Rose Granville was the owner of the conglomerate Granville Developers, and mother of Melinda Granville.
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Rose's husband had cheated on her with her secretary before cleaning her out and running off with his mistress. Since then, she wanted her only daughter, Melinda, to be happy. Melinda feared that her soon-to-be husband, Daniel Lester, still had feelings for his ex-girlfriend Annika Bergeron. She discovered Annika was pregnant with Daniel's child and told Rose.
Rose soon decided the best thing to do was to get rid of the baby and arranged for Annika to be kidnapped. After Melinda discovered her mother's Cayman Islands bank accounts, she decided to cover it up when she knew it was too late to save Annika, who was scheduled for a c-section because the placenta was blocking the birth canal. After Annika died giving birth to her daughter Celia, Melinda was questioned by Detectives Stabler and Benson. She then reluctantly revealed Rose's role in Annika's death. Daniel, angered by Rose masterminding the whole kidnapping and murder plot and Melinda's indirect involvement, breaks up with Melinda. Melinda later confronts Rose about her masterminding the death of Annika. Rose reveals she planned the whole thing to get rid of Annika and her baby to make sure Daniel wouldn't leave her daughter and take his money to help Annika and Celia. She was subsequently arrested and imprisoned for the rest of her life for the kidnapping and murder of Annika.