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<h6 class="article__headline"><span style="color:#1f0303;">Anne-Christine Johnson, 30, vanished after visiting ex-husband Shaun Hardy at his home in League City, Texas on Dec, 8 </span></p>
<p><span style="color:#1f0303;">Hardy, 32, confessed stabbing and suffocating Johnson on Dec, 30 because &#8216;I wanted to watch her die&#8217; </span></h6>
<h6 class="article__headline"><span style="color:#1f0303;">He told cops he killed Johnson to ‘put her out of her misery’ then lit candles to hide the smell </span></h6>
<h6 class="article__headline"><span style="color:#1f0303;">Johnson and Shaun Hardy who divorced in 2015 were in the middle of a custody battle over their five-year-old son </span></h6>
<h6 class="article__headline"><span style="color:#1f0303;">Hardy has been charged with murder and felony tampering with evidence, held in the Galveston County Jail on $500,000 bond </span><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-123116" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/anne-christine-johnson1.jpg" alt="anne-christine-johnson1" width="612" height="613" /><br />
<strong>The body of Anne-Christine Johnson who went missing on December 8 after visiting her ex-husband Hardy at his home in Texas, was found inthe garage in Hardy&#8217;s home on Friday</strong></h6>
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<p>Anne-Christine Johnson, 30, went missing on December 8 after visiting her ex-husband Shaun Hardy at his home in League City in Galveston County, Texas, sparking a huge missing person&#8217;s search.</p>
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<p class="article__content article__content--intro">On Friday Shaun Hardy, 32, admitted the killing his ex-wife after breaking down in sobs when officers arrived to search his suburban Galveston County home.<br />
He was arrested after officers found a body, who the medical examiner later confirmed was Anne-Christine Johnson, stashed in his garage.</p>
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<strong>Shaun Hardy confessed to her murdering his ex-wife Anne-Christine Johnson because he wanted to watch her die </strong></h6>
<p>Hardy who had been questioned three weeks earlier by police when Johnson did not return home, but claimed she he last saw her on Dec. 8 leave his house in a white car of unknown make with an unidentified man. He confessed to her murder on December 30, according to report in the <a href="http://www.chron.com/neighborhood/bayarea/news/article/League-City-man-confesses-to-killing-ex-wife-to-10832655.php" target="_blank">Houston Chronicle</a>.<br />
In his sworn affidavit, Hardy told police &#8220;I threw her on the ground, as hard as I could.&#8221;<br />
Adding that once she was already bleeding on the ground, he kicked a knife into her chest.Then finished her off by pulling a Kroger bag over her head to put her &#8220;out of her misery,&#8221; according to a sworn affidavit.</p>
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The search for the missing woman came to an end on Friday just after 2 p.m., when League City police showed up at Hardy&#8217;s home with a search warrant to retrieve cell phones. When a detective drew near the garage, he noticed a &#8220;strong odor of decaying flesh&#8221; that only grew stronger as he opened the garage door.<br />
Police found the remains of the mother-of two wrapped in plastic sheath and duct tape in the garage with scented candles splayed around it to mask the smell.<br />
There was evidence that he also used ammonia to wipe her blood off the floor</p>
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<h6 class="article__credit"><img class="alignnone wp-image-123115" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/anne-christine-johnson2.jpg" alt="anne-christine-johnson2" width="646" height="1160" /><strong>Although the couple had divorced in 2015 and were in the middle of a custody battle over their five-year-old son, police say Anne-Christine Johnson sometimes stayed with her ex-husband in his home</strong></h6>
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<p>Hardy initially refused to talk to police without his lawyer present, then changed his mind and gave a recorded interview. The suspect told officers that he threw his ex-wife on the ground and left her there bleeding. When Johnson held a knife to her chest as if to stab herself, Hardy kicked the hilt so hard he dented his shoe, according to the affidavit.<br />
He said as the victim coughed and gargled, he threw a Kroger [plastic] shopping bag over her head. The body still wearing Christmas pajamas and had a Kroger bag over her head, when it was recovered.<br />
The medical examiner determined that she had two puncture wounds in the neck and a chest and &#8220;a wound that could have been caused by a knife in her chest,&#8221; and concluded that she was probably killed on or about Dec. 8 &#8211; the day she went missing.<br />
Hardy reportedly told officers how he ‘wanted to watch her die’ when she came to his house. Ms Johnson allegedly held a knife to her own chest as if to kill herself when he kicked it into body.<br />
He eventually suffocated her with a plastic bag to ‘put her out of her misery’.<br />
Hardy has been charged with murder and felony tampering with evidence.He is currently being held in the Galveston County Jail on a $500,000 bond.<br />
The victim&#8217;s mother, Stephanie Johnson said her daughter was a poet and a photographer who had an 8-year-old son who living with her first ex-husband, but she lived with a 5-year-old son with autism from her second marriage.<br />
According to police the victim sometimes stayed with her ex-husband, in his home.</p>
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Shaun Hardy killed his visiting ex-wife at his home in Texas to ‘put her out of her misery’, he stashed the body in his garage then lit candles to hide the smell
