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>> were you looking in her face? >> no, i covered her face up. >> what did you cover her face up with? >> gray underwear or a gray t-shirt. >> how did you know she had died? >> when she stopped moving. and i was worried. i was really worried. >> the two children, grant said, were in their rooms down the hall from their murdered mother. the au pair was out. authorities would say later grant text messaged her, you owe me a kiss, and left a note reading the same on her pillow. grant said he returned to his wife's body, tied a belt around the neck and dragged the corpse down the stairs and out to ...

>> it was about sex. it was about stephen grant wanting to replace his wife with his au pair. >> as a blockbuster witness takes the stand. when "the valentine's day mystery" continues. at liberty mutual, we know how much you count on your car and how much the people in your life count on you. that's why we offer accident forgiveness, man: good job. where your price won't increase due to your first accident.

An old girlfriend of grant leaked recent e-mails she received from stephen two weeks before tara went missing. not so subtle come-ons like, i'm still in need of some excitement in my day, wink, wink. i just think of marriage vows like speed limits. sometimes you have to break them. meanwhile, the agency that placed the young au pair in the grant home became so uncomfortable with one of its girls being in the midst of a publicly messy domestic situation, it pulled verena, the kids' nanny, out of the house against her will. she returned home to germany on february 21st. reporter amber hunt knew ...

Break. the detective's desk phone rang. >> i recognized it right away as being an international call. >> at the other end was a voice saying this is verena durkas. verena, the grants' former au pair, calling from her home in germany. >> she was crying. i had the sense to reach for my recorder and record the conversation. >> everything he said was a lie and i believed everything. >> and for the next 30 minutes, what a story she had to tell. verena, in the middle of the night for her, was saying grant had just called her and confessed to killing his wife. >> he told me it was an accident. he sai...

>> he's never going to get out. second-degree, there is that possibility. >> so that's what was at stake when the murder trial of stephen grant began here in the courtroom ten months after his arrest. would he get life in prison, meaning exactly that? or would the jury find him guilty of murder in the second degree leaving the door open for him to walk free at some future date? despite his legally airtight confession, grant had pleaded not guilty. >> you strip it all down, it's a domestic violence murder. somebody has to speak for tara and that was our job. >> the macomb county prosecutor, eri...