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Grice was an unemployed man who lived in New York City. In the summer of 1975, Grice allegedly kidnapped the young daughter of a reputedly wealthy family, intending to collect a heavy ransom. Rorschach, having interrogated several informants, traced Grice to his seedy Brooklyn tenement. In Grice's back yard, Rorschach observed two German Shepards struggling over a large bone. Though Grice was not home at the time, Rorschach broke in and began his search of the house, finding a scrap of cloth from the young girl's dress in a wood-burning stove and several butchering tools such as knives, hooks and a large cleaver. Rorschach also noticed that the large cutting board in the kitchen had been recently used and quickly surmised that the bone the dogs had been fighting over was a child's femur.

Rorschach killed the two dogs with Grice's cleaver and waited for their owner to return home. Hurling the dogs' corpses at Grice, Rorschach then handcuffed the man to a pipe and doused the room with kerosene. After handing Grice a hacksaw and stating that it would be futile for Grice to attempt to cut threw the handcuffs, Rorschach set fire to the room and exited the house. He watched outside for over an hour in the unlikely event that Grice might free himself in time. Grice did not survive.

His dealings with Grice represent Walter Kovacs' final descent into the identity of Rorschach and the extreme methods he would adopt in his vigilantism.

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