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

Episode Date: November 14, 2025

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.   Full show notes available at RottenMangoPodcast.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

July 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. It 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 9 a.m. 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 an 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 center is now closed. So no one can really. And I don't even think that they would disclose. What? So no one else. I feel like that's such an easy thing to get an answer.

Like call the owner. What? 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 not a lot of public police reports and they're very 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 selective? Yes.

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 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 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's 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. Okay, 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 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? 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, he laid. If this is your son, you should be okay. You should be under the truck. Yeah. But he's not. And his voices, 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 what 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 yeah 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. He'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 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 oh my god what's 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 brake or drug him up underneath somehow they said he's facing up but he's bleeding from his mouse. 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 the 911 call. The training facility is located on a hill. So it's right off a pretty busy road. I was looking at like the Google Earthview and stuff. And it doesn't seem like a middle of nowhere road, which is intriguing.

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 berry's boot camp SoulCycle 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. It'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. They 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. Now the ditching pictures sometimes look 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 Like 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 There's 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. He 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. I don't know if he would because of the rocks being jagged, but maybe he could if it was flatland. 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 are 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 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 says.

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, 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 a soul. son, nothing. However, some people are defending Aaron. 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 and not every female tells the truth. Which I feel like that part, I mean, you can be on Aaron's side. 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 happened. 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. Um, I will say, there was someone in my hometown that had actually was in a very similar accident when I was really young. Um, 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 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. Okay, 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 Graham. 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 vest. But 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,

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 passerbyes and then, yeah, they were there.

I mean, they were there. You can hear some voices on the 911 run 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. Just 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. I 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 makes sense and I'm not like a physics girl. I've never been a stem girlie 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 accurate 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 a beginning will 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 in motion like if it's decide to you know go down in motion that means it's not going to 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 six thousand pounds there's no way you can try to even like slowly slowly walk it down into the ditch 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 Oh, 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 like stumble, like, stumble back really quickly and just like stumble, stumble, stumble, and then... So that's the first point of contention. And if it's just one point, I think it's fine. I 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. But 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 in 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. No, 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 going to 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 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. Wait, that is such a good point. That is my opinion. I don't know. That's just what I'm saying. Wait, that is such a good point. Yeah, but he doesn't. Right, I will be so angry at the car manufacturer. Yeah, I would be angry at so many people for something like this to happen. I would be on a campaign against the manufacturer. Yes, yes. Which also, I do love a Toyota.

They're very reliable cars. So that's also another point that people are like, Toyota's, especially the Toyota Tacomas in recent production, they're like really reliable because they're made for working cars, 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. But 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 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 it feels like Karen Reid 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 so 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 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. How is he facing on his back away from the building? Additionally, Aaron is apparently sitting right there in the car right next to Grants 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? Uh-huh. 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. We'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

I'd put it in the inaction 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 grand before landing in the ditch, not a single blade of grass, she states, is even bent or messed up. It's perfectly fine. Additionally, 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. The 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. Perhaps 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. Why can she be operating it? Well, because there's a lot of defamatory,

potentially defamatory things on there. Oh, okay, okay, okay. Yeah. I see, okay, so he's like, if you're talking about me under your name, I'm going to 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 to the questions. Why 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 attached 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? The Instagram account alleges, Angie remembers when she saw Grant in the hospital.

His body looks perfect. He's 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 sinking 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, and 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 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 he's like closing in he's like yeah this is when I last see Grant and then he motions like he's about to open the back door so 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 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 Oh, he saw him immediately under the truck. Yes, and that's maybe why he sounds so calm in the 911 call. What? 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 will one.

He's immediately calling 911. But 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. So he's saying maybe by chance he opened the back door.

and the car starts lining down. Let's say by chance the backdoor 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. 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 nefarious.

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. My descriptions. Okay, let me be a little more clear. Like, 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?

Yeah, 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. 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 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

the back of the truck is at the bottom, right now the top of the truck is at the bottom. Because it's reverse 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 one theory, the

theory is, the truck was never up there you just drove straight from this side yeah into the ditch right now there are other things confirming wait is that why somebody think grant's head is facing up because if that's the direction see that's why i'm having such a hard time picturing because the way you're 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. Wow, yes, yes. Okay, wow. Okay. There's not any sort of variation of this scenario where I go, oh, okay, 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. So 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, 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 rubs Angie and everyone the very wrong way. He says, there are so many what ifs. That'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, 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 911 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 even go near Grant. He can only stand on top of the ditch and call 911. 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. So 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. But 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. I 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 dent, and bent.

Oh, they're at the site checking out the condition. I see. I imagine if it was taking in 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 close the case.

They don't tell us, hey, we did ABC 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.

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, trying to figure out what happened to his son. He's like in the car, in the Tacoma. And he's like, I guess it like popped out of park. And 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 got to investigate. I got to figure it out. It's going to keep me up at night. Like, what do you mean? And he's a new thinker. Yeah. But he's just like, I guess it's, 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 no 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 but you wouldn't want to get to the bottom of it like who what yes this is my loved one yeah yeah yeah what do you mean yeah I'm not just going to 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 even at the top of the parking lot. She 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. Like 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. Other 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. So 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 his potential baseball. career ahead of him, he 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. And 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. Aaron 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. It's so hard because I do see people's own perceptions and stories tainting their version of events. Some 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 again. 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

Yeah. 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. 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 her mom. At this point in time, it seems that Aaron has custody of the kids. And so he's saying, we 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 in- He recorded this? No. Oh, yeah. Who did? Well, Freedom for Gracie posted it.

Who's holding the camera? 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 oh okay 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 He'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 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 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. We 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. Grant 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, reopened the investigation, stopped 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, thousand dollars for the freedom for grant and freedom for gracey go fund me accounts combined angie 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 podcast 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 ghost them. Others are saying that the social media profiles are oddly quiet out of nowhere after $200,000 have been raised. You 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. Or 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 GoFundMe's, 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? And 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 isn't 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.