Wife Hires Hitman To Kill Husband Slowly After Daughter Says He SA’d Her As a Baby

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Speaker 1 If there ever is a book written about overdone tropes, this is going to be on the first page. Housewife in a small southern town, PTA mom to two kids.

Speaker 1 She is going to meet up with a hitman, a contract killer.

Speaker 1 In between picking up new socks for her kids' track meet to like cutting the crust off of the uncrustable sandwich, which is like a logic-defying choice, she is going to make time to sit down with a hitman.

Speaker 1 If this were set in Nantucket, Nicole Kidman is going to be playing the lead role. But this is not Nantucket, and this is not Nicole Kidman, and this is not a freaking act.

Speaker 1 April 11th, 2025, Angelia Solomon, aka Angie, she's pulling up to this parking lot. It's called the Cool Springs Mall.
It's one of those giant beige colored buildings.

Speaker 1 You're smacking a cheesecake factory on there, a California pizza kitchen. It's basically the American suburban dream in one giant personality-list shopping plaza.

Speaker 1 But that is completely besides the point because Angie is pulling up in her car and the instructions are crystal clear. Park a few cars away.
Easy. Done.
Got it.

Speaker 1 Then you walk over to the the car, the car with the hitman, the hit car, whatever you want to call it. I mean, this is too easy, right? Open the passenger door.
Get in the front. This is the front.

Speaker 1 Get in the front passenger door. Do not look behind you.
Do not look around. Do not glance towards the back seat.
Keep your head facing forward. Act normal and just talk.

Speaker 1 The hitman is in the back seat, and this is how you're going to communicate.

Speaker 1 Without seeing his face, without shaking his hand on the count of like one, two, three, deal, you're just going to stare straight ahead into the Macy's entrance while you tell the hitman exactly why you need your ex-husband dead.

Speaker 1 Both Angie Solomon and this man, they have a reason to be hiding in this Macy's parking lot. They are talking to each other for the very first time without even making eye contact.

Speaker 1 And Angie asks him, have you done this before? I'm not talking about what I've done before.

Speaker 1 And she's just nervous giggling. She's like cackling.
She sounds like a housewife and he sounds like a hitman.

Speaker 2 You heard it?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I'm just intrigued. And she's just like, okay, it's nervous laughter.
Okay, so she's like, straight to business, I see. You know, they're both here to take someone down.

Speaker 1 They're not here to make small talk. Angie gives the backseat guy, backseat boy, backseat killer, whatever you want to call him, the whole rundown.

Speaker 1 I mean, the Spark Notes version is, he belongs in prison or he belongs underground. That's a direct quote.
The slightly longer version is this.

Speaker 1 Angie has two kids with her ex-husband, Grant Solomon and Gracie Solomon.

Speaker 1 Angie states that she has known that her husband, her ex-husband, has been abusing their daughter since she was five years old.

Speaker 1 She claims that Gracie allegedly told her one day that her father puts things up inside of her during bath time, and once it was a soap bar and it was absolutely painful. Angie's horrified.

Speaker 1 She states that when she confronts her husband about it, Aaron, he admits to it, but he also allegedly tells her, If you tell anyone, I'm just going to take the kids away from you.

Speaker 1 What are you going to do about it? What are you supposed to do for a threat like that? Aaron Solomon, the ex-husband, is a well-known, well-respected local news anchor.

Speaker 1 He's on the local TV news channel and she's, she's Angie. If people don't believe her, then her kids are going to be taken from her.
And Gracie will be under Aaron's full control.

Speaker 1 So Angie, she just has to find a different way. She sends an email to her psychiatrist, Dr.
Reed, and she's talking about her daughter.

Speaker 1 My daughter would beg to not be bathed and I didn't see the signs. Did I miss all the signs?

Speaker 1 She claims ever since then, she has been trying to get the kids away from Aaron from, I mean, at least least 2013, right? She was trying to slowly escape.

Speaker 1 She was taking detailed notes of abuse on her phone. Then one day, she's rushing out the door to pick up the kids from school.
She's in the car.

Speaker 1 She's passing by the gas station and she realizes I left my phone at home. So then she books it.
You turns it back all the way back home and she's freaking out.

Speaker 1 She runs inside and Aaron has the phone just suspended over the toilet. And allegedly, he tells her, I told you.
what would happen if you ever talked to anyone about what's going on in this house.

Speaker 1 He saw her little notes app with all the logs of the detailed abuse.

Speaker 2 Since 2013?

Speaker 1 And he, yes. Well, it was prior to 2013.
This happens in 2013.

Speaker 2 Whoa.

Speaker 1 And he drops her phone into the toilet, straight into the toilet, just destroying all the evidence. This is what Angie says.
And he tells her, you know what that means now, right?

Speaker 1 You're never going to see the kids again.

Speaker 1 Three weeks later, in the middle of the night.

Speaker 1 Kids are gone. Aaron is gone.
And now Angie is many years later. This is in 2025.
She is sitting in the car with the hitman. She sounds like she's half laughing.
She sounds like she's half crying.

Speaker 1 And she asks, you're trustworthy, right? Is that a stupid question? Mind you, this is still in Macy's parking lot. Mr.
Backseat Assassin responds, I mean, there's trust going both ways here.

Speaker 1 That's why we're sitting in the middle of a parking lot, okay?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I just don't know you. And, you know, I know you don't want me to know.
And I know you don't want to know me.

Speaker 1 I don't.

Speaker 1 Do you know what I mean? Like, you're not recording me or anything to bust me, right?

Speaker 1 Angie giggles kind of nervously. I would be worried about you doing that before me because it could be it for me.
Angie says, I'm just a very naive person, but I'm just catching a big leap right here.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's a big leap. But like I said, you're not going to see me ever again.

Speaker 1 Which seems to be exactly what Angie needs to hear because she starts telling him her ex-husband's work schedule, his workout routine schedule, his gym schedule, where he works, his address, how his back gate has a gaping hole in the back that he can probably crawl through.

Speaker 1 And Angie wonders, so this can't be traced back to me, right? That's why we're going through this now. After you get out of here, you're never going to see me again.

Speaker 1 Angie asks the backseat guy, are you mean?

Speaker 1 Am I mean?

Speaker 1 I can be mean. I mean, you want me to be mean?

Speaker 1 She nods.

Speaker 2 Okay, I can be mean.

Speaker 1 You know, he thinks.

Speaker 1 He's about 5'8 with shoes on. And he thinks he's God.
Okay, so slow is better than quick? Yes. He's a psychopath.

Speaker 1 I had a psychiatrist watching in court and, you know, the way his mannerisms and everything, he's a psychopath. We all know what they are.

Speaker 1 You know, my daughter says he's like in between Jeffrey Dahmer and

Speaker 1 I forget the other one. She forgets the name of the other serial killer that is being referenced, but it's not important right now.
The important part is, is this going to happen or not?

Speaker 1 Is your ex-husband going to be dead or not? The backseat man asks Angie, well, they're going to talk to you. You're his ex-wife, and you better not say nothing.
You hear me?

Speaker 1 Angie assures him she's ready to move on with her life this is about making sure that her daughter is safe however she has no money what what

Speaker 2 how long was this interaction in the car 30 minutes 30 minutes

Speaker 1 well i was wondering because i don't have i don't have anything to pay right now but i would later

Speaker 1 what do you mean you would later you got life insurance on him or anything Angie explains, no, it's not life insurance per se, but he has a trust that would go to his daughter, their daughter, when he dies, you know, and that's probably like a few million dollars.

Speaker 1 But as of right now, Angie doesn't have anything to give Mr. Backseat Man.
And he says, well, give me your car registration as collateral.

Speaker 1 So she's reassuring him that once she gets the trust, she's going to pay him back double than what he's asking. So instead of $5,000, she's going to pay him $10,000.

Speaker 1 She hands over her car registration, and I guess that's enough for the hitman. He finally asks her, you understand though, that I'm not going to see you again.

Speaker 1 We will be going through a third party and you know that. You understand that when you get out of bed this next time in the morning, your husband is going to be dead and he ain't coming back.

Speaker 1 You understand that, right? He will be dead and disappear. Angie starts crying before she agrees.

Speaker 1 However, a few things from this conversation are just flat out false lies, such as by morning time tomorrow, Aaron Solomon would not be dead. And the two of them, Mr.

Speaker 1 Backseat Man and Angie, they will see each other again. And this time, they do get to look at each other.
Not that it makes it any less awkward. In fact, Mr.

Speaker 1 Backseat Man suddenly does not appreciate eye contact. He does not want to look Angie in the eye, even though they're sitting so close, facing each other directly.

Speaker 1 Or maybe the awkwardness is coming from the fact that they're sitting in a room full of people staring at each other while the entire conversation that they had in the car about killing Aaron Solomon has been recorded and has been playing on the speakers in a courtroom where Aaron Solomon is sitting in the back.

Speaker 2 Wait, this is the next day?

Speaker 1 This is a few weeks later.

Speaker 2 Oh,

Speaker 2 so this guy is a cop or is he an actual hitman that also got caught?

Speaker 1 The prosecutor asks him, and what was your role? I was informed that my role would be to go undercover and portray myself as a hitman for hire.

Speaker 1 Mr. Backseat Man is not a hitman.
He is an undercover agent. And Angie Solomon has now been arrested for a murder for hire charge.

Speaker 1 The Solomon family consists of four people: Aaron Solomon, the dad, Angie Solomon, the mom, Grant Solomon, the son, and Gracie Solomon, the daughter.

Speaker 1 By 2025, Aaron Solomon will be accused of being part of a large-scale high-powered trafficking ring involving the governor of Tennessee and a megachurch pastor, including being accused of trafficking his own daughter into this trafficking ring.

Speaker 1 Angie Solomon, the mom, will be arrested for trying to kill her ex-husband. Grant Solomon the son will be dead.

Speaker 1 And Gracie Solomon the daughter will post a video expose on YouTube exposing her entire family and accusing her dad of killing her older brother, Grant.

Speaker 1 This is the case of the Solomons, where it's pretty clear that at least one of the Solomons is lying. We just don't know which one.

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Speaker 1 A few disclaimers, there are allegations of DV, childhood essay, incestuous abuse. So please protect yourself if this is something that will be triggering.
Today's case is also complicated.

Speaker 1 It's a situation where everyone, even strangers on the internet, including ourselves, everyone's picking a side and they're sticking to that side.

Speaker 1 As always, we try our best as a team to not pick a side no matter how tempting it is. But today's case in particular is very messy.
There are a lot of accusations.

Speaker 1 They have not been legally proven in court. But just because it hasn't been legally proven doesn't mean it can't be true.
But for the purpose of not needlessly receiving a seasoned assist, which...

Speaker 1 tends to make me more passionate regardless, but still we are going to do our absolute best to just compile and aggregate the allegations made online, netizen opinions and even conspiracy theories so that you can come to your own personal opinion on this case any alternate theories opinions and accusations are those of netizens i found online or from the people directly involved everything is publicly available they are not representative of our own opinions regarding this case a small disclaimer here any annotations made in any sort of document was done by the original uploader of the document.

Speaker 1 So more often than not, Angie or someone from Angie's side has been posting screenshots of medical reports or screenshots of court documents.

Speaker 1 And there's a lot of annotations and highlights and question marks next to things that was not done by the RM team. That was just done by the original poster.

Speaker 1 Moreover, we cannot even tell you if that these are accurate screenshots of court documents. Tennessee is very tricky in the sense that we have had to jump through a lot of loopholes.

Speaker 1 Tennessee is a state.

Speaker 1 If you live in Tennessee, we need help in Tennessee, okay? Tennessee is the one state where every time we put in a FOIA request, it's going to be weeks of just no, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 1 And I feel like I'm harassing court clerks in Tennessee at this point. So if you guys have any sort of advice from Tennessee residents, please let me know in the comments.
It's been intense.

Speaker 1 So there's no way that we can even cross-reference or really check for these documents for their accuracy.

Speaker 1 And even then, I think it would be useless in this situation as there has not really been an open criminal investigation until this year. And that is for the murder for hire plot.

Speaker 1 All of the other things, they happened in family court, which a lot of those times, those are not public information.

Speaker 1 And since we're covering all of our basis, I have no idea and I have no way of confirming all of that, just so you know. And sometimes they can be taken out of context.

Speaker 1 And another thing with this case is every single point has been disputed by both sides.

Speaker 1 If you were to put the two main parties involved, Angie Solomon and Aaron Solomon, into a room and told them to agree on the color of the sky, you would have to bring in a pea bucket and sleeping bags because neither of them would be leaving that room.

Speaker 1 Like they just cannot agree on a simple two plus two equals four.

Speaker 1 Just to give you an idea, Angie has claimed that Aaron has filed multiple bankruptcies on an Instagram account that Aaron accuses Angie of running, which she denies. Even that is contentious.

Speaker 1 Then Aaron denies filing multiple bankruptcies. Then he goes back and says, I only filed for one.

Speaker 1 But that was also with Angie and I had to file it because we were married and she was spending all the money. So it's like every little thing, they have to be like, no, that's not true.

Speaker 1 No, that's not true. So it's a lot of back and forth.
And like a lot of very nasty divorces, custody battles, it's going to get very, very contentious and heated.

Speaker 1 So with that being said, let's get into it.

Speaker 1 May 12th, 2021, a video goes live on YouTube and you just see a 14-year-old girl holding a stack of papers and she's kind of on one of those swivel armchairs and there's a lot of background music that is very loud.

Speaker 1 And she starts by saying, my name is Gracie Solomon. I'm 14 years years old and I'm here to tell my story.
I just want to say before we get into any of this, that it's coming straight from me.

Speaker 1 It's all me and no one else has told me what to do. A lot of people point out that throughout the video, she'll periodically look off the camera.

Speaker 1 So, you know, it seems maybe someone is there as emotional support. Or if you want to be very skeptical, maybe someone is telling her exactly what to do.

Speaker 1 But she states in the video, no one is telling me what to do. My father is a monster.
It makes me want to vomit.

Speaker 1 I found my voice to be able to tell you that my father has R-worded me, hurt me, and I'm not going to be a victim of this monster. I hate my dad.

Speaker 1 I'm absolutely terrified for him, for everything he has done to me, my brother, and my mom. I don't want to call him my dad anymore.
He's never listened to me.

Speaker 1 He has hurt me sexually, physically, mentally. He has caused so much pain for my family.
He has tried to manipulate me and has manipulated others and has hurt me ever since I was born.

Speaker 1 My dad has done awful things to me. First, he never let my mom bathe me.
It was always him. So by not letting my mom come in at all, it meant that he could do anything to me.

Speaker 1 I would always tell my mom that I felt like I was more of a wife to him instead of a daughter. He would always bring his phone into the bathroom with him.

Speaker 1 At the time, I didn't know it, but I strongly believe that he was taking pictures and videos.

Speaker 1 I learned how to hide my body from him by clipping my hair over because he wouldn't leave me alone while I was showering or getting out. He is a sick person.

Speaker 1 He even tries to convince me that I'm being brainwashed by my mom and everything I remember never happened. He tries to scare me into thinking my mom's house is unsafe.

Speaker 1 He knows how scared I am of robberies and kidnapping or getting taken from my mom. In fact, he took me away from my mom for years when I was just ending my kindergarten year.

Speaker 1 Later on, he told me that I was never going to go back to my mom and that she was actually dead. I don't remember when I found out that my mom was alive.

Speaker 1 Because I know Grant and I, so she's saying my brother and I, we both believed that she was dead for years because of my dad. She states that even when they were a family unit, it wasn't great.

Speaker 1 Gracie says that the dad was always constantly trying to kill the mom Angie.

Speaker 1 This video itself is uploaded on YouTube and it doesn't particularly go viral on a national level, but it has 181,000 views and everyone in Franklin, Tennessee has probably seen this video.

Speaker 1 Aaron Solomon, Gracie's dad, is somewhat of a local celebrity. He used to be a news anchor for the local channel, Channel 4.
Everyone knows him. Everyone seems to know the Solomons.

Speaker 1 In the video, Gracie talks about how she had to go out of town for a baseball game for her older brother, Grant, and she went with her dad.

Speaker 1 He ends up booking a hotel room for her and him with just one bed. She says, it just really made me really nervous before we even got into the hotel room.

Speaker 1 When we went to bed, I remember him slowly getting closer to me until I was on the edge of the bed. I kept waking up by feeling his feet rub against mine.

Speaker 1 I kept waking up and then I finally realized that something hard was on my lower back, close to my butt. I felt really scared, and I knew it was wrong.

Speaker 1 At court, dad's attorney got inches away from my face face and tried to manipulate me into thinking that what my dad did didn't really happen by saying, do you really think your dad would do something like that?

Speaker 1 Do you actually remember that happening? He was so close to me that I could smell his cigarette breath on him and his tongue really scared me.

Speaker 1 Gracie alleges in this YouTube video that it's not just her being victimized. It's everyone.

Speaker 1 So this is just like a 14 minute video of an expose of like, let me tell you everything that's happened between my family and everything that my dad has been doing ever since I was young.

Speaker 1 So it's not necessarily in a chronological fashion, but it's just like a very explosive, point-by-point, all of the big things of why she's scared of her father. She says it's not just me.

Speaker 1 She states that her dad would come to these high school games, sports games, because he used to be a sports newscaster.

Speaker 1 He's very much into sports and he would film up the kids, the teenage girls' homecoming court dresses. That's what she alleges.
She says, it makes me sick seeing him or talking about him.

Speaker 1 I haven't been able to go to school because of how scared of him I am. Ultimately, Gracie states at the end of her video, the only thing that she wishes really is for quote, I want my dad gone.

Speaker 2 Is there like context on this? Did she just post this and then, because that's crazy allegation. Is there a police investigation or news talking about this? These are some serious allegations.

Speaker 1 So she posts this video and this video in particular does not blow up.

Speaker 1 But previously, for years before this video goes up on YouTube, there were multiple, I guess depending on what state you live in, DFACS, Department of Child Services, DCS, or CPS, Child Protection Services, they have had multiple open investigations against Aaron Solomon and all of them have come up with nothing.

Speaker 1 Whether that means that he is innocent of these allegations or whether he's just really good at not getting caught, I think that is up for debate.

Speaker 2 Hmm. So she posts this and that's it.
No, no police involvement,

Speaker 2 nothing going on.

Speaker 1 She posts this, and then Angie starts reaching out to a lot of true crime creators.

Speaker 1 She starts reaching out, and I mean, at this point, a lot of people were familiar with the Solomons because something had happened the year prior, but it just seems like this was a big open door.

Speaker 1 This is when, like, national attention starts getting involved. They're going on News Nation.
They have a whole website. They have GoFundMes that have raised close to $200,000.

Speaker 1 They have a lot of eyeballs on them. This video itself, for some reason, does not get a lot of attention, but all of these allegations are starting to spread.

Speaker 1 Zoop becomes a big conversation online.

Speaker 2 Where are the cops? Where are the officials? They're not doing anything.

Speaker 2 Yeah. That's so weird.
They're not doing anything.

Speaker 1 Before you even sit down for the first couple's therapy session, the therapist is already figuring out, just gathering intel on the relationship dynamic, and it starts in the waiting room.

Speaker 1 Sometimes some therapists will even say that they'll check the cameras in the waiting room just to get a little vibe, especially if it's their first time seeing the couple.

Speaker 1 How much space is in between the couple? Obviously, the surface level observation would be the further apart a couple, the more they hate each other. But it's actually more than that.

Speaker 1 Therapists have noted it's about attachment style. If the couple is physically further apart, it could mean that one of them has avoidant attachment styles.

Speaker 1 They would rather run away from the problem than face it. Or they're in a stage of extreme emotional withdrawal.
which is also very difficult.

Speaker 1 Clearly, couples who are in their own worlds on their own phones separately, great. But also, here's an interesting thing.

Speaker 1 If you see a couple and they're both zoning out or staring off into space, but they're staring off in different directions,

Speaker 1 could also mean that they're not in sync. One's looking left, one's looking right, or even timing.
Do the couples come in together in one car? Or maybe they can't because of work or other obligations.

Speaker 1 Do they come in separately? That's fine. But if the couple regularly, one person arrives early or on time and the other person is consistently late, big red flag.
Maybe it's work, but is it really?

Speaker 1 Or it could indicate that they don't want to be here. They feel tension and resentment, that they even have to show up to couple therapy.

Speaker 1 It's just in relationships and distress, couples move independently. They say it's like a coordinated dance, every couple.

Speaker 1 The way you open a door, you go into the therapy office, therapist is sitting down and you look at the selection of seating available.

Speaker 1 And usually the couples who will end up working out, they do a polite little song and dance. Even if they hate each other in the moment, would you like the chair?

Speaker 1 Or do you want to, oh, I think maybe we should do the couch. It's like a very awkward,

Speaker 1 okay, well, whatever you like. Yeah, it's fine.

Speaker 2 These are according to therapists? Yes.

Speaker 1 But couples who do not care for each other, they just plop down wherever they want. They don't ask.
There's no courtesy. There's no like, what do you want to do? Maybe we should both decide together.

Speaker 1 Maybe we should both sit together. Not that they have many choices.
Couple therapists have stated that they will intentionally seat couples at a 90 degree angle. Can you guess why?

Speaker 1 Sometimes it's side by side on a couch. Sometimes it's one on the couch and one on a sofa facing the other way.

Speaker 2 Why? They want them to.

Speaker 1 It's the best for eye contact.

Speaker 1 You can choose the level of eye contact.

Speaker 1 You can look at your partner to connect or you can look away when you feel you need emotional space without it being so obvious, without it feeling confrontational, like I can't even look at you right now.

Speaker 1 It feels feels more natural and a lot of these sessions are filled with confrontation one therapist says i saw a couple that was doing retaliatory cheating they were just cheating on each other and then telling each other about it and then the other person would get mad and then cheat on them and then tell each other about it when they got through their anger they decided to call it a truce they waved the white flag and made peace with their level of emotional maturity i doubt it lasted long but they stopped seeing me so i don't know if i helped them or prolonged their suffering i don't know another couple's therapist said, I saw a couple in the office because the husband greeted the dog before her when he came home from work.

Speaker 1 And that's why they started couples therapy. But it's actually a very symbolic problem of something greater, you know, a bigger underlying issue.

Speaker 1 Every day he'd come home from work and he would pet the dog first before he said hi to his wife.

Speaker 1 Kind of like the couple that wanted to divorce because the wife, she likes to cut her sandwiches diagonally. The husband, when he makes the sandwiches, he cuts them straight in half.

Speaker 1 They literally come to couples therapy for this and people think they're crazy. Like, what do you mean? Just cut the sandwiches.

Speaker 1 But this is a symbolic gesture of the fact that the husband is unwilling to do something so simple for his wife.

Speaker 1 Another Redditor writes: I have a friend who's a marriage counselor, and basically, half his job is just helping two people who hate each other come to the conclusion that it's okay to divorce.

Speaker 1 That's it.

Speaker 1 Also, couples therapy is like a wrestling match. These couples, some of them go in there with the sole intention to win.
I'm good. I'm here to win.
Yeah. And who am I winning? The therapist.

Speaker 1 They're going to tell me that I'm right and that my partner is wrong. I'm in it to fucking win it.
Welcome to couples therapy.

Speaker 1 But whatever happens in therapy sessions, I mean, it typically does not warrant one spouse trying to kill the other spouse in a slow, painful, long manner via a hitman in a Macy's parking lot.

Speaker 2 Right?

Speaker 2 Maybe.

Speaker 1 Dr. Fattrell has been a psychiatrist probably longer longer than most of us have been alive.
She's been in practice since 1993. Interestingly, she specializes in child and adolescent psychiatry.

Speaker 1 But when Grant is six years old, Gracie is two years old, Angie ends up in Dr. Fattrell's office and she claims that Aaron has been abusive, sexually violating her since she gave birth to Grant.

Speaker 1 And the final straw was she was...

Speaker 1 going through his stuff and she allegedly discovers that Aaron has been cheating on her with sex workers, but more alarmingly, he has been grooming underage girls.

Speaker 1 It's not entirely clear exactly how she finds out about this and if she was able to collect any evidence at this point, not that it would matter much, because according to Angie, Aaron would threaten her.

Speaker 1 If you ever tell anyone about anything, I will make sure you never see our kids again.

Speaker 1 Who is she even going to tell? According to Angie, Aaron barely lets her talk to anybody, like anyone at all.

Speaker 1 She can't even go to a haircut appointment by herself to get a haircut because I don't know, maybe he thinks that she's going to go there and say something to the stylist or even accidentally mention something that would raise the alarms, which means, according to Angie, that both of them are now sitting in Dr.

Speaker 1 Fortnell's office because even the psychiatrist's therapy sessions, he's not letting her go alone. And Angie's probably telling Dr.
Fortnell

Speaker 1 everything.

Speaker 1 All the way from the beginning. She's probably starting with her childhood.
Not great. She says even as an adult, adult, she had to file for an order of protection against her own dad.

Speaker 1 So clearly child life, family life, home life, not great for Angie. And it's always been bad, probably worse when she was a kid and living with them.

Speaker 1 Angie says that she spent pretty much every single waking hour of her life just trying to become a basketball star for her school team. because she doesn't want to go home.

Speaker 1 She doesn't want to focus on her home life. It's miserable.
And then she graduates and she decides maybe basketball is not going to pay the bills, so I'm going to be a pharmacist.

Speaker 1 She spends all of her energy focusing on her own capabilities, such as pharmacy school, graduating, and then becoming a pharmacist.

Speaker 1 And it's as a pharmacist that she starts talking to Aaron Solomon again. They knew each other from high school.
They're rekindling their love and it's just like a fast track to marriage.

Speaker 1 Okay, I will say that rekindling is perhaps not like the exact word. Andrew says in an interview, quote, back in high school, Aaron saw me then.

Speaker 1 And as I learned in my counseling sessions, he was stalking me. So she claims that he was stalking her when she was back in high school.

Speaker 1 We don't really get more elaboration on this, but she says, you know, he was stalking me. That would have been all the way back in like 1988.
I didn't hear from him after that. I brushed him off.

Speaker 1 He continued to stalk me. Angie says that she was kind of...
rude to him in high school and she always regretted it.

Speaker 1 I mean, she didn't know what kind of person he was back then, but she always just kind of thought about it and she decided as an adult, maybe she would reach out and apologize.

Speaker 1 And it was easy to remember him from high school, considering that she would turn on channel four and he's right there. Morning anchor news, like sports anchor news.
He's just right there on the TV.

Speaker 1 And she says that at that point, she had her own house, her own car. She manages the pharmacy.
So she's not just a pharmacist. She's managing other pharmacists.

Speaker 1 She's living the, she's got two dogs, a good income. She's very happy, very well adjusted.

Speaker 1 Aaron Solomon comes into her life and within six weeks of dating, she's pregnant with their first child, Grant, and suddenly getting married in Vegas.

Speaker 1 She said she was very excited to have a kid, though. She said that she was very set on being a single mom.

Speaker 1 But then both Erin Solomon and her own dad threatened her because they're both very religious. And they said that she needs to be married before giving birth.

Speaker 1 So they went to Vegas and they got married, which is when Angie says, yeah, everything starts falling apart. They get back, he moves into her house, and it's just like a hostile corporate takeover.

Speaker 1 Aaron starts controlling the finances. He doesn't doesn't let her go anywhere without his approval.
And he has these mood swings, she says, that was just unpredictable.

Speaker 1 She claims that he would just go quiet for days. And then out of nowhere, he would go into a fit of anger where he would just berate her constantly for the way she looks, for her capabilities.

Speaker 1 He would just call her crazy. And sometimes, according to Angie, he would just straight up start physically attacking her, especially once Gracie was born.

Speaker 1 Angie alleges to her doctors that she found out that Aaron was cheating on her and the family. And he just tells her, yeah, well, I need to have sex two times a day, and that's completely normal.

Speaker 2 These are disclosed by the doctor?

Speaker 1 These are disclosed by Angie.

Speaker 2 Oh, she said, I told this to my doctor.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and I mean, obviously, it cannot be disclosed by the doctor because that would be a major HIPAA violation. But Angie has posted some of

Speaker 1 some

Speaker 1 doctor's reports.

Speaker 2 Okay.

Speaker 1 But Angie claims that during her sessions with Dr. Fortenell, that Angie was diagnosed with PTSD and Aaron was diagnosed with a sex addiction.
Do we have the medical records? No. Did Dr.

Speaker 1 Fortnell tell us? No. In a lawsuit filed by Aaron against Angie, so Solomon v.

Speaker 1 Solomon, he firmly denies being ever diagnosed as a sex addict, a narcissist, a sociopath, or anything else that he is being accused of.

Speaker 1 Even when it comes to therapy, clearly one of them is lying about this.

Speaker 2 So when did Angie come out with all of these information? Is it lately or this was like 10 years ago? Lately. Lately.
Yes. And when did the husband sue Angie, the wife? Lately.

Speaker 2 Okay, so this is before the whole murder plot happened? Yeah. Murder for hire plot.

Speaker 1 Maybe this will give you a better, like a continuation, continuity. In 2013, they have a very contentious divorce.
Custody actually primarily goes to Erin. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And since 2013, Gracie has been fighting to get the kids back. Yeah.
So they're, they're just, they hate each other since 2013, probably for longer than that. And then in 2020, Grant Solomon dies.

Speaker 1 And this kickstarts a very public round of accusations being thrown out of whether or not Aaron Solomon is involved in Grant Solomon's death.

Speaker 1 And this is when everything comes to a national scale. The allegations of sexual abuse against Gracie have been kind of spurring up before 2020, but they really start blowing up around this time.

Speaker 2 After Grant Solomon, the son died. Yes.

Speaker 1 And this is when Aaron Solomon sues Angie Solomon for defamation.

Speaker 2 When did the daughter make the video again?

Speaker 1 In 2021.

Speaker 1 And this lawsuit is more so recent. And then in 2025, Angie was arrested for trying to hire a hitman.

Speaker 1 Wow.

Speaker 2 So this is, I mean, what the decade is. Ongoing, ongoing.
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Speaker 1 Every single person that you ask in Franklin, Tennessee, they seem to have a very different idea, a different opinion about who they think is the line Solomon.

Speaker 1 One of Gracie's friends who's known Gracie since pre-K, she says, well, around the time that the custody battle started, around that time, Gracie gets sent to live with the dad.

Speaker 1 And suddenly, Gracie is not Gracie. Like, this is, she just starts looking, according to Gracie's friend, quote, tired and began to be very skinny.

Speaker 1 I noticed that her eyes were just puffy, but as a kid, I just kind of brushed her off as allergies.

Speaker 1 I would also notice that she had several bruises and other scratches and scrapes almost all the time. I would ask her about this and the answer was always the same.

Speaker 2 I fell on the ground.

Speaker 1 I have only ever been to Aaron's house once, but when I was there, I noticed some strange things. I think we were in the second grade.

Speaker 1 Gracie had me over for a sleepover and I noticed there were several dents and other markings on the wall and that Gracie was very nervous around her dad. As we grew older, Aaron would touch Gracie.

Speaker 1 Even if it was just like placing his hand on her shoulder, she would flinch a bit and I could just tell that something was wrong. But as a kid, you didn't know that.

Speaker 2 That is crazy.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Meanwhile, Aaron argues, this is just not true.
This is not true in the slightest. And he states he should have known that something like this was going to happen.

Speaker 1 Aaron claims that when he and Angie got into another one of their arguments back in 2013, she said something that he just should have known the flags.

Speaker 1 She said, quote, and this is according to Aaron, so this is alleged as well, my first husband, I never told him I was going to divorce him, but I'm telling you right now, I'm going to divorce you.

Speaker 1 It was really weird. Aaron thought it was weird.
But then quote, not long after that, I noticed her saying things and doing things that looked like she was trying to make the kids be on her side.

Speaker 1 Like she would, he alleges she would accuse him of abusing her in front of the kids. Like, oh, your dad hit me.

Speaker 1 Now, maybe she did and maybe it's true or maybe it's not true and she's lying to the kids.

Speaker 1 He says that, for example, after a particularly brutal fight where he claims that Angie was getting violent with him, he leaves to help her de-escalate.

Speaker 1 Next morning, quote, she said in front of the children that your daddy left in the middle of the night to go sleep with another woman. I said, Angie, why are you saying that?

Speaker 1 I said, why are you saying that to the kids? Like, I said, do you want me to tell them that I had to leave because you were trying to attack me physically and abuse me?

Speaker 1 And she said, I only did that in self-defense.

Speaker 1 So again, we don't know. It's just like couple's therapy, but the worst version ever amplified by a thousand percent.
Both Angie and Erin have completely different stories.

Speaker 1 It seems like both of them want you to believe their version. You tell me which one makes more sense.

Speaker 1 Remember how Gracie claimed in her YouTube video that Aaron would take upskirt pictures of the minors at homecoming up their dresses?

Speaker 1 Well, Angie claims that Aaron has a Snapchat, the username being who is it 64?

Speaker 1 But like, why the hell does he have a Snapchat? Angie claims like

Speaker 1 it seems like it. It seems like, from the screenshots I've seen, it seems like he has it.
But I don't know. I've never been Snapchat.

Speaker 1 I don't have a Snapchat, but I've never been Snapchatted by him, so I can't confirm to you.

Speaker 2 What kind of screenshot are we seeing?

Speaker 1 It looked like, it looked like, okay, so it was from Grant's phone, and it looked like it was the dad. And then there's also a picture of him shirtless.

Speaker 1 That he took a selfie, shirtless. Uh-huh.
And it was like something sexual along the lines of

Speaker 1 all of of your inches want me or something.

Speaker 2 Wait, what's the context? He took a Snapchat photo and sent it to somebody. Yes, but somebody screenshot it down.

Speaker 1 Yes, but

Speaker 1 it is believed, I think, that this was not sent to a minor.

Speaker 2 Okay, oh, so he was talking to another woman and he sent a

Speaker 2 photo to... Okay, so he does look like there is a Snapchat.

Speaker 1 What I will say is it does look like he has a Snapchat, in my opinion. I don't know.

Speaker 1 I've never been Snapchatted by him it does look like he took a shirtless picture and was maybe hitting on people on snapchat he could very well have been sending this to someone of age that is single and does not cross any sort of moral boundary or he could have been doing what angie is claiming he was doing which was trying to groom underage girls

Speaker 1 Angie claims that Aaron would try to talk to high school girls by going to the kids' games, like his own kids, high school games, sports games. And then he would take pictures.

Speaker 1 And then Angie alleges, he would tell the girls, these high school girls that hey, I'm gonna send you the pictures. Just give me your snap which I think anyone

Speaker 1 anyone of a certain age with a snapchat is a little crazy especially when you have kids and you have a snapchat is a little weird.

Speaker 2 Yeah, and also I don't think that's how you use is it is that how you use snapchat

Speaker 2 use it to send photos.

Speaker 1 I feel like the photos disappear so why would you want do the photos disappear?

Speaker 2 Yeah, but I mean asking for phone number is weird too, but maybe Instagram Instagram is safer. Yeah, Snapchat is, I don't know.

Speaker 1 More like an email. I don't know.
You're like, you have kids. You're at a school event.
That's weird. Or just like text it to the parents.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Mm-hmm.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 That's what I would do. It's just kind of strange.

Speaker 2 No, that's actually really creepy. Imagine like you're at a sports game.
Like you're, you're doing this at school and then a parent's like, give me your Snapchat.

Speaker 1 Oh, that's terrifying. That's weird.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Yeah, that's weird.

Speaker 1 But also, I can't imagine the other way. I can't imagine being like, what's your Snapchat to someone that's decades younger than you is so bizarre.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Very bizarre.

Speaker 1 Now, I will say it does seem like he has a Snapchat.

Speaker 1 I don't know if he's reaching out to young girls or if he's even telling them that he's going to send them pictures through Snapchat, but that is what Angie is claiming.

Speaker 1 I would imagine that every single resident in Franklin, Tennessee has heard about these different arguments.

Speaker 1 There is even a contentious point about did Aaron Solomon quit his job working as a news anchor? Or was he fired?

Speaker 1 Angie claims that Aaron Solomon was more or less forced into resigning from his position. He was a sports news anchor for Channel 4.

Speaker 1 And Angie says one day they find inappropriate materials, like pictures, videos, NSFW things on his work computer and his work phone.

Speaker 1 And to avoid a big, massive scandal with the TD network, they basically back him into a corner and they say, you got to resign.

Speaker 1 So they don't have to deal with a big fallout for a newscaster being exposed for doing something like this in their organization. That's what Angie says.

Speaker 1 She does later elaborate, claiming that some of those pictures probably included her, and apparently people from his workplace saw it and told her that she did not look awake, insinuating that she had been drugged and potentially positioned for these pictures.

Speaker 2 Wow.

Speaker 1 Aaron, on the other hand, argues, that is not what happened at all. He says he was working in the sports department.
They moved him to the morning news segment, which he loved.

Speaker 1 He loved telling people about the weather and what was going to happen that day.

Speaker 1 But then, because of structural changes and new leadership, they wanted him back to sports and he felt like that was a demotion of sorts.

Speaker 1 And Angie herself even encouraged him to quit and find a position at a company where he would actually be appreciated for his work.

Speaker 1 Also, Aaron argued that he thought it was perhaps a good time for him to take some time away from work because Angie's uneasy behavior, he claims, is escalating at this point.

Speaker 1 That is what Aaron is saying. He states that he was concerned about his wife since around 2012.
At one point in 2012, Gracie had to have eye surgery.

Speaker 1 And according to Aaron, Gracie starts sleeping in their bed after the surgery to recover. And then Grant starts falling a little sick and he wants to sleep in their bed too.

Speaker 1 And so now Grant and Gracie are both in the bedroom for like nine months. And Aaron is saying, we got to get the kids out of here because this isn't normal.
And like, they got to grow up.

Speaker 1 They got to, they got to. They got to sleep in their own rooms.
This is not healthy. And Angie is unwilling to do that.
He describes her as being reluctant and almost dependent on the children.

Speaker 1 That's what he says. I'm not sure.
I'm not a parent. I don't know if that's a bad thing or a good thing.
I have no clue, right?

Speaker 1 But I don't know if that's particularly a great, spectacular example of being dependent on the kids, but here we are.

Speaker 1 Another claim, an example he gives in his lawsuit, and this is one time, Aaron said that he was trying to get fresh bedding for Grant's bed. I guess they're doing sheets.

Speaker 1 They're washing the sheets, and Aaron is like, I'm going to put the sheets on Grant's bed, the fresh sheets. Just a simple task.
Angie, however, according to Aaron, gets very mad at him.

Speaker 1 And she's like, I want to do it. I want to do the sheets.
He's He's like, okay, it's just sheets. You do the sheets then.

Speaker 1 He stops. Then all the kids are in the house and in front of the kids, Angie's doing the sheets and she's loudly complaining about how she had to go find the sheets.

Speaker 1 She had to go find the bedding and now she has to make the bed herself and nobody wants to help her and nobody ever does anything.

Speaker 1 And he claims that he was just shocked because she was the one that told him not to do the sheets.

Speaker 1 Eventually, Aaron does get a new job because he thinks things are getting better again.

Speaker 1 But he claims that Angie just started getting upset and reactive to the point where he would come home with paychecks from his new job and Angie would just start spending them extravagantly.

Speaker 1 He states one time she went to Dick's sporting goods and spent over $1,000 worth of things that nobody needed. He secretly had to go back and return them.
And even then she was freaking out.

Speaker 1 And it's not just that. He claims Angie would just start turning the kids against him and trying to convince the kids that he was abusive.

Speaker 1 As stated in his lawsuit, Aaron claims that after the divorce, he just wanted Angie to get better mentally.

Speaker 1 Angie is just constantly criticizing Aaron's parenting to the kids and quote, mischaracterizing his normal and completely reasonable parenting rules, such as appropriate bedtime and limits on screen time as controlling and crazy.

Speaker 1 So he's saying he would make sure that the kids go to bed at a certain time. Then he's saying that Angie would turn around and say, your dad is crazy.
I wouldn't do that. No parent does that.

Speaker 1 That's so controlling and manipulative.

Speaker 2 So he's listing out all of these details in the lawsuit. And the lawsuit is for what?

Speaker 1 It's for defamation.

Speaker 1 Now, Angie's dad, who testifies in court against his own daughter, and we're going to get into all of that. Yeah, Angie's dad takes Aaron Solomon's side.

Speaker 1 But remember, Angie said her child life was not good. She had to file an order of protection against her own dad as an adult.

Speaker 1 And now the dad is testifying with her ex-husband, who she is saying is also an abuser. So

Speaker 2 it's very complicated.

Speaker 1 Yeah. This is the dad, right? He claims that Angie would convince the kids that their father was being unreasonable and unfair because of all of these things.

Speaker 1 And she would come up with new claims and new allegations all the time. Angie's dad says that she would just start going around telling everyone that Aaron told the kids that she was dead.

Speaker 1 But like, he never did that is what he's claiming.

Speaker 1 So Angie would say, he took the kids away from me. And then he told the kids that I'm dead.
So the kids are so traumatized, they think that their mom is dead.

Speaker 1 But I'm not dead, you know?

Speaker 1 That's what she's saying.

Speaker 1 The other side is saying, We never told them that they're dead, but Gracie's saying, I thought my mom was dead.

Speaker 1 Okay, Aaron and his side, which includes Angie's parents and her sister, they say that the allegations are obviously very serious, but they say it's not true.

Speaker 1 They say that Aaron allegedly essaying his daughter, Gracie, allegations that Aaron would control their food intake.

Speaker 1 So, Angie was telling people that Aaron was obsessed with them being sports, like athletes. He would control their food food intake, make sure that they were emaciated, perfect for performance.

Speaker 1 And then on top of that, he would even randomly just control their bathroom habits. If you had to use the restroom, you would have to do it in the allotted specific time of the day.

Speaker 1 If you don't, you cannot use the restroom. If you don't have to go number two, for example, in that time period from 3 to 4 p.m., you can't ever use the restroom until 3 to 4 p.m.
the next day.

Speaker 2 Now, does Aaron deny those as well? Yes. He denies everything.

Speaker 1 He denies everything.

Speaker 2 He said this never happened. Yeah.

Speaker 2 And Angie is brainwashed by the mother?

Speaker 1 Is that what he's saying? Gracie is brainwashed by the mother? Gracie, Gracie. Yes.
He's saying that Gracie is brainwashed by the mother.

Speaker 1 And I think, like, it's.

Speaker 2 How old is Gracie now?

Speaker 1 She is. She'd be 18 now.
Hmm.

Speaker 2 Huh. But this happened like when she was a teenager or younger.

Speaker 1 This was happening when she was young. 2013.

Speaker 1 Yeah, she's young. She's young.
Wow. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Erin claims that not only is Angie out here making these really big, despicable claims of abuse, but also, according to his lawsuit, he claims that Angie would bizarrely allege other forms of abuse.

Speaker 1 Quote, she complained to a close friend that Mr. Solomon had abused the children by taking them to swim in a motel pool while visiting a relative.
That's it. That's it.

Speaker 1 Just like taking them to a motel pool was abusive, is what he's claiming Angie allegedly told a friend. Okay.

Speaker 1 But at least in the early stages of this marriage, nothing is as contentious as what happened in the shower on May 9th, 2013.

Speaker 1 Depending on who you ask, the shower incident is going to sound vastly different. If you ask Aaron Solomon, he will say, it is the day that Angie tried to self-exit.

Speaker 1 If you ask Angie, she's going to tell you, it's the day that Aaron Solomon tried to kill her.

Speaker 1 Aaron says, that night, it was just the two of them in the living room. Angie's not happy, but what's new? He says he doesn't even remember what Angie is mad about.

Speaker 1 In the Solomon house, arguments are naturally occurring at any given moment.

Speaker 1 He's sitting there listening to Angie, and he claims just out of nowhere, she throws out a quick little, I'm going to end it. I've been thinking about it.

Speaker 1 I know how to do it, and I know what I'm going to do.

Speaker 1 And she just allegedly calmly walks out of the living room into the primary bedroom where both Grant and Gracie have fallen asleep in the primary bedroom, in the parents' bed.

Speaker 1 Aaron claims clearly this is making him worried because why is she walking in there after she just said this?

Speaker 1 She walks in, she locks the bedroom door then he can hear her walking into the bathroom locking the bathroom door so he says quote it took a couple of minutes to get through both sets of doors when i opened the second door into the bathroom i couldn't believe it she had wrapped the hair dryer cord so i guess a blow dryer the cord the electrical cord around her neck three to four times and the hair dryer was like resting there and the other part she was like plugged in it was attached to the shower head honestly i was trying to map it out in my head oh

Speaker 1 she tied one end to the shower head yes and she was slumped at the bottom of the shower. And I immediately could tell that she had not snapped her neck.
Her hands were turning purple, though.

Speaker 1 Her face was turning red. And so I immediately undid it, the rope or the cord.
And it took maybe three to four minutes for her to come to. She was breathing.
She had a pulse. I got a cold cloth.

Speaker 1 I rubbed it on her head and I tried to get her to come to. When she came to...

Speaker 1 She became semi-violent. She wanted to push me away, get away from me.
She kicked at me. Don't try to help me.

Speaker 1 We went into the living room where she proceeded to get violent with me and said that she was going to beat the hell out of me for the next two and a half hours until the kids woke up.

Speaker 1 She proceeded to attack me, tried to hit me, scratch me, pull me, all of that.

Speaker 1 At that time, I tried to defend myself, get away, grabbed my cell phone, which was charging, and I went out the front door. I got in our car.
I drove to Kroger.

Speaker 1 which is roughly about three to four blocks down Abbott Martin Road. He claims, I never hit her, never struck her.
I've defended myself physically.

Speaker 1 I tried to keep her away from me a number of times, but that's it.

Speaker 1 He doesn't immediately call 911 that night because he says that he didn't want to upset the kids, which is an interesting thing because he also just like leaves the kids with Angie in this allegedly heightened emotional state.

Speaker 1 But I'm not a parent. I just thought that was weird.
He argues that it's because, quote, she was getting loud. I was really worried that the kids were going to wake up and see this.

Speaker 1 And that's why I left. So he's saying, like, if I just excuse myself, I know that she's not going to hurt the kids.
It's what he he claims, but I don't know.

Speaker 1 I just feel like you can never be too sure. He says, that's why I left to calm the situation, drive down a few blocks.
However, Angie presents the story very differently.

Speaker 1 She says it was another one of those nights.

Speaker 2 Aaron's eyes are yellow.

Speaker 1 Yeah, his eyes get yellow when he is very upset. He's the one freaking out.
He's getting mad. He's starting another fight.
which is very common. It's one of those nights and

Speaker 1 she says, quote, he started chasing me. They were fighting in the living room and Angie says, he chases her.
So she's running as fast as she can.

Speaker 1 And she runs into the primary bedroom where the kids are asleep. She locks the door.
She runs into the primary bathroom. And quote, before I knew it, he had the wire around my neck.

Speaker 1 She says he's simultaneously pushing her down while pulling the rope up, like the wire up, and choking her. And she's trying to fight back.

Speaker 1 She said, I knew based on prior experience, if I could yell his name loud enough, you know, sometimes he would snap out of it, come back to reality. So that's what I was doing.

Speaker 1 I was screaming his name over and over again. Angie says that he has eight personalities, but it felt like that night the ninth one was coming out.

Speaker 1 She says, quote, and he said, don't worry, this will be quick and painless.

Speaker 1 But it wasn't the only time that I had survived an attack on my life. It was the first time that I had seen that personality and that thing was going to kill me.

Speaker 1 The thing was, it was monstrous and it looked like a monster and I knew immediately that I was in terrible danger. I was in trouble.
I look up and Grant was standing right behind him. He had woken up.

Speaker 1 The only reason Aaron stopped, according to Angie, his attempt at killing Angie, is because their son Grant woke up and came into the bathroom.

Speaker 1 Which, okay, Aaron is claiming that Angie tried to self-exit and freaked out on him when he saved her. Angie is claiming that Aaron tried to kill her and only stopped when Grant, their son, woke up.

Speaker 1 So why can't you just ask Grant Solomon which version is true? Because in 2020, Grant Solomon mysteriously dies. And this is where I leave you with part one.

Speaker 1 Part two is going to be up in 24 hours, so stay tuned for that and

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