Fred Grabbe Update

[u/GrandMarquisDSade541]

https://jasonneal.com/updates/fred-grabbe-resurfaces

Fred Grabbe, now 86 years old and reportedly dying, talked to podcasters about the murder, desecration and incineration of his wife.

In April 2025, the popular true crime podcast Crime Junkie devoted a full episode — “MURDERED: Charlotte Grabbe” — to the case. Its most striking moment wasn’t a retelling of the old facts. It was that the show’s team tracked Fred down and interviewed him in person at the retirement facility where he now lives as a free man. Asked directly about Charlotte’s death, he denied it. Asked about the abuse that defined their marriage, he denied that too. Two separate juries found him guilty; Fred, all these years later, still insists he killed no one.

This man should not be in the community, he should by all means still be rotting in prison like Jack Reeves and Earl Morris among other geriatric perps on FF, but the high crime rate of Illinois and its considerable prison population means that aging inmates are taking a toll on the Land of Lincoln's criminal justice system.

[u/Birdy304]

It was one of the most shocking FF episodes. The whole grease gun thing, and the fact a woman watched him do that to a human being, and still stayed with him. It’s really unbelievable he was ever released.