Woman whose dad murdered her mom before killing himself becomes viral TikTok star for sharing harrowing details about the tragedy

A woman shared the heartbreaking moment she realized her mother had died at the hands of her own father, waking up to find a violent crime outside her window.

On December 8, 2019, Kait Granger, 27, woke up in the middle of the night to a text from her father, Michael Boal, 59, asking her to take care of the dog.

She knew immediately that something was wrong and that she would never see her mother, Bobette Everhart-Boal, 59, again.

Her premonition, unfortunately, proved correct. She woke up at a crime scene near her apartment, after her father had hit her mother over the head with a tire gauge and shot her when she returned home from a Christmas party.

Bobette had filed for divorce from Michael in August 2023, just months before he would end her life.

After living in hiding for several months following her report, Kait and her mother rented an apartment together in Chesterfield, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, where she grew up.

“I was asleep the whole time so I didn’t hear anything,” Kait, who lives in St. Louis, explained on her now-viral TikTok, which has more than 6.2 million views, where she shared her harrowing story.

“I woke up around 2am and had this really weird feeling that something was wrong,” she continued. She went to her mother’s room and found her not there. She thought it was “weird.”

Kait had Bobette’s location on her phone and looked at it and saw that she was in their parking lot.

“I walked to my window, opened the curtains and saw the police cars, the lights, the tape and everything,” she recalled.

‘At that moment I thought I knew, but I didn’t want to know.’

Kait went outside but was stopped by a police officer who confirmed that it was her mother behind the tape and that she was dead.

Kait said her father has been “very abusive” for as long as she can remember and that he left her and her brother letters to read after he died, but she never planned on sharing the contents.

They didn’t know where her father was at the time, but they did hear that there was a fire near a house whose address matched that of her mother’s ID card.

A few hours later, police confirmed that her father was inside the burning building and dead. Officers found the gun he used to kill Bobette.

As the investigation progressed, it became clear that Michael had always planned to kill Bobette first and then himself.

“My father opened a storage unit four days after my mother left in August and began moving things from the house there to protect them, because he knew he was going to burn the house down,” she explained.

Kait said her father has been “very abusive” to her for as long as she can remember. He left her and her brother letters to read after he died, but she never plans on sharing them.

“The bottom line is he said it’s all my fault,” Kait said. “And I was the one to blame for destroying the family, basically.”

“I’ve reached the point where I accept that my mom is safer than she’s ever been and that’s worth all the pain and discomfort I’m in right now,” the grieving daughter concluded the devastating video.

Kait told The New York Post She “had to” share her story “for her and for me.”

“A big part of this was that it motivated me to do things and talk about grief in a more realistic way,” she added.

After sharing her tragic story on TikTok, Kait has also started a new series called Let’s Not Rot, where she documents herself participating in activities and pushing herself to enjoy life because “her mom would be mad if I did.”

She has since amassed more than 330,000 followers on TikTok since launching the series last year, in which she shares videos of herself performing everyday tasks and activities, accompanied by voiceovers and poems about grief.

Kait said the videos were a promise to herself and her mother to live her best life.