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Feb 2025
52m 58s

VALENTINE'S DAY: Killer Husband & the Va...

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On Valentine's Day 2007, Stephen Grant told authorities that his wife, Tara Lynn Grant, had been missing for five days. However, it was later revealed that Stephen had murdered Tara in a fit of jealous rage.


That same week in 1971, college sweethearts Patricia Mann and Jesse McBane vanished after a Valentine's Day dance. Their bodies were discovered days later, but despite extensive investigations, their killer remains unidentified.


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