The LA socialite accused of murdering two young brothers by running them over with her car while they were disabled is desperate to contact their parents and has written them letters.
Rebecca Grossman has thought of “nothing else” since the night they were killed other than trying to contact Jacob and Mark Iskander’s parents, according to a website dedicated to her defense.
Jacob, 8, and Mark, 11, were crossing a road with their mother when Grossman crashed into them in her Mercedes SUV at 80 mph, prosecutors say. She was driving in a 45 km/h zone at the time.
“She remains broken and devastated since the accident,” her lawyers wrote on a website about her case.
“For the past three years, she hasn’t thought about anything other than being human and reaching out to Mark and Jacob’s parents.”
Grossman, 62, is not allowed to contact the family but “continues to write letters to the family in the hope that she will be able to send them one day,” the statement said.
LA socialite Rebecca Grossman has written letters to the parents of two brothers she allegedly hit and killed with her car
Mark Iskander, 11, and his younger brother Jacob, eight, died in the 2020 crash
Prosecutors say Grossman drove into the boys at 80 mph in a 70 mph zone, causing damage to her car
The plastic surgeon’s wife is due to stand trial later this month. Her legal team is preparing to argue that Grossman was neither the first nor the last car to hit the children the night they died.
“Eyewitnesses reported to the sheriff that multiple vehicles struck the children,” said attorney Tony Buzbee.
“Defense reconstruction experts will demonstrate that Grossman’s vehicle was not the first vehicle to strike the children and another eyewitness indicated that she was not the last vehicle to make contact with the children.”
Buzbee also claimed his client “was not impaired, she was not racing, she was not going the speed they claim and she never fled the scene.” He added that prosecutors had taken the “easy” way out by ignoring alleged evidence because it “didn’t fit their story.”
The Iskanders were hit and killed in September 2020. Initial reports suggested Grossman was chasing another vehicle, something her lawyer denies.
“The fact that so much evidence was hidden, destroyed or simply disappeared early on will clearly demonstrate that this case was never about the prosecution revealing the truth,” Buzbee said.
“That is shameful because it has only caused more pain and suffering for the children’s families and everyone involved.”
Lawyers for Goodman previously claimed her “secret lover” was the driver who killed the boys.
Socialite Rebecca Grossman was seen hugging the arm of her plastic surgeon husband Dr. Peter Grossman of LA as they left court today for the start of her murder trial on Thursday
Grossman’s defense team will argue she wasn’t the only car that hit the brothers the night they died
That’s what they argued former Minnesota Twins and Baltimore Orioles pitcher Scott Erickson had hit the kids first.
Erickson’s black Mercedes drove through the crosswalk where the brothers were hit while walking with their parents, before Grossman’s car did.
Buzzbee told a Los Angeles court that sheriff’s deputies failed to check Erickson’s black Mercedes.
Erickson was charged with a felony following the crash, which he settled in 2022.
Footage from the scene shows the front of Grossman’s luxury car badly damaged in a crash that prosecutors say was caused by mowing down the youths.
Grossman’s murder charge is unusual, as no DUI charges have been filed.
Her breath test at the scene showed a blood alcohol level of 0.076 percent, slightly below California’s legal limit of 0.08 percent.
A blood sample taken three hours after the accident registered a score of 0.08 percent.
Scott Erickson, Rebecca Grossman’s alleged lover, is pictured in 2018. He was charged with a felony over the 2020 crash and settled his case in 2022.
Grossman claims the accident was caused by a poorly lit, poorly signaled crosswalk pictured above
Prosecutors will argue in court that Grossman was also on Valium and impaired when she got behind the wheel.
Grossman – whose husband directs the prestigious Grossman Burn Center – will argue in her defense that a vehicle drove in front of her and that vehicle struck the boys, exonerating her and Erickson.
She has also claimed that the collision was due to the zebra crossing being poorly lit and poorly signposted.