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AMANDA PERRY HAYES seemed to have it all – good looks, a happy marriage and a brand-new baby girl.
But police say behind her girl-next-door persona, the blonde beauty is a monster. They claim she helped her husband Grant kill and cut up his ex-girlfriend, Laura Ackerson, over a bitter custody dispute involving the former couple’s two young sons.
After murdering her, authorities say Amanda and Grant, who lived in Kinston, N.C., stuffed Laura’s dismembered body into ice chests and transported the remains to Texas in a rented U-Haul. Once there, they tried to dissolve the body parts in muriatic acid before dumping them, piece by piece, into an alligator-infested creek.