MACOMB COUNTY, Mich. – Macomb County Prosecutor Erik Smith, acting on a Freedom of Information Act request from the media, released eight voicemail messages found on Tara Grant's cell phone just days after her disappearance.
Also on Tuesday, Local 4 obtained taped phone conversations between Grant and his family and friends while in jail.
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Jurors heard the voice mail messages during Stephen Grant's trial in December.
According to the voice mail messages, Grant called his already dead wife seven times on February 10 the day after he killed her.
"It's quarter after 2. I just want to know what the (expletive)'s going on. Um, I think you owe me and your kids at least - at the very least a (unintelligible). Um, call me. ... Just call and let me know what the hell's going on."
"Hey, I get that you're (expletive) at me. Please at least call your kids. It's ridiculous, Tara." he said in another message.
"Um, this is nonsense, Tara. You owe me a phone call. You owe me to let me know what the (expletive) is going on between us."
The messages continue. "I'll make it quick... I got cut off last time. (Unintelligible) have to be like between you and me over and over and over. We can do whatever you want. I don't care. You've just got to tell me you need... you owe your kids phone calls. They keep asking. Call. Bye."
Viewer Warning: Some of these messages contain profanity.
In the audio conversations released Tuesday, Grant and his sister Kelly Utykanski talk about issues ranging from public perception, to his unique eyes and uncertain future.
Kelly: "It's not like you're Jeffery Dahmer."
Stephen: "Yeah, but that's what I don't know. It just bugs me that people think I'm a monster."
Kelly: "Yeah, but most people don't, most people think it was a domestic dispute that got out of hand."
Stephen: "There's a good chance Kelly, I will never see the light of day. You don't understand -- it will be a 20-to-40-year sentence. That's forever."
Kelly told Grant they can spend their retirement together.
Grant told Kelly he didn't like the way his eyes looked on TV. Kelly comforted him by saying he had the crazy eyes, just like their mother.
Hours of conversations between Kelly, Grant's mother and friends were released.
Grant has been convicted of killing and dismembering his wife back in February 2007.
The prosecutor also released a note Grant sent to another inmate at the Macomb County Jail, Jennifer Kukla.
According to the letters, Grant suggested a "rendezvous" in a jail closet and bragged about his media coverage.
Officials said they exchanged notes under lunch trays while they were staying at the jail.
Kukla was convicted of killing her two young daughters, Alexander, 8, and Ashley, 5.
Kukla was accused of chasing her daughters with a kitchen knife inside their Macomb Township home. She told investigators at the time she heard voices telling her to do it.
She stabbed both girls several times in the throat.
She was found guilty but mentally ill.
Kukla gave the notes from Grant to jail officials before Grant's trial.
Police said Grant also wrote notes to Crystal Conklin, the woman charged with fatally beating her 2-year-old son.
Grant is scheduled to be sentenced for second-degree murder on Feb. 21.