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In 1990, Gina Grant murdered her mother by clubbing her in the head with a candlestick. She smashed her mother in the head thirteen times, then stopped to wipe up pools of blood from the kitchen floor. Grant and her boyfriend, Jack Hook, then tried to make the death look like suicide by sticking a carving knife into the side of Grant's mother's neck. When the police came, Grant accused her boyfriend of the killing, but the physical evidence revealed this to be a lie, and at trial she changed her story to Self-defense . The jury did not believe this, and Gina was convicted of Murder . As a juvenile, she was subject to only a small punishment -- six months in prison, and five years' Probation . Hook, meanwhile, pleaded no contest to being an accessory to murder after the fact. Grant's crime became the subject of national headlines five years later when, in 1995, she was admitted to Harvard University and then, in a blaze of publicity, Harvard rescinded the admission offer. Remarkably, Grant had apparently used the death of her mother as a 'hook' in her Harvard application, in which she played up the fact that she was an orphan. When her interviewer asked about her mother's death, Grant claimed that her mother had died in a car accident. Grant's high school college counselors gave glowing evaluations of her character, never mentioning that she was a murderer. When Gina appeared in the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine in an article about children who survive trauma, an anonymous party faxed Harvard copies of news articles about the murder. Harvard, pointing out that Grant had lied on her application when she claimed never to have been convicted of a crime, cancelled her admission. Some campus publications and newspapers sided with Grant, citing the fact that Grant's mother drank a lot, and that Grant claimed to have been beaten by her. (This had been part of Grant's defense at her 1990 trial, but there was no physical evidence of the beatings and the jury had not believed the claim. Of the fact that Grant's mother drank there seems to be little doubt; her corpse had a .3% blood alcohol level.) Grant ended up going to school a few miles north, at Tufts University . SEE ALSO SOURCES
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