, but when all was said and done, Mary was convicted
and knew it. Yeah, she had to be right right of manslaughter and
conspiracy to commit murder, and she was sentenced to twelve years in prison.
Glenn, it's not too bad. No. Glenn was convicted of first degree
murder along with conspiracy to commit murder. I remember, and Chris the shooter
was only convicted of a second degree he was sentenced. Glenn, her son
was sentenced to life in prison with an extra twelve years added to his term.
Oh if I was Mary Man When Grady died, the little tidbit about
Grady before I'm done with the story. When he died, he was so
disliked the funeral home couldn't find one person willing to be a pall bearer.
Wow, I mean not one person. They're like, fuck you. Nope.
Mary was released from prison in the year two thousand and she went back
to her life in Gibsonton, Florida. Since her release, she wanted to
stay out of the public eye, and her current whereabouts are unknown. Chris
was released in two thousand and nine, and he also has been living off
the radar. I'm not sure where he's at. His whereabouts are unknown.
And unfortunately, Glenn died while in prison in twenty fourteen. Yeah, could
have been that old. Couldn't have been that old? Wow, my sad,
sad story. I don't even know what the fuck to say about this
crazy stuff? Wild? Right the hell? What lots of twists and turns
in that story? Hell, he thought it was just gonna be about one
murder. Nope, it's about murder. I'm the murderer. I don't even
know. I don't even know to say about the crazy twists and turns.
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