She Said She Never Saw Them

Your first witness is not Rebecca Grossman. It is the Mercedes that stopped itself after the impact.

Rebecca says her airbag exploded and she has no idea what she hit.

Then you reach the crosswalk and learn what the car hit before its driver admits it.

Scott Erickson was driving the black Mercedes ahead of Rebecca.

Rebecca starts building her explanation around him.

So you return to the crosswalk.

Nancy hears two engines racing toward her family.

She grabs her youngest son and reaches the sidewalk.

Mark and Jacob are still behind her.

The black Mercedes passes.

Then Nancy looks back.

The white Mercedes is where her boys had been.

Seconds later, both children are gone from the crosswalk.

Mark is thrown far from the impact.

Jacob is found closer to the crossing.

Neither boy survives.

Rebecca keeps driving.

Her Mercedes stops only when its own safety system shuts it down.

Then Rebecca gives you another version.

Scott hit the boys first.

She says they were thrown into her path.

You inspect Scott’s black Mercedes.

No damage supports that story.

Rebecca’s white Mercedes is damaged.

A witness says she saw the white Mercedes strike the boys.

Then you find proof Rebecca had already been warned what speeding could do.

Seven years earlier, Rebecca was caught driving 91 in a 65.

The officer warned her that speeding could kill someone.

Now the jury hears that warning.

Then they see what her Mercedes recorded.

81 miles an hour.

On a road marked 45.

Rebecca keeps blaming Scott.

But his black Mercedes does not carry the damage her story needs.

Her white Mercedes does.

The jury returns.

Guilty.

Two counts of second degree murder.

Rebecca Grossman receives 15 years to life.

Nancy had been waiting years for something simpler.

Responsibility.

Mark was eleven. Jacob was eight.

Rebecca said she never saw them.

She could change her story.

The Mercedes could not change a single second.