18 Yr Old Dead Under His Truck- Dad Claims Empty Truck Ran Son Over BUT Mom Claims Dad Killed Son

14 Nov 2025 · 58 min

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Episode Title

18 Yr Old Dead Under His Truck - Dad Claims Empty Truck Ran Son Over BUT Mom Claims Dad Killed Son

Episode Overview

This episode dives into the controversial and tragic case of Grant Solomon, an 18-year-old high school baseball star found dead under his own truck. The narrative unfolds various perspectives surrounding his death, including conflicting testimonies from his parents, Aaron and Angie Solomon, and the implications of abuse within the family.

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Key Themes and Concepts

  1. The Incident:
  2. Date and Setting:
  3. The incident occurred on July 20, 2020, at a baseball training facility in Gallatin, Tennessee.
  4. Grant Solomon, after recently recovering from COVID-19, was allegedly visiting this facility with his father, Aaron.
  1. Conflicting Accounts:
  2. Aaron Solomon's Testimony:
  3. Claims that Grant was trapped under the truck after it rolled back during their visit.
  4. Describes a calm demeanor during the 911 call, stating his son was unresponsive and trapped.
  • Angie Solomon's Allegations:
  • Accuses Aaron of being responsible for Grant's death, suggesting a murder cover-up.
  • Advocates for a thorough investigation, expressing skepticism towards Aaron's narrative.
  1. Investigative Concerns:
  2. Lack of Evidence:
  3. The absence of security footage and eyewitness testimonies raises questions about the validity of Aaron's account.
  4. Claims that Grant's body showed no signs of severe trauma that would be expected if he were indeed hit by the truck.
  • Speculations on Cause of Death:
  • Medical reports state Grant died from cardiac arrest related to blunt force trauma.
  • Controversy over whether the truck was in park and how it could have rolled back.

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Key Discussions

A. Family Dynamics:

  • The strained relationship between Grant and Aaron is highlighted by testimonies from Grant’s friends and girlfriend, who reported signs of distress in Grant when discussing his father.
  • Angie's motivations and actions, including a murder-for-hire plot against Aaron, also come under scrutiny.

B. Public Perception:

  • The case has garnered significant media attention, prompting public outcry for justice and further investigation.
  • Social media plays a pivotal role with initiatives like GoFundMe campaigns for "Justice for Grant," raising questions about the motives behind Angie's efforts.

C. Legal and Ethical Implications:

  • The episode discusses the challenges in obtaining justice for victims of familial abuse and the complexities surrounding accusations of parental misconduct.
  • Angie’s potential motives for her actions post-Grant’s death are examined, including financial incentives and the impact of perceived injustices.

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Questions Raised

  • Who is truly responsible for Grant's death?
  • The contradictory narratives from Aaron and Angie create a web of confusion about the truth.
  • What happened to the raised funds from the GoFundMe campaigns?
  • Speculations about Angie's financial motivations lead to questions about her actions and priorities.
  • What will be the outcome for Gracie, Grant's younger sister?
  • The episode hints at the ongoing abuse allegations against Aaron and the implications for Gracie's safety.

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Conclusion

The episode paints a complex picture of familial relationships, abuse, and the quest for justice amidst tragedy. As it concludes, listeners are left questioning the integrity of both parents and the outcome for Gracie, ultimately prompting a call for more thorough investigations into unresolved claims of abuse and neglect.

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Further Listening

  • For those interested in a deeper exploration of the Solomon case, it is recommended to listen to Part 1 of this episode as well as follow updates on the case through various media outlets.

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0:02In Franklin, Tennessee, there is a white pickup truck driving around with red handprints on the back. Two red handprints, almost as if someone is standing behind this white pickup truck and then placing their hands on the back. Both hands. As if they're pushing the truck, holding the truck. And if you're to see this car driving around in Franklin, Tennessee, there might be a gasp because that is Grant Solomon's truck. Grant Solomon, the high school baseball star that mysteriously died after being run over by his own white pickup truck. Thankfully, these are not his handprints. They were done before his passing with red paint and by a friend of his.

0:43But it's still eerie to see. Some residents report seeing the car driving around after Grant's passing, which made them feel just very uncomfortable, especially when most people think that Grant Solomon was killed to keep his dad secret. And they allege that Grant Solomon's dad was the one driving around in this truck after his passing. This is part two of what happened to the Solomon family. Please listen to part one before getting started. But with that being said, let's get into it.

1:35July 20, 2020. Grant had just turned 18 like a month ago and he is a star baseball player, which means colleges are already calling. And his dad, a former sports newscaster, wants to make sure that he only gets the best calls, which is why they're driving an hour away to this warehouse turned practice location. It's called the Ward Performance Institute in Gallatin, Tennessee. It is now closed. It's like a windowless warehouse style gym. I imagine that's where like a boot camp gym style would be. It looks cool. The inside looks great. Very well done. But it has that hardcore energy to it. And you're just there to focus on baseball and nothing else.

2:15It has been debated whether or not Grant and Aaron had an appointment that day. But if it is true, then it would have been at 9am. At this point, Grant and Gracie are living with Angie. It's like back and forth custody. They're constantly fighting to get the kids. At this point, the kids are living with angie so grant is driving separately to meet with his dad aaron both at this one hour away practice location why is it debated if there was appointment both parties argue so aaron solomon and his side argue that there was an appointment and that's why they went and they were actually early to their appointment so they had some time in the parking lot angie and her side argue no we found out that they don't have an appointment but this the center is now closed so no one can really and i don't even think that they would disclose what so like that's such an easy thing to yeah get an answer like call the owner what so it's been debated now according to angie grant really did not want to go to gallatin that morning he was not feeling well he had just recovered from covid his lungs weren't doing great he just didn't even want to overexert himself and make it worse for his performance later on but alas he's going i mean whether that's self-motivated and not wanting to disappoint himself or maybe it's not wanting to disappoint his dad or he just wanted to go i don't know it's unclear i'm so sorry notes on the appointment yes it was debated right yes well wouldn't there be some kind of record like some kind of text message or email or something or yeah i will say that there's so much online but especially with this particular incident everything feels like you see one thing online and you see documentation and you feel like oh that looks very legit but then the other party is like that's absolutely not legit and that's not what happened okay so everything it's like no one can agree so we can't even be sure that things are certain even the police reports of this incident of grant's death are pretty sparse there's like not a lot of public police reports and they're very um thin very thin is this strange to you it is strange but also we couldn't foia it we couldn't get a foia request now typically like whatever you can find online for public police reports are very slim compared to when you get a foia request and then you have a typically more dense police report sometimes you can get the court reporter to give you court transcripts and then you get like a better picture this it's like so thin and they're being released by potentially parties involved so it can be more specific Selective.

4:46Yes. So it's just really tricky. Okay. Now, Grant drives up to the parking lot, parks next to his dad. And then 10 minutes later, Aaron Solomon is calling 911, stating in a very strange tone that his son is trapped, pinned under his truck. His own truck. Grant's own truck. He is now under his own truck. Huh. And he can't get out. Aaron quickly gives the 911 operator the address. And they're asking, okay, what's going on? my son's truck backed over him and he it's rolled over him and dug up the ditch and it's on top of him he's trapped under the truck and i yeah he somehow it drug him underneath yes my son is under it i'm trying to um no i'm trying to call 911 so he it's almost like he's talking to someone that's also present at the scene now the operator is asking him okay what's your name my name is Aaron Solomon.

5:38Okay, how old is the male? He's 18. He just turned 18 a couple of weeks ago, about a month ago. It's my son. Oh my God. Oh my God. This is not good. Is he awake? I don't know. I don't think so. He's not, he's not alert, right? No, he's out and he's trapped. I got three guys here and he's trapped under the truck. Oh my God. Okay. It's very strange. It seems vague. It's interesting because, you know, she says he's not alert, right? Which would imply that he should be checking on him but it sounds like he's not the one confirming so it sounds like he's not the one visually seeing that his son is not alert he's getting this information from someone else at the scene but he's at the scene yeah which is crazy yeah this is your son you should be you should be under the truck yeah but he's not and his voice is a lot of people say eerily calm he's saying like oh my god oh my god this is not good oh my god i understand sir stay on the phone Meanwhile, we'll get someone out there.

6:35What kind of vehicle is it? It's a Toyota Tacoma. And it's the vehicle has, he's underneath the vehicle. Okay, I've got that. What color is it? It's a white truck. That's my son. It's somehow backed up. I'm on a, I'm on 911 right now. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. Was your son working on the car? Very valid question. Very lack of direct communication in times of panic. I mean, I get it. It's understandable. but you also have to see that it's very vague what he's giving to the operator. Grant ended up under his truck. We don't know how. No, no, no, no. He was just getting out of it. So he wasn't working under the truck.

7:15He's getting out of the truck. We're on an incline, and I guess he didn't have it on park or something, or it wasn't engaged. Oh, my God. Oh, my God, I can't believe this. And he's still under the truck? No one can get under? No, no. We've got units on route to you. I'm just asking you questions okay can you check on him huh for breathing somebody's telling me that he's not coming to you it's clear that someone else is checking up on Grant and Aaron is relaying this information okay he's waking up just try to get him still okay so he's breathing he can't he can't move I don't think he can move I don't know okay he really can't move he's trapped okay we got somebody on route now when he wakes up he might be scared I'm telling him ma 'am can somebody get down there and talk to him yes somebody talked to him shit there's blood is he facing up or down he's facing up he's facing up they say he may aspirate we need to hurry what is going on this is such a weird call it's such a bizarre call so does he have blood coming out of his mouth yeah he's yeah there's blood coming up yeah somehow it drug him down i think i don't know whether it wasn't in park or what i did i didn't engage the he didn't engage the break or drug him up underneath somehow they said he's facing up but he's bleeding from his mouth so grant turn your face to the side if you can what just be careful don't move him okay we can't move him we can't move him that provides no context so i am going to try to give you as much context as possible after telling you about this 911 call the training facility is located on a hill so it's right off a pretty busy road.

8:55I was looking at like the Google Earthview and stuff and it doesn't seem like a middle of nowhere road, which is intriguing later when you see all of the facts of this case. But there are, it's a road, then you turn right. I would imagine you turn right and it's up this hill. It looks steep. It's a cement little pathway up the hill onto the little parking lot. It's not even a parking lot. There's no parking lot lines. It's just a few spaces you can park on this hill and there's this warehouse on top it looks like it's in a more industrial part of the neighborhood it doesn't look like this very cutesy berries boot camp soul cycle type of facility it looks like you go there just to train for baseball and that's it you're not here for a smoothie next door this is a facility there's no windows there's just this garage door that is down at the time and a small black door that has no windows that you can enter through.

9:50It's very efficiently done. I mean, no part of this facility was done for aesthetics, even the parking area. Only half of the parking area is cement. The other part is grass. So you have this strip going up and on the sides of the strip of cement are just grass and rocks, like giant rocks. I would say they're like watermelon sized. Some of them are fist size. A lot of them are grapefruit to watermelon size. Watermelon is pretty big that maybe there's like one or two watermelon size. Maybe more grapefruit size. But they're pretty jagged rocks. They don't look like pebbles or stones. They don't look like someone bought them and put them there.

10:26They look like they were already there. So you got all these rocks and then grass on the side. And then once you get past this little driveway, then you just have a little strip of concrete and you can park. That's it. It makes sense that they would not get rid of the grass or the rest of the hill because you couldn't even really park there because of the way that the incline is done. It just wouldn't be feasible. So they did it just where you can actually park. If you want to be very simplistic about it, parking lot is on a hill. There is a ditch at the bottom of the hill with big rocks. That's as simple as it gets.

10:59Now the ditching pictures sometimes looks short, but videos of people who have gone out there, they say if you stand at the bottom of the ditch where the rocks are and you stand up tall, it's maybe about like five feet, three inches tall. The ditch is five feet tall? So you're basically in the ditch? You're in the ditch. I think it would be pretty hard to climb out of that ditch unless you walk to the sidewalk and then walk up the cement pathway, the driveway. Okay, okay, I see. Because it's just grass. I see, I see, I see. Just rocks and grass. I see. Now, the medical report states that when emergency personnel get to the scene, they find an 18-year-old man lying on his back on large rocks in a ditch.

11:39he is underneath the front of the truck between the two front tires so his head he's facing up he's on his back and his head is in between the two front tires so his feet are facing the street but the truck is facing the facility the medical report states the weight of the vehicle was supported by the wheels and was not being exerted upon onto the patient so it's not like the car is crushing him. This is very important. Meaning Grant is laying on his back on the rocks in the ditch. His truck is on top of him, but it's not suffocating him. It's not crushing him. Technically, if he were uninjured, he could maybe crawl out of there.

12:21I don't know if he would because of the rocks being jagged, but maybe he could if it was flat land. Upon initial impression, patient is noted to be unresponsive, but breathing, and is noted to have some bleeding from the scalp, nose, and ears primary assessment is limited due to inability to access the patient patient is with no obvious deformities upon assessment although assessment is limited detailed assessment findings are as noted previously so they're able to move the truck off of grant rush him to the hospital but he is pronounced dead and so now everyone has so many questions what was the cause of death it was um cardiac arrest actually what yeah so even just looking at the picture of grant's car in the ditch it just it doesn't feel right even that 911 call netizens say it's very freaky like why does the dad sound so cold why does he sound so distant one comment reads he sounds as concerned as somebody ordering a pizza delivery like somebody what the fuck is happening like this is what evil sounds like another person comments we need to hurry that's what the dad said yet he isn't there to help him why isn't he near his son also the part where he's like grant if you can move your head to the side is that like that sounds a little insane performative yeah maybe i mean another comment reads what the actual heck i can hold my hand on my heart and swear on the holy bible wild horses would not be able to stop me from trying to help my child he is not the least bit bothered no emotion is no emotion in his voice no words of comfort to his son nothing however some people are defunding erin some people write conspiracy theorists are so funny to me the dad is not calm here at all he's trying to stay in control and communicate you people are all so crazy not everyone is a sexual abuser not every female tells the truth which I feel like that part I mean you can be on Aaron's side I we don't know what happened but also like that tells me everything I need to know about the commentator but not every female tells the truth horrible accident but it happens 210 times a year this exact same thing victims are always between 18 to 23 as a mom it's a very sad tragedy but it's very disturbing how the internet thinks it's both the judge and the jury and this dad is not calm at all as a parent he's frantically trying to control himself.

14:41I will say there was someone in my hometown that had actually was in a very similar accident when I was really young. This was like childhood times but car ran over, car parked on a hill, was not engaged in park and it ended up killing him. But with that one there were no conspiracies, there were no whispers around town. It was very clear it was an accident like it was very clear what happened there were no allegations there were not even like little bits of people being like oh that was weird like you remember that no one talks about it but it was weird don't you think it was weird it was very clean and cut it was devastating and it was a lot but it there was no this there was no contention there was no discourse around the events yeah yeah there was more discourse on like how can we prevent this from happening to others But this is weird.

15:38Okay, question. Who was there? Exactly. Aaron says that there were three witnesses that were there that were helping him talk to Grant that were surveying. And they briefly were assessing if they can try to take the car or the truck off of Grant. One of the employees that eventually comes out of the facility, they didn't see anything. Also, there's no security cameras. There's no security cameras in this facility. There's no street cameras. So one of the employees that comes out of the building later on, this is, I believe, after the 911 call. They say that they saw three witnesses that were there and they were wearing like construction vests.

16:15But by the time that the police get there, the witnesses are gone. You're kidding me. They don't give their statement and they have not come forward to this day to say, oh, yes, I was there. And let me tell you what I saw. That is wild. It's wild. It's weird. That is wild. Who are these people? We don't know. What did Aaron say? That they were just passerbys and then, yeah, they were there. I mean, they were there. You can hear some voices on the 911 call. Aaron is clearly talking to somebody. And then even the worker at the baseball facility stated that he saw three people wearing the construction vest and then just gone.

16:52Just gone. We don't know. We don't know their side of the story. They're not really even mentioned in the police reports. The workers in the facility, they didn't see anything. I mean, by the time that they come out, they see the scene as is. They don't see how it happened. They don't see anything. They don't even see them arriving. They saw nothing. And according to a police report, Aaron's statement is given and he says, my son Grant and I pulled into the parking lot separately, parked side by side. I was still in my car, but I noticed my son get out of his car to get his baseball gear out of the back of his truck.

17:25I look down to check a work email and the next thing I know, I hear and see the truck rolling backwards into the ditch. I get out of my car to try and find my son and saw that he was trapped underneath the truck and immediately called 911 That's his version of events This version would indicate that grant either goes to the backseat of his car or the trunk of his car to get his baseball gear Presumably, but the car malfunctions or was not in park to begin with and starts rolling down the hill and dragging grant With the car before he falls into the ditch hits his head on the rocks and the car lands on top of him there's variations of some people think that he was dragged down the parking lot some people think that he was like using force to push the back of the truck but then it's like it's forcing his feet to move back but I don't imagine I mean none of them make sense and I'm not like a physics girl I've never been a stem girly but I just I don't know how that works I feel like I imagine a Toyota Tacoma coming down I mean I guess I could try to ask someone an expert about it I don't know who I would ask does anyone know right but if you were to come down with a Toyota Tacoma I'm imagining that car is five six thousand pounds that's a guesstimate I can't be at least six thousand yeah at least six thousand pounds it would have to be coming pretty fast no no not necessarily at the beginning the beginning would be a slow roll but then eventually it's fast correct no it's like jagged like it's there's a lot of friction but it will be moving it will be moving and do you think that someone could stop it or like have it slowly that i don't know that i mean i don't i don't even know what it looks like in my mind right now but i think if six thousand pound is emotion like if it's decide to you know go down emotion that means it's not can be easy because even that point is contentious a lot of people think it makes more sense that he was knocked down by the car and then dragged down the parking lot and then dragged into the ravine because they're saying 6 000 pounds there's no way you can try to even like slowly slowly walk it down oh oh oh that's what you're asking yes walking it down that's crazy not walking it down but like still standing upright.

19:45Oh, like go down with the truck at the same time as you're standing. Yes. Oh, that I don't think so. Because then people are saying it makes more sense that he was dragged across the pavement. But there's no blood on the pavement. There's no indication of anyone hitting the pavement. There's nothing on the pavement. I see. You really only start seeing rocks or you only start seeing blood on very select rocks around where Grant's head supposedly landed. I mean, he could stumble, stumble back really quickly and just stumble, stumble, stumble. So that's the first point of contention. And if it's just one point, I think it's fine.

20:23I think it's something that a lot of times unexplainable things do happen. But when it's multiple points that are up for debate, it starts feeling a little bit fishy. So that's the first fishy point. The second fishy point that doesn't make sense is that according to various people, when they arrive at the scene, that car was in park. These are just people on the internet, mainly from Angie and Angie's side. Perhaps one of the construction workers put it in park to make it more secure. We don't know because we don't know who they are. Perhaps it was always in park and the car malfunctioned. Or perhaps it was never in park and we don't know because the police reports don't specify.

21:00But it has been widely reported that the car was in park by the time that the police get there. Which if that's the case, can't you prove it by getting the car's black box and figuring out what went wrong? Did the car malfunction? What happened? Well, Aaron apparently declines to have this car forensically analyzed. Grant's car is not forensically analyzed to figure out what happened. Now, it is very, very, very, very unlikely that the car would be in park and still roll down the hill like that, wouldn't it? Others argue that maybe the car was never in park, but that doesn't make sense because if the car was never in park, Grant would not have time to get out of the car and then get behind the car in a way that it would roll him down and drag him down you're saying it's gonna go down so much quicker yeah it would probably go down while he's in the driver's seat right immediately when he steps out the car is already yes going down he wouldn't even get behind the car is what you're saying exactly right right right okay so then it doesn't make sense that the car was never in park but if the car is in park and it's still rolled down that doesn't make sense either and you know what doesn't make more sense about that is i do think that listen i don't know what aaron solomon is but if i had to take a personal gander a personal guess he seems a little litigious he seems like he would like to sue someone i think he would sue the shit out of toyota is what i'm saying i think that if he knew that the car was in park and it still rolled down the hill i think that he would get his black box analyzed and he would sue the shit out of toyota That is such a good point.

22:36That is my opinion. I don't know. That's just what I'm saying. That is such a good point. Yeah, but he doesn't.

22:53Right. I will be so angry. At the car manufacturer. Yeah, I will be angry at so many people for something like this to happen. I would be on a campaign against the manufacturer. Yes. which also I do love a Toyota they're very reliable cars so that's also another point that people are like Toyotas especially the Toyota Tacomas in recent production they're like really reliable because they're made for working cars but but he doesn't he doesn't get it checked out he never talks about Toyota ever again he's never like posting on Instagram like don't buy a Toyota nothing I mean maybe he does privately or maybe he has and I just haven't seen it I just is my personal opinion that I would assume that he is someone that would like to take legal action against a massive corporation that has endless amount of funds, I'm assuming.

23:41But more than that, even in both versions, the end placement of Grant's body is very strange. He lands on his back with his face facing the street. The car is facing the facility because it's reversing down. So he parks with his front facing the facility and now it's rolling downhill, but his body is facing the street so you would have to imagine there's some sort of tumbling that's happening but there if there's tumbling that's happening they can't really angie says that when she went to the scene she couldn't find other points of blood to indicate a tumble happen like impact one impact two impact three it's just right where his final resting place is so it doesn't make sense is what she's saying and a lot of people have been trying to do accident recreations through words which is very difficult to even envision but it's like no one can agree that this makes any reasonable sense.

24:30It feels like Karen Reed all over again in the sense of like, even if you really want to believe it, it's so hard to even picture it in a way that doesn't feel like it's straight out of like a movie because it doesn't make sense. Like you have to work really hard to make it make sense visually. He doesn't have a lot of cuts or abrasions on his body to indicate any sort of rapid or intense tumbling or skidding or dragging had occurred. And it's strange. Even then, let's say his car is falling. He realizes he has nowhere to run and doesn't run sideways, which maybe he can't. So he just tries to outrun the car and runs into the ditch.

25:08So people were thinking that. People are like, okay, maybe it's weird. So maybe he turned around to run away from the car, to outrun it, right? And then he jumps into the ditch and then he lands on his feet and then maybe he lands on his back hitting his head and And then the car lands on him. But there's no fractured ankle. There's no broken ankle. There's no trauma to the ankle. I mean, it just doesn't make any sense, especially when you're landing on jagged rocks. I do believe that you can probably jump five feet down and you'll be fine. But on jagged rocks, there's no way. A lot of people are having a hard time.

25:43How is he facing on his back away from the building? Additionally, Aaron is apparently sitting right there in the car right next to Grant's. and he doesn't see what happened. The next time he looks up, his son and his car are just gone. So he looks around and he finds them in the ditch. All that's happening while he's just sitting in his car checking work emails. Angie says when she goes to see Grant's body in the hospital, Aaron has already rejected an autopsy. He has rejected donating Grant's organs. And alarmingly, she says, Aaron claims, she claims, you know, Aaron keeps telling her, we're going to be a family now.

26:19We're going to be a family now. Angie has a lot of questions. Angie says this is what she knows. We know that the car was in park and we know that the cars were in the ignition. And again I don't know how accurate this information is. I don't know if maybe one of the witnesses had to take it ask for the keys prior and put it in the ignition trying to move it. I don't know. For one she says the grass around that area completely fine. The grass where the car apparently ran over Grant before landing in the ditch, not a single blade of grass, she states, is even bent or messed up. It's perfectly fine.

26:56Additionally, most of the rocks are undisturbed and there's barely any blood on them. Doctors noted that Grant had a major head trauma to the back of his head, including severe lacerations and suspected skull fractures. He had blood coming from his mouth, nose, and ears. Angie says that she was expecting a lot more blood on the rocks because when you read the medical report. It sounds like he was bleeding out on the rocks. Now, Aaron and a lot of people argue that it was a lot of internal bleeding, but she's saying that also doesn't make sense because if he just like fell and hit his head, that she's saying it doesn't make sense.

27:27The internal bleeding would make more sense if he was dragged through the pavement, ran over, but there's no evidence on the pavement. There's no blood on the pavement. So she's saying that doesn't make sense either. There's no scratches on his skin, according to Angie, no abrasions, and she's confused by all of this. Further, it's been questioned how Grant doesn't have burns. If they had been driving an hour to get to the facility on, this is, you know, summer in Tennessee, underneath that car is hot. It's very hot. So if you're in contact with the vehicle, I did ask someone about this. If you are under a car that has been driving for an hour, like if you're a mechanic and you get up under there, if you touch the car, you're going to get burns on your body within seconds.

28:07Perhaps the argument is that Aaron wasn't physically touching any part of the car. But the person that I asked, they said that a lot of mechanics, they still would recommend not because there's radiant heat. Especially if you're not really accustomed to it. You're going to feel it could burn you. Now, there's no record of any sort of burns or anything. According to an Instagram account called Freedom for Gracie, now this is the contentious, highly argued Instagram account. Aaron says Angie is operating it Angie says no I'm not Aaron wants there to be a subpoena for the IP for the operator of the account it's a whole thing but it does appear that whoever is running it is very close to Angie because there are a lot of documents that they're able to get their hands on and post on that account that only Angie would have I don't know if she's the one operating it I don't know if she's one of the people operating it one of the many people but it's just it's very yeah I don't think it's highly debated.

29:08Why can't she be operating it? Well because there's a lot of defamatory potentially defamatory things on there. Oh okay okay okay. I see okay so he's like if you're talking about me under your name I'm gonna sue you. Yes. But instead it's a Instagram account that's talking about them. Okay. And Angie is like that's not me. Now this Instagram account states that a summer regional medical center document reads that the medical examiner stated his cause of death was cardiac arrest, cause unspecified, blunt trauma arrest with traumatic brain injury. The caption for the Instagram post begs the questions.

29:45Why does Grant's body not have bruises, scrapes, lacerations, burns all over it if he was dragged across the pavement, riprap, and rocks while being dragged under a truck that drove for an hour? Wouldn't it be hot under that truck, causing burns on his body if he's stuck under it? If someone is dragged across pavement under a truck, wouldn't there be a bloody trail? Wouldn't Grant have yelled, screamed if his truck started moving if he was out of the truck. The question is, how do you get hit by a truck, roll under the truck, somehow attach to the truck, get dragged by the truck, get thrown in the rocks that are at a vertical angle, and miraculously land under the vehicle without any other markings on the back of your body?

30:19The Instagram account alleges, Angie remembers when she saw Grant in the hospital. His body looks perfect. She was expecting him to be mutilated with blood everywhere, but instead he just looked like her Grant. She was in shock at the time, but she remembers thinking in her head, not a scratch. His body is not squished. His body isn't torn to pieces. Nothing. And there's really nothing. The witnesses are gone. There's no CCTV camera. We just have Aaron's version. And Angie decides she's going to grill him about that day. And she's going to record him and make sure that his story never changes.

30:49And this recording, this hour-long recording is up on YouTube. Aaron states, they had gotten there early. No rush. See, this is where, again, people are like, did you have an appointment? Did you not have an appointment that's why the appointment thing is important we had gotten there early so there was no rush you know we have time and he says the last time i see him is literally like right here and he's like showing angie how he's closing the front door of the truck the truck is there they're like using the truck right now as like a show and tell i'm so confused and the truck looks fine that's another thing there's like no damage to the truck so he's like opening the driver's side door and uh he's like closing it he's like yeah this is when i last see grant and then he motions like he's about to open the back door.

31:30So he's saying the last time I saw Grant, he's getting out of his driver's side, closing the driver's side, and then opening the back. Or it looks like he's trying to open the back. And he says, I'm thinking, oh, he's just going to get his gear. And I'm going to check this email to make sure it's not important. And I'm going to get out and we're going to go in. But when he gets out, he doesn't see Grant. He sees Grant's car at the bottom of the ditch and quote, I'm not thinking worst case scenario at the very beginning when I first got out of the car. I start coming down this hill and at first i'm looking through the windshield to see if he had hopped back in by chance Because I don't see him standing there So he's like, oh, did he get into the car and now he had like driven into the ditch So i'm like maybe he got back in somehow and I don't see him So i'm above the hill and I look down and he says that he could tell instantly that grant wasn't covered up by the wheels Like he's not none of the wheels are on grant or he saw him immediately under the truck Yes, and that's maybe why he sounds so calm in the 911 call.

32:26What? I don't know. In my mind, in my opinion, in my personal personality, and my panic for loved ones being in danger, I can't relate. He said that that's why? No, he lists a bunch of other things. He says he didn't see him being crushed by a wheel or anything. Aaron is explaining to Angie that he clearly saw that the front tires are not on top of Grant. He is not sure if the back tires ran over Grant. He doesn't know anything. He says, I don't know. I didn't actually see everything happen. He says that he doesn't jump down the side of the ditch because he's, well, one, he's immediately calling 911.

33:06But also a couple of guys were telling him he needs to sit down right now, indicating that he's so distraught that maybe it's best for him to not go down into the ditch. What? What is going on? Aaron theorizes out loud. Also, like, are those guys just happened to be there immediately at the right time? That doesn't make sense. If he's calling the cops and they're already there before him, we know 100 % there were people there because it's on the call. We think that there's three guys. The employee could have been wrong, but we can at least hear one other voice. Now, Aaron theorizes out loud. Let's say by chance the back door caught him.

33:44so he's saying maybe by chance he opened the back door and the car starts sliding down let's say by chance the back door caught him and he gets knocked out somehow when he first hit and it drags him down the parking lot down the ditch and he tumbles down through the ditch his head could hit two three times he states that the car bumper was basically on the street because it fell down the side of the hill with so much force that it just like went bloop back up onto the street back up on the street okay to give you an idea the ravine the little ditch it's like a tiny incline back up onto the street so like down the ditch and then like a tiny little speed bump and that's the street okay so he's saying it just fell with so much force that it almost went back up onto the street because when you look at the picture of the car the weird thing is the head the nose of the car is going down into the ditch from the street that's almost what it logically looks like if you just look at the picture that's what i thought happened when i just first came across this case back when it happened and i saw the first picture that was my initial thought and then i quickly realized that's not what happened it backed up but when you think about backing up i just imagine it landing very differently and so i think to come up with a logical reason whether it be true or just him even trying to understand the situation or i don't know something more it reversed all the way back onto the street rather than driving up people think It's like driving off the street into the ditch?

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35:11My descriptions. Okay, let me be a little more clear. Why does that detail matter? I guess is what I'm trying to understand. Yes, so another theory is that Grant is either placed into that ditch or someone hit him on the head with a rock and he fell into the ditch and then someone drove the truck from the road into the ditch covering his body. If the car were to reverse down the hill and run Grant over. It's a steep hill. Yes. And when it goes down this steep hill, some people would imagine, and maybe this defies the laws of physics, that it would land maybe almost still up the hill. Does that make sense?

35:54Yeah, yeah. Like the bumper would get caught on something or maybe it would even flip. Or the back of the truck is like in the ditch, correct? Yes, that's what people imagine. Yeah. But Aaron is saying perhaps it went down the hill with so much force because the back of the car is not in the ditch. The front of the car is in the ditch. And the back of the car is kind of on the sidewalk. Now it's on the opposite side. It's on to the other side of the ditch now. Yes. That makes sense. So I envision a V. Yes. Instead of, you know, the back of the truck is at the bottom. Right now the top of the truck is at the bottom.

36:30because it's reversed into the other end of the V now. Yes, but it's like a very small incline for the sidewalk. Right, right, right. I see, I see, I see. But people are saying it is very weird. Yeah, so the theory is the truck was never up there. You just drove straight from this side. Yeah, into the ditch. Now, there are other things confirming. Wait, is that why somebody thinks Grant's head is facing up? Yeah. Because if that's the direction. see that's why i'm having such a hard time picturing because the way you are describing the recount of the story makes it so hard versus if you're just saying the car drive off it makes it makes it easier to envision and the recount of this story is very confusing even when i am seeing the pictures i cannot usually i'm a very visual person if i even read a few sentences about how a series of events happen i can usually picture it very clearly in my mind this with the pictures and I kept thinking I'm just really not a car person I'm just really not a physics person because I can't see it I can't see this occurring wow okay wow wow yes yes okay wow okay there's not any sort of variation of this scenario where I go oh okay I I can see that it just is weird I can't see it's like fuzzy wow this is insane okay no people are saying that the car is also very strange.

37:58So Aaron is saying, well, maybe it just fell with so much force that it ends up, you know, the bumper side is almost on the sidewalk now because it was just going down that fast. Aaron states, you know, but, and me being there makes it even worse for me because I'm like, what if, you know, I wish I had. He says in hindsight, he wishes he had just gotten out of the car right when he had gotten there. And he says that it just makes it so difficult for him because he was there when this happened. Then he says something that robs Angie and everyone the very wrong way. He says, there are so many what ifs.

38:29That's why I said it has to be a God thing. Because it's so freaky. It's so freaky. And because I didn't see the whole thing, I mean, nobody knows except God. Aaron later states, that's why they call it a freak accident because it's unexplainable. That's the only way I can't. Like I said, I thought the other day, you know, it's that it's a God thing because none of it makes sense. I guess it's um I don't know even people who are religious were just saying this is a very weird usually a lot of religious people will say if they ever experience something as traumatic as their child passing away before them there is initially a lot of anger with God and there might even be a testing of faith and perhaps even a loss of faith and a turning away from religion after incidents like this but the fact that he so very quickly is like it's a God thing what do you mean it's a god thing like god wanted this to happen like that's very odd it's not a normal thing to say and i'm not a religious person but a lot of religious people in the comments have been saying no that's weird i just would not ever say that as someone who is a strong believer and has someone of faith now aaron is saying that he's holding it together for the 9-1-1 call trying to be there for grant by getting the authorities there as quickly as possible let's say that's all true he's so distraught that he can't even see grant in the ditch because he will freak out he cannot he cannot even go near grant he can only stand on top of the ditch and call 9-1-1 if that is true tell me why this distraught man is now laying in the rocks at the ditch to recreate the scene for angie and it's being recorded aaron straight up gets down on his back on the rocks head up in the clouds just staring blankly while Angie is filming him and Aaron is placing his body where he states Grant's body was and one of Angie's friends who happens to be there you just hear her say Aaron you don't have to do that you don't have to do that but Aaron just keeps casually saying like he's like this the 911 call I kind of understand a bit more I do think that when things get really really high stakes I actually can present more calmly than when things are just kind of high stakes like when things are just going wrong I'm full panic mode but then when things are like really severe, I can actually be a little more calm.

41:00So I can understand why some people can come off more cold in these moments. So like that part, the 911 call, it's weird. I will say it's weird. I'm still in the ditch. I think the voice is less of a problem for me. A lot of people don't like that he sounds calm, that he sounds cold, that he keeps saying, oh my God, that part I can kind of understand. But the fact that he doesn't get in the ditch, I don't understand that at all. That's the part where the 911 call throws me off. Sounding calm and trying to be effective and outcome-focused with your communication is not the biggest deal-breaker in believing someone is innocent or guilty.

41:36But this part is weird. That's the level of calmness in the 911 call that he depicts because he states that he's trying to keep it together. But now that he's had time to process it, and now that he knows that his son is deceased, there must be some sort of unraveling of emotions and almost like the shock and the grief is now hitting you and you must present something, right? But no, he's just laying in the ditch in the rocks being like, oh yeah, he was just like this. And this is recent? Yeah, yeah. Right after? Yeah. Huh, and he didn't seem emotional about it? No, he seems like he's trying to explain the situation.

42:12I don't know if it was like the day of or the day after, but it seems at least the insinuation is that it was very close to the incident. because they're talking about the grass and how the grass is not dented and bent. Oh, they're at the site checking out the condition. I see. I imagine if it was taking place a week later, they would not be able to point out those things in a way that makes it a deal. Was police investigating right away? I don't know what the police were doing. They said they investigated, but they very quickly closed the case. And they don't really give us factual information on why they closed the case.

42:45They don't tell us, hey, we did A, B, C, and D, and it has come to our, we've come to the conclusion that there is this, there's no foul play. They're just like, no, it's a closed investigation. Naturally after this, everyone, especially Angie, is more confused about what happened that day. She said, one, there was really no investigation. Two, wasn't Grant's truck found in park? Three, so it went out of park and then back into park and then was completely fine to drive after that? I would want to put the car up there again just to see if it will roll down in park or that's true right if i'm the dad i would do that again just to check and show like okay there's something wrong with this car that killed my son okay i think in my personal opinion if aaron solomon has nothing to do with grant solomon's death which legally he has nothing to do with grant solomon's death as of right now that's one thing i do think that personal opinion i don't think he's a good dad just for the sole fact of like when you watch angie's video of him trying to figure out what happened to his son he's like in the car in the tacoma he's like i guess it like popped out of park and he's it's just like i wouldn't even take this half-baked answer for if my utensils went missing in the house i'd be like i gotta investigate i gotta figure it out it's gonna keep me up at night like what do you mean and he's a news anchor yeah but he's just like i guess it like it's very quick to accept that this is a quote-unquote freak accident yeah that's weird and usually a lot of people i mean i was on reddit too a lot of people were saying that with freak accidents it's actually difficult to accept because you start um there's a lot of like well no that doesn't make any sense closure yeah it feels very like unsettling you don't feel settled with what's happened and it takes a longer time to get to the grieving stage but it seems like he's very quick to accept like okay well something happened we don't know what but it's sad odd odd odd and like not to compare anything but a lot of people are like i wouldn't even accept that closure if this were like my dog fuck like you would want to get to the bottom of it like who what yes this is my loved one yeah yeah what do you mean yeah i'm not just gonna move on now the only witness to all of this is aaron solomon there are no video cameras within a mile or so aaron had stayed parked at the top of the parking lot never went down to go near grant why doesn't he go to his son we don't know angie believes that there is no evidence that grant was ever ever even at the top of the parking lot.

45:31She firmly believes that he was rather placed in the ditch and the car was driven into the ditch. But if what Angie is alleging is true, what motive does Aaron have to kill his own son? Grant's friends say, also his girlfriend at the time of his passing, Hannah, we've actually talked to her briefly. She's very sweet. There's a lot going on obviously with the case now that Angie is facing her own charges. And I will say a lot of people have opinions about Angie or Aaron. I think that a lot of the third parties, such as Grant's girlfriend at the time, Hannah, there's really no incentive. There's no incentive for them to say something that may not be true or for them to exaggerate anything.

46:16Like if anything, they have, I feel like there's, their motives are very pure because a lot of people question Angie's motives. They're saying there's a lot of things that have been disproven later that we're going to get to, or there's a lot of things that maybe she said that were not factually accurate and she probably knew it wasn't factually accurate. There's just a lot. It gets very messy. There are text messages. She gets caught in a lie at certain times in court. Some people have a lot of sympathy for that, saying that it was just a lot of abuse and she's just desperate to get her kids and she shouldn't have lied, but she felt like there was no choice.

46:51Other people are saying like, if she's lying about that, we don't know what else she's lying about. I think ultimately, I will say with the days passing, more people are against both the parents. It seems like they just don't like both the parents and they think that Gracie is a victim. Whether she is a victim of sexual assault by her dad, whether she is a victim of being manipulated by her mother, or maybe a combination of both, everyone believes Gracie, they want to help Gracie, but it seems like more and more people are kind of turning on both of the parents. At first, everyone was heavily in support of Angie, but the tides have been kind of shifting to just, not that they like Aaron, but like maybe we don't like both of you.

47:32So people want to protect Gracie and I think that's why a lot of people think that third-party perspectives are more pertinent to this case, such as Grant's ex-girlfriend at the time, Hannah. There were talks from Grant's friends that he was trying to get custody of Gracie now that he was 18 and Gracie is still a minor. So he wanted to get Gracie out of the situation with Aaron. And now that he's 18, he could legally do that. And there's, you know, this conversation that he saw that his mom was not getting believed in the court system. He's a guy, he's a young man. He has a potential baseball career ahead of him.

48:11He seems like he would be a good, reliable person in the court system that the judge would be inclined to believe. So this friend who came out who said this, that's a real account of someone's statement. This friend told Angie. Oh, okay. So that is where it gets tricky. However, Grant's girlfriend at the time, Hannah, she has come forward to say that his relationship with his dad has always been rough. Like he never really talked about it with her, but she would notice that he would sometimes get emotional. There was one point where he cried because he didn't want to go back to his dad's place.

48:50And it just seemed like there was something going on. He was always extra protective of her when his dad was around, which she thought was strange. So because of that, she didn't really have a lot of interactions with Aaron Solomon. It seems like she does feel like the dad is weird. Now, again, can the dad be weird and the mom be weird? Yes. But also the dad could just be weird by himself, you know? and there's a lot of things that the Freedom for Gracie Instagram account has been posting such as pictures of the inner portion of Gracie's thigh. Angie states that that thigh there's a bruise on there it is from her being assaulted by her father.

49:31Erin claims it's from a rash from her swimsuit because I think she was on the swim team at the time so that's been up for debate but there is another Instagram video that Angie claims that she took when she went to go see Gracie at a baseball game or like at one of the high school games and it's talking about how aaron would put soap in her during bath times and it hurt and she didn't like it a lot of people have problems with this video being posted the video of gracie's talking yeah you can hear gracie talking you can't see her it's almost like angie was hiding her phone um it's so hard because i do see people's own perceptions and stories tainting their version of events.

50:16Some people who have had very narcissistic parents growing up say this is exactly what my mom or dad would do. They would plant these stories in my head and the way that Angie is leading these questions and saying things like tell me what your dad would do again. It's exactly like trying to get ammo on camera and use it against everyone so those people are pulling from their own anecdotal experiences which i mean are completely reasonable right we're all human and then other people who have been essayed by family members or in general are saying i mean this is what happens this is the only evidence you can get because you can't really gather evidence and like you would be surprised at how often this happens in family units and so i think it's just really difficult to say it's just hard and then I start getting in my own head of like okay well am I tainted by my own personal experiences on how I personally feel about this case not that my personal opinion even matters in any sense of the case but and there's also this video of Aaron where he goes to pick up Gracie from her school Gracie does not want to go with Aaron she's like I don't want to go with you dad I want to wait for mom at this point in time it seems that Aaron has custody of the kids.

51:31And so he's saying, we've had this conversation a number of times, but it's going to stop. Gracie will be coming with me at some point, whether you like it or not. He's talking to even the school administrators. It will happen because I'm not going to continue to allow us to be breaking the rules and you shouldn't be allowing it either. And it's not just about what you want right now. It's much bigger than that. And I've tried to play nice and be nice about it. And you've been with your mom way more than you're supposed to and way more than what the judge and then gracie is like but i want to and he's like it's not about what you want so even this clip a lot of people are pulling from their own personal experiences some people are saying i had a parent just like this they were heavily abusive like this is their nice side in front of people in public imagine what they're like behind closed doors other people are saying it just seems like he's being very firm and probably not nice but it's not he recorded this no oh yeah who did well it freedom for gracie posted it who's holding the camera like you can't really tell just somebody's holding the camera yeah i mean i am maybe it's angie oh it's just a video of him and gracie like it looks like a secretly recorded video of gracie and him oh yeah i don't think that i heard angie's voice in there and i also imagine that if angie was there he would be talking to Angie.

52:54He'd be like, you gotta not be doing this. So confusing, okay. But regardless, Angie says that Grant wanted to get his sister out and Angie believes that Grant knew that Aaron was not happy with this. She says, before Grant left that morning to go to Gallatin, he stopped in front of my door and said something that was so out of character. He said, mom, I don't want to die in Gallatin. so I begged him I pleaded with him to like not go or I would go with him let me sit in the parking lot I thought he was talking about his lungs from COVID he was getting over that we had to have x-rays done and see doctors I just I didn't want to be a helicopter mom but I just thought it might just be it might just be that the lungs he said no mom you're not going an hour later I got a phone call that he's gone the GoFundMe for justice for Grant reads Aaron Solomon who is currently free to roam the streets as if he weren't a rapist, molester, and murderer.

53:50We believe Gracie's older brother and protector, Grant, lost his life at the hands of the same man, the only witness to Grant's death, who has yet to tell the same story twice. Aaron Solomon was never investigated. The case was simply closed. With your donations, we will bring this man to justice before he can do any more harm to Gracie and her mother, Angie, or anyone else. Gracie needs help paying her legal fees, and Gracie needs and Angie needs help hiring people to do the work for Grant that the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and the Gallatin Police Department have refused to do. We can't let the good old boys win.

54:23Grant lost his life at a time when he was just about to speak out against his father for sexually abusing his little sister. It was his life's mission to protect Gracie and now he can't. Gracie demands the safety and freedom that she's been denied over and over and over again and she demands justice for her brother. She demands accountability for the corrupt court system that put them in this position and the corruption that continues to deny them justice. During Grant's vigil, a candlelit vigil, everyone was chanting, justice for Grant. People were holding up signs. Re-open the investigation.

54:54Stop denying the truth. But the police won't. They won't open the investigation. In Gracie's YouTube video, she states, I'm so scared of dad. I've seen him do terrible things to people I love and myself. Because of this, I strongly believed he killed Grant and now he was going to kill me. I know he killed my brother and now I'm scared of him coming near me or coming to get me again or hurt any of us. Since then, 2020, Angie has been very active on social media trying to build awareness for this case for Grant Solomon. If I'm not mistaken, I believe that they raised close to$200 ,000 for the Freedom for Grant and Freedom for Gracie GoFundMe accounts combined.

55:33Angie says all she wants is a proper investigation, an autopsy, well, an exhumation now, a toxicology report, an accident reconstruction, something. But she got nothing. So now she wants to use this money for that. For a long time, Angie is on podcasts, on social media, talking about what we can do to help. And then she just disappears. Like a year or two ago, she starts slowing down in podcast appearances. She doesn't disappear per se, but a lot of creators report that they could no longer get in contact with Angie. She just kind of ghosts them. Others are saying that the social media profiles are oddly quiet out of nowhere after$200 ,000 have been raised.

56:15You know, it's just quiet and there's not much news, not much updates until earlier this year. Angie Solomon is arrested for a bizarre murder for hire plot to have Aaron Solomon killed. And now everyone is confused. Because is Angie Solomon a desperate mom who is just trying to get justice for her own son and take justice into her own hands because nobody's listening to her. She's going on podcasts. Nobody's listening to her. She's going on News Nation. The police aren't reopening the investigation. She's going on doing on all these things and nobody is caring. So maybe she felt like she had nothing else to lose and this is what she has to do for her daughter.

56:56Or is Angie Solomon, did she take the$200 ,000 and what did she do with it? Maybe she had no plans to reopen the investigation. Maybe that was a ploy to get money. Maybe she brainwashed Gracie into believing that her dad abused her all so that she can get Aaron Solomon's million-dollar trust. Or is Angie Solomon unwell, and has she brainwashed her daughter into believing in all of this abuse, and now that they've raised$200 ,000 from the GoFundMes, which, by the way, she doesn't have anymore, clearly, because she couldn't even pay the hitman, where did that money go? That's a big question. Where did that money go?

57:34And now that she's run out of that money, supposedly, is she after Aaron Solomon's million dollar trust? What is the motive? Is it justice or is it money? That's what they're arguing. So with that, that is where I leave you with this part of this case. I will be back for the next part. And let me know your thoughts. Stay safe. And I will see you in the next one.

From the publisher

The instructions were very clear: Walk over to the hit car. Open the front passenger door and get in. Do not look around. Keep your head facing forward. Act normal. Angie Solomon does just that, slides in and stares at the dashboard.

 

 

 

“Have you done this before?”

 

 

 

A male voice answers from the backseat behind her to let her know that she’s asking one too many questions. Angie nervously laughs then continues.

 

 

 

Angie tells the hitman in the backseat of the car about her youngest child. A daughter named Gracie, whom Angie claims, was abused by her ex-husband and Gracie’s father Aaron. Angie continues. She tells the hitman about Aaron’s schedule, his address, how his gate has a hole in the back that the hitman can get through.

 

 

 

The hitman finally speaks, “You understand that I’m not going to see you again. You understand that right? He’ll be dead and disappear…”

 

 

 

But the morning after Angie plotted to kill her ex-husband, Aaron would not be dead.

 

And the two them, Mr. Backseat man and Angie, they would see each other again… In a courtroom full of people while the recording of Angie in the hit car plays in open court.

 

 

 

Mr. Backseat Man is an undercover FBI agent.

 

 

 

By 2025 Angie will be arrested for murder for hire. Aaron will be accused of trafficking his daughter Gracie in a high powered ring of mega church pastors and the governor of Tennessee.

 

 

 

And Grant, the first born son will be dead.

 

 

 

This is the case of the Solomons where it’s clear that at least one of them is lying. We just don’t know who.

 

 

 

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