Dad Accused Of SA'ing Daughter Is ONLY Witness To Son's Sudden Death BUT Mom Gets Arrested Instead

0:01People always say if your husband, or probably worse if your ex-husband purchases life insurance for you, that's usually an indicator of something nefarious, aka he's probably going to try to kill you. I don't think that there is a single sign that is more blatant, more obvious than that. Well, according to Angie Solomon, there is. According to Angie, October 6, 2020, so this is a few months after her beloved son Grant Solomon's death, Aaron, her ex-husband, who is also the dad of Grant Solomon, he goes to purchase three more grave plots right next to Grant Solomon. One for Gracie Solomon, their daughter, one for Angela Solomon, the mom, and a third for himself, Aaron Solomon.

0:49Why would Angie's ex-husband purchase three grave plots right next to their deceased 18-year-old son? First of all, Angie and Aaron, they hate each other. They've had a very contentious divorce since 2013. They spent the past almost decade hating each other, and nothing indicates that any event took place which made them reconcile. Would they really want to spend the afterlife together, laying side by side for the rest of eternity, just letting the soil decompose them? And their daughter, Gracie Solomon? I mean, at that point, she was 14 years old, 13 years old. Most likely, she's going to grow up, get married, start a family of her own, and want to be laid to rest with them as an old aging grandmother, right?

1:29Unless Aaron Solomon has other plans. The Freedom for Gracie Instagram posts about the grave plots that Aaron purchased, and it reads in short, why? Why? He and Angie have been divorced for years, all the while he is slandering her to their community. Quote, and why in the world would a father think his daughter would need a grave plot at 13 years old? Wouldn't Gracie want to grow up, get married, and have her own future and family and be buried next to her husband someday. He never talked about it with Angie. She could understand if he bought them for himself and shoved that in her face to keep her from being buried next to her son.

2:03But for Aaron to put her and Gracie's name on it sent chills up Angie's spine. Aaron has a motive with most everything he does. Their friends and Angie's thought was, quote, murder, murder, self-exit. Maybe that's dramatic, but a life with Aaron is a life with fight or flight. Every fiber of their being believed Aaron had something to do with Grant's death. And now Angie and Gracie believe that they are next. What was Aaron Solomon's plan with the grave plots? Did he kill his own son Grant Solomon? And is he trying to take down the rest of the family next? If that's the case, why is Angie Solomon the one in jail for trying to kill Aaron?

2:46This is the case of the Solomon family.

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3:51Nothing matters. They're sticking to it. There have been a lot of accusations that have not been legally proven in court. It's complicated because legally we want to protect our team and we want to protect ourselves from any sort of lawsuits. But you have to remember that just because something is not legally proven in court doesn't mean that it isn't true. It doesn't mean that it hasn't happened. But because of that, it just gets messier. There was also a defamation lawsuit against many different parties. There were cease and desist being sent out. So just for the purpose of that, we're going to be pretty careful with our wording.

4:26We're going to do our absolute best just to compile and aggregate the allegations made online, the netizen opinions, and even conspiracy theories online so that you can come to your own personal opinion about this case. Any alternate theories, opinions, accusations are put forth by either parties involved or by netizens I found online, their comments, and people that have made everything public. Like everything is publicly available. These are not representative of our own opinions regarding this case. And a small disclaimer here, if we show any sort of documents, if there's any annotations, highlights, question marks next to those, those have been done by whoever originally uploaded the document.

5:04So that was not done by the Rotten Mango team. Additionally, one other quick thing, there are lengthy, lengthy social media posts, lengthy podcasts, lengthy interviews, and an even lengthier defamation lawsuit that was filed in civil court. If there is a statement that I'm reading by quote, again, these are all publicly available information, but some of them have been condensed for brevity without losing the original purpose of the exact statement. So with that being said, let's get into the recap. There's really no effective way to recap what happened in part one. So please go watch that video or those podcasts first, but I'm going to give you just a timeline refresher.

5:44In 2013, Angie and Aaron Solomon go through an exhausting divorce. Angie accuses Aaron of trying to kill her. Aaron accuses Angie of spreading lies and trying to self-exit and then blame it on him and trying to defame him as well as brainwash the kids to turn them against him, their own dad. Angie's own father testifies against her and that becomes a huge point of contention in the whole divorce proceedings. It is an exhaustive legal battle. Angie and Aaron continue to fight over custody after 2013 with Angie claiming and alleging along with their daughter Gracie Solomon that their father Aaron has been abusing Gracie ever since she was a little girl primarily essaying her during bath times.

6:24That is the primary allegation. There has been multiple open child services investigations against these allegations and they have been closed without any significant findings. Does that mean that the abuse never happened? That's not what I'm saying. A lot of the time, CPS or DFACS or DCS will close investigations just because they're overworked, understaffed, or sometimes you just get a social worker who just doesn't care. And that's all you get. That's it. So it doesn't mean that these things didn't happen, but there are multiple open and shut investigations that have found, I guess, no damning evidence against Aaron Solomon.

7:03There are other big allegations placed upon Aaron Solomon, such as Essay Against Gracie, physical abuse against Angie, as well as potentially a human trafficking, sex trafficking ring that involves mega church leaders, the governor of Tennessee, a senator of Tennessee, as well as Gracie being a victim of that ring herself. So this is all happening after the divorce. Then in 2020, a few weeks after Grant Solomon turns 18, he passes away. At this point, Gracie is 13, so Gracie is their only remaining child left. And now one version of the story of Grant's death is that now that he was 18, he wanted to get custody of Gracie and expose his dad for everything that he's done.

7:43The other version is that the truck rolled down the hill, rolling him over before landing in the ditch and killing him. A year after that, in 2021, Gracie, the 14-year-old remaining Solomon child, posts a YouTube video exposing her dad, Aaron, and claiming that her dad has killed her older brother. Then in 2025, this year, Angie Solomon is arrested for trying to hire a hitman to take down Aaron Solomon, her ex-husband. And it gets complicated because Aaron Solomon does have a, potentially in the seven-figure range, at least a million-dollar trust fund that would go to Gracie. If he's dead. If he's dead.

8:21But we don't know the exact amount. Yeah, we don't know the exact amount. There's an incentive for both parties to either play it up or play it down. So even that's up for debate. Angie Solomon likes to insinuate that there's millions of dollars on the table. Aaron Solomon states that he only really received like a million dollars and most of it was already used. I think the reason that it gets confusing is once his aunt passed away, this is his aunt's inheritance. she passes away he gets a trust fund and i think half of it was in land land that he stated at least a few years ago that was not sold so he's saying i never sold the land so i never realized any profits from the land it's just there it's a sitting asset i'm not liquid for that land and then the other portion of it he received in payments of a hundred thousand dollars a month so that makes it seem like he's receiving a hundred thousand dollars a month every month for an undetermined amount of time, but it could have been two, three months.

9:16It could have been five months, right? It's up for debate. So with that recap, let's get started.

9:32Divorces are the one thing where people consistently spend a lot of money to spend a lot more money. There is no rationality behind a divorce. It's, hello lawyer, I would like to pay you$150 ,000 so that I don't have to pay my partner$50 ,000. Or, hello lawyer, I'm going to secretly try and commit tax fraud amongst other federal crimes just so I don't have to give money to my partner because being with my partner feels like I'm being in prison. Yes, I understand doing all of this could put me in real prison. That's completely besides the point. That's not even what I'm talking to you about. One divorce attorney says, the craziest request I ever got was the client was asking me to get her half the shampoo bottles she left behind in the family home.

10:16She was kicked out of the house. I asked her under the sink, like, where are the shampoo bottles? And she said, no, the shampoo bottles in the shower. There's two to three bottles in there. There's about half of half the bottles are full. I want half of each remaining half. She's trying to be petty about it, right? Yeah. Okay. So two to three bottles in the shower. They're half empty already. And then she wants half of each half. I ended up telling her that she paid me$50 just to read, receive, and respond to this email. And I will waive the$50 if she just takes that$50 to CVS and get some goddamn shampoo herself.

10:55Another says, doorknobs. It was a regular house. No sentimental. They were not special bronze doorknobs, brass doorknobs. It was a regular builder grade home, regular doorknobs. Yeah, they fought over it. I offered to buy them new doorknobs if they would just settle. It was bad. Obviously, some people say it's not about the shampoo. It's not about the doorknobs. It's about pure spite and winning. One post online reads, a divorce lawyer told the story of a rather well-to-do couple. They spent months and months and tens of thousands of dollars fighting over absolutely everything. all the way down to a single ceramic ashtray.

11:38I can't remember the significance of it, but I think it came from the family's husband's family side. I don't know. But even after everything that had been decided, they spent many more months, and I think they totally spent$100 ,000 fighting over a singular ashtray. Then after a court hearing, the wife finally won the ashtray. She promptly strode out to the white courthouse steps and smashed the ceramic ashtray, left the pieces all over for the husband on his way out to see all of it. That is crazy. Yeah. Wow. But it doesn't just stop there because it's not about an ashtray, right? Another husband, he left his wife's prized koi fish on their doorstep of their house to die.

12:20She was so distraught, she couldn't come to court. He killed six of her fish. There's never a dull or a happy day in family court because everything has a deeper emotional reasoning. Obviously, it's not just about an ashtray. It's not just revenge. It's not just about fish. It's about being an abusive animal killer, but you get it. Nobody really gets divorced over what they say they're getting divorced over, like a bathtub or Tim McGraw, the country singer. One Reddit post reads, I went to school with this girl. She married this really rich guy in Ohio, moves in with him in Ohio. They seem to be getting along.

12:56Six months later, out of the blue, she files for divorce. up until that point all I heard from her was how well it was going anyways turns out you know our little buddy had a fetish for getting off on pee he asked her to pee on him in the tub at first she agreed to it because she thought it was like a one-time thing but he kept asking for it more and more and she tried to decline it respectfully by saying you know the bathtub's too small it's too cramped so uh next day she comes home to two dozen construction workers and heavy equipment tearing the bathroom walls in for a new bathtub. A week or so later, they finish up the bathroom with a brand new giant bathtub.

13:33She comes home to a sign left on the fridge with a note to drink up. She's got some watering to do. I don't know what she put down as the official reason for the divorce, but it's definitely the bathtub. Some would argue it's not the bathtub. It's what he wanted to do in the bathtub. It's never the bathtub. Just like how Angie Solomon and Aaron Solomon don't get divorced over Tim McGraw, the country singer. If the whole point is to make Angie look crazy in court, it is working. Whether it is true or not, it's up for debate. But Angie's dad testifies against her, but so does her longtime friend.

14:08She gives a declaration to the judge and she details a very specific situation that she's had with Angie. Do you know Tim McGraw? He's a country singer and he happens to be married to another huge country singer faith hill is this divorce hearing or is this for what is this is later okay so angie is trying to appeal a lot of the judge's prior decisions of custody being placed 77 in aaron and aaron is fighting it back and a lot of people are siding with aaron such as this alleged former friend of angie who writes a declaration to the judge and is like i need to tell you about angie she's not who you think she is so this is between 2013 and uh 2020 or 2025 oh okay okay and then he also uses this declaration in a defamation lawsuit later in 2023 i see the friends yes well the friend said you know that angie told her tim mcgraw was going to leave his wife faith hill to be with angie angie's friend writes a declaration and says, Angie claimed that Tim McGraw was singing to her at the concert specifically, obviously staring into her eyes and quote hitting on her.

15:21She was furious at Aaron because he didn't confront Tim McGraw about this. She also told me that Tim McGraw and Faith Hill were getting a divorce because he was so interested in her. Of course, the McGraws did not get a divorce and I believe Angie made the whole thing up. Angie is potentially having a your name moment at a Tim McGraw concert. Maybe she was kidding. Maybe this never happened. But in the court system, it's not looking good for Angie. She's not getting a good look from this former friend's declaration. Nor is it a good look that her dad more or less tells the judge that he would not be comfortable if Angie was inside of his house and he was falling asleep.

15:58He says he would not be comfortable if his daughter was there while he's asleep. I mean, nobody asked for that kind of example, but damn, he's giving them. He's telling the judge, I'm going to tell you about her condition because I love my daughter. However, she's a compulsive liar. I cannot have a conversation with my daughter. I never look forward to my daughter calling me, although I love to hear her voice. And I love when she tells me about the actions of the kids. I can never expect to have a conversation with her unless there's some untruth that's going to be told. Unless something is going to be stretched.

16:32He tells the judge that Angie can never not tell a lie. She has never been able to tell the truth. Which again, this is the same dad that she filed an order of protection against, so we don't know how accurate or how trustworthy his observations are. Meanwhile, most of Angie's doctors all state that she's perfectly capable of being a good and fit mother. They do not see her ever being a danger to her kids or living in a false reality. At least that's what's been reported thus far. Side note, even in 2021, a Nashville EMT comes forward and states that he responded to a call to the Solomon family house years ago.

17:06He says he remembers when he got there, Nashville Police Department were already at the scene. They had gone into the house, so the EMTs were mainly standby outside. He was familiar with Aaron Solomon. He had seen them around the neighborhood, probably on the news. He was always cordial, and it was the same energy that night. Aaron Solomon comes out very cordial, very polite with the EMTs. He's telling them, perhaps even apologizing for his wife's actions, stating that his wife is clearly mentally ill and causing all this trouble. What are they there for, exactly? A domestic dispute. Oh Now Angie, Solomon and the two children exit the house And Aaron's demeanor quickly changes According to this EMT he became red in the face And his facial expression showed that he was very angry Very agitated And it was very obvious that Aaron was filled with rage He stated that he recalled that Aaron made a few steps towards Angie But was stopped by the Nashville Police Department Furthermore the EMT allegedly states that it was pretty clear to him And to all of his colleagues Who the instigator of this incident was And they're all thinking that it was Aaron So Angie's friend and father is pointing finger at Angie.

18:09But this EMT and their colleagues are saying Aaron is the problem during those fights. But I mean, you know, a lot of people have been disputing this EMT's version of events because he only came forward a year after Grant Solomon's death. And a lot of the coverage after and during Grant Solomon's passing in 2020 was very anti-Aaron. so some people are wondering if because this allegedly happened years ago could he really have such a strong memory of this random couple and is it accurate and they're calling to the fact that a lot of eyewitness testimonies are never really accurate not because people are trying to be deceitful it's just humans are not that smart we're not as smart as we think we are but others are arguing no like i've been an emt not me but like others are arguing i've been an EMT and trust me, like you remember certain people and they're just like singed into your brain for whatever reason.

19:03I mean, sometimes it's not even like the biggest, craziest call that you get. Sometimes it's just like, I know that guy from church. And so this is going to be singed into my memory, whether I like it or not. But more importantly, a lot of Angie's doctors are stating that she's perfectly well and healthy. So why doesn't the judge believe her? According According to Angie, a former court-appointed guardian for the kids say, it is my firm belief that Aaron used wealth and personal connections to win favorable decisions to the detriment of their daughter Gracie, Grant, and Angie Solomon, leaving them open to harassment, sexual, mental, and emotional abuse, and leading to the untimely death of Grant Solomon.

19:42Who is this court-appointed guardian? Okay, so this is like someone who would become the kids' guardian very temporarily while custody is getting resolved. And this particular one has remained anonymous. But Angie has posted a letter showing that this was written to the judge. I don't know if it was written to the judge. I don't know if it was submitted. Technically, anyone could put letterhead and write whatever they want. I do think it's difficult because on one hand, you can understand why someone is wanting to stay anonymous in a situation like this. But on the other hand, it definitely doesn't add credibility.

20:18The former GAL says that it's all because Aaron has money, millions of dollars that he has inherited from his aunt after she passed away. Coupled with the right connections, Aaron Solomon can, some people believe and allege, that means he can just do anything he wants. I mean, just about. Angie believes that Aaron is part of the good old boys club at Grace Chapel in Franklin, Tennessee. This is a church, boys protecting boys type of church. Angie says all the most powerful people in the state attend this church, and they sit right next to Aaron Solomon, and it's all a boys club. Governor Bill Lee of Tennessee attends that same very church.

20:56Governor Lee was actually recently in the news for refusing to touch state reserves, a$2 billion rainy day fund for the entire state of Tennessee. He refused to touch it to help cover low-income working parents who lost SNAP during the government shutdown, so there's that. A lot of the influential judges, including Judge Johnson, one of the judges that ruled in favor of primary custody going towards Aaron instead of Angie, she goes to that church. Her husband, who happens to be Senator Jack Johnson, a senator from Tennessee, also goes to that church. Grace Chapel in Franklin, Tennessee is considered a mega church.

21:32On a typical Sunday service, they have about 3 ,500 attendees at their service. And according to Angie, Aaron, the governor, the judge, the senator, they're all good buddies with the main founding pastor of the church, Steve Berger. Steve Berger is no longer a pastor at Grace Chapel. He was the founding pastor, but there was church drama because there's always church drama. I think religion is beautiful. I think organized religion within fighting within the organization is very ugly. Steve Berger is also a little bit terrifying. He has now gone into politics, which is, you know, I think everyone can have their own opinion about what it means to be religious while also being involved in how the state is run.

22:16But Steve Berger has publicly stated that his goal is to disciple members of Congress so that what they learn is then translated into policy. No separation of church and state is his entire dream. Yeah. And it appears that there are connections with him and a congressman who wants to get rid of the second term rule for presidents, meaning a president can only serve two terms. So there's a lot of connections there. Probably a lot of money because it's a mega church. A lot of money. And they're actually sending out season desist. So I love a good season desist from a church. That's like one of my favorite types of season desist because something about it, I'm like, I don't know.

22:56it just like riles me up. Maybe it's my religious trauma. But anyway, what does that have to do with Angie? Angie claims that allegedly Judge Johnson ruled in favor of Aaron. She, and this is a huge allegation, but this judge would have discussions about all of her cases with the church pastor, Steve Berger. This is what Angie is alleging. And Steve Berger is allegedly close with Aaron Solomon. So he would tell her, you know, God is with Aaron, so maybe you should rule against Angie. That's kind of the allegation at hand. I don't know if that's accurate. I don't know. I don't even know how the structure of a mega church works, if like the founding pastor even hangs out with any of the congregation.

23:41It all feels like some bigger coordinated effort is what Angie is saying. And it is very strange, she states, that people at the church never paid her any attention. Nobody cared about her. But then suddenly, the night of Grant's memorial service, members of the Grace Chapel Church, quote, inserted themselves into my house. And she's stating that they barged into her house and they're desperately trying to convince her that Grant died from having abdominal injuries to his organs and that there was hemorrhaging in his stomach. She basically states more or less that they're trying to gaslight her into believing that Grant Solomon died naturally from this accident.

24:16With an Instagram post reading on the Freedom for Gracie Instagram. Why did these people from Grace Chapel keep trying so hard to gaslight Angie about what happened to her son? Why does Grace Chapel keep appearing at Angie's door or in her text messages the week of Grant's death and weeks after? They never wanted to help Grant, Gracie, or Angie in the years before. Why now? Why in this way? Because the good old boys club. Protect the good old boys club. Some people argue or it could just be a mega church and typically with mega churches, I used to go to church back in the day, and like the one thing about mega churches and why people are kind of interested in going to them is there's not as much of a community built around it.

24:53So it's not everybody knows everybody's business. And so it could very well be that nobody really talked to Angie until they found out someone from the congregation or someone from the church, they had this tragic accident happen to their son. And so now they're actively reaching out because that's maybe what God would want them to do. I don't know, right? I don't know. There is that argument out there floating around. But the theory of the good old boys club changes in the degree of severity There's like a light medium dark version. The light version. Some people believe good old boys club. There really is no good old boys club.

25:27That insinuates there's some sort of conspiracy. There's some sort of organized effort. And there really isn't. It's just men protecting men typically from allegations of abuse. It's less of a coordinated effort to make sure Aaron is found not guilty. But more so internal misogynistic biases. Our good friend Aaron. from the church? He could not do such a thing. Like, not our Aaron. We've been going to church with Aaron for years. We would have known if he was doing something like that. No, our judgment is perfectly great still. There's no way. Angie, however, I always knew she was a little cuckoo.

26:04I never really even talked to her. She barely comes to church. They believe it's just coming from people who are probably very powerful in the church and a lot of them, in netizen opinion, are not good people. However, are they really going to help Aaron in particular? It's probably just this internal bias that they have. A lot of these netizens that believe in this theory think Aaron's not even part of the elite. I mean, it's unclear how much Aaron Solomon is worth. According to a few transcripts, probably one to two million dollars, which is a substantial amount, But it's not, I'm going to D.C.