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<h6 class="headline head1"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Texas man gets life in prison for killing college student whose desecrated body was found in kiddie pool in Acorn Woods Park Sept 14, 2016</strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="headline head1"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Charles Dean Bryant Jr. was sentenced to life in prison on Monday after he was found guilty of murdering Jacqueline Vandagriff and tampering with evidence</strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="headline head1"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Bryant, 31, met 24-year-old Jackie Vandagriff, at a Denton bar on Sept 13 2016</strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="headline head1"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Hours later, her remains were found by firefighters near Lake Grapevine</strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="headline head1"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>He dumped the female college student&#8217;s body inside a kiddie pool dismembered and charred, with her heart cut out</strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="headline head1"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Victim vanished after the pair left a second bar together, her cell phone was traced back to Bryant’s home, her purse was found in his trash</strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="headline head1"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Jury needed less than an hour of deliberation to give Bryant the maximum sentence for the murder </strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="headline head1"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Jurors rejected defense argument that Vandagriff, a student at Texas Woman’s University in Denton, died accidentally during “kinky” consensual sex with the suspect </strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="headline head1"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>There was no evidence the pair had sex, prosecutors said </strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="headline head1"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Bryant was also sentenced to the maximum 20 years for tampering with evidence, to be served concurrently</strong></span></h6>
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<h6><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-291658" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Charles-Dean-Bryant-left-and-Jacqueline-Vandagriff-1.jpg" alt="Charles Dean Bryant [left], and Jacqueline Vandagriff 1" width="931" height="524" /><strong>Charles Dean Bryant, [left], was sentenced to life behind bar Monday after he was found guilty of murdering and dismembering Jacqueline Vandagriff, [right], just hours after they met at a bar in Denton</strong></h6>
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<p class="speakable">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. &#8211; Jacqueline Vandagriff&#8217;s desecrated remains was found on Sept. 14, 2016, in Acorn Woods Park near Grapevine Lake, roughly 30 miles northwest of Dallas.<br />
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, <a href="https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Jury-to-Decide-Fate-of-Accused-Killer-of-Denton-College-Student-479826803.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">KXAS-TV reported</a>.<br />
Charles Bryant Jr., a 31-year-old personal trainer and bartender, had just met Jacqueline &#8216;Jackie&#8217; Vandagriff at a Denton bar on the night of Sept. 13, 2016.<br />
Hours later her remains were found by Grapevine firefighters in Acorn Woods Park.<br />
The <a href="http://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/community/fort-worth/article208985159.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fort-Worth Star Telegram</a> reports that the panel of jurors turned down the defense argument that the death of the Texas college student was an accident.<br />
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.<br />
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.</p>
<h6><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-291659" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Jacqueline-Vandagriff-1.jpg" alt="Jacqueline Vandagriff 1.jpg" width="814" height="815" /><strong>College student Jacqueline &#8220;Jackie&#8221; 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</strong></h6>
<p>Defense attorneys claim the pair had autoerotic asphyxiation sex with Vandagriff having a zip tie around her neck.<br />
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: &#8220;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.<br />
&#8220;He&#8217;s guilty of making a horrible mistake when something went wrong,&#8221; Keene told jurors. &#8220;There was no motive for a good-looking guy to kill that good-looking girl,&#8221; McGinty argued.<br />
Prosecutors Lucas Allan however, said that there’s no evidence Bryant and Vandagriff had sex.</p>
<h6><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-291660" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Charles-Dean-Bryant-1.jpg" alt="Charles Dean Bryant 1.jpg" width="1140" height="855" />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 </strong></h6>
<p>Contrary to the claims from the defense, Bryant didn&#8217;t &#8220;freak out&#8221; 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.<br />
&#8220;The defense says he freaked out,&#8221; Allan said. &#8220;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.&#8221;<br />
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.<br />
&#8220;No one was scared,&#8221; Alan said.<br />
&#8220;A video from a Denton 7-Eleven showed he bought alcohol and sandwiches for two people.&#8221;<br />
Cellphone data indicated the two then drove to a Denton park and were there for an hour.</p>
<h6><strong> <img class="alignnone wp-image-291662" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Charles-Dean-Bryant-arrest-2.png" alt="Charles Dean Bryant arrest 2.png" width="629" height="628" />Shirtless, smiling, Charles Bryant was arrested Sept 6 for criminal trespass against his ex-girlfriend. He even had flowers for ex at the time</strong></h6>
<p>The pair <a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2018/04/09/man-accused-dismembering-denton-woman-panicked-after-died-sex-attorney-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a>, 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 &#8216;s cell phone was traced back to Bryant’s home, and her purse was found in his trash.<br />
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.<br />
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.</p>
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