Tara Lynn Grant (28 June 1972 − 9 February 2007) was a married American woman, mother of two children from Macomb County, Michigan, and a successful consultant at Washington Group International.

Over the following two weeks, Stephen Grant made numerous media appearances, at times accusing authorities of harassment.

The day after reporting Tara missing, Grant was stopped by police and arrested for driving with a suspended license.

On 2 March 2007, police executed a search warrant at the home of Stephen and Tara Grant in Washington Township, Michigan.

They found a dismembered human torso, believed to be that of Tara Grant, stored in a plastic garbage bag in the garage.

Two days later, after tracking a cell phone call that Stephen made to his sister, Griem, police found the suspect 225 miles away in northern Michigan's Wilderness State Park.

[2] In a press conference on 5 March, Mark Hackel, Sheriff of Macomb County, discussed a confession that Grant had made to them in the hospital.

He confessed to police in detail about strangling his wife Tara to death on the night of 9 February, after an argument in which he had accused her of spending too much time with a co-worker.

But after learning the police planned to search the park, Grant recovered the torso of his wife, and hid these remains in black plastic garbage bags in their garage.

After Stephen Grant was arrested, and had confessed the details of his crimes, Larry King Live and Court TV both covered the homicide and investigation.

On 30 March 2010, Grant lost his final appeal in state court, leaving intact the original sentence of 50–80 years.

[10] In March 2015, U.S. District Court Judge David Lawson denied Grant's "petition for writ of habeas corpus."

Grant had claimed that police improperly obtained his confession while he was being treated in a hospital for hypothermia and exposure; the judge also denied that pre-trial publicity made it impossible for him to receive a fair trial.

[17] On 13 June 2008, Stephen's father, William Allen "Al" Grant, committed suicide in Capac, Michigan, from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

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