The family secret that Minneapolis shooter's mother kept hidden for two decades

Daily Mail ^ | 19:32 EDT, 29 August 2025 | Updated: 01:53 EDT, 30 August 2025 | DANA KENNEDY

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The mother of Minneapolis shooter Robin Westman appeared in a movie about her reunion with a daughter she put up for adoption as a child, the Daily Mail can reveal.

Years after giving up her baby, Mary Grace Westman, now 67, went on to became a devout Catholic and anti-abortion activist who once held a crucifix in protest outside a Planned Parenthood clinic.

Mary Grace has so far refused to cooperate with police seeking information about her son.

She flew to Minnesota on Wednesday afternoon, within hours of the shocking attack at the Church of the Annunciation Catholic School that left two children dead and 18 injured.

Faryl Amadeus, 44, a Los Angeles-based filmmaker, wrote and directed the film 'Mary Meet Grace' in 2021, a fictional retelling of her real-life reunion with her biological mother, Mary Grace.

In interviews, Amadeus - who grew up in Brooklyn, New York, with her adoptive family and was then known as Rachel Millet - has since formed a close bond with Mary Grace.

Amadeus, who did not return calls or emails from the Daily Mail, writes on her website that she was adopted and 'shipped from Kentucky, like a box of whiskey' to New York.

'I was in foster care for a month before I was adopted, and that family sent me a card every birthday,' Amadeus said in 2021.

'It meant so much to me to know I wasn't just, like, in a basket somewhere.'

[stanne]

Whatever

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Not only is real life weird, it is weirder than any fiction can imagine.

[Hildy]

So many families ruined. The nutcase didn’t even live with her. I don’t know why this family would be responsible. In this day and age hiring a lawyer was the prudent thing to do.

[George from New England]

The blame lies with the state of MN promoting trans castration, without parental consent under age 18.
Period.

[Chickensoup]

So she has a lesbian bio daughter. So what?

[DallasBiff]

Huh? The article does not make sense. Can someone explain?

[rascal]

Could it be that mommy regretted giving up the daughter and brought up the son to be the missing girl?
Did he discover the truth?

[tapatio]

Where is the father in all of this?

[shelterguy]

At least they used the correct pronoun.

“””Mary Grace has so far refused to cooperate with police seeking information about her son.”””””

[tsowellfan]

I would probably undertstand the sentences if I knew if the writer is pro-pronoun or Old School like the majority of Amercians.

I mean does he mean she or a recent she?

[FamiliarFace]

She had two daughters besides the one she gave up for adoption. Martha and Theresa were named in the note.

[pacificus]

This family is just sick and deranged all the way around.....

Blue state Dems own all of the blame, they allow and promote degeneracy...take no responsibility, and blame conservatives for everything wrong in their pathetic lives.

Damn the democrat$ to hell!

Oh wait, they already live in it....

Blue city archipelago across the US!!!!

[FamiliarFace]

He’s still there. The media hasn’t gone after him for one reason or another.

[x]

Could it be that mommy regretted giving up the daughter and brought up the son to be the missing girl?

That's my suspicion and probably what many or most people would conclude. It does add a new wrinkle to the story.

[Jamestown1630]

Where did you see that the daughter is a lesbian? I can’t even access the whole article.

[Chickensoup]

I went to the bio daughter search

[UnwashedPeasant]

Yet another transgender psychopathic killer, so they are trying to spin it and associate pro-lifers and Catholics — even though the victims are pro-lifers and Catholics.

[stanne]

‘ Could it be that mommy regretted giving up the daughter and brought up the son to be the missing girl?
That’s my suspicion and probably what many or most people would conclude. It does add a new wrinkle to the story.’

No it doesn’t. If she had had an abortion the Daily Mail would not mention it. There have been more than a million abortions in the US per year since 1973

No one is ever singled out for that. No one mentions that post abortive women have reactions

But an adoption. Whoa.

Let’s see if we can speculate

The guy was screwed up. His family was involved in that or responsible to some extent

And no the father isn’t mentioned. They never are And they’re not at all involved in any abortion, per cultural norms

The problem is we are not willing to talk about pharmaceuticals

RFK is starting to talk about it

Let’s see

[stanne]

“ Yet another transgender psychopathic killer, so they are trying to spin it and associate pro-lifers and Catholics — even though the victims are pro-lifers and Catholics.”

Anything but what is the real problem. Yes. And guns are a tool. A deadly tool. But not the core issue.