He Used A Hand Saw. . .

On Valentine''s Day 2007, in a suburb of Detroit, stay-at-home dad Stephen Grant filed a missing person''s report with the local sheriff. Grant''s wife Tara had disappeared five days earlier. He''d been searching for her ever since--or so he claimed.

He Started With Her Hands. . .

Over the next two weeks, police questioned Grant. He lashed out, accusing them of harassment, pleading his innocence in television interviews. He swore that his wife, a successful businesswoman, had abandoned him and their children. Then the police made a gruesome discovery. . .

He Kept Her Torso In The Garage.

After his arrest, Grant confessed to strangling his wife and cutting her body into fourteen pieces while the children slept. Detroit News reporter George Hunter interviewed Grant several times, learning shocking details of his relationship with Tara. This chilling account goes inside the twisted mind of a husband who snapped--and a marriage that ended in bloody carnage.

Includes 16 Pages Of Shocking Photos

George Hunter has spent the last ten years covering murderers, rapists and gangsters as an award-winning police reporter for The Detroit News. His national television appearances include CNN''s Nancy Grace, Fox News'' Greta Van Susteren, and MSNBC News.

Melissa Ann Preddy is a Michigan-based freelance writer who spent more than thirteen years as a reporter, columnist, and editor for The Detroit News. She was a 2004-2005 Knight-Wallace Fellow in Journalism at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and presently is writing a fictional mystery series.

Both authors live in the Detroit area.

He Used A Hand Saw. . .

On Valentine''s Day 2007, in a suburb of Detroit, stay-at-home dad Stephen Grant filed a missing person''s report with the local sheriff. Grant''s wife Tara had disappeared five days earlier. He''d been searching for her ever since--or so he claimed.

He Started With Her Hands. . .

Over the next two weeks, police questioned Grant. He lashed out, accusing them of harassment, pleading his innocence in television interviews. He swore that his wife, a successful businesswoman, had abandoned him and their children. Then the police made a gruesome discovery. . .

He Kept Her Torso In The Garage.

After his arrest, Grant confessed to strangling his wife and cutting her body into fourteen pieces while the children slept. Detroit News reporter George Hunter interviewed Grant several times, learning shocking details of his relationship with Tara. This chilling account goes inside the twisted mind of a husband who snapped--and a marriage that ended in bloody carnage.

Includes 16 Pages Of Shocking Photos

George Hunter has spent the last ten years covering murderers, rapists and gangsters as an award-winning police reporter for The Detroit News. His national television appearances include CNN''s Nancy Grace, Fox News'' Greta Van Susteren, and MSNBC News.

Melissa Ann Preddy is a Michigan-based freelance writer who spent more than thirteen years as a reporter, columnist, and editor for The Detroit News. She was a 2004-2005 Knight-Wallace Fellow in Journalism at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and presently is writing a fictional mystery series.

Both authors live in the Detroit area.

He Used A Hand Saw. . .

On Valentine''s Day 2007, in a suburb of Detroit, stay-at-home dad Stephen Grant filed a missing person''s report with the local sheriff. Grant''s wife Tara had disappeared five days earlier. He''d been searching for her ever since--or so he claimed.

He Started With Her Hands. . .

Over the next two weeks, police questioned Grant. He lashed out, accusing them of harassment, pleading his innocence in television interviews. He swore that his wife, a successful businesswoman, had abandoned him and their children. Then the police made a gruesome discovery. . .

He Kept Her Torso In The Garage.

After his arrest, Grant confessed to strangling his wife and cutting her body into fourteen pieces while the children slept. Detroit News reporter George Hunter interviewed Grant several times, learning shocking details of his relationship with Tara. This chilling account goes inside the twisted mind of a husband who snapped--and a marriage that ended in bloody carnage.

Includes 16 Pages Of Shocking Photos

George Hunter has spent the last ten years covering murderers, rapists and gangsters as an award-winning police reporter for The Detroit News. His national television appearances include CNN''s Nancy Grace, Fox News'' Greta Van Susteren, and MSNBC News.

Melissa Ann Preddy is a Michigan-based freelance writer who spent more than thirteen years as a reporter, columnist, and editor for The Detroit News. She was a 2004-2005 Knight-Wallace Fellow in Journalism at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and presently is writing a fictional mystery series.

Both authors live in the Detroit area.