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One of his Parents is Definitely Lying_ The Strange Case of Grant Solomon [True Crime Documentary](MP3_160K) · NO FILTER

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Speaker 1: In July twenty twenty, eighteen year old Grant Sulomon died
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Speaker 1: in what was deemed a freak accident in the parking
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Speaker 1: lot of a gym in Galadin, Tennessee. The circumstances were
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Speaker 1: as strange as they were tragic. There was only one
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Speaker 1: witness to the accident, Grant's father, a man who had
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Speaker 1: been under intense scrutiny after years of allegations of abuse
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Speaker 1: and mistreatment from his ex wife. With an investigation swiftly
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Speaker 1: opened and then closed, social media lit up over the injustice.
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Speaker 1: Hi there, I'm Kevin, and welcome to Just Thought Lounge.
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Speaker 1: Today's case has quite a few layers. If you've heard
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Speaker 1: or seen anything about it before, you'll likely expect this
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Speaker 1: to go in a different direction than the story is
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Speaker 1: about to take us. There are questions in this case
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Speaker 1: about large scale corruption, as well as gaslighting of an
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Speaker 1: abuse survivor by local and state officials, not to mention
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Speaker 1: family members. Most shocking is the implication that many, many
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Speaker 1: people have turned a blind eye to horrific allegations from
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Speaker 1: a child, accusations of attempted murder and possibly the killing
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Speaker 1: of an eighteen year old boy. There are two very
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Speaker 1: different sides to this story, but that doesn't mean that
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Speaker 1: the truth is black and white. Let's take a look.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, great to have you with us, and welcome
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Speaker 2: the Channel four News Today on this saggy Tuesday morning.
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Speaker 2: April twelfth, twenty eleven, on Aaron Solomon.
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Speaker 1: For fifteen years, Aaron Sulimon was a sports reporter and
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Speaker 1: morning news anchor with WSMVTV in Tennessee. Through his daily
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Speaker 1: presence on the news, Aaron became a familiar face in
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Speaker 1: living rooms all over Nashville and the surrounding area. Erin
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Speaker 1: left broadcasting around twenty eleven and became a financial advisor
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Speaker 1: for some of the world's top investment banks, including Morgan
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Speaker 1: Stanley and Merrill Lynch. Outwardly, it appeared that Aaron Sulimon
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Speaker 1: was a man that had it all. He and wife
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Speaker 1: Angelia were married in two thousand and one and went
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Speaker 1: on to have two beautiful children. Angie had a doctorate
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Speaker 1: in pharmacy and a career as a pharmacist, but eventually
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Speaker 1: took a step back to become a full time mum.
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Speaker 1: The picture of Sulomon family bliss, however, was shattered when
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Speaker 1: in twenty thirteen, Aaron filed for divorce. What ensued was
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Speaker 1: a messy battle over the children as well as financial support.
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Speaker 1: Erin had already declared bankruptcy once The couple were again
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Speaker 1: buried in debt, but unable to declare bankruptcy once again.
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Speaker 1: At that time, both were unemployed, but finances were the
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Speaker 1: least of their concerns. During the divorce proceedings in twenty
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Speaker 1: thirteen and for years after, Angie vocalized very serious allegations
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Speaker 1: of abuse against Erin. She alleged that she and both
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Speaker 1: of the children were the victims. The situation in their
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Speaker 1: home had gotten so bad that, only days before he
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Speaker 1: filed for divorce, Angie alleged that Erin had tried to
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Speaker 1: kill her. Despite what Angie described as a living nightmare
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Speaker 1: at home, the judge overseeing their divorce proceedings initially awarded
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Speaker 1: custody of the children to Erin. Angie routinely lost visitation
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Speaker 1: rights with the kids. Over the years, the custody disputes continued,
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Speaker 1: so did the allegations of Erin's behavior. No one, it seemed,
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Speaker 1: was willing to help the Solomon children escape from their father.
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Speaker 1: The two kids eventually ignored a court order and ran
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Speaker 1: away from their fathers home to stay with their mother.
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Speaker 1: In twenty twenty, their eldest, Grant, had just turned eighteen
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Speaker 1: years old. Grant was tall, athletic, fun loving with a
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Speaker 1: big heart. He was a star baseball player and a
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Speaker 1: protective older brother. Gracie, four years younger than her brother,
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Speaker 1: was also an active and loving child, having just become
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Speaker 1: a legal adult. It was said that Grant was seeking
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Speaker 1: to win custody of his younger sister. Where the courts
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Speaker 1: had failed his mother, he would step in and protect Gracie.
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Speaker 1: Angie claimed that her son had been a witness to
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Speaker 1: her attempted murder back in twenty thirteen, he knew what
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Speaker 1: his father was capable of. When Grant Suliman met with
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Speaker 1: his father on the morning of July twentieth, twenty twenty,
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Speaker 1: Angie said that the two had not spent time together
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Speaker 1: in about two years. Grant had a private pitching session
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Speaker 1: booked at the Ward Performance Institute in Galadin, roughly fifty
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Speaker 1: miles from his home in Franklin. He agreed to meet
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Speaker 1: his father there. What happened next is told mostly through
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Speaker 1: the perspective of Aaron Solomon. He said that he pulled
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Speaker 1: into the parking lot. First parked his truck and waited
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Speaker 1: for Grant to drive into the lot behind him. Grant
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Speaker 1: then pulled in it next to his father. They had
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Speaker 1: arrived early and were in no rush to get inside.
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Speaker 1: According to Erin, he took this opportunity to check work
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Speaker 1: emails on his phone before exiting his vehicle. When he
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Speaker 1: glanced back up from his device, Grant's truck was no
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Speaker 1: longer beside his Erin believed that Grant had gotten out
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Speaker 1: of the front cap of the truck to retrieve his
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Speaker 1: baseball gear from either the back seat or the bed
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Speaker 1: of the pickup. When the truck somehow shifted gears, or
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Speaker 1: perhaps it was never in park, the vehicle rolled backwards
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Speaker 1: dragged him across the pavement, down a hill, and into
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Speaker 1: a ditch. Less than ten minutes after arriving at the facility,
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Speaker 1: Aaron called nine one one from the parking lot. Looking
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Speaker 1: down on the truck in the ditch. He told the
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Speaker 1: operator that his son was trapped under the truck and
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Speaker 1: needed immediate assistance.
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Speaker 3: Okay, my son's truck backed over him and he's it's
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Speaker 3: rolled over him and drugged him into the ditch, and
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Speaker 3: it's on top of him. He's trapped under the truck.
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Speaker 3: And yeah, he you somehow I drug him underneath it. Yes,
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Speaker 3: my son is under it. I'm trying to know. I'm
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Speaker 3: trying to.
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Speaker 4: Call nine to one one.
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Speaker 3: Okay, what your name? My name is Aaron Solomon.
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Speaker 5: It's a mail.
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Speaker 3: He's eighteen, he.
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Speaker 4: Just turned eighteen, a good week spread a month ago.
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Speaker 3: It's my son. Oh my god, Oh my god, this
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Speaker 3: is not good. I don't know. I don't think so.
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Speaker 3: He's not he's not alert right, No, he's out and
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Speaker 3: he's trapped. I got three guys here and he's trapped
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Speaker 3: under the truck. Okay, I understand.
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Speaker 6: Thursday.
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Speaker 4: I'm the phone me while we get somebody out there.
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Speaker 3: What's your name? Aaron Solomon.
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Speaker 1: Throughout the call, Aaron sporadically called down to the men
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Speaker 1: that he said are next to Grant in the ditch.
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Speaker 1: His son was lying face up between the front two
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Speaker 1: tires of the truck.
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Speaker 3: He's underneath the vehicle and and it's that's my son.
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Speaker 3: It's somehow backed up. Yeah, yeah, I'm on one. I'm
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Speaker 3: on with nine one on one right now. Oh my god,
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Speaker 3: was your son working on it? No? No, he was
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Speaker 3: just getting out of it.
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Speaker 7: It's the hill.
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Speaker 3: It's we're on an incline, and I guess he didn't
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Speaker 3: have it in park or something, or it wasn't engaged
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Speaker 3: or my god, oh my god, responding no, no, and
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Speaker 3: he's still no one can get.
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Speaker 6: Can you check in for you?
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Speaker 8: Din Uh.
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Speaker 3: Somebody's telling me that he's coming to.
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Speaker 4: Okay, I'm telling somebody and talk to it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, somebody talked to him the.
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Speaker 9: Ship.
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Speaker 3: Grant, turn your face to the side if you can barely,
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Speaker 3: but be careful.
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Speaker 10: Don't move him.
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Speaker 4: Okay, we can't move him.
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Speaker 3: We can't. We can't move him.
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Speaker 1: When emergency services arrived, they found Grant on his back
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Speaker 1: under the truck and no longer conscious. The vehicle was
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Speaker 1: lifted with some difficulty, and Grant was rushed to the hospital.
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Speaker 1: The teenager did not survive his injuries. An employee from
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Speaker 1: the gym facility came out of the building and noticed
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Speaker 1: that the vehicles were parked oddly in the lot. He
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Speaker 1: reported that he saw Aaron Solomon pacing back and forth
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Speaker 1: on his cell phone. There were three other men present.
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Speaker 1: The limited police reports made available from the incident stated
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Speaker 1: that no other witnesses were located. The men that were
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Speaker 1: thought to be construction workers left the scene before police arrived.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, I am.
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Speaker 12: We were in there kind of getting ready for everything, right,
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Speaker 12: And when I came out, I didn't even know what
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Speaker 12: was going on. What I noticed was I was walking
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Speaker 12: by the door of the doors open right now and
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Speaker 12: just cause or parked sideways as you can see how
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Speaker 12: people kind of park vertically obviously, Yeah, and my idea,
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Speaker 12: why aren't people parking? I just like, I'm like, what's
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Speaker 12: going on? And then I came out and the truck
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Speaker 12: was already on them, and Grant's dad was over there.
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Speaker 4: On the phone.
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Speaker 13: I guess, calling the paramedics. I think, you know, like I.
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Speaker 12: Said, in this year, there were like some construction workers.
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Speaker 12: They had on a highviz is all.
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Speaker 9: I know.
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Speaker 13: You came out, you saw the cars parked, weird, how
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Speaker 13: many people did you see? If you were called for
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Speaker 13: four people, like three or four? The truck was already
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Speaker 13: down in the ditch. You saw Aaron Solomon already where.
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Speaker 12: Kind of the park is, like on the edge of
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Speaker 12: the grass right there, like literally looking down true, calling paramedics.
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Speaker 13: Okay, and then so Aaron the truck and then who
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Speaker 13: else did you see? I know, you didn't know them,
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Speaker 13: but how many people like three threeish people and you
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Speaker 13: they looked like construction workers.
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Speaker 12: Like they had on ives, so they were like the yellow, yeah,
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Speaker 12: black way you see, like alignment and construction workers. Is
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Speaker 12: just like anytime you work on the road or like
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Speaker 12: in something like that, you have to wear hi and.
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Speaker 13: Its three or so. Yeah. At that point, were there
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Speaker 13: police cars or no? A few minutes later, okay, okay.
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Speaker 1: There were no security cameras at the facility or anywhere
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Speaker 1: else nearby that would have captured events. Aaron Sulimon was
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Speaker 1: the only witness to his son's death. He would later
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Speaker 1: explain what he saw to his ex wife on video.
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Speaker 14: Something I need to address.
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Speaker 15: My car is still running with air conditioner on, so
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Speaker 15: I can't hear if his is on or off.
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Speaker 2: But the last so I looked down and then I
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Speaker 2: look back up and I see him.
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Speaker 1: Because we were early.
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Speaker 16: Yeah, we had like plenty of time, so there was
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Speaker 16: no rush. We had our time.
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Speaker 2: So the last I see is him literally like right
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Speaker 2: here closing this, about to open this, and I'm thinking.
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Speaker 16: Oh, he's just going to get his gear and I'm
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Speaker 16: going to check this email to make sure it's not important.
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Speaker 1: And then I'm going to get out and we're going
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Speaker 1: to go in.
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Speaker 17: They have his ballheb on then everything.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not thinking worst case scenario at the very beginning.
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Speaker 15: At first, when I got out of my car, thinking
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Speaker 15: oh my gosh, and I look around the parking lot
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Speaker 15: and I don't see him. I start coming down this hill,
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Speaker 15: and first I'm looking through the windsheet to see if
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Speaker 15: he had hopped back in by chance, because I don't
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Speaker 15: see him standing up out here.
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Speaker 2: So then I'm like, well, maybe he got back in somehow,
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Speaker 2: and I don't look.
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Speaker 16: I don't see him in.
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Speaker 15: And so I'm above the hill and this is the
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Speaker 15: front ends at the bottom of the ditch.
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Speaker 2: And I look down and I don't see his entire
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Speaker 2: body because I see his red shirt and his head
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Speaker 2: over here because he's angled that way.
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Speaker 16: So I know that I don't.
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Speaker 2: I know he wasn't covered by wheels up front, neither
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Speaker 2: his head nor his feet, but he wasn't perfectly perpendicular.
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Speaker 16: He was at a.
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Speaker 1: Little bit of an Hospital staff recorded a laceration with
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Speaker 1: bleeding on the back of Grant's head and three bruises,
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Speaker 1: one on his jaw, one near his left hip, and
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Speaker 1: one on his right thigh. This basic medical report noted
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Speaker 1: no punctures, fractures, bleeding, or any other wounds beyond those
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Speaker 1: three bruises and the one laceration to his head. According
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Speaker 1: to Aaron Solomon, doctors who treated Grant told him that
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Speaker 1: his son had suffered significant internal damage, which would be
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Speaker 1: consistent with the accident as described. However, documentation of these
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Speaker 1: injuries and others are lacking. There appears to be no
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Speaker 1: record of burns from the hot vehicle, which had just
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Speaker 1: been driven for over an hour to the sports facility.
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Speaker 1: For example, it remains unclear if or how Grant had
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Speaker 1: become stuck on the underbelly of the vehicle, or what
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Speaker 1: portions of his body came in contact with which parts
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Speaker 1: of the truck. Aaron speculates that he was trapped by
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Speaker 1: the axle.
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Speaker 2: His I think his chest an abdomen area was trapped
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Speaker 2: by the axle.
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Speaker 1: I believe, so this is actually.
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Speaker 17: How would you know that the axle was on him?
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Speaker 2: Because that's the area, because that's like, that's where because.
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Speaker 16: Of where his head was.
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Speaker 1: A thorough reconstruction of the event would be needed to
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Speaker 1: determine what other injuries should be expected. Grant was ostensibly
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Speaker 1: dragged roughly sixty feet across the ashphalt while wearing a
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Speaker 1: t shirt and shorts, but the report seems to omit
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Speaker 1: the types of cuts and abrasions one would expect to
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Speaker 1: see in that scenario. After Grant had been pulled from
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Speaker 1: the scene, photos showed bloodied rocks near to the truck.
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Speaker 1: Additional photos of responding emergency personnel also showed a ditch
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Speaker 1: full of long, tall grass, seemingly undisturbed from the truck
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Speaker 1: having rolled through it. Further photos posted online suggest a
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Speaker 1: tire track on the far side of the pavement. If
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Speaker 1: the image is accurate, the truck drove forward from the road,
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Speaker 1: not backward from the parking lot. The image is unverified
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Speaker 1: and unclear. It had also been widely reported that the
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Speaker 1: truck was found in park with the keys still in
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Speaker 1: the ignition. The available police report does not speak to
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Speaker 1: this point. It's unclear what happened to all of Grant's clothing,
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Speaker 1: though his shoes and socks, undamaged, were returned to his mother.
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Speaker 1: These appeared to show no signs of what had occurred.
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Speaker 1: In the immediate aftermath of his death, Aaron declined an autopsy.
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Speaker 1: Police released the white pickup truck back into his possession
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Speaker 1: without conducting a forensic examination. These choices left a gaping
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Speaker 1: hole in the death investigation, which was subsequently closed. The
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Speaker 1: Galladan Police determined Grant Solomon's death was an accident.
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Speaker 17: Right, yeah, yeah, pull up, just pull up a little further.
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Speaker 10: Try it there, okay, now neutral, I mean reverse, But.
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Speaker 15: Here's here's neutral that's immediate, so he can't.
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Speaker 11: Even get out.
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Speaker 2: So it's either gotta be quite honestly, it seems like
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Speaker 2: it's gotta.
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Speaker 1: Be maybe dry, and it was paused because this is
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Speaker 1: not still not as steep as their parking. Yeah, the
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Speaker 1: only thing I can.
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Speaker 15: Think is maybe it was in.
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Speaker 16: But even I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I'll see right here it's it's in drive and.
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Speaker 18: It's not okay.
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Speaker 17: But if my dad's series was true that it was
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Speaker 17: jumped out of gear and it jumped a reverse, he
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Speaker 17: can't get But if it jumped after after he.
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Speaker 4: Got out, right, hold on, you go?
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Speaker 19: What's that?
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Speaker 20: Well?
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Speaker 16: I just tried to see if I could even put
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Speaker 16: it in park where.
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Speaker 15: It's over where it shifts, and it would he stayed
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Speaker 15: automatically goes over here.
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Speaker 10: So okay, I don't know it's just so free. Wait
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Speaker 10: what it makes sense.
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Speaker 2: I was trying to see see how park it goes
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Speaker 2: in there.
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Speaker 16: I was trying to see, like you were saying, would it.
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Speaker 19: Pop out of akay, because it has to go over
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Speaker 19: to the column.
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Speaker 1: Right, so it won't stay there.
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Speaker 2: It won't stay right there to possibly pop down to reverse.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know none to make sense. The
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Speaker 1: decision made by the gallad and police did not sit
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Speaker 1: well with Angelia. The circumstances of Grant's death were both
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Speaker 1: bizarre and suspicious. There was no indication that the truck
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Speaker 1: had malfunctioned, and despite explanations being offered by others, mostly
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Speaker 1: those close to Aaron, that doctors had found internal injuries,
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Speaker 1: and she firmly believed that the forensic evidence did not
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Speaker 1: align to Aaron's story. Doctor Solomon knew that there was
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Speaker 1: a clear motive for Aaron to kill his son years
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Speaker 1: of abuse that she claimed the family had suffered at
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Speaker 1: his hands. Angie alleged that Grant had played the role
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Speaker 1: of protector to both her and Gracie. She said that
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Speaker 1: her son had suffered years of psychological and at times
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Speaker 1: physical abuse at the hands of his father. At the
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Speaker 1: time of his death, Grant had been speaking to friends
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Speaker 1: about how he planned to testify against his father as
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Speaker 1: an adult, even going so far as attempting to win
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Speaker 1: custody of his younger sister. For years, Angie had been
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Speaker 1: seeking the assistance of authorities in Franklin and brought her
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Speaker 1: Williamson County and in the state of Tennessee. In twenty eighteen,
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Speaker 1: she connected on Facebook with County Sheriff Jeff Long and
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Speaker 1: expressed fears for her own life and that of her children.
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Speaker 1: Only a few months later, deputies from the same sheriff's
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Speaker 1: office would arrive at her house to take the children
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Speaker 1: from her once more and return them to her ex husband.
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Speaker 1: Reports to the Department of Child Protective Services DCS bore
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Speaker 1: no results for the desperate mother. By the time of
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Speaker 1: Grant's death, Angie had been barred by court order from
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Speaker 1: placing any more legal claims against her ex husband for
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Speaker 1: a full six years, until Gracie reached the age of eighteen.
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Speaker 1: What could account for the authorities in Williamson County and
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Speaker 1: the State of Tennessee so routinely turning their back on
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Speaker 1: Angelia Solomon and her children in the face of numerous
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Speaker 1: serious claims. According to Angie, it was Aaron Solomon's connections.
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Speaker 1: The church where Aaron worshiped, Grace Chapel, was also the
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Speaker 1: one attended by a number of high powered individuals, state
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Speaker 1: Governor Bill Lee and Senator Jack Johnson, to name a couple.
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Speaker 1: Jack Johnson's wife, Dianna Johnson, was the judge who had
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Speaker 1: ruled against Angie, barring her from continuing to place claims
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Speaker 1: against her ex husband. With the court system against her,
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Speaker 1: DCS investigations closed without actions taken and no other means
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Speaker 1: to be heard, Angie took to the media, but the
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Speaker 1: assistance of friends and other concerned supporters, she launched a
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Speaker 1: social media campaign to draw attention to Grant's case and
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Speaker 1: her allegations of abuse.
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Speaker 21: This is what's so confounding. Why would authorities cover for
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Speaker 21: Aaron Solomon if what you say is true, if the
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Speaker 21: forensics showed otherwise, why would anybody cover for, you know,
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Speaker 21: for your son's father.
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Speaker 8: I mean, that's the question is who is Aaron Solomon?
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Speaker 8: Who is he really? And really what you're seeing here
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Speaker 8: is in the sadness of Grant not being here any
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Speaker 8: longer is just a continuation of the pattern of life
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Speaker 8: that we lived from twenty thirteen till that day in
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Speaker 8: July twenty, twenty twenty, under Aaron Solomon's control. It's just
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Speaker 8: a continuation why no one helped ever at any point,
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Speaker 8: Why no one stopped and stepped out of the circle
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Speaker 8: and helped Gracie and Grant just as children on their own.
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Speaker 8: There's a forensic evaluation and interview on file at the
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Speaker 8: Williamson County Sheriff's apartment that was arrestable and they let
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Speaker 8: it go. So if one adult had done their job,
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Speaker 8: Grant wouldn't have had to step in and do the
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Speaker 8: job that adults are supposed to do.
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Speaker 1: Angelia and her supporters set up a series of social
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Speaker 1: media accounts to perpetuate their message. They called the movement
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Speaker 1: Freedom for Gracie. The name highlighted the tragic situation that
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Speaker 1: Grant's little sister found herself in following his death. There
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Speaker 1: are additional postings under the name Justice for Grant. Gracie
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Speaker 1: believed that her father had killed her brother. Custody between
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Speaker 1: the two parents remained unclear, but Gracie had been vocal
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Speaker 1: for years over her refusals to live with her father.
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Speaker 1: She would refuse to leave with him and she would
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Speaker 1: run back to her mother.
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Speaker 22: I was all right, So there after the party, you
22:17
Speaker 22: go with me Grantssissippi, right, I don't.
22:20
Speaker 19: I don't my God to please. I just wanted.
22:25
Speaker 22: You're coming to a.
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Speaker 16: Because you guys are breaking rules.
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Speaker 8: I'm not.
22:35
Speaker 16: You two are breaking the rules.
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Speaker 21: I'm not.
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Speaker 4: That way you think.
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Speaker 11: So I know what it is.
22:45
Speaker 16: I understand, But at some point, we're supposed to be
22:49
Speaker 16: following rules at Armen College, and there's reasons for the rules,
22:54
Speaker 16: and it doesn't matter what me us three think. We've
22:58
Speaker 16: had this conversation a number of times, but it's going
23:00
Speaker 16: to stop. Gracie will be coming to me at some point,
23:03
Speaker 16: whether you like.
23:04
Speaker 22: It or not, it will happen.
23:08
Speaker 16: Because I'm not going to continue to allow us to
23:11
Speaker 16: be breaking the rules.
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Speaker 22: And you shouldn't be allowing the evil, and you shouldn't
23:15
Speaker 22: be allowing the evil. It's not just about what you want, right,
23:21
Speaker 22: It's much bigger than that. And I've tried to play
23:24
Speaker 22: nice and be nice about it, and that you've done
23:27
Speaker 22: with mom way more than you're supposed to and more
23:30
Speaker 22: than way more than what the judges estion. It doesn't
23:33
Speaker 22: matter what you think.
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Speaker 1: Right then, in a heartbreaking move that proved impossible to ignore.
23:41
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty one, Gracie posted a video. It has
23:45
Speaker 1: been viewed over one hundred and sixty thousand times. The
23:49
Speaker 1: video is entitled a Cry for Help. In it the
23:54
Speaker 1: young teen, it details years of alleged abuse. In the video,
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Speaker 1: calls her father a rapist and a killer.
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Speaker 11: My name is Ferracy Solomon. At fourteen years old, I'm
24:12
Speaker 11: nears of my story. I just want to say before
24:16
Speaker 11: get into any of this, so it's coming straight from me.
24:19
Speaker 11: It's all me and no, that's just so much. My
24:25
Speaker 11: brother died protecting me from my father, Aaron Solmon. My
24:29
Speaker 11: follows are a monster. It makes you want to go on.
24:32
Speaker 11: He is trying to force me to come up for
24:35
Speaker 11: a Sunday back doing counsel to never do this and
24:38
Speaker 11: from he would never try to take me again.
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Speaker 7: He's a liar.
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Speaker 11: I'm so scared. I've seen him do terrible.
24:46
Speaker 8: Things for people.
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Speaker 1: Since the divorce in twenty thirteen, claims of abuse against
24:51
Speaker 1: Aaron Solomon have been made in four different courts and
24:55
Speaker 1: instigated at least seven separate child welfare investigations. All of
25:00
Speaker 1: these claims were closed without actions taken along with the
25:07
Speaker 1: Grace Chapel Church its associated school, Grace Christian Academy, where
25:11
Speaker 1: Gracie attended, has come under fire for ignoring her claims
25:15
Speaker 1: and failing to report what she has told them. They
25:18
Speaker 1: are legally obligated to report any reasonable concern to authorities.
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Speaker 1: Widely circulated recordings of school staff discussing the issue painted
25:28
Speaker 1: picture of officials who care more about the image of
25:31
Speaker 1: the institution than the safety of one of their students.
25:36
Speaker 1: They would prefer the subject not be discussed openly.
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Speaker 11: A lot of.
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Speaker 5: Kids are being affected by, you know, what she's gone
25:47
Speaker 5: through and what she's telling people. And then they're so young,
25:50
Speaker 5: I'm talking about ten and eleven year old, you know,
25:53
Speaker 5: so they don't know.
25:53
Speaker 16: What to do with them.
25:54
Speaker 5: Then they go tell somebody else, and then it's like,
25:56
Speaker 5: I just don't want it to like come the talk
25:59
Speaker 5: of the school alive of its own. We want it
26:02
Speaker 5: for her, so we contain this. I don't want it,
26:06
Speaker 5: you know, like I want to bring a lie to
26:09
Speaker 5: it when people.
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Speaker 9: Don't know here he is that you don't want her
26:14
Speaker 9: to talk to about it, to talk to anyone about
26:16
Speaker 9: it other than you don't want her to talk to
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Speaker 9: more people about it is what I'm hearing you saying.
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Speaker 8: Well, because it's just something that.
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Speaker 1: Head master of Grace Christian Academy, Robbie Mason, has been
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Speaker 1: singled out by the Freedom for Gracie movement. They say
26:34
Speaker 1: he has failed to protect his students.
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Speaker 14: Please come to us so that we can give you
26:39
Speaker 14: the truth. Always say, we're not going to believe everything
26:43
Speaker 14: that your kids tell us about you, So please don't
26:46
Speaker 14: believe everything that your kids say about us.
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Speaker 1: Outrage over the apparent corruption of the legal system, the
26:53
Speaker 1: failure of social services and morally bankrupt religious and educational
26:58
Speaker 1: institutions has very under standably intensified.
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Speaker 23: The administration of this school failed the Solomon children, and
27:07
Speaker 23: because of it, one of them is dead. And this
27:10
Speaker 23: man is walking free. When you sit beside the governor
27:14
Speaker 23: of Tennessee at church, you can get away with anything.
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Speaker 6: He was eighteen years old, and when I tell you
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Speaker 6: the story of what happened to him, his mother and
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Speaker 6: his sister, it will haunt you forever.
27:26
Speaker 11: This man is a child predator and a child murderer.
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Speaker 1: If you see him in your area, you need to
27:31
Speaker 1: get away from him.
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Speaker 6: A little bit surprised because Tennessee is shady as fuck.
27:35
Speaker 6: This is Aaron Solomon who was accused of graping his
27:38
Speaker 6: own daughter and unliving his own son. Grace Chapel and
27:42
Speaker 6: Grace Academy were well aware of the abuse and did nothing.
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Speaker 11: I need to know more facts, but I can't tell
27:48
Speaker 11: you this.
27:49
Speaker 8: There's a reason of come.
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Speaker 18: Again, so make of that what you will if it
27:57
Speaker 18: isn't already clear. In my opinion, the Good Old Boys
28:01
Speaker 18: Club was hard at work.
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Speaker 1: There have been calls online for Aaron Solomon to lose
28:11
Speaker 1: his role as a financial advisor, for him to be
28:14
Speaker 1: jailed and worse so. In twenty twenty one, following the
28:19
Speaker 1: release of Gracie's video, Aaron filed a defamation lawsuit against
28:24
Speaker 1: roughly twenty named individuals, including his ex wife. Other defendants
28:29
Speaker 1: included friends of his children and their parents who have
28:32
Speaker 1: been involved with social media accounts. Although the false claim
28:37
Speaker 1: at the center of his lawsuit relates to Gracie's video
28:40
Speaker 1: statement and the movement that has her name, his daughter
28:43
Speaker 1: is not listed amongst the defendants. Aaron Solomon states that
28:48
Speaker 1: Angelia is centrally responsible for the negative and accusatory social
28:53
Speaker 1: media campaign against him. He believes that she has written
28:56
Speaker 1: all or most of the posts online posing as someone
29:00
Speaker 1: else in order to present her views as facts in
29:04
Speaker 1: third person, and that his daughter is a victim of
29:08
Speaker 1: parental alien nation. It seems that this argument had been
29:16
Speaker 1: building against doctor Angelia Sulomon for some time. It dates
29:21
Speaker 1: back to the initial days of the divorce, when Judge
29:24
Speaker 1: Smith ruled that both children should stay with Erin and
29:27
Speaker 1: be temporarily removed from contact with their mother. Unlike Judge Johnson,
29:33
Speaker 1: who arguably had a conflict of interest, Judge Smith did not.
29:39
Speaker 1: He heard testimony from Angelia about the night that she
29:42
Speaker 1: alleged her then husband tried to kill her. A few
29:47
Speaker 1: facts about the alleged attempted murder are not in dispute.
29:51
Speaker 1: Angelia found herself in the shower of their bathroom in
29:54
Speaker 1: the family home in Franklin around two am on May tenth.
29:59
Speaker 1: She had the core of a hair dryer around her neck.
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Speaker 4: I thing was terribly awry because there was a blow
30:04
Speaker 4: dryer in the shower resting in the bottom of the
30:07
Speaker 4: shower and the prong was sticking up and tied to
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Speaker 4: the shower nozzle.
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Speaker 1: Aaron found her, revived her, and subsequently called her parents
30:18
Speaker 1: and took her for psychiatric treatment the next day. But
30:23
Speaker 1: was this an attempted murder or, as Aaron would claim,
30:26
Speaker 1: that Angelia committed a staged suicide. In the twenty thirteen
30:32
Speaker 1: divorce hearing, Aaron's attorney argued that Angie had staged the
30:36
Speaker 1: scene in the shower for attention. That text between the
30:39
Speaker 1: two exchanged in the hours after the incident showed this
30:43
Speaker 1: to be true. Angie admitted as much at that time.
30:47
Speaker 1: There was never a murder attempt, only an elaborate lie constructed. Afterwards,
30:52
Speaker 1: text messages between her and Aaron were presented to Judge
30:56
Speaker 1: Smith in an effort to compel the truth from Angie
30:59
Speaker 1: and write Aaron had lied to her in the text,
31:02
Speaker 1: saying that he had taken a photo of her in
31:05
Speaker 1: the shower before he assisted her. Angie's text back read,
31:10
Speaker 1: you took a picture before you tried to help me.
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Speaker 1: That just shows me where this has gone. I staged
31:15
Speaker 1: that anyway, but who cares use it against me? All
31:21
Speaker 1: I wanted was to be loved, nothing more. Unfortunately I
31:25
Speaker 1: wouldn't kill myself, but you would memorialize my faking it
31:28
Speaker 1: to get attention and use it against me instead of
31:32
Speaker 1: love me. When questioned Angie testified that she did not
31:40
Speaker 1: think that she wrote those revealing texts. According to the
31:44
Speaker 1: court record, Judge Smith left the courtroom to eat a
31:47
Speaker 1: sandwich and read the exchange directly from her phone, which
31:51
Speaker 1: had been preserved as evidence. He returned and determined that
31:56
Speaker 1: she was being untruthful. In a later email, the court
32:00
Speaker 1: read that Angie again wrote to Erin about the same
32:04
Speaker 1: shower incident. I made a bad choice for attention, but
32:07
Speaker 1: I expect I accept responsibility for that choice and have
32:12
Speaker 1: learned why I did it and won't repeat it. When
32:16
Speaker 1: asked if she wrote that email, Angie testified that statement
32:20
Speaker 1: and other similar statements that she made were an attempt
32:23
Speaker 1: to get her husband to come home to her. In
32:26
Speaker 1: multiple texts to Erin, she threatened to hurt herself because,
32:30
Speaker 1: as she stated in the court record, I know that
32:33
Speaker 1: would get him to come back home. My heart was broken.
32:40
Speaker 1: After Grant's death, Angie reverted to her original version of
32:43
Speaker 1: this event on social media, ignoring her testimony in court.
32:48
Speaker 1: She says now that it was in fact an attempted murder.
32:55
Speaker 1: Many of the claims on the Freedom for Gracie website
32:58
Speaker 1: canflict with the court rect Doctor Solomon herself testified that
33:03
Speaker 1: she was trying to win her husband back in May
33:05
Speaker 1: twenty thirteen. However, the website states that she was trying
33:09
Speaker 1: desperately to leave her husband for years before the divorce.
33:14
Speaker 1: She sought a protective order against him after the shower
33:17
Speaker 1: incident in twenty thirteen, but later dropped it.
33:24
Speaker 24: I'm still fighting today and I really thought Grant and
33:28
Speaker 24: I would get the kids out.
33:32
Speaker 21: I did.
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Speaker 1: Angie now states online and in interviews that Grant saw
33:39
Speaker 1: the whole thing happen in the shower, but she said
33:42
Speaker 1: nothing about him as a witness in order to protect him.
33:46
Speaker 4: Grant would have been the lion deserved you a lion shower.
33:54
Speaker 1: This contradicts both her protective order and testimony under oath
33:58
Speaker 1: to Judge Smith. Both children were in their rooms asleep
34:04
Speaker 1: and never came out. Grant saw nothing. Angelia has also
34:11
Speaker 1: taken aim at her immediate family. On the website, Angie
34:15
Speaker 1: depicts her father, Dan Huffins, as controlling and abusive. She
34:20
Speaker 1: claims to have been under pressure from him to drop
34:23
Speaker 1: the protective order against Aaron, and attributes quotes to him
34:27
Speaker 1: such as a husband can do what he wants to
34:30
Speaker 1: his wife. Conversely, Judge Smith wrote that mister Huffins was
34:35
Speaker 1: a very believable person. In his testimony, the ostensibly concerned
34:40
Speaker 1: father stated, I am going to tell you this because
34:43
Speaker 1: I love my daughter. She's a compulsive liar. I can
34:48
Speaker 1: never expect to have a conversation with her unless there's
34:51
Speaker 1: some untruths that's going to be told, unless something is
34:55
Speaker 1: going to be stretched. I know my daughter needs psychological help, help.
35:00
Speaker 1: I know that. It was not only the doctor's father
35:07
Speaker 1: who testified to this effect, her mother did as well,
35:11
Speaker 1: But Angelia claimed both parents had ulterior motives. They had
35:15
Speaker 1: both treated her horribly as a child, and her sister
35:18
Speaker 1: had been witnessed to the abuse that she suffered. In
35:22
Speaker 1: response to these allegations, her sister Julie submitted an affidavit
35:26
Speaker 1: that stated, I am unable to understand why Angie makes
35:30
Speaker 1: these false statements, but can only attribute it to mental illness.
35:35
Speaker 1: They had a happy childhood and loving parents. It was
35:40
Speaker 1: not only family members that contradicted Angie's version of events,
35:45
Speaker 1: she did herself no favors. When offering her own testimony,
35:49
Speaker 1: Angie told the judge that she had not been the
35:51
Speaker 1: source of numerous claims to DCS about Aaron and the children.
35:56
Speaker 1: The DCS representative at the hearing, as well as the
35:59
Speaker 1: department's document, showed this to be a lie. Reports about
36:04
Speaker 1: Aaron to Child Services eventually became so frequent that years
36:08
Speaker 1: later a court in Williamson County would deem them an
36:12
Speaker 1: abuse of civil action and bar Angie from bringing any
36:16
Speaker 1: new claims for a period of six years until Gracie
36:20
Speaker 1: turned eighteen years old. After hearing from all witnesses, Judge
36:25
Speaker 1: Smith made his ruling simply stated, Miss Sullivan, I do
36:29
Speaker 1: not believe you. He also admonished her for a plea
36:33
Speaker 1: for funds posted on Facebook in which she claimed that
36:36
Speaker 1: she needed to raise money because her soon to be
36:39
Speaker 1: ex husband had taken her babies. She said he kidnapped
36:44
Speaker 1: the children. The post raised nearly four thousand dollars. Judge
36:49
Speaker 1: Smith asked, why would you tell people he had stolen
36:52
Speaker 1: your babies? I mean I signed a restraining order, ma'am.
36:56
Speaker 1: If anybody is to blame, it is me. Leah claimed
37:00
Speaker 1: that someone had broken into her Facebook account, she had
37:04
Speaker 1: nothing to do with it. The judge further believed that
37:08
Speaker 1: she had been finding a means to message her children
37:10
Speaker 1: in violation of this restraining order on a message still
37:15
Speaker 1: held on her device sent to Grant's eye touch, she
37:18
Speaker 1: instructed her son to delete all messages that she sent
37:21
Speaker 1: to him after reading them. Although the device with that
37:26
Speaker 1: message was presented to her in court, Angie denied writing it.
37:35
Speaker 1: Aaron Solomon testified that his greatest concern about agreeing to
37:39
Speaker 1: even supervise visits between Angie and the kids was about
37:43
Speaker 1: what she was going to say to them about him,
37:46
Speaker 1: because she had a serious problem with lying. On the
37:50
Speaker 1: morning after the shower incident, for example, Angie told the
37:54
Speaker 1: children over breakfast that their father had left in the
37:57
Speaker 1: middle of the night to be with another war. At
38:01
Speaker 1: that stage, he testified it was the worst claim he
38:04
Speaker 1: had directly heard her say about him. Faced with these contradictions, untruths,
38:10
Speaker 1: and serious concerns relating to her mental health, Judge Smith concluded,
38:15
Speaker 1: I am concerned about the safety of these children, even
38:19
Speaker 1: in a supervised situation. His written decision months later stated
38:24
Speaker 1: that the Court finds the real issue here is whether
38:27
Speaker 1: Missus Solomon is dealing in reality. He ordered that Angie
38:32
Speaker 1: could not see the children until she underwent a psychiatric evaluation.
38:38
Speaker 1: Doctor Solomon has repeatedly fought back against her husband's claims
38:42
Speaker 1: that she is mentally unstable. She has admitted to seeking
38:45
Speaker 1: treatment from more than one psychiatrist, but only to seek
38:49
Speaker 1: help due to an unhealthy marriage. Angie has claimed that
38:54
Speaker 1: after the court appointed psychiatrists submitted his report, it was
38:58
Speaker 1: disregarded by the same judge who ordered it. Angie has
39:02
Speaker 1: stated that it found her to be a loving, caring,
39:05
Speaker 1: and capable mother. Her separation from the children was temporary,
39:13
Speaker 1: visitation was slowly reinstated, and eventually the kids would run
39:17
Speaker 1: away from their father's care to live with their mother.
39:24
Speaker 1: In one of several videos posted by Justice for Grant,
39:27
Speaker 1: Angie explained how she arrived at the cemetery to find
39:30
Speaker 1: her son's grave cleared of all markers, flowers, baseball memorabilia,
39:36
Speaker 1: and other items left by mortars. She alleged that Aaron
39:41
Speaker 1: had wanted the grave to be unmarked. She further accused
39:46
Speaker 1: him of threatening to move his son to a different
39:48
Speaker 1: resting place, something that he could do because he had
39:51
Speaker 1: paid for the plot.
39:53
Speaker 25: The groundsekeeper was out there and he's my friend, and
39:55
Speaker 25: so I said, what happened out here? And he said,
39:58
Speaker 25: mister Solomon came and told me he wanted everything cleared,
40:03
Speaker 25: and he said, so I did. I cleared it all
40:05
Speaker 25: off and it's in a box up there in the
40:07
Speaker 25: at the memorial home.
40:09
Speaker 8: In the state of Tennessee, by law, if a.
40:12
Speaker 25: Child is buried, both parents own half, so by law
40:16
Speaker 25: in the state of Tennessee, that doesn't hold. But in
40:18
Speaker 25: his mind he believes that he owns Grant and this
40:22
Speaker 25: spot and he can do with it what he wanted.
40:25
Speaker 1: Howards was the only one.
40:27
Speaker 8: That was completely cleared. Days after that. You know, even
40:29
Speaker 8: the owner said, you know, Aaron wanted it cleared, and
40:32
Speaker 8: and those good flowers were laying on it.
40:37
Speaker 1: Then Angie claimed that Aaron had purchased plots for her
40:40
Speaker 1: and Gracie as well as himself, a move that she
40:43
Speaker 1: linked to an alleged murder suicide scheme. She feared for
40:48
Speaker 1: her life.
40:50
Speaker 19: We were in the counselor's office in September the twenty sixth,
40:54
Speaker 19: telling him we would never be a family, would never
40:56
Speaker 19: go back to him, We would never And on October
40:59
Speaker 19: the sixth, just the next week, he had gone in
41:02
Speaker 19: and set up the payments for the plots and he
41:05
Speaker 19: had put my name on plot three in Gracie's own
41:09
Speaker 19: plot one.
41:11
Speaker 1: And his own plot four. Pam Stevens was the funeral
41:16
Speaker 1: director at Williamson Memorial, a local Franklin, Tennessee, funeral home
41:21
Speaker 1: and cemetery, in July twenty twenty, the day after Grant's death.
41:26
Speaker 1: She has stated that she assisted Aaron Solomon alongside his
41:30
Speaker 1: ex wife, who was there with him, to select Grant's
41:33
Speaker 1: burial plot. At the same time, all family plots were
41:37
Speaker 1: selected and a deposit was made with Angie's knowledge and approval.
41:43
Speaker 1: On October sixth, Aaron did return to pay the balance
41:46
Speaker 1: on the plots and signed the contract as agreed. Pam
41:51
Speaker 1: has also legally declared that the items were removed from
41:54
Speaker 1: Grant's grave in order to mow the area. Angie was
41:58
Speaker 1: notified that this was the case at that time. She
42:02
Speaker 1: chose to then take the temporary marker from the grave
42:06
Speaker 1: after Andrew removed it herself. According to Pam's signed affidavit,
42:10
Speaker 1: the mother began taking pictures of the unmarked plot and
42:14
Speaker 1: claiming that Aaron was responsible. The white pickup was in
42:22
Speaker 1: the possession of Aaron Solomon for months after Grant's death.
42:26
Speaker 1: He had the vehicle written off and it sent to
42:28
Speaker 1: a scrapyard. According to his ex wife, she was not
42:31
Speaker 1: informed of these decisions.
42:34
Speaker 15: That's what I'm saying.
42:36
Speaker 14: I'm just saying down the road, not really.
42:38
Speaker 19: Before you saw it.
42:40
Speaker 4: I know some I don't.
42:41
Speaker 19: Well, I mean, I know some of the boys are
42:43
Speaker 19: wanting to see it.
42:43
Speaker 20: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
42:46
Speaker 1: So let me make a few bush. She eventually tracked
42:49
Speaker 1: it down and had it submitted for analysis. Portions of
42:53
Speaker 1: a report from the vehicle's computer have been published by
42:57
Speaker 1: Justice for Grant.
42:58
Speaker 24: That black box actual shows that someone was in the
43:01
Speaker 24: driver's seat, that there was weight in the driver's seat
43:04
Speaker 24: in the last three seconds the end, that the accelerator
43:08
Speaker 24: pedal was pushed in and the stream wheel was being
43:11
Speaker 24: operated and turned sharply to the right, which matches the
43:14
Speaker 24: tire pattern.
43:15
Speaker 19: Then was turned, it was placed in park and turned.
43:18
Speaker 20: Off, and the weight got out of the vehicle.
43:20
Speaker 24: Grant couldn't have been the one in the last three
43:22
Speaker 24: seconds to get out because he was under there.
43:24
Speaker 19: So the black box told us everything. So we have
43:28
Speaker 19: all of the evidence. We just don't have an open event.
43:33
Speaker 1: If the report is to be believed. The data revealed
43:36
Speaker 1: a driver was accelerating before the truck made impact with
43:39
Speaker 1: the ditch, The driver's side seatbelt was fastened, and both
43:43
Speaker 1: acceleration and brake were used in maneuvering the vehicle. The
43:48
Speaker 1: data as published suggests that someone was purposefully navigating the
43:52
Speaker 1: truck when it struck Grant Sulimon. It's unclear if this
43:57
Speaker 1: report was part of the information put in front of
43:59
Speaker 1: it ad A. Blanton and the gallad In Police when
44:02
Speaker 1: they reopened the case in twenty twenty one. In March
44:08
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, Assistant District Attorney Ronald Blanton wrote a
44:12
Speaker 1: letter to doctor Solomon's attorney regarding the conclusion of the
44:16
Speaker 1: second investigation into the death of Grant Solomon assertions from
44:22
Speaker 1: Freedom for Gracie and Justice for Grant omit reference to
44:26
Speaker 1: the reopening of the investigation ADA. Blanton wrote that the
44:30
Speaker 1: case was reopened upon Angelia Solomon's request and aided by
44:35
Speaker 1: the newly sourced materials and potential evidence that she had acquired.
44:40
Speaker 1: The details that the ADA provides in the letter, however,
44:43
Speaker 1: are very limited. He wrote only that the new information
44:47
Speaker 1: was compared to the original case file, that the investigators
44:50
Speaker 1: from twenty twenty had been interviewed, and that the investigation
44:55
Speaker 1: had been thorough there is no mention of an exhumation
44:58
Speaker 1: for an autopsy, crime scene reconstruction, no forensic evaluation of
45:03
Speaker 1: the pickup truck. Ronald Blanton concluded that it was a
45:07
Speaker 1: horrible accident, but the state of Tennessee declines to pursue
45:11
Speaker 1: criminal charges in this matter based on a lack of evidence.
45:16
Speaker 26: I know there is a lot of community concerned about
45:18
Speaker 26: that case. It is a tragic case, and I think
45:22
Speaker 26: it is right that it has received significant attention from
45:25
Speaker 26: both both investigators and prosecutors. I also understand that in
45:30
Speaker 26: some circumstances there simply is not the evidence to proceed
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Speaker 26: with the case, and we may never know exactly what happened.
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Speaker 26: But I am confident, based on my conversation with the
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Speaker 26: director of the DA's conference, who got personally involved in
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Speaker 26: this and expended significant amount of his own time in
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Speaker 26: a way that he does not for virtually any other
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Speaker 26: case in this state, that this is a case that
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Speaker 26: receives substantial attention, and that to the extent that prosecutorial
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Speaker 26: resources could be deployed, they were deployed, and that this
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Speaker 26: case received a thorough investigation.
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Speaker 20: Before Grant left that morning, he stopped in the door
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Speaker 20: and said something.
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Speaker 1: That saw had a character.
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Speaker 20: But he said, Mom, I don't want to die Galati today.
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Speaker 20: If I beg completed not to go, or I would
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Speaker 20: go with him. Let me see the parking lot. I
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Speaker 20: thought it was even talk about his lungs from where
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Speaker 20: it had COVID.
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Speaker 1: He was getting over it.
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Speaker 20: We were having to have X rays and see doctors.
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Speaker 20: I didn't want to be a helicopter mom, but I
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Speaker 20: just thought it might just be there. He said, no, Mama,
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Speaker 20: you're not gone. An hour later I got a phone call.
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Speaker 1: The grant was Danny Caltain. Aaron Sulimon's defamation claim is
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Speaker 1: still pending in Tennessee courts of the accusation that he
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Speaker 1: murdered his son. The lawsuit points out that the accident
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Speaker 1: occurred in broad daylight during regular business hours, just feet
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Speaker 1: away from an open and operational business and in clear
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Speaker 1: view of a busy road. Barn asserts that the false
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Speaker 1: claims are being made in part as a means to
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Speaker 1: solicit money. Two GoFundMe pages are currently connected to the
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Speaker 1: Freedom for Gracie and Justice for Grant social media accounts.
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Speaker 1: One seeks funds to pursue evidence for the alleged murder
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Speaker 1: in order to independently and properly investigate Grant's death. It
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Speaker 1: has raised just over one hundred and thirty thousand dollars.
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Speaker 1: The second is a legal fund for Gracie, who, according
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Speaker 1: to the account, has hired her own legal counsel at
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Speaker 1: the age of sixteen to pursue charges against her father.
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Speaker 1: That account has raised almost forty thousand dollars. The latest
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Speaker 1: shocking development in the case was published by The Daily
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Speaker 1: Mail in mid April twenty twenty four. Doctor Solomon told
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Speaker 1: the paper that back in twenty twenty she discovered that
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Speaker 1: the Williamson Memorial Funeral Home, under the control of Pam Stevens,
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Speaker 1: had broken her son's ankles in order to place him
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Speaker 1: in a smaller coffin. She claimed to have seen this
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Speaker 1: herself at a visitation, though no one else who was
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Speaker 1: present at that visit has reported also viewing this horrific development.
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Speaker 1: The Tennessee Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers overheard the complaint.
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Speaker 1: The board told the publication that there was no evidence
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Speaker 1: other than the mother's recollection. To date, the death investigation
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Speaker 1: has not been reopened for a third time. District Attorney
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Speaker 1: Lawrence Whitley has stood by previous statements from his office
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Speaker 1: clarifying that the case has been examined more than once,
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Speaker 1: though he offers no further detail on what evidence was considered.
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Speaker 1: He did add I prosecute anything that is feasible to prosecute,
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Speaker 1: but this is not This was a parking lot accident.
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Speaker 1: A petition on change dot org calling for the case
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Speaker 1: to be reopened has garnered over three hund in twenty
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Speaker 1: five thousand signatures. Last year, Gracie was again removed from
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Speaker 1: her mother's custody and place under DCS care. In June
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, Grant Solomon would have turned twenty two
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Speaker 1: years old. That was the tragic case of Grant Solomon
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Speaker 1: and his family. Thank you so much for watching and
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Speaker 1: supporting us here at JTL, and a special thanks to
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Speaker 1: those in the members lounge. Your extra support is really
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Speaker 1: appreciate it. I'm Kevin, this is just thought lounge, and
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Speaker 1: I'll see in the next one.
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Speaker 7: When the scene plays, tell me who the screen saves.
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Speaker 7: I can hear the crimes repeat. Gotta take my time
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Speaker 7: because these crimes get deep, but these stories can't hide.
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Speaker 7: Let me find my seat, Kevin, go ahead and settle
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Speaker 7: in gotta be selective, doing all the research, keeping it objective,
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Speaker 7: always being effective. Cauld say, he got a neck, pick
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Speaker 7: it a litter. You see how Newton got his back. Yeah,
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Speaker 7: the content that you need. This could be a new sign.
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Speaker 7: We're talking in the comments that