Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Child Killer Millionaire Rebecca Grossman's Secretly Slashes Payout to Victims
Episode Date: August 1, 2026Rebecca Grossman, convicted in the 2020 hit-and-run deaths of brothers Mark and Jacob Iskander, is fighting the court ordered payout to the boys' parents. She was sentenced to 15 years to life i...n prison. Through a wrongful death civil lawsuit, Grossman was ordered to pay $21 million in punitive damages and $176 million in compensatory damages, totaling $197 million. Will the Isakander family ever see the money? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Does this woman have no shame?
She and her husband are literally rolling in money.
They're multi-millionaires.
She has a boozy lunch with her alleged lover.
And mows down two little boys in front of his parents' eyes
as the mom desperately dives to save the other children
these two she couldn't get to. They're dead. She sees her two little boys die. Rebecca Grossman tries
to leave the scene and her fancy Mercedes breaks down. It stops. It automatically stops when it hits
something. She's been drinking. The boyfriend have been drinking. They fight it tooth and claw.
She's finally convicted. But in the last hours, we learned convicted child killer Rebecca Grossman
strikes a secret deal to slice her share of a $200 million payout to the little boy's family?
I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. I want to thank you for being with us.
That's right. Jailed killer Rebecca Grossman strikes a secret deal slicing her share of a nearly $200 million payout.
Now, a jury order her to pay that to the family of two little boys, Mark and Jacob Iskander.
Do you remember the two little boys that were mowed down in the crosswalk?
Well, let me jog your memory, or as I like to say in court, let me refresh your recollection.
So many questions. Let's start it off. Listen.
Just after 7 p.m. on a September evening, Jacob and Mark Iskander, their siblings and parents, go for an evening
stroll to a nearby lake. The boys enjoy rollerblading and skateboarding. The six-member family is
heading home, crossing in a crosswalk at a three-way intersection when Mother Nancy heard a speeding
car barreling their way. The mom says her husband and daughter were further away from the street.
She tries to signal to the two SUVs heading their way to slow down. She tried to pull the children
back, only managing to grab one of them, a five-year-old, and dive out of the way. Jacob and Mark,
who were farther out in the crosswalk, are hit. Mark Iskinder dies at the scene.
Jacob dies later at the hospital.
According to police, Mark was thrown 254 feet.
254 feet.
Can you imagine that coming up on the scene and seeing a little helmet, a child's scooter, and crime seam tape?
With me, an all-star panel to break it down and put it back together again.
First of all, founder of Class Kids Foundation, Mark Class.
You can find him at classkids.org, and that's with the K.
Kathleen Murphy, North Carolina trial lawyer.
You can find her at ncdomesticlaw.com.
Renowned psychiatrist, joining us out of Atlanta, Dr. Angela Arnold at angelaarnoldmd.com.
Founder director of the Cold Case Research Institute,
former president of Mad Georgia Mothers Against Dr. Dr. Dr.
drunk driving, Cheryl McCullum,
Professor Forensics, Jacksonville State University,
author of Blood Beneath My Feet on Amazon,
and star of a new series on the True Crime Network,
Poisonous Liaisons, Joseph Scott Morgan,
but first to the lead news anchor, WDBO,
Ray Caputo, Ray Caputo,
two brothers dead and one fell swoop,
one just nine years old,
the other just 11.
What happened?
Well, Nancy, this was a really hot day that's happened in West Lake Village, California.
It's about an hour west L.A., depending on the traffic.
And it's a so hot day, and the family goes out, Jacob, and they're 8 and 11.
They're with their mom and their dad and two other siblings, and they're simply crossing the street.
They're going to cross a wall.
Okay, just let me understand something.
It's, okay, they're with their whole family.
It's not like the children were in the,
middle of the road riding their scooters.
They're in a crosswalk with their family, correct?
Yes, a well-marked crosswalk.
You know, I want to understand where this is.
Mark Klaas, founder of Class Kids Foundation, where is Westlake Village?
Where is that in California?
Well, it's several hundred miles from where I am, but I've been through Westlake and
it's a suburb of Los Angeles.
You know, when you say a suburb of L.A., having lived out in L.A.
during Dancing with the Stars.
That could mean anything.
I mean, it could be a beach area.
It could be a rural area.
It could be farming land because California is so diverse.
But a good hour outside of L.A.
In my mind, means suburbs.
People that will drive an hour to get to work in L.A.
through that god-awful traffic.
So we're talking about a suburb of L.A.,
which is full of Bucbubb.
beautiful country called Westlake Village. We're talking about Mark and Jacob, and they're nine and
11 years old, and they're with their entire family, including mommy and daddy. So back to you,
Ray Capito, I think I heard you say they were in a crosswalk, correct? Yeah, it was a crosswalk.
Now, this is a suburb, so it wasn't a heavily congested area. When you think of a downtown
Los Angeles, it's a concrete jungle. It wasn't like this. There wasn't a lot of hills, though,
And it was residential.
And they were in a crossbook.
They were doing what a lot of families do on a Tuesday night when it's hot out.
You want to get a little exercise.
You know, I take Lucy and John David, we get the dog, fat boy, and we walk all the time, practically every day, rain or shine.
And it's usually about that time when they're done with school and I'm through with work.
And everything is calming down.
down from all the craziness during the day.
And I'm just imagining this family.
You know, Ray Caputo, you said the whole family was there.
How many of them were there?
Well, there was at least two siblings, and I know that one of them was in a stroll.
So there was the mom and the dad, and you can imagine that the child in the street
is getting the most attention.
They're getting pushed around.
But, you know, everybody was there.
Mom and dad were with the kids, and it was just, I think there was about six of them,
including the boys.
The whole family together.
You know, when I go with the whole family together somewhere, I feel more safe because we're all there together.
I've got the children with me.
My husband's there.
We're all focused on keeping the twins safe at all times.
Take a listen to Chris Holmstrom at K-C-A-L-9.
It was just before dark.
A family of six was walking across this crosswalk when tragedy struck.
Captain Salvador Bacera with the LA County Sheriff's Department describes what happened next.
The family were in a marked crosswalk, clearly marked.
As she realized there were two cars speeding her way, she was able to reach out and grab one of her children off of a razor scooter,
pulled the child back with the stroller, with another child of the stroller, as the car entered the intersection and hit the other two boys.
There's six people, including two adults and a school.
stroller. How could you not see that? It wasn't even dark yet. To Ray Caputo, did the two boys
9 and 11 die right there on the scene where they race to the hospital? What happened?
Oh, it's just terrible, Nancy. Well, one of the boys died at the scene. He was carried on the hood
of the car for about 100 feet and then the car stopped and the little boy flew off and then he was
he was ran over.
The other child was, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Slow down.
What did you just say?
Unfortunately, the woman hit the little boy, the little boy that carried him a hundred feet.
And then he flew off the car and she ran him over.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, right there.
So it's not dark yet.
They're in a crosswalk.
There are six people, including two adults and a stroller.
That accounts for three people.
So there were three others.
That is a group.
How can you miss a group of people?
Let's just pretend that the driver come over a hill and hit them,
which I don't believe is the case.
Because under the rules of the road,
just like where you put a double line,
you're not supposed to cross on a double line or pass anybody,
you wouldn't put a crosswalk right there as coming up over a hill because it's too dangerous.
So as if you couldn't see them a mile away,
we learned from witnesses that one of these two little boys was carried on the hood of the car for 100 feet.
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
A super secret behind the scenes deal
never disclosed to the jury
during an eight-week civil trial
that has just ended
now changes everything
about how much each defendant has to pay
after the jury hears the whole case
and insists on a massive payout
to the victim's family.
How does this even happen?
Well, I don't know how this.
this secret deal happened, but I know what did happen in a court of law. These are the facts.
I want to go back to you, Ray Caputo. This was in a crosswalk. And they have engineers looking at
where a crosswalk should be, where there should be a double line, where you should put a red light
or a stop sign or a flashing yellow light for reasons, because it fits with a topography.
I just don't believe that a crosswalk was, you mentioned here.
That's where I'm getting this from.
You, Ray Caputo, I just don't believe a crosswalk was right at the top of the hill.
Well, there was a crosswalk.
You've got to imagine a T.
And there's a road that's coming down, a hilly, very hilly road.
Coming down.
And then there's a crosswalk.
So my assumption is that, you know, that might have played into it.
It says that she was on this road.
And I believe that she may have taken a turn where there was a stop sign.
It just kept ripping through it.
Because she was going really fast.
and I've seen this on a map, and I can understand
of someone who's intoxicated
and just out of their mind, not paying attention to the road.
But if you're coming down a road,
like you're saying there's a hill,
coming down, you can see down.
It's not as if she was coming up a hill,
and then suddenly you're in a crosswalking.
There are people in the middle of it.
Cheryl McCollum, you're the former president
of Mothers Against Junk Driving Georgia.
Help me out here.
Nancy, there was so many things this woman did wrong
before that accident.
I'm just talking right now about the crosswalk.
Crosswalks are there in that spot for a reason so you can see it.
Correct, but not somebody that's drunk.
It could very well be she was fiddling with the radio.
It could be that she was going through her purse.
Okay, speaking of that, take a listen to anchor Suzanne Marquez with Tina Patel, CBS, L.A.
We have more breaking news.
A driver has been arrested after a crash last night in Westlake Village that killed two children.
CBS 2 is Tina Patel is live with the latest on this investigation.
It's heartbreaking developments this morning, Tina.
It really is.
One boy died here at the scene.
The other one was taken to the hospital, and we just learned that he also passed away.
Now, the Sheriff's Department is not releasing the ages of those boys are saying whether they are related.
But you can see the news of the tragic death has hit this community.
Many are coming now to leave flowers.
Oh, yeah. They weren't releasing a lot of information, and now we know why.
Take a listen to Mary Beth McDade, KTLA, 5.
Grossman, who's married to a prominent plastic surgeon, Peter Grossman, reportedly hit one boy who rolled up onto her hood.
She reportedly slammed on her brigs, so he'd roll off, and then she ran him over.
Deputies reportedly caught up with Grossman about a quarter mile away in her white Mercedes,
which had front-end damage and arrested her.
Rebecca Grossman was arrested for a vehicle.
She's been charged with two counts of vehicular manslaughter and was arrested for DUI.
The Iskanders are well known in their Westlake Village and Church communities.
So Rebecca Grossman was driving that white Mercedes married to a prominent plastic surgeon Peter Grossman.
Now Cheryl McCollum, former director of Mad, MADD, MADD, Mothers Against Driving, driving,
Georgia. Did you hear that, that reportedly hit one boy and he flew up onto her hood? She kept going about a hundred feet and slammed on break so the boy would roll off, then ran over him and did not stop. She kept going. Did you get that in the news report from KTLA 5?
Think about that, Nancy. The cops didn't find her for a quarter of a mile.
But Nancy, think about the fact that she's already hurt him severely by running over him and killing his brother.
She makes the choice of getting that child off the hood of her car and ran over him in order to flee and get away.
She made the conscious choice to do more damage to that baby than to stop and render aid.
Joining me right now, I want to go straight out to
Dr. Angela Arnold
Psychiatrist at
Angela Arnoldm.D.com.
What in the world
would make you keep going
after you hit a child?
It reminds me of a case I covered
on court TV a while back
and the defendant's name was
Chante Mallard.
She hit a man
in the street,
then with him on the hood,
stuck on the hood.
She drives all the way to her
home, pulls her car into the garage, closes the garage, and leaves him on the windshield to die.
He could have been saved in the time.
She sat and they're going, wow, am I going to get in trouble for this?
She left the guy impelled on the hood while he died.
Here you've got this woman, according to eyewitnesses, carried the little boy on the hood of the car 100 feet, slammed on brakes, the boy fell off,
then she ran over him.
So it's such a horrific act, Nancy, that most of us cannot understand.
But to me it speaks to something deeper that is wrong with this woman on top of her alcohol addiction, apparently.
Well, let's talk about that for a moment.
I want to find out from you, Ray Caputo, WDBO, why alcohol is being thrown around.
How come we don't think she was just, let's just say, street racing or joyriding or in a hurry?
How did alcohol get into the mix?
Well, that's what the deputy said.
What they found her about a mile down the road to answer.
This is a scary part.
We see this a lot with people who have money.
They know what happens when things go sideways.
If you hit somebody and you're drinking, the best thing to do is get the heck away from the scene, apparently, and not be seen until you sober up.
this woman's car breaks down a mile away and that's when she's busted.
If she would have got away, I would almost guarantee that they'd be mounting a defense of,
I wasn't drinking.
Now, also, you mentioned street racing.
She was apparently street racing too.
She was traveling at a high rate of speed and she was drinking.
I mean, what a host of factors.
And you wonder why something went wrong here.
Well, I'll tell you how I learned that DUI driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs
was part of this.
because she, this renowned, prominent member of the community,
husband is a high-profile plastic surgeon,
she was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter and DUI.
After smashing her speeding Mercedes into brothers Mark and Jacob 11 and 9,
Westlake Village,
she only stopped a mile and a half away when her engine cut out.
Cheryl McCollum, former director of Mad, Mothers Against Junk Driving, Georgia,
she didn't pull over and call police.
She was only stopped because of car trouble.
She did nothing to help this family.
She did nothing to help the two little boys.
She did nothing to render aid to help in any way.
She didn't even go to a pay phone and call 911 anonymously to get help there.
You know, Cheryl, suffering the sudden.
and criminal death of somebody you love sticks with you forever,
as you all know, having dealt with so many crime victims.
But this mother and father were right there.
One son died on the scene, Cheryl, and the car kept going.
What that must be like for them.
I mean, the hug used to race BMX,
and I can play right now in my head the worst wreck he ever had.
And he was fine.
But as a mother, you just, you know, play it over and over and over.
What they must be living with, watching their two children mowed down.
One killed at the scene, one you have hope for for a moment.
And then that snacks from you, too, because this woman decides she wants to drink and streak race.
You're not talking about a 17-year-old kid that makes a stupid decision.
Believe it or not, wealthy socialite Rebecca Grossman accused suspect number one in mowing down two little boys out walking with their family gets a courtroom victory.
But what happened when the boys lost their lives?
According to police, this woman Rebecca Grossman, prominent in her community and wealthy, not only mowed the children.
two little boys down in front of mom and dad, but kept going. She was charged with suspicion of
voluntary manslaughter and DUI. I want you to take a listen to our cut number 12. Now, you may
recognize some of these voices. This is a montage of all the coverage about how fantastic
this woman and her husband were. So many of us at ABC News.
know about the work that the Grossman Burn Foundation has done to provide so much care,
new life for women, children, people around the United States and the world in need of that
urgent medical care.
I just wanted to take a moment of your time this evening to say a few words about the
Grossman Burn Foundation.
This extraordinary organization is making a huge difference around the world.
Another miracle at the Grossman Burn Center here in Southern California.
The Grossman Burn Foundation has launched a campaign to stop the
the violence carried out against women around the world.
A local Oscar-winning special effects artist has become a hero to a woman on the other side of the globe,
a woman whose face was destroyed by her own husband.
Rebecca Grossman of the Grossman-Burn Foundation found out about Eustens.
Rebecca takes the prosthetics, travels to Indonesia, and delivers them to Eustons in person.
It's a day Eustens never thought would come.
Finally, she gets the first sign of hope that she'll feel complete again.
You're hearing so much about the Byrne Foundation.
Remember, this woman's husband is a prominent plastic surgeon.
So they're well-known and wealthy in that community.
I know that the husband, who is, as I said, a wealthy and prominent plastic surgeon
had been working with the Byrne Foundation.
but what about the wife Rebecca Grossman?
And what about that particular day
that these two little boys were mowed down?
Take a listen to Tina Patel, CBSLA.
Investigators arrested a 57-year-old driver
and charged her with vehicular manslaughter.
A white Mercedes with front-end damage
was towed away about a half mile from the crash scene,
but investigators would not confirm
whether the drivers stopped voluntarily or whether this was a hit and run.
People who live nearby hope this crash will be a wake-up call for drivers to slow down
and for the city to do more to protect pedestrians.
You know, I want to go to you, Mark Klass, founder of Class Kids Foundation,
to protect children.
Have you ever seen cases where the public doesn't get all the details
where a lot of the facts surrounding the case are kept under the rug?
For instance, what is this woman's?
blood alcohol. They're not even saying that they'll confirm it was the hit and run.
She was arrested about a mile away. Yes, it was the hit and run. I don't need a crime scene
reconstructions to tell me that, Mark Glass. You know, Nancy, the nonprofit world is full of
hypocrites. It's full of wealthy people who sit on boards of nonprofit organizations for no other
reason, then they can talk about themselves at cocktail parties and give each other awards for the
great work that they do. And I think Cheryl can attest to that. She knows the nonprofit world as
well. And I think that's exactly what we have here. Now, they can talk about how wonderful
Mrs. Grossman is and all of the great things she's done. But she's also the woman who plowed down
two little boys, bump one of them off of the hood of her car, and then ran over.
him again so that she could escape responsibility. This is a woman with no conscience. This is a woman
with no morals. This is a woman who most certainly does not belong behind the driver's seat of a car.
Cheryl McCollum, I know that she's charged with suspicion DUI. Now, you know the case will be
ruined if they did not do an appropriate blood alcohol content test on her, a blow test.
and that is the end of a DUI case.
If you let her off the hook from that blow test at the scene,
you can't prove at trial she was DUI.
So they have her charge with suspicion DUI.
Why would they have charged her with that, Cheryl?
There must be some evidence,
either they could smell alcohol or breath,
there was evidence in the car of a bottle or something like that.
But Nancy, the other thing they're missing,
they don't have the traditional things you would have with an accident like this.
They're not going to have skid marks.
She didn't stop.
Good point.
So there's so many things.
They can't get her accurate speed.
They may not have an accurate VA thing.
They may not have it.
We do know this, though, Cheryl.
Now, this is good news for the prosecution.
If they take the case all the way,
if they don't get over-impressed with money and prominence,
Joe Scott Morgan, Professor Forensic, Jackson State University and death investigator,
the cops have broken down and told us that this socialite, Rebecca Grossman, did test over the legal limit.
Explain.
Yeah, the legal limit depended upon where you are is generally going to be in a range of about 0.015, that region right there.
and it's going to go to significant impairment, and that is your motor function.
How can you make judgments?
But this is one of the problems going back to what Mack said just a second ago with her.
You know, this woman has a history of driving while intoxicated.
This is my question.
If she is addicted to alcohol, her tolerance level is going to be much higher.
So there are people that have a dependency upon alcohol that can still function,
be up, you know, whereas you or I might have a drink,
a couple of glasses of wine or something,
and we're out like a baby.
This woman might could go through two or three bottles of wine,
so be upright and functioning.
So it's kind of a hit or miss.
They need to have done this early on.
Okay, now hold on.
Wait a minute.
Look at the front end of her Mercedes.
You can see it at climbonline.com.
Yeah, Nancy.
Yeah, if I could address that.
Yeah, if I could address that, this is a full-size Mercedes sedan, Nancy.
And you know, Mercedes, one thing they're known for, it's not just a luxury car.
They're known as being a safe car, well-built.
And Nancy, it looks like she ran into a damn telephone pole.
It's a center mass strike.
And just so people at home will understand, if you imagine that great big Mercedes symbol that sits right in the center of the grill, that's gone.
And not only that, the hood itself is crushed in.
This gives us an indication that when she struck these two little boys, as you mentioned just a second ago, in front of their parents, mind you, she was traveling at such a high rate that at least because I don't have all the data from the scene, it gives the appearance that she hit a fixed object, Nancy.
not some non-anchored person like these two children.
She hit something at such a high rate of speed.
It literally collapsed the front of that car.
I don't see how the airbags kept from deploying.
If you look at that image real quick, she did try to flee.
The only reason she didn't get away,
if you take a real close look at that image on Crime Online,
you'll see that there are fluids that have poured out of the bottom of this thing.
So it disabled the vehicle.
My guess is, as Ray had alluded to earlier, is that if she could have put as much distance between her and that event, that homicide, then you would have had time for the blood alcohol to metabolize in her system.
She would have gone and this has happened numbers of times with high profile people over the years.
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Crime stories with Nancy Grace.
Secret deals behind closed doors will the family of these two little boys, Mark 11, Jacob 8, were mowed down, crossing a street, Westlake Village.
in the crosswalk by this woman leaving a boozy lunch with her boyfriend.
I wonder what her husband thought about that.
Apparently the whole family still standing by her.
You know, I've seen that happen before.
You don't want to know bad things about the person you love.
You just don't want to know.
So you make up, you do backbends and backflips and contortions
to explain away the evidence.
That said, will the victim's family get the payout, the jury awarded them?
And remember, Rebecca Grossman is a multi-millionaire.
That said, I don't know what's gone on behind closed doors,
but I do know what happened in open court, and this is what we learned.
Six family members were crossing the three-way intersection in a marked crosswalk on the road
the parents
heard the speeding
Mercedes. They could hear
speeding. And
hearing the car, they reached
out to grab their children.
They grabbed Zachary and Violet.
Mark and Jacob were too far away.
They heard the speeding car,
Cheryl. Now, you understand the legal
implications of this. They could hear it
at a distance,
speeding.
There were no skid marks.
The parents grabbed the children they can reach.
The ones they couldn't reach were mowed down.
Analyze it, Cheryl McCollum.
Nancy, what you're going to have is you're going to have the police go, they've got to go back.
They've got to get video from every ring camera.
If they have the flock system, they've got to get that video.
They've got to trace her actions backwards.
where did she drink?
How much did she drink?
Where did she get it from?
Did she pay for it?
Was it already at home?
Was she at a bar?
Yeah, they're going to retrace all of her steps.
At least I hope they are.
They've got to, Nancy, because they don't have anything else.
Because, again, they know the blood alcohol is going to be contested.
They know that they're going to have a fight on their hands.
So they've got to go back and show, just like you used to do,
that this crime didn't occur at 947.
PM or 645.
This crime occurred at 2 o'clock when she took her first drink.
It occurred at 315 when she took the next one.
It occurred at 560 when she had her third one.
And then she chose to get in the car after 5 or 6 or a bottle.
And that's what they've got to show the importance of that.
They've got to go back and show every speeding ticket.
They've got to show every failure to maintain lane.
They've got to show every DUI she's ever had.
even if they reduced it to, you know, whatever they might have reduced it to reckless driving or such, you know, we all know reckless driving usually is a DUI that's been reduced.
They got to look at every single one.
Every single time her prominent husband has saved her.
They've got to go talk to friends and said, hey, how many cocktail parties does she throw?
How often do y'all know her to, you know, great?
Well, it's going to be critical that they trace her steps that day.
Amen.
Because Mark Class, I mean, have you ever heard accident used in DUIs?
It's no accident, Mark Class, because as Cheryl McCollum was saying, you start in the day drinking.
You decide to get your car keys.
You decide to walk out to your car after you've been drinking.
You decide to insert the key in the ignition and start the car, put it reverse, and then drive.
There you go.
All those were conscious decisions, Mark, class.
There were conscious decisions by a woman who's probably done that hundreds of times
and doesn't really seem to care about the safety of anybody else feels that she's privileged enough
that she can do what she wants, when she wants, and have some kind of a sterling reputation
and a lot of money to fall back on.
Straight out to Kathleen Murphy, North Carolina trial lawyer at the scene.
We've seen so many celebrity walk a straight line test, touch your nose test, say the ABC's test.
what other tests are performed at the same or supposed to be performed when cops suspect DUI?
Well, obviously the markers are a breathalyzer.
She could refuse the breathalyzer.
If she refuses the breathalyzer, they'll take blood work at the hospital or wherever she's incarcerated, I would suppose.
They can do the field sobriety tests such as heeltoe.
They also can take other steps to determine whether or not they're drinking.
because there's alcohol bottles in the car, the smell of alcohol on that lady's breast.
We do know that this prominent socialite, Rebecca Grossman, was involved in an accident 2012
where the other driver claimed she ran a red light driving over 65 in a 40 MPH zone
and plowed into the back of his car.
The driver passed away later from ill health, but the insurance report
includes his detailed description of the crash.
Now, in that case, we know that insurance paid out $100,000
and a settlement with Grossman.
She was injured in that, too.
So what, if anything, do we know about her history, Ray Caputo?
Well, Nancy, she's not a good driver, that's for sure.
I mean, you can only speculate that that's connected to this.
I mean, I don't know for sure, but it seems to be that the right thing.
was on the wall for Ms. Grossman, and she had plenty of opportunity to fix, you know,
some of the issues that she had in her life, but, you know, she didn't. And here we are.
This tragedy was avoidable. It was something that shouldn't have happened, and now this family
is going to be living with us for the rest of their lives. And Ms. Grossman's life is done, too,
pretty much. Her reputation is gone. I'm really more worried about the two dead boys than
anybody's reputation. Dr. Angela Arnold, what about the people surrounding her?
I mean, according to a daily mail report, quote, she's a reckless driver.
The socialite charge with killing two young boys in DUI hit and run previously totaled another driver's car after, quote, speeding through a red light, and then she sued him.
Even though she ran into the back of his car.
You know, Nancy, I don't believe that they should be calling her a socialite.
I think that they should be calling her a sociopath.
that is what this woman is.
At the core of who she is, she is a sociopath.
Why do we have to be describing this woman who has hit and killed two children and has absolutely no remorse?
Instead of a sociolite, we should be calling her a sociopath today.
And I'm just wondering, I mean, Cheryl McCollum, director of Mad, Georgia, Mothers Against Junk Driving,
everybody around her
I mean
are they enabling
her drinking and driving
way in
Nancy I think the most important thing is
forget everybody around her
this is solely on her
she did this
this is nothing new
behavior
she chose to drink
she chose to drive
she chose to try to cover it up
she chose to try to hide her face now
she has chosen not to reach out
to the family and apologize
She has chosen to do all of these things that show exactly who she is.
And I think that last statement was dead on accurate.
She is a sociopath.
You know, Cheryl McCollum, people refer to these scenes as an accident.
I disagree completely.
This is no accident.
No, this is a homicide thing, period.
Rebecca Grossman sent us to 15 years to life.
I guarantee she'll get out early for mowing down the two little boys.
At a civil trial, she was forced to pay millions of dollars.
Is she going to get out of that too?
We wait as justice unfolds.
Nancy Grace, crime stories, signing off.
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