A Bathtub Drowning
48 Hours
CBS News
4.1 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
In September 2001, Doug Grant discovered his wife Fayleen lying unconscious in their bathtub. She couldn’t be revived at the hospital and her death was considered a drowning. But as investigators discovered Fayleen had a history of dramatic mood swings and was considered by some to be suicidal. Was her death an accident, suicide… or murder? “48 Hours" Correspondent Susan Spencer reports. This classic "48 Hours" episode last aired on 6/5/2010. Watch all-new episodes of “48 Hours” on Saturdays, and stream on demand on Paramount+.
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| 0:00.0 | She was my best friend. |
| 0:02.0 | Sometimes she was my only friend. |
| 0:18.0 | I wish every single day in my life that I could help my mom back. |
| 0:23.6 | My mom died when I was 11. Some people think it was an accident. Some people think it was a suicide. |
| 0:32.6 | But I know it was a murder. |
| 0:40.3 | My step-dad murdered my mom. Phelene is a good person. |
| 0:43.3 | I have never hurt anybody in my life, ever. |
| 0:47.3 | ... |
| 0:48.3 | ...emergency. |
| 0:51.3 | I just got a stress call from a friend of mine. He said that his wife is unconscious. Doug called me a stress call from a friend of mine that he said that his wife is unconscious. |
| 0:57.0 | Doug called me very frantic. |
| 1:00.0 | He just said that he found her in the tub and that she was not responding to him. |
| 1:05.0 | She's not responding? |
| 1:07.0 | This wasn't working. |
| 1:10.0 | I had my hand on the climbing, this wasn't working. |
| 1:12.6 | I had my hand on the door handle to her bedroom as it was happening. |
| 1:18.6 | Your mom drowned in her own bathtub. |
| 1:25.6 | I've been working on this story for a number of years. |
| 1:28.3 | By all accounts, Phelian Grant is a wonderful woman, very, very close to her family, and especially close to her church. |
| 1:37.3 | This is something my mom wrote in her journal. |
| 1:41.3 | I love my family and don't want to leave them. But it is Heavenly Father's will that I leave this mortal sphere to fulfill a mission on the other side of the veil. |
| 1:51.0 | She also wrote, I must have faith in Doug's vision. |
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