The following is a more detailed history of their 16 year marriage:
Crystal and Sean Grebinger's relationship turned allegedly abusive almost immediately. The details are documented in numerous court filings and arrest records, beginning when Crystal filed her first protective order against Sean in May 1997, just a month after they were married.
At least four more protective orders in Lafayette and St. Martin parishes were filed by Crystal through 2012. A 2002 restraining order in St. Martin Parish followed an incident where, as Crystal described in court documents, "He and I were in the bedroom when the phone rang and I answered it. It was his girlfriend and he became very angry and violent.
"He then got on top of me and started choking me. Punched my ribs, back, arms, stomach, head and ears. He just kept hitting my head and I tried to call the police, but he threw the phone and broke it. He then picked up a box cutter and said, 'that he was going to kill me.'
"Then he started cutting the wall with the box cutter. I grabbed my keys to leave when he grabbed me and threw me on the bed. He was trying to keep the keys from me. Finally, he calmed down.
"I am very scared of him because I feel he could and would kill me and abuse my two daughters."
