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The Daily Crime

"He had control over everything"

The Daily Crime

VAULT Studios

True Crime

4.3627 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

In January, Marissa Grimes met a man at a party in Fort Worth, Texas. In February, her body was discovered in a crawl space under his house. WFAA Reporter Malini Basu tells us about the case. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Coming up.

0:02.1

She obviously did not grasp how dangerous he was.

0:06.4

And unfortunately, he took her to his house, and he did not release her for days.

0:11.1

For Vault Studios, I'm Will Johnson.

0:13.0

You're listening to The Daily Crime.

0:27.9

Fort Worth Police, say 26-year-old Marissa Grimes met a man in January at a party.

0:33.6

That man allegedly took Grimes to his house and held her against her will for days before she escaped.

0:37.9

He was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon before being released on Bond. Really, there was no one else she was afraid of like she was afraid of him.

0:44.0

Weeks later, at the end of February, the body of Marissa Grimes was discovered by police

0:48.4

under that man's house. He had wrapped her in something and put her in the crawl space underneath the house.

0:56.7

And investigators believe there could be more victims.

1:03.2

I'm joined by Maloney Basu at WFAA in Dallas, Texas.

1:07.1

Maloney, thanks for being here with us. We appreciate it.

1:09.0

Thanks, Will. Glad to be here and this unfortunate story.

1:11.9

Yeah, let's talk about what happened to Marissa Grimes. It's just, it's really shocking and

1:17.7

awful to think that she ran into this suspect a month before she was killed. But let's go back

1:24.2

to January and tell us about what happened. She met this man in a bar, right?

1:28.5

So sometime in the early days of January, Marissa Grimes goes to a party and she meets this guy. He seems

1:34.8

like he's kind of cool. Doesn't get any type of a bad vibe off of him. Valerie and Osteen. So the

1:41.1

two of them talk at the party. They hit it off. And they're like, hey, you want to go out? So they go out. They end up going somewhere. And then she somehow ends up back at his house in Fort Worth. And so, and just to give our listeners a bit of background, she is a 26-year-old mother of two, right?

1:59.3

Yes, she has two boys. And she's so dedicated to her family.

2:05.2

I mean, all she ever wanted was to be that perfect mother to her children, to make sure they

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