Our first movie star! Sure enough, you can find Amanda Hayes under IMdB. It looks, though, as if she’s only got 1 credit to her name. It’s a big one though. She was, in fact, one of the Stepford Wives. Which is kind of ironic, when you consider the rest of her story.
Amanda was married to Grant Hayes, a musician, with whom she had a daughter. Grant also had 2 boys with an ex girlfriend, Laura Ackerson.
Grant, however, wanted full-time custody of the 2. Inviting Laura over to discuss child support, he strangled & stabbed her, then cut her up with an electric saw.
Amanda dutifully helped him pack up the parts, then drive from NC to Texas, where they threw what was left of Laura into an alligator-infested bayou (after first trying to dissolve them with acid). Amanda would later claim that she was forced to do all this by Grant, with him threatening to slit her throat.
In court in NC, Amanda would admit to helping with the clean-up, but was adamant that she had nothing to do with the murder itself. She was convicted of 2nd degree murder and sentenced to 13-16 years. Grant got life.
Texas, though, thought she deserved more, and extradited her. Facing charges of tampering with a corpse there, she would get 20 years on top of her previous sentence. Not too surprisingly, she’s still in the pokey there. In fact, she’ll be there until she’s 82.
2011, NC & Texas
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