A jaw-dropping letter reveals how a rich socialite pleaded for forgiveness with the mother and father of two boys she killed along with her automotive after a boozy lunch in LA.
Rebecca Grossman, 60, laments not driving her Mercedes right into a tree as a substitute of the boys’ fragile our bodies, which she hit at a pace of at least 73 mph in 2020.
The Los Angeles socialite, who prosecutors branded as a narcissist, additionally writes about her ‘harsh’ childhood, and the way she herself has suffered two miscarriages.
A well-heeled lady who allegedly had a boozy lunch along with her former Dodgers star lover earlier than fatally hitting the 2 boys, Grossman was discovered responsible of homicide earlier this yr.
The correspondence was utilized by prosecutors to color her as unrepentant, three-and-half years after she struck eight-year-old Jacob Iskander and brother Mark, 11.
A letter reveals how rich socialite Rebecca Grossman, 60, pleaded for forgiveness with the mother and father of two boys she killed along with her automotive after a boozy lunch in LA. She is seen in court docket in February, days earlier than being discovered responsible
The Iskanders of their remaining photograph collectively: mother and father Nancy and Karim with their sons, Zachary, Jacob and Mark; and child daughter, Violet
The boys’ mom, Nancy Iskander, was additionally practically hit, however capable of seize her youngest, five-year-old Zachary, and dive for his or her lives.
Nancy and husband Mark acquired the observe from Grossman in March, a month after she was discovered responsible of homicide.
Throughout the trial, Grossman’s lead lawyer repeatedly blamed Scott Erickson, a retired MLB pitcher, for the deaths, suggesting his automotive hit the boys first because the pair – reunited after Grossman briefly separated from her husband – sped down the road.
The jury did not by it – and a decide 4 days in the past threw out the killer’s bid to have her homicide convictions overturned.
The letter, aired in Grossman’s sentencing memorandum Wednesday, was by no means earlier than seen, and helped put her away.
‘I’ve not had the chance to put in writing you since I used to be incarcerated, and I had an opportunity to learn my letter so it might be typed and despatched to you,’ the typed three web page letter, despatched on March 11, begins.
‘First, I need to specific the profound unhappiness that I really feel every day and that there is not a day that passes that I do not take into consideration you and pray that you just and your youngsters are surrounded by guardian angels.
‘And that in fact consists of your eternally angels, Mark, and Jacob.’
She goes on to state she hopes the boys are watching over her to ‘defend [her] from any extra ache’, whereas shielding her ‘household from hurt for every of [their] remaining days on earth.
Disclaiming how this observe was not the primary, Grossman added: ‘I actually hope that in the future you may be open to studying all of the letters that I began writing to you and continued writing to you during the last three and a half years.’
Grossman goes on to state how she ‘desperately’ wished to succeed in out to the couple, however was stopped ‘time and time once more’ by individuals presiding over the case.
In it, 60-year-old Rebecca Grossman laments not driving her Mercedes right into a tree as a substitute of the boys’ fragile our bodies, which she hit at a pace of no much less 73 mph in 2020
She additionally writes about her ‘harsh’ childhood, and the way she herself has suffered two miscarriages
‘I’ve been and can all the time be so very sorry,’ she asserts at a degree. ‘I’ve expressed my feeling of profound unhappiness.
‘[Even those were taken and redacted, blocking out my words or remorse, or the actions I wish I could have taken to prevent the accident,’ she adds, after prosecutors claimed Grossman was impaired with alcohol at the time of the crash – from the drinks she’d had with old flame Erickson earlier in the day.
She goes on to claim she would have driven her car into a tree if she had the chance, before embarking on a sob story about her childhood and life.
A few weeks later, a judge would cite her boozing and speeding in his decision to uphold her conviction.
‘As God is my witness, if I had seen anyone in the road ahead of my car, my knee-jerk reaction would have been to immediately steer away hard, to avoid hitting anyone or anything,’ Grossman, who is married with kids of her own, writes.
‘I wish that I had seen something, even a glimpse – any sign of anything. I have re-lived that split second in time over and over in my head a billion times.
‘I give you my word that if I had been given the opportunity, I would have driven my car into a tree,’ she goes on to sate.
‘I wish God had given me the opportunity to give my life instead of that of Mark and Jacob’s. I’m not afraid of death, I know that our souls live eternally.’
She then hones in on her self-professed ‘strong relationship with our heavenly Father’, which she says started ‘at a very young age.’
The Iskander boys, Mark and Jacob, 11 and 8, died at the scene of the accident after Grossman’s Mercedes hit them at high speed
The boys’ mother, Nancy Iskander, was also nearly hit, but able to grab her youngest, five-year-old Zachary, and dive for their lives. She and husband Mark received the note in March, a month after Grossman was found guilty of murder
‘I feel his presence always, even after this tragic and unthinkable accident,’ she writes.
‘At first, It was difficult to function at all. I could not remember what people had said to me minutes earlier.’
She then remarks how her elderly mother ‘died within a year of the tragedy’, after five years of suffering from Alzheimer’s – after which she ‘could not get up off my hand and knees from sobbing uncontrollably for months on end.’
‘I couldn’t believe how many tears could come out of my body,’ she gripes. ‘I so desperately wanted to reach out to you.
Conceding her pain ‘was only a fraction of what both [parents] have been feeling, she goes on to say she was suicidal.
‘I have been by myself since I used to be 12,’ she provides at this level, pivoting to a degree in her life neither of the boys have been capable of attain.
‘My father left earlier than I used to be born, and my mom struggled having to work full time as a sole supplier for 3 youngsters,’ the letter continues.
‘I discovered to be accountable at a really early age.’
Due to this, she says, ‘I’ve all the time had a weak point for youngsters, to guard them and assist them heal every time I may.’
Thus, ‘I used to be fully mortified once I knew positively that there have been in truth youngsters concerned.’
She goes on to say that she was not even conscious she was the one behind the wheel on the time of the crash in September 2020.
Grossman provides {that a} information broadcast she noticed from the hospital was ‘when [she] first discovered that the youngsters had died.
‘I began hyperventilating. I couldn’t breathe. I couldn’t stand. I not wished to stay on.’
Grossman ploughed into the boys at greater than 70mph in a 45mph zone, in a luxurious Mercedes
Grossman was separated from her husband on the time of the crash and had been relationship Scott Erickson (seen right here with the convicted baby killer in 2020 simply earlier than the crash), who she tried accountable for the boys’ loss of life. A jury, nonetheless, didn’t purchase it
Erickson performed with the Los Angeles Dodgers from 2005 for a yr, then ended his profession with the New York Yankees in 2006
Grossman is seen gripping her LA plastic surgeon husband Dr Peter Grossman’s arm as they left court docket at the moment for the beginning of her homicide trial in January, earlier than she was discovered responsible
It wasn’t till a few yr after the accident the ‘fog’ she stated had been shrouding her reminiscence of the incident began to raise.
At this level, she writes, she was ‘being bullied continually’, whereas worrying ‘concerning the two of you.’
She then singles out Nancy – the one current for the deadly crash – particularly, telling her, ‘Please consider me once I let you know, I initially thought you have been a teenage woman with lengthy brown hair on curler blades, falling.
‘After I caught sight of you, I gasped,’ she provides, earlier than complaining a few bleeding dysfunction she stated made her pull over first to ensure she was all proper.
‘All I may take into consideration is getting my automotive to the aspect and out of visitors.
‘The car’s emergency system known as me with 60 seconds of the air luggage deploying. The lady informed me she was passing me via to 911. This is the reason I didn’t name 911.’
Towards the tip of the decision, the lady on the opposite line informed her she believed youngsters have been concerned – one thing Grossman claims to have been conscious of even at this level.
‘My coronary heart stopped,’ she recollects of this. ‘I used to be saying to myself time and again, “no, no, they do not know but – this is not occurring. There can’t be youngsters concerned. This isn’t doable.” Your mind can slip into the place of denial if you’re in shock,’ she writes.
The September 2020 crash left Mark , 11, and brother Jacob, 8, useless. The pair are seen right here in images from their college
Earlier than sending the letter, Grossman allegedly ‘conspired with a buddy to contact the Nancy and Karim Iskanders by scheming to offer them a necklace, which had their sons’ birthstones
After the crash, she says, ‘my mind stored telling me this have to be a mistake. They’d by no means reply my questions or my please for info concerning the youngsters.
‘I truthfully didn’t assume that the woman I noticed falling earlier than my airbags deployed was even associated.
‘They didn’t say to me there was a household, there have been mother and father, how previous the youngsters have been. They by no means answered my questions.’
She provides shortly after: ‘I wanted I had a splash cam on my automotive that evening. I informed my husband and kids that on the similar time my airbags deployed, I believed one thing got here down on high of my automotive.
‘I even reached out to individuals at satellite tv for pc corporations like NASA and Area X in hope that perhaps there was a video that captured what occurred.’
She goes on to say her two youngsters, each of whom have been current for a lot of the proceedings.
‘To even take into consideration that is so painful and saddens my coronary heart. I’ll eternally cry for you each and proceed to hope that God comforts you in figuring out that you can be reunited together with your youngsters.
‘I suffered two miscarriages,’ she goes on to disclose. ‘And I do know that that is no comparability, however even these losses have been heartbreaking.
‘I noticed this with all sincerity, I’ve a lot empathy and love and compassion to your each.
‘I want I had by no means left my dwelling that day. I might have completed something to vary what occurred. With all my coronary heart and soul, Rebecca Grossman.’
Grossman has already been accused of utilizing soiled ways to attempt to get her convictions overturned. Her sentencing has been slated for June 10
On Monday, a Los Angeles decide threw out her bid to have her homicide convictions overturned for a brand new trial.
The rich socialite’s attorneys argued that she was entitled to a trial do-over as a result of prosecutors at her trial 4 months in the past produced ‘inadequate’ proof to search out her responsible and ‘misled’ the jury.
However Los Angeles Superior Court docket Choose Joseph Brandolino rejected Grossman’s pleas Monday, telling the court docket in Van Nuys, California, that he discovered prosecutors had proved past an inexpensive doubt that she had acted with ‘implied malice’.
Underneath the regulation, to show second diploma homicide, prosecutors needed to show ‘implied malice’ – that Grossman knew what she was doing when she ran down the Iskander brothers.
Grossman has already been accused of utilizing soiled ways to attempt to get her convictions overturned, like conspiring with a buddy to contact the Iskanders and provides them a necklace with their late sons’ birthstones
Prosecutors say that from jail she informed her husband, and daughter to seek out jurors and hunt down witnesses to attempt to get them to vary their testimony and sway Choose Brandolino into giving her a brand new trial.
She additionally allegedly informed Alexis to publicly launch a sheriff’s deputy’s body-camera video that had been sealed by the decide.
Her sentencing has been slated for June 10.
