A California socialite murder suspect who wants to overturn her conviction for the deaths of two boys has been reportedly writing to the family and jury tampering, following a 2020 drag race between her and her boyfriend.
As CrimeOnline previously reported, 60-year-old socialite Rebecca Grossman sped her Mercedes through a crosswalk, killing Mark Iskander, 11, and his 8-year-old brother, Jacob, as they crossed the street with their mother and younger brother.
The incident happened at the Westlake Village, northwest of Los Angeles, around 7:10 p.m. on September 29, 2020. The victims’ mother, Nancy Iskander, grabbed her 5-year-old son, Zachary, and dove out of the way. She and her youngest son witnessed the crash.
Grossman was found guilty in February but has yet to be sentenced and has reportedly shown no remorse for her actions, sparking outrage in the victim’s family.
Now, Grossman is reportedly writing the victims’ loved ones from jail.
“We’re not sure what the letter says.” Thousand Oaks Acorn writer Eamon Murphy said during Friday’s “Crime Stories” episode. “It hasn’t been made public. The judge did order her not to have any more contact, so we don’t know at this point what she said.”
Grossman had prescription drugs and alcohol in her system during the crash. The married socialite was racing her boyfriend, former MLB pitcher Scott Erickson, when the crash occurred. Both were driving Mercedes-Benz SUVs at over 70 mph.
Grossman insisted that Erickson hit the children, and in a phone calls cited by prosecutors, demanded that her estranged husband “call Scott Erickson and tell him to get on a video and that he needs to confess … I have a family.”
The phone call happened a few day after Grossman’s February conviction. The prosecutors cited other phone calls made between February 23 and 25 in their request to revoke her phone privileges behind bars.
In particular, she told her daughter to “unblock the videos” and “put everything out,” referring to videos under seal.
“Our first impressions we get when we hear stories like this, that fill us with rage. is exactly what we saw when we saw a drunk teenager because that’s when her development stopped I think. And she’s chasing happiness throughout her life and happiness she thinks is through materialism,” former FBI Special Agent and behavioral specialist, Robin K. Dreeke, added.
“And so she keeps chasing it. She’s caught up in the cult of– more the disease of comparison. And the tragedy came because of her being a drunk teenager. It’s really plain and simple because all her behaviors from that point are exactly the same. It’s me, me, me: even that letter that she sent to the family that she wasn’t supposed to. I guarantee you, if we had a copy of that, it would be all about her.”
Grossman’s sentencing date is scheduled for June 10. Check back for updates.
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[Feature Photo: Jacob and Mark Iskander [Handout]
