A Texas man was sentenced to life in prison on Monday after a jury convicted him in the brutal killing of a female college student whose body was found inside of a kiddie pool dismembered and charred, with her heart cut out. – Jacqueline Vandagriff’s desecrated remains  was found on Sept. 14, 2016, in Acorn Woods Park near Grapevine Lake, roughly 30 miles northwest of Dallas.
Charles Dean Bryant from Haslet, Texas was found guilty of murder in the death of 24-year-old Jacqueline Vandagriff, on Monday. The jury needed less than an hour to give Bryant to the maximum sentence, KXAS-TV reported.
Charles Bryant Jr., a 31-year-old personal trainer and bartender, had just met Jacqueline ‘Jackie’ Vandagriff at a Denton bar on the night of Sept. 13, 2016.
Hours later her remains were found by Grapevine firefighters in Acorn Woods Park.
The Fort-Worth Star Telegram reports that the panel of jurors turned down the defense argument that the death of the Texas college student was an accident.
Bryant’s defense attorney, Glynis McGinty, argued Monday that Vandagriff, who was a student at Texas Woman’s University in Denton, died accidentally during “kinky” consensual sex with Bryant.
The panel ruled that Vandagriff was murdered, and Bryant was also sentenced to 20 years in prison for tampering with evidence. The sentences will be served concurrently.

College student Jacqueline “Jackie” Vandagriff, [photo], met Charles Bryant Jr. at a Denton bar on the night of Sept. 13, 2016. Hours later, her remains were being fished out of a kiddie pool near Lake Grapevine near Dallas, Texas

Defense attorneys claim the pair had autoerotic asphyxiation sex with Vandagriff having a zip tie around her neck.
McGinty said his client panicked after a plastic tie placed around Vandagriff’s neck, during sex caused her to pass out, so he tried to hide the evidence of her death by disposing of Vandagriff’s ’s body: “He went to Walmart at 4 a.m. and bought a shovel and goes back to his house where he had left Jackie and tried to dig a hole but the earth was too hard,”  but he did not commit murder, according to McGinty.
“He’s guilty of making a horrible mistake when something went wrong,” Keene told jurors. “There was no motive for a good-looking guy to kill that good-looking girl,”  McGinty argued.
Prosecutors Lucas Allan however, said that there’s no evidence Bryant and Vandagriff had sex.

Charles Bryant [photo], from Haslet Texas, a personal trainer who also worked as a bartender at was convicted Monday of killing a college student he met at a bar, cutting out her heart and burning her remains with the aid of an accelerant, in Sept 2016

Contrary to the claims from the defense, Bryant didn’t “freak out” because Vandagriff died while they were having kinky sex, but was indeed calm and deliberately killed her and cut out her heart, prosecutor Lucas E. Allan said in his closing argument.
“The defense says he freaked out,” Allan said. “But their own expert said it was homicidal violence. Why cut out the heart? What does it have to do with disposing of a body? He cut her heart out. I want that image to sink in.”
Vandagriff was found dead on Sept. 14, 2016, in Acorn Woods Park near Grapevine Lake, roughly 30 miles northwest of Dallas. Her body, according to an arrest affidavit, was found inside of a kiddie pool, and firefighters determined that an “accelerant” was used to start the fire.
“No one was scared,” Alan said.
“A video from a Denton 7-Eleven showed he bought alcohol and sandwiches for two people.”
Cellphone data indicated the two then drove to a Denton park and were there for an hour.

Shirtless, smiling, Charles Bryant was arrested Sept 6 for criminal trespass against his ex-girlfriend. He even had flowers for ex at the time

The pair reportedly, left the first bar where they had met in Denton and went to a second bar before leaving together. According to a police affidavit, Vandagriff ‘s cell phone was traced back to Bryant’s home, and her purse was found in his trash.
Bryant had been arrested twice in early September 2016, just a week before his fateful encounter with Vandagriff, for stalking his teen college student ex-girlfriend, who told police she had seen a blue kiddie pool in his backyard.
The jury deliberated the sentences for about an hour Monday afternoon. The same jurors convicted Bryant earlier Monday after less than three hours of deliberation.