The Girl Next Door: What Happened to Hunter Grissom? | My Life of Crime
On May, 15th 2012, 27-year-old Hunter Grissom is gunned down at work by his ex-wife, Tracey Grissom. She alleges Hunter had abused her and that she killed him in self-defense. His family believes she hunted him down and that the abuse allegations are false. In Part 1, 48 Hours correspondent Erin Moriarty takes you inside the investigation into the killing of Hunter Grissom on her podcast, My Life of Crime. Based on the 48 Hours episode, "The Girl Next Door”.
- Duration
- 27m
- Broadcast on
- 14 Dec 2022
- Audio Format
- other
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It's Erin Moriarty, and we have a special episode for you today from my original podcast, My Life of Crime. I'm taking you inside true crime investigations like no one else, taking on killers and those accused of crimes. Here's an all-new episode of My Life of Crime that takes you deeper into the girl next door. Go along as I go beyond the scene of each crime, beyond prison walls, and into the killer's inner thoughts. It's all on this season of My Life of Crime. How would you describe Hunter Chryssen? He was fun. He was attractive. We had some really good times. Until I started noticing different things that were changing, he started becoming more aggressive. On May 15, 2012, 27-year-old Hunter Chryssen was gunned down while he was working on a boat landing alongside two colleagues, a shooter, his 30-year-old X-Y. What led to the shooting? Well, there's perversion. In September, 2010 is the first time that he physically hit me. It got progressively worse. He had made the comments that if I told anybody he would kill me, I believed him. You don't regret pulling the trigger? No, because if I had not done that, I'd be dead, and I believed that 100%. And then, there's what punters Angina and his mother believe. We all know she was capable of doing this. She hunted him down. She hunted him down. My son died running, running for his life. I know that there's no telling what went through his mind, but I hear him say, "Mama, mama," she has a way of making everything that she has done look right. I'm Erin Moriarty, and this is my life of crime. Was Hunter Chryssen an abuser who needed to be stopped, or was he the victim, shot by an X-Y because he left her? The truth is sometimes elusive. You want to believe women, I mean, why would a person lie about abuse? And let's be frank, it doesn't hurt when, as in this case, the alleged victim is beautiful, sympathetic, credible. But the more we looked into the death of Hunter Grissom, the more we began to wonder. What really happened on that spring morning in North Port, Alabama? In part one, we'll discuss the facts of the case and listen to the story that Hunter's ex-wife Tracey told us back then. In part two, what Tracey Grissom and her attorneys say today, we begin in 2014, two years after the shooting. What's your first thought when you look back on May 15, 2012? I wish I had a kept driving. According to Tracey on the morning of May 15, 2012, she drove just feet away from where her ex-husband, Hunter, was working. He's walking toward you. Yes. Where were his arms? What was he doing?
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On May, 15th 2012, 27-year-old Hunter Grissom is gunned down at work by his ex-wife, Tracey Grissom. She alleges Hunter had abused her and that she killed him in self-defense. His family believes she hunted him down and that the abuse allegations are false. In Part 1, 48 Hours correspondent Erin Moriarty takes you inside the investigation into the killing of Hunter Grissom on her podcast, My Life of Crime. Based on the 48 Hours episode, "The Girl Next Door”.