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It's 8 a .m. on an unseasonably warm Halloween at Morse's Pond, a quiet oasis
the middle of the city.
It's a beautiful place, this walking trail, the swimming area.
People would go to walk their dogs, meditate.
Just a quaint little area in town that most people would never associate with
anything bad happening.
But today, it has.
Oh, my God.
Hey, you got a cell phone? No, man, sorry.
At 8 .56 a .m., the Wellesley Police Department receives a desperate call
local resident Dirk Greiner.
I think
the residents were very concerned and scared.
Wellesley hadn't had a homicide in over 30 years.
By most accounts, Dirk and May Grinader are living a charmed life, the
embodiment of blue blood pedigrees, private education, hard work, and
Dirk Grinader grew up in Germany.
At the end of World War II, his family left Germany. He went to Yale
and then he went to Case Western Reserve in Ohio, where he earned a double
doctorate. In addition to being an M .D., he also earned his Ph .D.
That's where he met May. May was a nursing student there.
May completes her master's degree and becomes an assistant professor.
Soon after marrying Dirk, she puts her career on hold to start a family.
She was a very, very proper person. She was proud of her husband. She tried to
do things the best that she possibly could.
Dirk and May were each other's best friends. They were their soulmates.
They were very type A personalities, and they were very, very high achievers.
When Dirk lands a prestigious position at the Robert B. Brigham Hospital in
Boston, the family settles down in Wellesley, 13 miles east.
Wellesley's a very affluent community. A lot of the captains of industry, well
-to -do people live there. It's a very highly educated town, probably one of
nicest zip codes in Massachusetts.
In this sheltered enclave, Dirk and May raise three children, Kirsten, Britt,
and Colin.
Even though they're all grown, the family still comes together often,
when mom's cooking one of her German specialties. All right, daddy's
Looks good, honey.
Thank you. Very nice. The kids were phenomenal students, phenomenal
very tight -knit family.
The eldest daughter and the youngest son were MDs. They all had gone to very
well -respected universities.
They were well -educated, fairly accomplished in their lives.
Hello, Kirsten.
How's the internship going?
It's going great, Dad. The overnight shift is a little tough, but I'm getting
used to it. Very good.
When you look at the three children, those were the kind of kids that you
your kids would be like.
Certainly, all three children went to Yale like their father did.
Dirk is known worldwide for his research on childhood asthma.
Dirk Reiner was a brilliant doctor.
People would travel from all over the country to come see him. He was a very
busy doctor. He was seeing patients.
He was doing a lot of medical seminars. He was traveling all around the country.
Where are you going next, Dad?
I'm going to Chicago.
Chicago?
I'm actually the featured speaker on air pollution and the effects it has on
pediatrics. Even with his busy schedule, friends say Dirk and May have
maintained an extraordinarily close marriage.
So they seem very much tied at the hip, very much in love, best friends, a match
made in heaven.
They wouldn't make a decision without the other one's consultation, and they
everything together as a family.
Life appears boundless for the couple of 31 years, and in October 1999, they
learn they have something special to look forward to.
I'm engaged.
It appeared to be the perfect family in a perfect neighborhood, in the perfect
town in Massachusetts.
Keeping up appearances is clearly important to this family.
And it's not always easy. Well, I'm sorry Joe can't be here. I know, I know.
wanted to be, but... Honey,
I gotta go.
I got an emergency at the hospital.
I'm so sorry.
Good luck. Bye.
While her husband keeps his usual grueling hours at the hospital, May goes
to school to become a nurse practitioner and gets a makeover.
May was at a point in her life where she didn't have to worry about her children
so much anymore. She had bought some Victoria's Secret underwear, tried to
a little weight off.
She had a facelift. Her sister helped pay for the facelift. She had some
surgery done, too.
May?
Uh -huh?
Hi. Did you pick up the jar cleaner?
Oh, shoot. I forgot.
Could you do it?
Um, yeah. Okay.
She was traveling on her own, which she hadn't really done before.
And she was kind of branching out a little bit.
Could something or someone be motivating this change?
On the morning of Halloween, Dirk and May head to Morse's Pond for their
Sunday stroll.
It's a spot they've enjoyed for decades.
It was a perfect day to go for a walk. They took one of their German shepherds,
Zephyr. Come on, girl.
You are ready.
And they started on their walk, which was quite expensive. It would take them
through wooded areas, and then the plan was to take the dog down to the pond
itself, and the dog would go for a swim to get its exercise.
Hold on a second. I need to twist my back again.
You okay?
Yeah, I'll just, um, I've just laid down for a bit. They usually don't stretch.
You want to go back?
No, you go on ahead. I'll be fine.
Okay. May had a very bad back, and she said, why don't I just stay here and
rest?
Hello?
Is anybody there?
The dog started acting a little strange, like it was unsettled and it wanted to
kind of head back to where they came.
What's wrong?
What's the matter?
So Dirk headed back towards where he had left May.
Dirk is only gone for about 10 minutes, but when he returns, May is nowhere to
be found.
Zephy, come on, girl.
Zephy. Oh, my God. Are you okay?
What? They?
Oh, my God.
They?
Oh, my God.
Oh, no. May.
Dirk Greiniger returns to find his wife unconscious and bleeding profusely.
That was clearly a brutal, brutal, vicious attack on this poor woman.
May's head was almost cut off. So it was a lot of violence that obviously had
happened in that moment of time.
Oh, baby.
Though Dirk has decades of medical experience, Her injuries are
She needs to get to a hospital immediately.
At 8 .56 a .m., the Wellesley Police Department receives the desperate call.
He
was
frantic, and there was a lot of anxiety in his voice.
He's really kind of hysterical, and she can't make out what he's saying, so
she's trying to calm him down.
Any husband would be panicked, you'd be afraid, you'd be scared, you wouldn't
know if somebody else was around, you'd be afraid for your own safety, and you'd
immediately want to get help.
When paramedics arrive, there's nothing they can do.
May's already lost too much blood.
Police move in immediately and set up barriers to the park.
They search the woods for any trace of the killer.
The area down there at Morse's Pond is almost 200 acres, so we'd set a
all the way around the entire place.
Wellesley hadn't had a homicide in over 30 years, so they're not really used to
investigating homicides.
So we're called in immediately to assist them. Who do we got here?
Female body.
Husband found her in the woods.
Her pants had been cut and pulled down a little bit, exposing her underwear and
her bra.
It appeared that she could have been sexually assaulted.
We've ordered a rape kit.
Good.
Looks like she was attacked here and then pulled off the trail to there.
Probably about a good half of Mae's neck was opened up. It was more than a stab
wound. It was a splash.
The neck wound was very, very bad.
From here to here and two inches wide. It was a gaping neck wound.
I'm going to go talk to the husband.
Okay.
Very sorry for your loss, doctor.
Thank you.
Is there anything you can tell me you think might help?
May's back started to hurt.
Okay. She didn't feel well.
So she didn't want to go back to the car, so she decided she wanted to sit
on a bench.
All right.
About ten minutes into it.
My dog was, Zephy, kept pulling me back toward where May was.
Took off.
He was pretty calm, and he seemed pretty focused on the questions I was asking.
His nose was running like a child.
I thought that was a little strange, but he had just lost his wife.
Did you see anybody you think, you know, could have done this?
I saw, I thought I saw a guy running. All right.
He was dressed in black.
Dressed in black, all right.
And then I saw a hiker. All right. And I grabbed him and I asked him for a cell
phone.
He didn't have one. So I took off running down to the car with Zephy. All
And I grabbed the phone and I called 911.
Officers speak with the hiker, who confirms Dirk's story.
He also gives them their first lead.
He saw a truck parked next to the grinders van around 8 .30.
It was now gone.
What color was this truck?
Brad, are you burning me?
I need all points bulletin looking for a dark pickup truck.
Other side.
And your jacket.
He's being very, very cooperative and asked if he could call a lawyer, which
did. Dirk also calls his daughter Britt.
It's not really that.
Honey, I am so sorry.
She hurt her back.
No, Mama's hurt her back before she just lays down, Dad.
What happened?
What happened?
Okay. All right.
Okay.
About six hours had gone by.
Dirk had first called the police.
They had called a canine in to see if they could get a scent from around where
May was to track a possible killer, and the German Shepherd hit on a scent.
Good boy.
What do you got there?
What do you got?
The dog hits on something, and the dog keeps going back to it.
Yeah, detectives, can you come down here? Looks like he found something.
Hold this for me.
Shut it down there.
Oh, boy.
They moved the leaves aside, and down the bottom of the drain, they saw some
items.
We lifted out three articles, one with a two -pound drilling hammer, a four
-inch folding knife, and one brown work glove.
The hammer and the knife appeared to be bloody.
Well, my friend, looks like we got our murder weapons.
The items are sent to the lab for DNA testing.
DNA is not that quick. It's not like you'd see on a television show. It
sometimes takes six, eight, or ten weeks.
That night, as kids head out for trick -or -treating, word of May's vicious
murder casts an eerie pall over the neighborhood.
Trick -or -treat! Happy Halloween!
Aren't you the cutest astronaut ever?
Thank you.
It was talked about by everybody in town. Had someone come to town and
me, there was a lot of concern about, you know, safety and things like that.
Did you hear about what happened at Martha's Farm this morning?
I heard sirens, but was it an accident or something?
No, it definitely wasn't an accident.
This is a neighborhood with lots of children, and Halloween was a big day.
were somewhat skeptical about letting their kids out.
Listen, I'm sorry, but we've got to go, okay?
Let's go.
I think the residents were very concerned and scared. A well -respected
of their community had been horribly and savagely murdered in a public park.
Things like that do not happen in Wellesley. So it was front -page news in
town.
Two days later, results of May's autopsy provide some answers, but also spark
more questions.
The results showed that clearly she'd been struck on the back of her head at
least twice by the two -pound drilling hammer that we recovered.
She had eight or nine superficial stab wounds, but the neck wound was clearly
the fatal wound.
It appeared that it may have been at least an attempt at sexual assault, but
tests came back negative. There was no sexual assault.
You all know.
Three days after her death, nearly 900 friends, family, and neighbors gathered
to say goodbye to May.
There was a large outpouring for May. Her friend gave the eulogy and talked
about how there wasn't a child or a dog that May didn't like.
May was at a wonderful place in her life, happily married, incredibly proud
her children, and anxiously awaiting the marriage of her daughter.
It was pretty emotional.
It was pretty sad. It was tough.
Meanwhile, Wellesley police are working around the clock to find her killer. We
didn't really have a suspect.
It was a very, very difficult time here.
You should talk to everybody that you can think of. You do a canvas of a
neighborhood. You knock on all those doors and get any type of information
possibly can.
What's the latest?
Anything on the truck, the witnesses, the off -pack, the jerks, fans?
Nothing. Absolutely no security or traffic cam footage.
And what about the neighbors?
Did they see anything?
Again, nothing.
Though I did find this one guy that was on the other side of the pond who said
that he thought he may have heard a scream around 8 .30.
I need you to follow up on that right away. Can you get on that now? I'll be
it right away.
We're following up on every lead that we can. There's just a huge amount of work
that's being done behind the scenes.
Investigators examine another frightening possibility.
Could May's murder be linked to a spate of recent killings?
We had two other unsolved crimes that could be possibly a serial killer.
In December 1998, Irene Kennedy was walking in Bird Park in Walpole.
She was brutally attacked and killed just off a wooded path.
August 1999,
Dick Ranger.
Both homicides were in nearby towns, beginning with the letter W, like
Wellesley. The media outlets were referring to them as the W homicides.
So now we're thinking these could be connected. We could have a killer that's
preying on elderly people.
A week has passed since 58 -year -old Mae Griniter was stabbed to death in
daylight while on a walk with her husband, Dirk.
With a potential serial killer stalking the area, investigators are hoping the
hammer, knife, and gloves pulled from the storm drain will lead them to the
murderer. We had to identify where these items were distributed.
The two -pound drilling hammer was very rare.
After canvassing dozens of hardware stores, police hit the jackpot.
Deals Hardware in Wellesley was one of the only places that actually sold that
hammer.
Hello, my friend. Hi, how you doing? Can you show me where your hammers are?
Yeah, sure.
Right this way.
There you go.
Is that the last one?
Yeah, that's the last one we got.
I'm going to need to see all the sales receipts you have for this hammer over
the last year.
DL Toddware wasn't computerized at the time. So what they gave us is a pallet
full of receipts.
And it wasn't a popular item. I can tell you in 1999, there was four of them
sold. They didn't have any credit card receipts for anybody that had purchased
that hammer. So the hammer had to have been sold as a cash purchase.
It's a dead end. So investigators reexamine the other two unsolved
the area.
You got stab wounds right there.
Irene Kennedy was killed in December 1998.
And then in August of 1999, Dick Ranger was killed in a very similar setting
that May was.
His throat was slashed with some sort of hatchet.
Some people thought that there might be a serial killer on the loose, so I think
there was a lot of fear in the community.
Could May be the third victim of the so -called W killer?
I looked at the wound, and there were stark differences between Irene Kennedy,
Dick Ranger, and May Griner.
It seems to me all three victims were killed by different people.
I agree.
Not our guy.
With the W killer off the list, investigators circle back to those
May and speak with her niece Belinda Markle. Belinda and her children were
close to May. They spoke sometimes almost daily on the phone. It was almost
a mother -daughter relationship.
Did May have any sort of romantic relationship with somebody outside the
marriage? Absolutely not.
Aunt May was so in love with Uncle Dirk and would never do anything to break up
their marriage.
What about Dirk? Any issues?
We looked into Dirk's criminal history. There was nothing there. He didn't even
have a parking ticket.
The Wellesley police had never been called to the couple's home. There was
any indication of any domestic violence. Everything appeared as people said it
was.
But according to Belinda, there was one issue plaguing the relationship.
I would say that their marriage had been strained the past few years.
Go on.
Well, I visited her in June.
She seemed really upset that Dirk was spending a lot of time away from home
work.
He seemed really lonely.
Belinda had some conversations with May where May kind of indicated that things
weren't that great.
They had drifted apart a little bit. Bye. Enjoy your food. And now that the
children weren't there.
She was trying to rekindle something, and maybe Dirk was a little resistant to
that. There were issues around their sex life, so there was tension there. There
certainly was sexual tension.
May?
They were kind of falling away from each other. He was working late hours,
traveling a lot, and that caused them to separate a little bit and move apart.
Something else struck Belinda as suspicious.
Despite Dirk's lucrative practice, the pair appeared to be bleeding cash.
Uncle Dirk.
was really concerned with how much money Aunt May was spending to come visit us.
We even had to foot the bill a few times.
I mean, he's a doctor, I think.
Pay for a couple of trips to New York.
It does seem odd for a world -renowned physician.
So investigators dig deeper.
They got the grind of the financials.
One night in June at a hotel five minutes from here?
Why would he be staying at a hotel in Dedham when he lived so close?
Was there a conference there?
Maybe he had to be there really early and that was easier.
Maybe.
A quick check confirms there were no conferences at the hotel.
It appears Dr. Greiner's one night stay was not business related.
As we start to really dig into...
Dirk's background, his life starts to come to light to us that, you know, he's
surfing internet porn sites. He was talking to sex lines and putting those
charges on his credit cards.
It's not a smoking gun, but certainly something cops can't ignore.
We just didn't know what was going on in his life, and we didn't know what May
knew.
With a search warrant in hand, investigators examine the grinders'
Check it out.
It's Hitler's autobiography.
Yeah, well, he was German.
Do all Germans have framed pictures of Nazis, too?
No.
So they searched the entire house, the outside and inside.
They got into the garage, and on one wall, there was boxes stacked together.
All right, I'll start here. You take the rest.
Copy that.
Don't make it too easy on us, Dirk.
We had to look in each and every box.
And we came across this box with a bottle of Viagra that was issued from
Dirk Grindeter.
to dirt grinder.
So they find a couple of other weird things in there.
This obviously raised a lot of eyebrows.
Why would he have condoms and Viagra hidden in the garage?
It's to hide it from his wife.
The hell else is he hiding?
Now, I've already talked to Dirk, and he said he was no longer in a sexual
relationship with his wife. What is the Viagra for?
What are these other things going on? More digging had to be done.
Dirk was clearly having sex with someone, but who?
We found this whole other life that Dirk was leading.
You would never expect a doctor of his standing to be involved in any of the
things that he was involved in.
Two weeks after 58 -year -old May Greiner's throat was slashed in the
Morse's pond, investigators are starting to uncover evidence of her husband's
dark double life.
We found that he was going on these hardcore pornography sites, these
interactive sites where you'd actually have live people talking back and forth
via the computer.
Detectives are also shocked to find a hardcore sex story penned by the doctor
himself. It was very graphic. I wouldn't even try to describe it. It was very
lurid, very descriptive. It was kind of disturbing, actually.
And it was one nasty idea after another, and it went on for pages and
pages and pages.
Dirk did more than talk and write about sex.
Are you the doctor? The doctor had a penchant for prostitutes.
In the weeks leading up to May's death, Dirk's bad behavior appeared to be
escalating. Yeah. Really?
We were able to track him using his cell phone and his credit cards to order a
couple of prostitutes to come up to his room.
He's scheduled to speak the next morning, so when is he sleeping?
His activity is just really picking up.
snowballing out of control.
You were fabulous.
Thank you.
After they leave, he buys a porn movie on his hotel TV.
He had basically been overcome by his appetite for the sex, and I think he was
just out of control.
When investigators speak with the owner of the escort service, they discover
Dirk was obsessed with one prostitute in particular named Elizabeth Janes.
All of a sudden, the suspect pool in his wife's murder just got a whole lot
deeper. You look at every shred of evidence that you can. Did somebody else
a motive? Could it have been somebody that he was sleeping with? Or were these
just hookers that he was paying for sex?
Locating Elizabeth proves difficult.
But they are able to find a Massachusetts couple grinded or
threesome.
Honey, come to bed.
You can finish your work in the morning.
During the email exchange that we recovered from his computer, he talks
the fact that he's basically straight, but in group encounters, he could be
flexible.
He willingly said that he was married, but she didn't play.
It was pretty hardcore. Not something you'd expect from a doctor.
He ultimately ends up taking a nude photograph of himself.
and then he emailed that to the couple. He seemed to be spinning out of control.
The couple Dirk solicited have an alibi for the morning May was killed and are
cleared by investigators.
Finally, after several false starts and three months of searching,
police locate the prostitute named Elizabeth.
You know this man?
Yeah. I met him a few times.
It's a little weird.
Luther told us that he would pay up to $500 for a visit, and he really was kind
of a strange guy.
She talked about these lavish gifts and things that he had bought her.
She went to meet him in a hotel room someplace, and he had purchased
and roses and candy.
It seemed almost like he was looking for more than just a sexual encounter and
was becoming very infatuated with her.
She got a feeling that this wasn't right, and she stopped responding to his
phone calls.
Did you know he was married?
Oh, yeah.
No, he always wore a ring, but he told me he was getting divorced because his
wife was getting old and soft.
It's a telling statement.
Whether or not May knew, it appears Dirk already had one foot out the door.
Dr. Greiner really seemed like he had this split personality.
There was the father, the good doctor, and then the other side was kind of
pleased.
He was engaging in some seriously risky behavior, and I don't know if it was for
the self -gratification. I don't know if he was getting off on the danger of
potentially getting caught, but he was a man that was a huge contradiction.
While police continue to follow up on all of Dirk's sordid dalliances, a
handyman for the grinders comes forward with a disturbing tidbit.
Watch this all fixed. I'm going to go to the truck and grab the bill. Okay,
great. Thank you. No problem.
Several days before May's death, he overheard a heated conversation.
She was going for her master's degree, and she'd been doing a lot of work on
Dirk's computer, and we believe that she had decided to find some of this
pornographic activity.
He was very upset that his wife had seen some things on the computer that he
didn't want her to see.
Hey, what are you doing?
Why are you going to touch my computer?
I'm sorry. I just needed to make a quick update for class tomorrow.
Yeah? What'd you find? Nothing.
Calm down.
Stay off my computer.
I got a late shift tonight.
See you tomorrow.
It would devastate him and his career if this was ever revealed.
Dirk's reputation meant everything to him, so he had good reason to try to
this stuff quiet.
If she found the naked pictures of her husband, police theorize, May might have
threatened to end their marriage. Could this have set Dirk into a deadly
tailspin?
Authorities reexamine the crime scene photos, especially pictures of Dirk in
bloodstained clothes.
He was covered in May's blood everywhere except his hands. His hands had no
blood on them at all.
I can't imagine how no blood would be on his hands if he wasn't wearing gloves.
They really started the key on Dirk. That doesn't mean they would close their
eyes to anything else that came up.
After four months, the results of the DNA found on the murder weapons and
finally come in. You've got to see this.
Well, I'll be damned.
The suspect is starting to come into focus.
This was a very damning piece of evidence.
For months, investigators have been trying to piece together the events that
to the vicious murder of 58 -year -old Mae Griniter.
DNA results from the killer's gloves and weapons finally come back and confirm
the detective's growing suspicions.
The DNA results revealed that...
There was Dirk's DNA on the right -hand glove, and the possibility of it being
anybody else was one in 170 million people. And then also on the folding
knife, Dirk's DNA was found on that as well.
Even more damning are the results from a blood spatter analysis of Dirk's
clothes. The blood spatter that was on his jacket and shoes indicated that he
was within inches of feet.
of May and what they describe as the bloodshed incident.
They had blood spatter all the way down the back of his jacket from what they
call cast -off, where he had struck her on the head with the hammer and then
brought the hammer back and then brought it down again a second time.
Hey, guys. What can I do for you? Go to Lawrence. Search the premise. Wait a
second. Hold on a second.
This time, detectives find even more evidence stashed in Zephyr's doghouse.
That look familiar?
Sure does.
Hey, check this out.
Isn't this the same hardware store that sells those hammers?
It sure is.
All right, let's be sure and check all the times and dates for those receipts
with this one.
The evidence was really starting to come together that Dirk Greiner could have
been the only person that had killed May Greiner.
Four months after May's murder, Dr. Dirk Greiner is indicted by a grand jury.
He's arrested a few hours later.
I didn't do it! You get the guy who did it!
The Grinader kids are outraged and stand by their father's innocence.
We're fighting for our lives, we're fighting for our family, and we're not
to stop until we get him vindicated. We are absolutely convinced that this was
some violent or deranged person.
There is only one fact that we are completely certain of, that it was not
father. In May 2001, Dr. Dirk Grinader stands trial.
The prosecution argues that in the weeks leading up to May's murder, she
discovered Dirk's double life, a life he had been leading for at least two
years. To preserve his reputation and keep his insatiable sexual addiction
alive, he plotted to kill her on their routine walk.
This was a person who was losing control and feeling threatened that maybe if
this came out, this was going to damage him. In his mind, the only way to regain
control of his situation was to kill May.
It wasn't a killing that was out of rage.
It's the premeditated murder.
Investigators believe Dirk attacked May from behind.
Hello? Once they were deep in the woods.
Is anybody there?
May didn't die right away. She doesn't even go unconscious.
Ultimately, he takes the fallen buck knife out, he cuts her throat, and then
stabs her in the abdomen, and then stabs her in the head.
There's a good chance that her last moments in this world were looking at
husband stabbing her. And that's just an awful, awful image to live with.
He pulled her into the brambles, pulled her shirt up.
He pulled her pants down, he cut them. He cut her underwear and left her there.
He thought he was going to stage it to look like the other attacks that had
happened in Westwood and in Walpole.
Dirk then dumped the hammer, knife, and gloves in storm drains before going to
his car to call police.
He tried to make it sound like he was frantic.
He tried to make it sound like he didn't even know what was going
on. He thought.
He was smarter than all of us. He thought nobody would ever think that he
be a suspect in this.
Dirk's three adult children, adamant the police arrested the wrong man, testify
on their dad's behalf.
The children supported their father unconditionally, and they just could not
believe that their father would kill their mother.
My father's innocent, and that's the fact.
That was a hard, hard part of the trial for all of us, to see them and what they
were going through.
They subsequently learned about all of his extracurricular activities, and even
then, their position was, just because you're committing adultery doesn't mean
you're a murderer.
Griniter takes the witness stand, claiming he did everything he could to
his wife.
I really tried to pick her up. Her head flopped back.
He did show emotion or tried to show emotion.
I just didn't feel like it was believable.
When you added up all the particular evidence from timeline, from DNA, from
testimonies, it was overwhelming.
Every single piece of evidence pointed towards Dirk Reinhardt.
There's just no way it could be anyone else but Dirk.
After six weeks of testimony and more than four days of deliberation, the jury
comes to a unanimous decision.
When the verdict was read, I think there was a lot of shock.
Such a sigh of relief.
I didn't know what I would have done if it said not guilty.
Clearly, the folks who were in May's corner and really believed Dirk did it
ecstatic, but his family, he and his family were shocked.
I was happy for May, for her sister and niece, because of what they went
through. I felt very bad for the children.
Children especially had really sort of trained themselves to think good
thoughts. He's going to get off. He's going to get off.
We're going to have our dad back. Everything will go back to normal. And
never did.
You could hear them sobbing. It was very emotional.
Dirk Greiner is serving a life sentence at the state prison in Norfolk,
Massachusetts.
He and his children maintain his innocence to this day.
It's a tragedy what that man did. He tore apart that family.
May was a vibrant, wonderful person who lost her life through no fault of her
own. And I just hope that when people look at this case, they'll remember her
and they'll honor her memory.
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