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		</div><h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Amanda Perry Hayes sentenced to 20 years in jail on Monday of the second-degree felony of tampering with evidence to impair its availability</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>The 46-year-old former actress participated in trying to dissolve the body of her then husband&#8217;s ex-girlfriend in acid before tossing it into an alligator-infested lake in Texas</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Laura Ackerson, 27, was involved in a bitter custody battle with musician Grant Hayes over their two sons in 2011 when she vanished</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Amanda and Grant Hayes, 39, were convicted in the murdered Laura Ackerson who had gone </strong></span><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>to pick up the toddlers from the couple&#8217;s home in Raleigh, North Carolina on July 13, 2011</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Grant and Amanda Hayes dismembered Ackerson, packed her body in a cooler and drove to Texas and tried feeding her remains to alligators when attempts to dissolve the body parts in acid failed </strong></span></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #000000;">The 20 year sentence runs consecutively to the 13 to 16.5 years she is serving since 2014, for the second-degree murder of Ackerso</span></strong><span style="color: #000000;">n</span></h6>
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<strong>In a related trial Amanda Smith Hayes [photo], has now also been found guilty of trying to dispose of the body of Laura Ackerson in Texas. Laura and her then husband Grant Hayes, have been convicted in the murder of Ackerson, the mother of his children in North Carolina</strong></h6>
<p class="imageCaption">An actress who was previously convicted of murdering her then husband&#8217;s ex-girlfriend in North Carolina has now also been found guilty of trying to help him dispose of that body in <a id="mol-24df07f0-aba5-11e8-ac36-918b55e973d7" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/texas/index.html">Texas</a>.<br />
Amanda Perry (Tucker) Hayes, 46, was convicted on Monday of the second-degree felony of tampering with evidence to impair its availability, for trying to dissolve the body of her ex-husband&#8217;s ex-girlfriend in acid and then tossing it into an alligator-infested lake in Texas.</p>
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<strong>Amanda Hayes&#8217; testimony in her first-degree murder trial on Feb. 11, 2014. She was found guilty and sentenced to serve 13 to 16.5 years. Her new sentence of 20 years, will run consecutively</strong></h6>
<p>In her first trial regarding the murder of her husband&#8217;s ex-girlfriend, Amanda Hayes was first found guilty of second-degree murder of Laura Ackerson, 27, on February 18, 2014.</p>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">In a separate trial Grant Hayes was found guilty of the first-degree murder of the mother of his children on September 16, 2013, after less than two hours of jury deliberation in a trial that lasted just three weeks.<br />
He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.<br />
39-year-old Grant shared two children with Ackerson. The victim had gone over to the Hayes&#8217; apartment in Raleigh, North Carolina, to pick up her children when the married couple murdered her in July of 2011.</p>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><img class="alignnone wp-image-298741" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Grant-Hayes-left-and-Amanda-Perry-Hayes-1.jpg" alt="Grant Hayes, [left] and Amanda Perry Hayes 1" width="660" height="479" />; <strong>Amanda Smith Hayes, [right], previously was convicted of conspiring with her husband Grant Hayes [left], in the murder of his ex-girlfriend, Laura Ackerson which happened in North Carolina in 2011</strong></h6>
<div> The defense argued that Amanda&#8217;s husband, Grant Hayes, manipulated, lie to and coerced his wife into admitting to Ackerson&#8217;s death and then helping him dump her dismembered body in a swampy Texas creek. Defense attorney Johnny Gaskins said Grant Hayes, whom he described as, &#8216; a sociopath musician who charmed others with his wit and charisma and then used them&#8217;, acted alone when he likely strangled Ackerson with an Apple computer cord at his Raleigh apartment.</div>
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<p>But prosecutors in the first trial said the then 41-year-old former actress was a willing participant in the 27-year-old&#8217;s July 13, 2011, death and cover-up.<br />
The state said Amanda and her husband Grant Hayes, who was in a bitter custody dispute over the sons aged two and three, with the victim, killed her in a premeditated murder plot.</p>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><img class="alignnone wp-image-298745" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Laura-Ackerson-1.jpg" alt="Laura Ackerson 1.JPG" width="664" height="480" /><strong>The victim:</strong> <strong> 27-year-old Laura Ackerson, [photo], was killed and dismembered by Amanda and Grant Hayes </strong><strong>in their Raleigh, NC apt, On July 13, 2011.</strong></h6>
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<p>The state told jurors that the evidence in the case, suggested that Amanda Hayes&#8217; story about what happened was &#8220;so ridiculous&#8221; that it made &#8220;zero sense.&#8221;<br />
&#8220;What you have in this case is two people, together, who participated in this murder. At no point in this trial have we minimized Grant&#8217;s role in this,&#8221; Wake County Assistant District Attorney Boz Zellinger said during closing arguments Monday. &#8220;Grant was incredibly involved in this, but they did this together.&#8221;<br />
The couple had gone to great lengths to hide the killing by wrapping the victim&#8217;s body in a rug, carrying it from their home in the middle of the night and cutting it up someplace else, before carrying the dismembered parts in coolers, hidden in a U-Haul trailer, across the country.<br />
Amanda, during the murder trial claimed she had no knowledge of the murder and dismemberment. She testified that it was July 18, 2011, the day the couple got to Texas – on what she believed was just a visit to see her sister – that she learned Ackerson had died.</p>
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<h6 class="mol-para-with-font"><img class="alignnone wp-image-298749" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Amanda-Smith-Hayes-6.jpg" alt="Amanda Smith Hayes 6.JPG" width="723" height="411" /><strong>Amanda Hayes&#8217; Feb. 12, 2014, testimony in her first-degree murder trial</strong></h6>
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<p>On July 13, 2011, Amanda and Grant dismembered Ackerson&#8217;s body in their apartment, packed it in coolers and drove with it to the Richmond, Texas home of Amanda&#8217;s sister.<br />
Protesting his client&#8217;s innocence, &#8220;He&#8217;s concealed everything he&#8217;s done from Amanda,&#8221; Gaskins said.<br />
&#8220;She arrives in Texas, happy, content to see her sister without any hint whatsoever that Grant has killed Laura.&#8221;<br />
For the concealment trial, a soft-spoken Amanda Hayes, tearful at times, also testified that she helped in the cover-up only because she was under duress and scared of what her husband might to do if she didn&#8217;t.</p>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">&#8216;The jury verdict was swift and the Court&#8217;s sentence was appropriately harsh,&#8217; lead prosecutor Amanda Bolin told <a class="class" href="https://www.wxii12.com/article/wild-video-road-rage-confrontation-results-in-tractor-trailer-flipping-over/22860226" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WXII 12</a>.<br />
&#8216;Laura Ackerson&#8217;s family can be assured that Amanda Hayes will be punished for all of her barbaric behavior – whether it was in North Carolina or the great state of Texas.&#8217;</p>
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<div>On July 13, 2011, Amanda and Grant dismembered the body of 27-year-old Laura Ackerson, [photo], in their apartment, packed it in coolers and drove with it to the Richmond, Texas home of Amanda&#8217;s sister</div>
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<div class="mobile-gallery-icon">There, and when that didn&#8217;t work they tossed it into an alligator-infested creek, but her body parts were discovered almost two weeks later</div>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">&#8216;Once in Richmond, the couple first attempted to use muriatic acid to destroy Ackerson&#8217;s body,&#8217; a press release from the Fort Bend County District Attorney&#8217;s Office stated.<br />
&#8216;When that didn&#8217;t work, they took a boat onto Oyster Creek and dumped Laura&#8217;s body parts into the water with hopes that alligators would eat her remains.&#8217;</p>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">But the Hayes&#8217; plan to conceal the brutal murder was not successful.<br />
Investigators found Ackerson&#8217;s torso and lower leg floating in Oyster Creek on July 24, 2011.<br />
Dive teams later found more of Ackerson&#8217;s remains. Both were tried and convicted in the cold-blooded murder of Laura Ackerson</p>
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<strong>Man at the center: Grant Hayes was found guilty of the first-degree murder of the mother of his children on September 16, 2013. He is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole.</strong></h6>
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<div>Amanda was sentenced to serve 20 years in prison by the 400th District Court in Texas for the tampering with the evidence charge.<br />
The sentence will run consecutively to Amanda&#8217;s North Carolina sentence, which was 13 to 16.5 years in prison, beginning in 2014, <a class="class" href="https://www.wral.com/amanda-hayes-found-guilty-of-second-degree-murder-in-laura-ackerson-s-july-2011-death/13409772/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WRAL</a> reported.<br />
After he was convicted of the first-degree murder charge in the killing of the mother of his children on September 16, 2013, Grant was condemned to spend the rest of his life behind bars.<br />
Amanda Hayes gave birth to a daughter, fathered by Grant, on June 9, 2011. The four times married Amanda divorced Grant in 2014.<br />
Grant was the fourth husband for Amanda who has another adult child from a previous relationship, born in 1989.</div>
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Former actress jailed convicted for helping husband feed his ex-girlfriend’s corpse to alligators after trying to dissolve it in acid – Amanda Hayes previously found guilty in the murder Laura Ackerson, gets additional 20 to current 16 1/2 years sentence
