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Former TV anchor allegedly targeted by ex. A professor's murder. Plus, Aileen Wuornos, in her own words.
30 Oct 2025
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Chapter 2: What allegations are being made against Angie Solomon?
He said the false allegations actually caused him to lose clients. A judge dismissed the case in March of 2022, saying that Aaron's filing didn't show that the campaign caused significant damage to his reputation or work.
Okay, Marianne, that's the backdrop, if you can believe it, of the alleged murder-for-hire scheme. So according to investigators, Angie was looking for someone to kill her husband. This was in April. She met up with undercover officers from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. How did all that play out? What happened?
Yeah, well, the undercover officers recorded a conversation with Angie in which she expressed her desire to have Aaron die a slow death and be put underground.
So what are investigators saying about a possible motive for this alleged arrangement, murder for hire arrangement?
Well, according to prosecutors that I'm hearing, the alleged motive would be largely a financial one. Angie supposedly told the undercover officers that Aaron's death would provide Gracie with access to a trust fund.
I'm curious, you know, I can't imagine receiving this kind of news, but how did Aaron react to news of his ex-wife's arrest?
Well, he spoke out on a podcast called The Good Grief, Good God Show and said he was scared and surprised by the alleged crime.
My heart sank and my heart rate went up like a million instantly. And I'm just like, I was in disbelief. I was in shock. Like it's everybody saying like, you're like a Dateline episode or something, but it's your life.
In so much, he's hoping, this is what he says, that this case will confirm his side of the story, that he had done nothing wrong in the marriage or certainly to his son.
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Chapter 3: How did the court react to Angie's abuse claims against Aaron Solomon?
And prosecutors argue that you can see Grayson getting angry at Massey and that she posed no threat to him. The defense began making their case this week, and on Monday, Grayson himself took the stand. He said he felt threatened by Massey, and he shot her in self-defense.
And we learned Wednesday afternoon that a jury found Sean Grayson guilty of second-degree murder. Massey's family gathered outside the courthouse after the verdict was delivered, and their lawyer gave a comment.
Was Sonia a threat? The unequivocal answer is no. She was not a threat. She was never a threat. And that's what was proven in this court.
Okay, Sue. Well, thanks so much for these updates.
Thank you, Lester. The real Eileen Wuornos is not a serial killer.
I was so lost that I turned into one.
You are listening to the voice of notorious serial killer Eileen Wuornos in a long-lost interview she did from behind bars on Florida's death row. And here's Wuornos in another interview talking to former Dateline correspondent Michelle Gillen.
I am innocent. It was self-defense.
The legal system didn't believe you.
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Chapter 4: What tragic event occurred involving the Solomon family in 2020?
Tell us about Eileen Wuornos. What drew you to this story?
It sort of is infamous. And there was something very kind of captivating and, dare I say, sort of charismatic and enigmatic about Eileen. And in doing the research, it was quite clear that there was a pretty like black and white view that people seemed to come on side. It was either she's a kind of cold-blooded murderer or she's this kind of hapless victim.
And I guess as a filmmaker, that's always quite attractive because as is so often in life, the truth kind of comes somewhere in the middle and she's such a sort of contradiction.
What's so interesting about this documentary is that the viewers get to see and hear directly from Eileen in the jailhouse interview, on the witness stand. Everybody would have believed that I had to defend myself. They would have said, you're a prostitute, we don't care. Did you learn any more about this woman and why she committed these crimes hearing her speak?
So the kind of original kind of germ of the idea for making this film was we got access to an Australian artist called Jasmine Hurst who had...
done an interview with Eileen as a result of a 10-year relationship of writing to each other and that had never been I think had never been seen before and it was such an interesting and sort of in many ways strange interview because it was a with a friend and she was yeah it was kind of Eileen in her own words and I went on this huge journey with how I felt about Eileen from from watching that interview and seeing a really human side of her after the rapes that's a mess up in it
To, you know, watching her on the stand in the only trial she had where she speaks in incredible detail about sexual assault. It's really harrowing to, you know, the interview with Jasmine where she talks and almost starts laughing about the murders. And I sort of would catch myself thinking, oh, well, I've changed my mind. Last week I thought this and now I feel like that.
And I really wanted the viewer and the audience to kind of have a similar journey.
Her troubles started, it sounds like, long before she even became a sex worker.
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