Amanda Perry Hayes Sentenced To 20 Years For Helping Husband Dispose Of Ex-Girlfriend’s Body By Feeding It To Alligators

A 2011 murder case involving a husband and his wife killing his ex-girlfriend and disposing of her body has finally received some closure.

WOMAN SENTENCED TO 20 YEARS IN JAIL FOR HELPING HUSBAND HIDE REMAINS OF HIS EX-GIRLFRIEND

According to court documents, Grant Hayes and Amanda Perry Hayes were respectively charged with first- and second-degree murder. Laura Ackerson, the husband’s ex-girlfriend, was the victim, with the couple killing her in her North Carolina apartment.

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Afterwards, the couple cut Ackerson’s body into pieces and stuck it in coolers to transport it. They first drove Ackerson’s remains to Hayes’ sister’s Texas home, trying to eradicate them with muriatic acid. They later used a boat to drift out onto Oyster Creek, dumping Ackerson’s remains into the water hoping wild alligators would eat them.

The 46-year-old wife testified at the trial that she did not help carry out the murder, adding that she only aided her husband in removing the body because he threatened to kill her. After the jury deliberated for about 90 minutes, she was declared guilty of assisting her husband and “tampering with evidence.” She will carry out a 20-year sentence, the maximum she could receive, and she will serve it consecutively with the 13 to 16 sentence she previously procured in North Carolina.

Grant Hayes, however, had been sentenced to life without the chance for parole, as the Texas prosecutors did not feel the need to send him to court over the act of disposing of evidence.