Fred Grabbe
This is not your standard, spouse on spouse crime. In addition to that this case brings up a few other questions. First, what are the odds of someone knowing, or being related to more than one person who has been murdered, and secondly, can criminal behavior or mindset be inherited? Of course there are the cases where siblings work together on a crime, but we have also seen them where different siblings commit different crimes and spends time in prison. But, what about a grandson of a murderer becoming a potential murderer? Is it nature verses nurture? Is it just a rare coincidence? I do recall this question being asked at one point concerning a father and son who both had committed crimes in which they had earned the death penalty for several decades apart. Fred and Charlotte Grabbe were first married sometime in the late 1950's or early 1960's. In 1961 they would divorce but they would remarry a year later. By 1981 the couple had two grown children, twenty-two...