Dad Accused Of SA'ing Daughter Is ONLY Witness To Son's Sudden Death BUT Mom Gets Arrested Instead

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Speaker 13 People always say, if your husband, or probably worse, if your ex-husband, purchases life insurance for you, that's usually an indicator of something nefarious, aka he's probably going to try to to kill you.

Speaker 13 I don't think that there is a single sign that is more blatant, more obvious than that. Well, according to Angie Solomon, there is.

Speaker 13 According to Angie, October 6th, 2020, so this is a few months after her beloved son, Grant Solomon's death.

Speaker 13 Aaron, her ex-husband, who is also the dad of Grant Solomon, he goes to purchase three more grave plots right next to Grant Solomon.

Speaker 13 One for Gracie Solomon, their daughter, one for Angela Solomon, the mom, and a third for himself, Aaron Solomon.

Speaker 13 Why would Angie's ex-husband purchase three grave plots right next to their deceased 18-year-old son? First of all, Angie and Aaron, they hate each other.

Speaker 13 They've had a very contentious divorce since 2013. They spent the past almost decade hating each other, and nothing indicates that any event took place which made them reconcile.

Speaker 13 Would they really want to spend the afterlife together, laying side by side for the rest of eternity, just letting the soil decompose them? And their daughter, Gracie Solomon?

Speaker 13 I mean, at that point, she was 14 years old, 13 years old.

Speaker 13 Most likely, she's going to grow up, get married, start a family of her own, and want to be laid to rest with them as an old, aging grandmother, right? Unless Aaron Solomon has other plans.

Speaker 13 The Freedom for Gracie Instagram posts about the grave plots that Aaron purchased, and it reads in short,

Speaker 13 Why?

Speaker 13 Why? He and Angie have been divorced for years. All the while he is slandering her to their community.

Speaker 13 Quote, and why in the world would a father think his daughter would need a grave plot at 13 years old?

Speaker 13 Wouldn't Gracie want to grow up, get married, and have her own future and family and be buried next to her husband someday? He never talked about it with Angie.

Speaker 13 She could understand if he bought them for himself and shoved that in her face to keep her from being buried next to her son.

Speaker 13 But for Aaron to put her and Gracie's name on it sent chills up Angie's spine. Aaron has a motive with most everything he does.

Speaker 13 They're friends, and Angie's thought was, quote, murder, murder, self-exit. Maybe that's dramatic, but a life with Aaron is a life with fight or flight.

Speaker 13 Every fiber of their being believed Aaron had something to do with Grant's death. And now Angie and Gracie believe that they are next.

Speaker 13 What was Aaron Solomon's plan with the grave plots? Did he kill his own son, Grant Solomon? And is he trying to take down the rest of the family next?

Speaker 13 If that's the case, why is Angie Solomon the one in jail for trying to kill Aaron? This is the case of the Solomon family.

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There's allegations of DV, childhood, essay, and incestuous abuse, so please be careful.

Speaker 13 Today's case is very complicated. It's a situation where I do think everyone on the internet, they've got their own opinion about this case, and there's no way that you're going to change their mind.

Speaker 13 It doesn't matter what you say. It doesn't matter what other pieces of evidence arise from the opposing side.
Nothing matters. They're sticking to it.

Speaker 13 There have been a lot of accusations that have not been legally proven in court.

Speaker 13 It's complicated because legally we want to protect our team and we want to protect ourselves from any sort of lawsuits.

Speaker 13 But you have to remember that just because something is not legally proven in court, doesn't mean that it isn't true. It doesn't mean that it hasn't happened.

Speaker 13 But because of that, it just gets messier. There was also a defamation lawsuit against many different parties.
There were sees and assists being sent out.

Speaker 13 So, just for the purpose of that, we're going to be pretty careful with our wording.

Speaker 13 We're going to do our absolute best just to compile and aggregate the allegations made online, the netizen opinions, and even conspiracy theories online, so that you can come to your own personal opinion about this case.

Speaker 13 Any alternate theories, opinions, accusations are put forth by either parties involved or by netizens I found online, their comments, and people that have made everything public.

Speaker 13 Like everything is publicly available. These are not representative of our own opinions regarding this case.

Speaker 13 And a small disclaimer here: if we show any sort of documents, if there's any annotations, highlights, question marks next to those, those have been done by whoever originally uploaded the document.

Speaker 13 So that was not done by the Rotten Mango team.

Speaker 13 Additionally, one other quick thing: there are lengthy, lengthy social media posts, lengthy podcasts, lengthy interviews, and an even lengthier defamation lawsuit that was filed in civil court.

Speaker 13 If there is a statement that I'm reading by quote, again, these are all publicly available information, but some of them have been condensed for brevity without losing the original purpose of the exact statement.

Speaker 13 So with that being said, let's get into the recap. There's really no effective way to recap what happened in part one.

Speaker 13 So please go watch that video or those podcasts first, but I'm going to give you just a timeline refresher.

Speaker 13 In 2013 angie and aaron solomon go through an exhausting divorce angie accuses aaron of trying to kill her aaron accuses angie of spreading lies and trying to self-exit and then blame it on him and trying to defame him as well as brainwash the kids to turn them against him their own dad angie's own father testifies against her and that becomes a huge point of contention in the whole divorce proceedings it is an exhaustive legal battle.

Speaker 13 Angie and Aaron continue to fight over custody after 2013 with Angie claiming and alleging, along with their daughter, Gracie Solomon, that their father, Aaron, has been abusing Gracie ever since she was a little girl, primarily essaying her during bath times.

Speaker 13 That is the primary allegation. There have been multiple open child services investigations against these allegations, and they have been closed without any significant findings.

Speaker 13 Does that mean that the abuse never happened? That's not what I'm saying.

Speaker 13 A lot of the time, CPS or DFACS or DCS will close investigations just because they're overworked, understaffed, or sometimes you just get a social worker who just doesn't care. And that's all you get.

Speaker 13 That's it. So it doesn't mean that these things didn't happen, but there are multiple open and shut investigations that have found, I guess,

Speaker 13 no damning evidence against Aaron Solomon.

Speaker 13 There are other big allegations placed upon Aaron Solomon, such as essay against Gracie, physical abuse against Angie, as well as potentially a human trafficking, sex trafficking ring that involves megachurch leaders, the governor of Tennessee, a senator of Tennessee, as well as Gracie being a victim of that ring herself.

Speaker 13 So this is all happening after the divorce. Then in 2020, a few weeks after Grant Solomon turns 18, he passes away.
At this point, Gracie is 13, so Gracie is their only remaining child left.

Speaker 13 And now one version of the story of Grant's death is that now that he was 18, he wanted to get custody of Gracie and expose his dad for everything that he's done.

Speaker 13 The other version is that the truck rolled down the hill, rolling him over before landing in the ditch and killing him.

Speaker 13 A year after that, in 2021, Gracie, the 14-year-old remaining Solomon child, posts a YouTube video exposing her dad Aaron and claiming that her dad has killed her older brother.

Speaker 13 Then in 2025, this year, Angie Solomon is arrested for trying to hire a hitman to take down Aaron Solomon, her ex-husband.

Speaker 13 And it gets complicated because Aaron Solomon does have a potentially in the seven-figure range, at least a million-dollar trust fund that would go to Gracie.

Speaker 14 If he's dead.

Speaker 13 If he's dead.

Speaker 14 But we don't know the exact amount.

Speaker 13 Yeah, we don't know the exact amount. There's an incentive for both parties to either play it up or play it down.

Speaker 13 So even that's up for debate. Angie Solomon likes to insinuate that there's millions of dollars on the table.

Speaker 13 Aaron Solomon states that he only really received like a million dollars and most of it was already used.

Speaker 13 I think the reason that it gets confusing is once his aunt passed away, this this is his aunt's inheritance, she passes away, he gets a trust fund, and I think half of it was in land, land that he stated at least a few years ago that was not sold.

Speaker 13 So he's saying, I never sold the land, so I never realized any profits from the land. It's just there.
It's a sitting asset. I'm not liquid for that land.

Speaker 13 And then the other portion of it, he received in payments of $100,000 a month.

Speaker 13 So that makes it seem like he's receiving $100,000 a month every month for an undetermined amount of time, but it could have been two, three months. It could have been five months, right?

Speaker 13 It's up for debate. So with that recap, let's get started.

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Speaker 13 Divorces are the one thing where people consistently spend a lot of money. To spend a lot more money, there is no rationality behind a divorce.

Speaker 13 It's, hello lawyer, I would like to pay you $150,000 so that I don't have to pay my partner $50,000.

Speaker 13 Or, hello, lawyer, I'm going to secretly try and commit tax fraud amongst other federal crimes, just so I don't have to give money to my partner because being with my partner feels like I'm being in prison.

Speaker 13 Yes, I understand doing all of this could put me in real prison. That's completely besides the point.
That's not even what I'm talking to you about.

Speaker 13 One divorce attorney says, the craziest request I ever got was a client was asking me to get her half the shampoo bottles she left behind in the family home. She was kicked out of the house.

Speaker 13 I asked her under the sink, like, where are the shampoo bottles? And she said, no, the shampoo bottles in the shower. There's two to three bottles in there.

Speaker 13 There's about half of half the bottles are full. I want half of each remaining half.

Speaker 14 And she's trying to be petty about it, right?

Speaker 12 Yeah. Okay.

Speaker 13 So two to three bottles in the shower.

Speaker 12 They're half empty already.

Speaker 13 And then she wants half of each half.

Speaker 13 I ended up telling her that she paid me $50

Speaker 13 just to read, receive, and respond to this email, and I will waive the $50 if she just takes that $50 to CVS and gets some goddamn shampoo herself.

Speaker 13 Another says, doorknobs. It was a regular house.
No sentimental. They were not special bronze doorknobs, brass doorknobs.
It was a regular builder-grade home, regular doorknobs.

Speaker 13 Yeah, they fought over it. I offered to buy them new doorknobs if they would just settle.
It was bad. Obviously, some people say it's not about the shampoo.
It's not about the doorknobs.

Speaker 13 It's about pure spite and winning. One post online reads, a divorce lawyer told the story of a rather well-to-do couple.

Speaker 13 They spent months and months and tens of thousands of dollars fighting over absolutely everything,

Speaker 13 all the way down to a single ceramic ashtray. I can't remember the significance of it, but I think it came from the family's husband's family's side.
I don't know.

Speaker 13 But even after everything that had been decided, they spent many more months and I think they totally spent $100,000 fighting over a singular ashtray.

Speaker 13 Then after a court hearing, the wife finally won the ashtray.

Speaker 13 She promptly strode out to the white courthouse steps and smashed the ceramic ashtray, left the pieces all over for the husband on his way out to see all of it.

Speaker 12 That is crazy. Yeah.
Wow.

Speaker 13 But it doesn't just stop there because it's not about about an ashtray, right? Another husband, he left his wife's prized koi fish on their doorstep of their house to die.

Speaker 13 She was so distraught, she couldn't come to court. He killed six of her fish.
There's never a dull or a happy day in family court because everything has a deeper emotional reasoning.

Speaker 13 Obviously, it's not just about an ashtray. It's not just revenge.
It's not just about fish. It's about being an abusive animal killer.
But you get it.

Speaker 13 Nobody really gets divorced over what they say they're getting divorced over, like a bathtub. or Tim McGraw, the country singer.

Speaker 13 One Reddit post reads, I went to school with this girl. She married this really rich guy in Ohio, moves in with him in Ohio.
They seem to be getting along.

Speaker 13 Six months later, out of the blue, she files for divorce. Up until that point, all I heard from her was how well it was going.

Speaker 13 Anyways, turns out, you know, our little buddy had a fetish for getting off on pee. He asked her to pee on him in the tub.

Speaker 13 At first, she agreed to it because she thought it was like a one-time thing, but he kept asking for it more and more and she tried to decline it respectfully by saying, you know,

Speaker 13 the bathtub's too small, it's too cramped. So next day she comes home to two dozen construction workers and heavy equipment tearing the bathroom walls in for a new bathtub.

Speaker 13 A week or so later they finish up the bathroom with a brand new giant bathtub. She comes home to a sign left on the fridge with a note to drink up she's got some watering to do.

Speaker 13 I don't know what she put down as the official reason for the divorce, but it's definitely the bathtub. Some would argue, it's not the bathtub.
It's what he wanted to do in the bathtub.

Speaker 13 It's never the bathtub. Just like how Angie Solomon and Aaron Solomon don't get divorced over Tim McGraw, the country singer.
If the whole point is to make Angie look crazy in court, it is working.

Speaker 13 Whether it is true or not, it's up for debate. But Angie's dad testifies against her, but so does her longtime friend.

Speaker 13 She gives a declaration to the judge and she details a very specific situation that she's had with Angie. Do you know Tim McGraw?

Speaker 13 He's a country singer and he happens to be married to another huge country singer, Faith Hill.

Speaker 14 Is this divorce hearing or is this for what is this is later?

Speaker 13 Okay, so Angie is trying to appeal a lot of the judge's prior decisions of custody being placed 77% in Aaron.

Speaker 13 And Aaron is fighting it back and a lot of people are siding with Aaron, such as this alleged former friend of Angie, who writes a declaration to the judge and is like, I need to tell you about Angie.

Speaker 13 She's not who you think she is.

Speaker 14 So this is between 2013 and 2020 or 2025.

Speaker 12 Oh, okay, okay.

Speaker 13 And then he also uses this declaration in a defamation lawsuit later in 2023.

Speaker 12 I see. The friends.

Speaker 13 Yes. Okay.
Well, the friend said, you know, that Angie told her Tim McGraw was going to leave his wife, Faith Hill, to be with Angie.

Speaker 13 Angie's friend writes a declaration and says, Angie claimed that Tim McGraw was singing to her at the concert, specifically, obviously staring into her eyes and, quote, hitting on her.

Speaker 13 She was furious at Aaron because he didn't confront Tim McGraw about this. She also told me that Tim McGraw and Faith Hill were getting a divorce because he was so interested in her.

Speaker 13 Of course, the McGraws did not get a divorce, and I believe Angie made the whole thing up. Angie is potentially having a your name moment at a Tim McGraw concert.

Speaker 13 Maybe she was kidding, maybe this never happened, but in the court court system, it's not looking good for Angie. She's not getting a good look from this former friend's declaration.

Speaker 13 Nor is it a good look that her dad more or less tells the judge that he would not be comfortable if Angie was inside of his house and he was falling asleep.

Speaker 13 He says he would not be comfortable if his daughter was there while he's asleep. I mean, nobody asked for that kind of example, but damn, he's giving them.

Speaker 13 He's telling the judge, I'm going to tell you about her condition because I love my daughter. However, she's a compulsive liar.
I cannot have a conversation with my daughter.

Speaker 13 I never look forward to my daughter calling me, although I love to hear her voice and I love when she tells me about the actions of the kids.

Speaker 13 I can never expect to have a conversation with her unless there's some untruth that's going to be told, unless something is going to be stretched.

Speaker 13 He tells the judge that Angie can never not tell a lie. She's never been able to tell the truth, which again, this is the same dad that she filed an order of protection against.

Speaker 13 So we don't know how accurate or how trustworthy his observations are. Meanwhile, most of Angie's doctors all state that she's perfectly capable of being a good and fit mother.

Speaker 13 They do not see her ever being a danger to her kids or living in a false reality. At least that's what's been reported thus far.

Speaker 13 Side note, even in 2021, a Nashville EMT comes forward and states that he responded to a call to the Solomon family house years ago.

Speaker 13 He says he remembers when he got there, Nashville Police Department were already at the scene. They had gone into the house, so the EMTs were mainly standby outside.

Speaker 13 He was familiar with Aaron Solomon. He had seen him around the neighborhood, probably on the news.
He was always cordial, and it was the same energy that night.

Speaker 13 Aaron Solomon comes out, very cordial, very polite with the EMTs.

Speaker 13 He's telling them, perhaps even apologizing for his wife's actions, stating that his wife is clearly mentally ill and causing all this trouble.

Speaker 14 What are they there for exactly?

Speaker 13 A domestic dispute.

Speaker 12 Oh.

Speaker 13 Now, Angie, Solomon, and the two children exit the house, and Aaron's demeanor quickly changes.

Speaker 13 According to this EMT, he became red in the face and and his facial expression showed that he was very angry, very agitated, and it was very obvious that Aaron was filled with rage.

Speaker 13 He stated that he recalled that Aaron made a few steps towards Angie but was stopped by the Nashville Police Department.

Speaker 13 Furthermore, the EMT allegedly states that it was pretty clear to him and to all of his colleagues who the instigator of this incident was and they're all thinking that it was Aaron.

Speaker 14 So Angie's friend and father is pointing finger at Angie, but this EMT and their colleagues are saying Aaron is the problem during those fights.

Speaker 13 But I mean, you know, a lot of people have been disputing this EMT's version of events because he only came forward a year after Grant Solomon's death.

Speaker 13 And a lot of the coverage after and during Grant Solomon's passing in 2020 was very anti-Aaron.

Speaker 13 So some people are wondering if, because this allegedly happened years ago, could he really have such a strong memory of this random couple? And is it accurate?

Speaker 13 And they're calling to the fact that a lot of eyewitness testimonies are never really accurate, not because people are trying to be deceitful. It's just humans are not that smart.

Speaker 13 We're not as smart as we think we are.

Speaker 13 But others are arguing, no, like I've been an EMT, not me, but like others are arguing, I've been an EMT. And trust me, like you remember certain people and they're just like singed into your brain

Speaker 13 for whatever reason. I mean, sometimes it's not even like the biggest, craziest call that you get.
Sometimes it's just like, I know that guy from church.

Speaker 13 And so this is going to be singed into my memory whether I like it or not. But more importantly, a lot of Angie's doctors are stating that she's perfectly well and healthy.

Speaker 13 So why doesn't the judge believe her?

Speaker 13 According to Angie, a former court-appointed guardian for the kids say, it is my firm belief that Erin used wealth and personal connections to win favorable decisions to the detriment of their daughter Gracie, Grant, and Angie Solomon, leaving them open to harassment, sexual, mental, and emotional abuse, and leading to the untimely death of Grant Solomon.

Speaker 14 Who is this core appointed guardian?

Speaker 13 Yeah, okay, so this is like someone who would become the kid's guardian very temporarily while custody is getting resolved. And this particular one has remained anonymous.

Speaker 13 But Angie has posted a letter showing that this was written to the judge. I don't know if it was written to the judge.
I don't know if it was submitted.

Speaker 13 Technically, anyone could put letter ahead and write whatever they want.

Speaker 13 I do think it's difficult because, on one hand, you can understand why someone is wanting to stay anonymous in a situation like this. But on the other hand, it definitely doesn't add credibility.

Speaker 13 The former at GAL says that it's all because Aaron has money, millions of dollars that he has inherited from his aunt after she passed away.

Speaker 13 Coupled with the right connections, Aaron Solomon can, some people believe and allege. That means he can just do anything he wants.
I mean, just about.

Speaker 13 Angie believes that Aaron is part of the good old boys club at Grace Chapel in Franklin, Tennessee. This is a church, boys protecting boys type of church.

Speaker 13 Angie says, all the most powerful people in the state attend this church and they sit right next to Aaron Solomon and it's all a boys club.

Speaker 13 Governor Bill Lee of Tennessee attends that same very church.

Speaker 13 Governor Lee was actually recently in the news for refusing to touch state reserves, a $2 billion rainy day fund for the entire state of Tennessee.

Speaker 13 He refused to touch it to help cover low-income working parents who lost SNAP during the government shutdown. So there's that.

Speaker 13 A lot of the influential judges, including Judge Johnson, one of the judges that ruled in favor of primary custody going towards Aaron instead of Angie, she goes to that church.

Speaker 13 Her husband, who happens to be Senator Jack Johnson, a senator from Tennessee, also goes to that church. Grace Chapel in Franklin, Tennessee is considered a mega church.

Speaker 13 On a typical Sunday service, they have about 3,500 attendees at their service.

Speaker 13 And according to Angie, Aaron, the governor, the judge, the senator, they're all good buddies with the main founding pastor of the church, Steve Berger.

Speaker 13 Steve Berger is no longer a pastor at Grace Chapel. He was the founding pastor, but there was church drama because there's always church drama.
I think religion is beautiful.

Speaker 13 I think organized religion within fighting within the organization is very ugly. Steve Berger is also a little bit terrifying.
He has now gone into politics.

Speaker 13 Which is, you know, I think everyone can have their own opinion about what it means to be religious while also being involved in how the state is run.

Speaker 13 But Steve Berger has publicly stated that his goal is to disciple members of Congress so that what they learn is then translated into policy. No separation of church and state is his entire dream.

Speaker 12 Yeah.

Speaker 13 And it appears that there are connections with him and a congressman who wants to get rid of the second term rule for presidents, meaning a president can only serve two terms.

Speaker 13 So there's a lot of connections there. Probably a lot of money because it's a megachurch.
A lot of money. And they're actually sending out seasoned assists.
So

Speaker 13 I love a good seasoned assist from a church. That's like one of my favorite types of seasoned desist because something about it, I'm like, I don't know.
It just like riles me up.

Speaker 13 Maybe it's my religious trauma. But anyway, what does that have to do with Angie? Angie claims that allegedly Judge Johnson ruled in favor of Aaron.

Speaker 13 She, and this is a huge allegation, but this judge would have discussions about all of her cases with the church pastor, Steve Berger. This is what Angie is alleging.

Speaker 13 And Steve Berger is allegedly close with Aaron Solomon. So he would tell her, you know, God is with Aaron.
So maybe you should rule against Angie.

Speaker 13 That's kind of the allegation at hand. I don't know if that's accurate.
I don't know.

Speaker 13 I don't even know how the structure of a megachurch works, if like the founding pastor even hangs out with any of the congregation.

Speaker 13 It all feels like some bigger coordinated effort is what Angie is saying. And it is very strange.
She states that people at the church never paid her any attention. Nobody cared about her.

Speaker 13 But then suddenly, the night of Grant's memorial service, members of the Grace Chapel Church, quote, inserted themselves into my house. And she's stating that they barged into her house.

Speaker 13 And they're desperately trying to convince her that Grant died from having abdominal injuries to his organs and that there was hemorrhaging in his stomach.

Speaker 13 She basically states more or less that they're trying to gaslight her into believing that Grant Solomon died naturally from this accident.

Speaker 13 With an Instagram post reading on the Freedom for Gracie Instagram, why did these people from Grace Chapel keep trying so hard to gaslight Angie about what happened to her son?

Speaker 13 Why does Grace Chapel keep appearing at Angie's door or in her text messages the week of Grant's death and weeks after? They never wanted to help Grant, Gracie, or Angie in the years before. Why now?

Speaker 13 Why in this way? Because the good old boys club protect the good old boys club. Some people argue, or it could just be a mega church.

Speaker 13 And typically with mega churches, I used to go to church back in the day.

Speaker 13 And, like, the one thing about mega churches and why people are kind of interested in going to them is there's not as much of a community built around it.

Speaker 13 So, it's not everybody knows everybody's business.

Speaker 13 And so, it could very well be that nobody really talked to Angie until they found out someone from the congregation or someone from the church had this tragic accident happen to their son.

Speaker 13 And so, now they're actively reaching out because that's maybe what God would want them to do. I don't know, right? I don't know.

Speaker 13 There is that argument out there floating around, but the theory of the good old boys club changes in the degree of severity. There's like a light, medium, dark version, the light version.

Speaker 13 Some people believe good old boys club, there really is no good old boys club. That insinuates there's some sort of conspiracy, there's some sort of organized effort, and there really isn't.

Speaker 13 It's just men protecting men typically from allegations of abuse. It's less of a coordinated effort to make sure Aaron is found not guilty, but more so internal misogynistic biases.

Speaker 12 Our good friend Aaron from the church?

Speaker 13 He could not do such a thing. Like, not our Aaron.
We've been going to church with Aaron for years. We would have known if he was doing something like that.
No, our judgment is perfectly great still.

Speaker 13 There's no way. Angie, however, I always knew she was a little cuckoo.
I never really even talked to her. She barely comes to church.

Speaker 13 They believe it's just coming from people who are probably very powerful in the church. And a lot of them, in Nettizen netizen opinion, are not good people.

Speaker 13 However, are they really going to help Aaron in particular?

Speaker 13 It's probably just this internal bias that they have. A lot of these netizens that believe in this theory think Aaron's not even part of the elite.

Speaker 13 I mean, it's unclear how much Aaron Solomon is worth. According to a few transcripts, probably

Speaker 13 one to two million dollars, which is a substantial amount, but it's not I'm going to DC and swaying congressman amount.

Speaker 13 It's not lobbying and taking a private jet to the tech industry to lobby something. You know, it's just, it's okay to these people.
So would they really protect him?

Speaker 13 No, it's probably just a matter of, oh, I know that guy from church. No, he's a nice guy.
And Angie, she seems a little crazy. And like, where's the evidence? I don't see any evidence.

Speaker 13 So we're going to rule in favor of him.

Speaker 13 The next level up, like the medium conspiracy, is that Aaron knows something about these very powerful people and they are working together to make sure that he's happy so he doesn't tell anyone what he knows.

Speaker 13 Why would Aaron know anything? Well, he goes to the church. Maybe he's got eyes and ears.
Maybe he just happened to be at the right place at the right time. Or he previously worked as a news anchor.

Speaker 13 Perhaps he came across information on Tennessee's finest and greatest people that would make it harder for them to get re-elected, make it harder for them to make a bigger step into Washington.

Speaker 13 Now, a few things about this particular theory I will note is Aaron Solomon was not a big name in the news world. You know, he was mainly a sports anchor, not a super well-known one at that.

Speaker 13 He was not on ESPN covering the Super Bowl. He was just a local sports anchor and then a local morning news host for the local TV.

Speaker 13 It's very rare that these anchors are privy to such sensitive information about the elite, especially when you're not at the top.

Speaker 13 Like, I would think, like, the nation's handful of top anchors maybe know a little too much. And that might be it.

Speaker 13 I mean, these are incredible positions, incredible opportunities.

Speaker 13 I'm not discounting anything about his career trajectory, but I'm just saying I don't think that that would naturally put him in a position to gain any blackmail material or any sort of high-level information on these people.

Speaker 13 However, he could have just been at the right place, at the right time, whether it be at work or whether it be at the church.

Speaker 13 Then we have the dark theory, the most intense theory, the severity of the allegations of this one being incredibly high, if true.

Speaker 13 At one point, Angie claims that these guys all run a sex trafficking ring in Tennessee, that they're all involved, stating that Aaron trafficked his own daughter, Gracie, to these people.

Speaker 13 On the Freedom for Gracie website, on the Angie's About Me page, it reads, over the next decade, Angie would go on to battle not only her ex-husband, but a corrupt court system, a cult-like private school, and a church with connections to the highest offices in the country.

Speaker 13 I don't know if any of these allegations are true. And also, two things could be true and three things could be true at once.

Speaker 13 So I don't know how connected all of these different facts are, but here's where it does get weird.

Speaker 13 According to Grant's girlfriend at the time, Hannah, and a lot of his other friends, Grant had set up a meeting with the founding pastor, Steve Berger, the main pastor, to talk about how his dad Aaron had been abusive towards him.

Speaker 12 Really?

Speaker 13 Yes.

Speaker 14 This is pretty confirmed by like third parties.

Speaker 13 Yeah, I understand some people's skepticism against Angie.

Speaker 13 I understand some people's skepticism, not against Gracie, because I think that ultimately, whichever way you spin it, whichever way, if Erin is bad or if Angie is bad or both of them are bad, ultimately, Grant and Gracie are the victims in this story, regardless, right?

Speaker 13 Some people do have skepticism towards what Angie is also alleging with Gracie.

Speaker 13 Because some people are saying that she could be manipulating Gracie or brainwashing Gracie or making Gracie say these things.

Speaker 13 Some people point to Gracie's YouTube video saying that she doesn't look comfortable. Some people say these don't sound like words that a 14-year-old uses.

Speaker 13 The fact that she's reading off of a paper, her body language, she's glancing off camera at times. People are all using that to try and say that Angie is brainwashing Gracie into saying these things.

Speaker 13 So regardless, I think when it comes from a third party who really has

Speaker 13 nothing to gain from saying anything,

Speaker 13 it's interesting.

Speaker 13 Now, Grant's girlfriend at the time, Hannah, she has corroborated that Grant never really talked much about his dad, but when he did, he just never really seemed to want to go to his dad's place.

Speaker 13 She remembered there was one time he was crying in the car because he just didn't like the idea of going to his dad's house. So he didn't.

Speaker 13 And he was always oddly very protective of Hannah around his own dad, which he thought was interesting.

Speaker 13 But she states that Grant had an appointment with Steve Berger and was going to tell him about the abuse that his dad was inflicting. Steve Berger says no such thing ever happened.

Speaker 13 Indeed, Grant did set up a meeting with him, but it was just to talk about how he can get closer to God.

Speaker 13 Steve Berger apparently states in a video, a sermon video, you just never get a ninth grader making an appointment with you to talk about Jesus as a crusty old gray-haired preacher.

Speaker 13 But Grant did, and he sat in my office for well over an hour. He just wanted to know how he could draw closer to Christ.
And it stands out to me.

Speaker 14 This was after his passing?

Speaker 12 Yeah.

Speaker 13 I mean, clearly even Steve thought it was weird that this ninth grader was like, I just want to talk to you about how to get closer to God.

Speaker 13 So a lot of netizens are saying, yeah, maybe it's weird because that's never what happened.

Speaker 13 Steve thought it was weird. Netizens think it's weird.

Speaker 13 They all think it's part of some bigger cover-up because Gracie in her video claims that she told the school, she told the church, nobody did anything about it. Also, the church and the school.

Speaker 13 I'm going to be very careful with my wording here. They're not legally affiliated.
They are two different legal entities.

Speaker 14 What school? The school she goes to?

Speaker 13 Yeah, so Grant and Gracie go to a Christian private school, Grace Christian Academy. And the church is called Grace Chapel Church or Grace Chapel, right? They're legally two different entities.

Speaker 13 They have two separate governing bodies for both organizations. It's like if...

Speaker 14 What's the connection, though, besides the name? Are they run by...

Speaker 13 Oh. It seems like they're connected.

Speaker 13 It seems like if Nike were to come up with a drinks brand and call it Nike Coffee, but they created a new LLC, a new corporation for Nike Coffee, and they've got a different board of directors for Nike Coffee.

Speaker 13 But I mean, legally speaking, I guess they're two different entities, but like technically,

Speaker 13 the affiliation is very strong.

Speaker 12 Right, right, right. Yeah, the

Speaker 12 right, okay.

Speaker 13 So Gracie is saying that the church and the school, they never did anything about it. Grant's girlfriend at the time is saying that Grant probably told Steve about it and Steve didn't do anything.

Speaker 13 So what's going on? What are they hiding? Why would the church not just go to the police? Why would they not investigate? Why would they not do anything? Because it's a church.

Speaker 13 Aren't they supposed to stand against stuff like this?

Speaker 12 Yeah, but also the police?

Speaker 12 Hello? Yeah.

Speaker 13 Now, Grace Chapel Church eventually releases their own statement against these allegations that reads in part, recently a 14-year-old girl posted a video on social media platforms about alleged abuse that she had experienced in her family.

Speaker 13 We just can't imagine how difficult it must be for that young woman to be caught in the middle of a custody battle with her parents while also dealing with the tragic death of her brother.

Speaker 13 Since the original video, a variety of websites, blogs, articles, and social media posts have spread information maligning Grace Chapel, Grace Christian Academy, and our founding pastor, Steve Berger.

Speaker 13 The church notes: to clarify, the three parties, the church, the academy, and Steve Berger's ministry are, quote, are all separate legal organizations with separate oversight and missions.

Speaker 13 Which again, if you have to word it like that, it just means that there must be some level of entanglement, perhaps even just socially, because the wording is very precise, that there are three separate legal organizations with separate oversight.

Speaker 13 But the church continues with their clarification by stating, considering the number of false accusations being made, we felt it would be important to clarify a few things so that our church family could understand Grace Chapel's involvement and how to pray for this situation.

Speaker 13 There were never any allegations by anyone that any abuse took place at Grace Chapel or that it involved any Grace Chapel volunteers or employees.

Speaker 13 The allegations of abuse in 2018 was between a divorced couple regarding their own child and had nothing to do with Grace Chapel.

Speaker 13 There has been false reporting that Steve Berger, when he was serving as Grace Chapel's senior pastor, had been informed about the abuse during a meeting that took place on May 7th, 2018 and did not report it to the proper authorities following that meeting.

Speaker 13 The claim that somehow Steve Berger knew of the abuse and didn't report it is categorically false.

Speaker 13 In fact, the alleged abuse had already been reported to the sheriff's office on May 4th, 2018, three days before the meeting with Stephen even took place.

Speaker 13 Grace Chapel has and will continue to make sure that any allegations of abuse are reported to the proper authorities.

Speaker 13 All of our staff and volunteers go through child safety training as well as background checks. Please join us in continuing to pray for this family.

Speaker 13 And if you have any questions, please reach out to us, Grace Chapel.

Speaker 13 Not really doing themselves any favors, the church also goes on to clarify something very weird, stating, in a recent article, there was also an issue that one of the family members who attends Grace Chapel is not a member of the church.

Speaker 13 It's important to note that Grace Chapel has a specific process for membership, and this individual, Aaron Solomon, has not gone through the process and is therefore not a member.

Speaker 13 But the church does go on to clarify that member or not, everyone is welcome. Membership is not a requirement for participation and fellowship within their church community.

Speaker 13 I will say that's a very strange thing to make distinctively clear for everybody considering there's pretty strong connections that Aaron at least attended the church with a high frequency on most Sundays, even taking pictures of himself at the church and then sending them to Gracie.

Speaker 13 Two Sundays in a row, he text pictures of himself at the church, writing to her, at church, thinking of you, love you, miss you, heart.

Speaker 13 Then the next Sunday, a picture of the church and an accompanying message. Pastor Steve mentioned Grant for the third Sunday in a row and preached about heaven today.
Hope you can watch it.

Speaker 13 Because, you know, it's a mega church. They like to upload their sermons onto YouTube and stuff.

Speaker 13 I don't know if the church is involved. I don't know if the church is not involved.
I also think that I have way too much religious trauma to even come to

Speaker 13 an appropriate conclusion without being tainted by my own anecdotal evidence and personal opinions, right? But I do think that the responses are just a little weird.

Speaker 13 I've met a lot of religious people. I've met a lot of people of faith.

Speaker 13 And regardless of the fact that of anything, really i don't think any of them would respond to such a sensitive topic and allegation in this manner it was just weird it was just weird

Speaker 13 and i think it just makes everything feel unsettling yeah

Speaker 13 it feels a little heartless even the way that they write about gracie feels a little bit heartless the way that they write about the family even if they are not involved even if they're being dragged online i think that there are better ways to go about it i would imagine more of a business entity, a corporation to respond in this apathetic, cold, legalese type of way.

Speaker 13 But anyway, that's just an opinion that has no indication of guilt or innocence. Yeah.
Now, on top of that, the church has also been sending out seasoned assist letters to creators.

Speaker 13 I don't think that I'll be on the receiving end of one. However, it would not be the first time.
It actually just like gets me more riled up. So there's a lot of people.

Speaker 14 Like they've been sending it to YouTubers and stuff.

Speaker 13 Yeah, they've been sending a lot of seasoned assists.

Speaker 12 Really? Yeah.

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Speaker 13 But it's just weird.

Speaker 13 Again, overexcited legal action is not a sign of guilt. I just personally think it's weird behavior.
Also, while we're at it though, I also think the school is weird.

Speaker 13 The school that both Grant and Gracie went to, Grace Christian Academy, they are again, again, I think, closely affiliated, even though they have separate legal and governing structures between the church, regardless.

Speaker 13 Gracie said at that age in her life when she was just figuring out what had happened to her and the abuse, she had nobody to talk to about the abuse.

Speaker 13 So she's talking to her friends at school, telling them what's happened to her. And the school tells her to stop.

Speaker 13 There's a video recording that has been posted on Freedom for Gracie, where it's school staff telling Gracie and Angie that a lot of the kids have been impacted by Gracie talking about what happened to her.

Speaker 12 Like the secret recorded? Yeah. Audio.

Speaker 13 Which side note, Gracie says, again, nobody would listen to her. The police won't listen to her.
Child services won't listen to her. The church won't listen to her.

Speaker 13 So like, who is she supposed to talk to about it? And she has so much trauma. So she's talking to her friends about it.
I mean, who else?

Speaker 13 And the school administrators are heard saying, even if she's dealing with adult things, I've had three parents over the weekend, and they're telling Angie.

Speaker 13 Call and said, my child came to me and asked, what is sexual abuse? So where is this coming from?

Speaker 13 So a lot lot of the kids are being affected by what she's going through and what she's telling people i get it i think it could be startling for some parents but also it could be a great time to teach your 13 14 year old kid about abuse and what to do if you witness abuse or if your friend tells you about abuse or if you become a victim of abuse or i don't know teach your kids not to abuse The school though, the tone they use makes it seem more like it's upsetting the parents, it's upsetting the kids.

Speaker 13 They're not ready to have this conversation, so let's not talk about it.

Speaker 13 The school administration then goes on to worry out loud about this becoming the talk of the school, saying for her sake, it isn't just about sixth grade for her. This is, you know what I mean?

Speaker 13 These are her peers all the way up. So I don't want something that's going to be detrimental to her.
That's going to, um, she's not thinking about the future.

Speaker 13 She's thinking of right now, but I'm thinking about the future and how this is going to follow her and her peers.

Speaker 13 And then I also have to think about what other students who are now having to deal with this.

Speaker 13 And not just from a school perspective, but as a mom who's raised daughters, I'm looking at Gracie's next six years, not just right now, and the things that are said and the opinions that are formed, and all of this is going to affect her freshman year, her junior year.

Speaker 13 So they're all just worried about her.

Speaker 14 So they heard at this point, the school, all these adults and all these, you know, people heard what happened to Grace because that's what she's telling everyone. And their concern is

Speaker 14 that's going to affect her future. That's going to affect everybody else's school life.

Speaker 13 Yeah, so I was able to dig really deep into some local like forums. I think it's confusing and conflicting.

Speaker 13 Interestingly enough, more people on a local scale in Tennessee seem to be more on Aaron's side.

Speaker 12 Hmm. Okay, tell me more.

Speaker 13 Now, Angie states that he waged a local campaign against her, spreading lies about her.

Speaker 12 Okay.

Speaker 13 And so that's why she had to take it public on social media to get the truth out there.

Speaker 13 But then other people locally are arguing that the teacher probably said it like this because the teacher doesn't believe the abuse happened and the teacher believes that Angie is brainwashing the daughter.

Speaker 13 So this is the teacher's way of saying you're brainwashing your daughter and now you don't even understand the implications. Like this is her life now.

Speaker 13 It's not just like a conversation she's having like this is going to impact her. I don't

Speaker 14 guess. Yes.
Yeah, I guess the feeling is like I feel very conflicted because I feel like we don't know the full picture, right? What truly happened.

Speaker 14 We obviously don't want to spread lies or whatever, but how what makes them believe that NG is lying, I guess? It's just so frustrating because the police are not investigating.

Speaker 14 But how do you know if this did it? 100% sure that this didn't happen. Do we know this? We don't know this, right?

Speaker 12 We don't know this.

Speaker 12 So I don't know.

Speaker 13 I also think,

Speaker 13 I also maybe being a police officer in this case, being a social worker, being the judge in this case is trickier.

Speaker 13 These are trickier things where there are massive implications to whether you close an investigation or how you rule in the court system because there are lifelong things like custody being held by one person or one person having supervised visitation.

Speaker 13 Like there are lots of implications. I think it's weird that a lot of these third parties, like the school, are being the judge, the judge, and the jury.

Speaker 13 If it were me, I don't think that that would be how I handle it.

Speaker 13 It's just okay, well, this is what's happening, and maybe it is a good time to talk to everybody about what to do if your friend is talking to you about abuse, or how to speak up after you feel like you have been a victim of abuse, how to not abuse people, like how to see the signs of abuse.

Speaker 13 I feel like that would be a great time to clearly focusing on the wrong thing.

Speaker 12 Like, what do you mean?

Speaker 14 Like, parent, like, they're freaking out. Like, yeah,

Speaker 14 shit happens. Like, there's bad things happen all day.
Like, you need to teach.

Speaker 12 Anyways.

Speaker 13 So, I think it's, you know, I think there are heavier implications for specific roles, and they need to try and give some sort of verdict.

Speaker 13 Like, the police, they need to have some sort of verdict in terms of closing a case or not. Same with social workers, same with the judge.
But when you're just

Speaker 13 at a school, I don't know why you have to decide that maybe Angie is lying, so maybe I should handle it this way.

Speaker 13 Furthering Angie's point, there are videos of Erin coming to school to pick up Gracie from school. And she

Speaker 13 Gracie has clearly told the administrators that her dad is abusing her, that she is terrified to go with her dad.

Speaker 13 And the tricky part is the judge has stated that she is to be placed in her dad's custody.

Speaker 13 So her dad's picking her up from school, and the headmaster is just telling Gracie that these allegations are old news and she's got to get in the car with her dad.

Speaker 13 It just gets so bad that the headmaster of the school puts out a video statement saying, Please come to us so that we can give you the truth.

Speaker 13 I always say that we're not going to believe everything that your kids tell us about you. So please don't believe everything that your kids say about us.

Speaker 12 What

Speaker 12 is going on?

Speaker 13 That seems to be kind of the way that they do things. I don't know.
I don't know. I guess it's just weird.
Again, there's no implication of guilt here through my wording.

Speaker 13 I'm just saying that, in my personal opinion, it's just a very weird situation.

Speaker 13 But when it comes to allegations that Angie has brought against Aaron there isn't as much concrete detailed evidence to the allegations as maybe a judge would want it doesn't mean that these things didn't happen but just the nature of a lot of assaults the nature of being essayed by someone allegedly by someone that is your guardian

Speaker 13 The whole point is to not leave evidence. The whole point is to not get caught.
So we don't really have much concrete evidence, but we do have heavily disputed pictures.

Speaker 13 Remember, we talked about the bruising on Gracie's upper thigh. Angie claims that it was from abuse.
Erin claims it was from a swimsuit. It's not clear.

Speaker 13 There's also another picture that Angie shows as evidence of Gracie's eyes. Her eye bags are super swollen.
She has dark circles.

Speaker 13 Angie claims that this is after Gracie was with her dad for an extended period of time. She would come back, and this was clearly a sign of abuse.
Now,

Speaker 13 It looks like she's having some sort of...

Speaker 13 I feel like my eyes have looked like this before. It's like some sort of really bad allergic reaction.
She did have eye surgery previously.

Speaker 13 I'm not sure what it was for, but there are mentions in a court transcript of Gracie having eye surgery and then moving into the primary bedroom with her parents for a while.

Speaker 13 So I don't know if this is from the eye surgery. I don't know if she's always had issues with her eyes.
So there's just been all of these heavily disputed pictures. So it's not even

Speaker 13 everything is disputed, is what I'm trying to say. So it's very hard to definitively say anything.
But one thing that seems less disputed is Grant Solomon's death.

Speaker 13 Most netizens think it's very suspicious. One netizen writes: I mean, this makes no sense.
Whoever is covering up this murder is an idiot. Everyone sees it, yet the justice system has done nothing.

Speaker 13 Erin Solomon should be rotting in a jail cell for first-degree murder.

Speaker 13 Another comment reads, Angie was railroaded in her case, and she had to jump through all these hoops to even just be able to see her children.

Speaker 13 The courts made her out to be a mad woman, completely crazy and unfit.

Speaker 13 Which is maybe maybe why Angie felt compelled to take matters into her own hands by trying to hire a hitman who happened to be an undercover agent.

Speaker 13 5.30 p.m. Friday night, Aaron gets a phone call.
It's not a number he recognizes, but he picks it up.

Speaker 12 Hello?

Speaker 13 It's the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.

Speaker 12 Are you home? No.

Speaker 13 Well, I've got a man at your door right now. Aaron says he already knows it's probably to do with Angie.

Speaker 13 He's explaining to the investigator that he's actually out of town, ironically, for a wedding, a celebration of love.

Speaker 13 Aaron says the investigators pretty bluntly just tell him, Well, since you're out of town, I'm just gonna go ahead and tell you, we arrested your ex-wife.

Speaker 13 She tried to hire someone to kill you, and she's being booked right now. Aaron says, in that moment, he just quote, I was in disbelief.
I was in shock.

Speaker 12 I was like, you gotta be kidding me.

Speaker 13 This is not real. This is not happening to me.
And since the divorce, Grant's death, and the subsequent social media discourse, Aaron has decided briefly to sue Angie and her friends.

Speaker 14 Angie's friends?

Speaker 12 Who are they?

Speaker 13 Yes, who are also helping her allegedly run social media accounts that are, you know, Freedom for Grace Eve's website, her Instagram.

Speaker 13 Some of them are posting on their personal pages, but for defamation.

Speaker 13 Erin's attorney argues in this defamation lawsuit that the defendants, Angie and her friends, are only concerned with destroying plaintiff and generating outrage on social media in an effort to raise money and sell products.

Speaker 13 While they have tried to paint themselves as noble defenders of free speech, in reality, this is a campaign of malicious bullying, cyber-stalking, generating clicks, and spreading lies.

Speaker 13 So there are three camps of people.

Speaker 13 One, who believe that Aaron is an abusive killer, and he found a way to make Angie seem crazy so that no one in the justice system believes her and he's getting away with not even just essaying his own daughter, but for killing his son who was trying to save his sister.

Speaker 14 I'm sorry. What happened to the defamation lawsuit?

Speaker 13 So he decided that he was not going to go through with it. He withdrew his defamation lawsuit.
Really? And I think the main reason is this was like a,

Speaker 13 I forgot how many pages that lawsuit was. It was a lot of pages and there was so many exhibits.
It was hundreds of pages.

Speaker 13 The whole point of a defamation lawsuit is to argue that you have lost a lot of money. There was no way to prove that he lost money.
And also the fact that he hired an attorney to put together this

Speaker 13 very

Speaker 13 heavy documentation. That's going to cost a lot of money.
Defamation lawyers, they don't do anything pro bono typically and they don't just like write a whole lawsuit and file it for free

Speaker 13 so i think it just would not have it would have just burned money

Speaker 13 so it again or he could have known that he's lying about being defamed right i don't know right you could spin it either way but just let's say benefit of the doubt it could be Just the money wasn't making sense.

Speaker 13 It could be also the fact that he knows that Angie maybe doesn't have money. So it's like, okay, you're spending all of this money.
Angie doesn't have money to give, even if you win.

Speaker 13 God. And if she's got nothing to lose, she could just make another account and keep posting about you.
And then you got to go through another quick. You know, it's...

Speaker 14 I see, I see. That makes sense.

Speaker 13 Or it could be the fact that he knows allegedly

Speaker 13 some things Angie claims could be true, could be the allegation, right?

Speaker 13 You know, everyone wants to see it a specific way, so you could see it all the ways. Now, you have the first camp of people who believe that Aaron is evil.

Speaker 13 Then you have the second camp of people that believe that Erin isn't particularly a great person, but Angie also seems to be very problematic.

Speaker 13 They believe that she's coming up with stories whether she believes it or not is unclear, but she's convincing her kids of these stories and turning them against their dad.

Speaker 13 Then you have the third camp of people. They believe both of them suck and both of them are abusive, probably in their own ways.

Speaker 13 They think that Erin is suspicious, especially in connection with Grant's passing, but they also believe that Angie is strange in the way that she's going about everything.

Speaker 13 So the three are, to put it simply, Erin is bad, Angie is bad, and both of them are bad. This is part three of the Solomon family series.

Speaker 13 Stay tuned for the final part, part four, because we do get a few more answers and we get a few more updates on the timeline of how things are progressing.

Speaker 13 But stay tuned, let me know your thoughts, and I'll see you in the next one.

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