Mr. Mom Killer:Stephen Grant·Tara Grant

Tara Grant was a senior executive whose job sent her around the world. Her husband, Stephen, stayed home in Washington Township, Michigan, and looked after their two children. On February 9, 2007, after an argument in their bedroom, he strangled her.

What followed was calculated. Grant took her body to his father’s tool and die shop and dismembered it. He used a sled to haul her remains into Stoney Creek Metropark, more than 4,000 acres of woods, and scattered them there, later moving her torso to a plastic tub in the family garage. Meanwhile he reported her missing and talked to reporters about how worried he was.

The story unravelled when evidence turned up in the park at the end of February. Grant fled north before police could arrest him and was found in the snow at Wilderness State Park, badly hypothermic after trying to take his own life. He survived. In December 2007 he was convicted of second-degree murder, and he was sentenced to at least 50 years in prison.