Killing the mother of his children was only the start of a North Carolina man’s gruesome plot to off his ex. The rest of it involved a saw, ice chests, a U-Haul trailer and a boat, along with his current wife. So sad!! Details after the jump.
Detectives on Sunday discovered pieces of the 27-year-old woman’s torso in Oyster Creek, near Richmond, and pulled her head and leg out of the hot, muddy water on Monday.
Grant Ruffin Hayes, 32, a musician from Raleigh, N.C., had killed Laura Jean Ackerson, likely in North Carolina, then hacked and sawed her body to pieces, said Chief Deputy Craig Brady of the Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Office.
“It’s one of the most gruesome scenes I’ve seen in 30-something years of law enforcement,” Brady said.
Hayes and his wife, Amanda Perry Hayes, 39, were arrested Monday in Kinston, N.C., and each charged with murder, according to the Raleigh Police Department. They were booked into Wake County Jail on Monday.
Grant Hayes had purchased several ice chests to transport Ackerson’s dismembered body, then put them in a U-Haul trailer. The couple towed it with a pickup truck more than 1,200 miles to Fort Bend County, where Perry Hayes’ sister lives, Brady said.
Grant Hayes had purchased several ice chests to transport Ackerson’s dismembered body, then put them in a U-Haul trailer. The couple towed it with a pickup truck more than 1,200 miles to Fort Bend County, where Perry Hayes’ sister lives, Brady said.
In the Pecan Grove neighborhood near Richmond, Grant Hayes ventured onto Oyster Creek on a small, 10-foot boat, spreading pieces of Ackerson’s body into the water last week before driving back to North Carolina, Brady said. Although Perry Hayes was also charged with murder, Brady did not clarify her involvement in the case.
“I have no information about her actual involvement in the homicide or the dismembering aspect,” he said. “But I find it highly unlikely that she didn’t know what was going on, because the information is she was at the creek when it was dumped.”
Officials had not yet “positively identified” the dismembered body as Ackerson’s, but believed that it was hers, Brady said.
“From the entire circumstance of the case, I show 99 percent certainty it’s going to be that lady,” Brady said. “The odds of her missing and her boyfriend, whatever he is, leaving the state and this body turning up within 100 yards of (her) sister’s house. It’s pretty clear it’s going to be her.”
It was not clear if the incident had been planned, he said.
“I don’t know if it was planned homicide or just tempers flared,” Brady said. “I can’t imagine someone being that cold and just uncaring that after the murder they took the steps of dismembering this lady in the matter they did and tossing her in a creek.”
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