'The Sopranos' actress attempted to use acid and alligators to dispose body of husband's ex-wife
Husband and wife Grant and Amanda Hayes had already been found guilty for the 2011 murder of Grant's ex-wife Laura Ackerson, but grisly details about the killing are still emerging in the case. The most recent developments describe the gruesome lengths the two went to dispose of Ackerson's body, including attempts to dissolve her body with acid and to throw it into an alligator-infested creek to rid themselves of the evidence of their crime.
Investigators revealed that the evidence pointed towards Grant and Amanda killing and dismembering Laura in North Carolina and that her body parts were later stuffed in ice chests and moved to Richmond, Texas. The city, which was home to Amanda's sister, was where the two decided to use muriatic acid to destroy their victim's body parts. When that plan failed, they went to Oyster Creek, a rough 100 yards from the sister's residence, and dumped the dismembered body parts in the hope that the alligators would consume them.
