Local 4 News and ClickOnDetroit.com have obtained Stephen Grant's confession.

The following text is of graphic nature and may be disturbing.

Grant is accused of murdering and dismembering his wife, Tara Grant, in February.

In the confession, Grant explains to investigators the alleged events that led up to the slaying and dismemberment of Tara Grant.

From a hospital bed more than 200 miles from the home he fled, Stephen Grant told police why, how and where he strangled and mutilated his wife, Tara, according to documents released Friday by prosecutors.

According to documents, Grant said he and his wife were arguing in their suburban Detroit house in early February over what he said were her frequent work trips.

She walked away, he said, and he grabbed her wrist. Tara Grant then slapped him in the face, causing a scratch to his nose.

Stephen Grant told police he then hit his wife hard in the head and she fell to the floor.

Tara Grant told her husband that she would call the police, and he would go to jail for striking her, according to the account. The end result, he claims she said, would be that he would lose custody of the couple's two young children.

Stephen Grant told police that he then began to choke his wife. He said he covered her face with a gray-colored shirt or pair of underwear.

"She finally grabbed my hand at one point, but it was too late then and I couldn't stop," he said, according to the police report. "I knew I was going to prison. I panicked."

Stephen Grant said his children never woke up during the nighttime altercation.

The account is part of 250 pages of information released after numerous Freedom of Information Act requests and motions by Grant's defense attorneys to suppress personal information about him, including what authorities have called his "graphic" confession.

Grant, 37, who had escaped the Macomb County house he shared with 34-year-old Tara Grant until her Feb. 9 disappearance as police began to search it, was recovering from frostbite and hypothermia after being captured in a wilderness area at the tip of Michigan's Lower Peninsula.

He is in the county jail awaiting a May 15 preliminary hearing on charges of murder and mutilation of a corpse.

Stay tuned to Local 4 News at 4 p.m., as well as 5 and 6 p.m. for complete coverage of what is detailed in the confession.

ClickOnDetroit.com will post the complete confession.